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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Is anyone aware of a word processing/publishing tool that is adept at interspersing text and musical notation? Something that would be good for an academic discussion of a piece of music, for instance. Paragraphs of text, paragraphs of staves, paragraphs of guitar tab, inline symbols. Free or paid.

Please only suggest something you’re familiar with; I can google things myself. :boost_ok:

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

The coyote in the road runner cartoons is a heroic figure; despite failure and grossly illiberal treatment by the dramatic rules of the series (the road runner is bound by no laws) he retains his identity and perseverance. The coyote makes his own decisions and accepts all the consequences, and is in control of his life in a universe hostile to him.

We must imagine the coyote happy.

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ggpsv@social.coop ("Gabriel Garrido") wrote:

#introduction

Hello! I made social.coop my new Fediverse home. I already followed some folks here, looking forward to get to know others!

My name is Gabriel and I am from Costa Rica. I currently live in Spain.

I write #software for a living and for fun. I have other interests, such as #plants and #ecology, playing #music, reading #philosophy and #socialscience, and practicing #permaculture, #agroforestry, and #simpleliving.

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APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

The SAR and the Milky Way

Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231111.html #APOD

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• 4c844899fbf8b741.jpg (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Oh! The beautiful music of the night, in New Zealand!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/11/your-morning-wake-up-call/

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• Kiwi (remote)

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janellecshane@wandering.shop ("Janelle Shane") wrote:

Learn your fruits and vegetables with the help of DALL-E3!

https://www.aiweirdness.com/learn-your-fruits-and-vegetables/

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• Very cute fruit icons, mostly incorrectly labeled in cheerful rounded capital letters. Two apples at the upper left are labeled Apple, but the apple next to it is partially cut open and is labeled banana. Next to that are two actual bunches of bananas but their labeles say Oranga and Leame. Three strawberries are labeled Orange, Strawbery, and Cherpes. Four bunches of grabes are labeled Strawberry, Strawerry, S'Firo, and Lemon. There's a lemon labeled Bawo and an orance slice labeled Grande. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New cats just dropped.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat with dark beans and green eyes is looking towards the camera like he’s never had a thought in his life while being held in arms and his chin scratched.
• A white and orange cat with a pink nose is being held in arms and is having her chin scratched while her paws are in an awkward position.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

konnorrogers@ruby.social ("Konnor Rogers") wrote:

@slightlyoff it sucks that I basically can't visit GitHub on mobile internet anymore because every page is so heavy. They managed to choose the worst of both worlds by merging their PJAX-like implementation with React. I hate it.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

GitHub moved from a system that included more people, to a system that excludes folks at the margins, because of dogma. I wish to the heavens there was a different way to summarise it, but here we are. React-ecosystem nonsense f'd another service for marginalised folks, and this time it's one that matters.

I hope it's the last, but know it's only another scalp. This will will be written as a "win", no matter how many kids and schools at the margin lose.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

When you, as a VP/Director that makes $XXX+k/yr decide that your users at the margins don't matter because you don't decide to learn about their needs, you're only telling on yourself. When you, as an engineer or TL/PM on these teams fail to push back, you're complicit (but not responsible; I know good people did a lot to prevent backsliding on GH).

All of this matters, not because dashboards, but because access.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If the idea embedded in your brand is "I'm rich, f-you", then then the line is clear. If, however, you're building for (and with) folks at the margins, the idea that you can afford "DX" in favour of "velocity" (per usual, metrics to be provided later/never) is contended.

How is that contention solved in tech today? Mostly by doing whatever the VP heard was cool.

I can't make this up.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The quality of your product isn't the quality of your product for your richest users, it's the value of your service for folks that stretched to pay in the first place. Why? Because their dollars meant more. They thought your values were aligned with their needs; that you'd be a durable substrate for their growth.

Performance, in this sense, is brand identity. It's earned reputational value.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

At Web Directions Summit a few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to catch some talks from GitHubbers that really cared about the UX; who thought about it in terms of access. I can only imagine what they're going through as the React disease makes every surface half as fast for marginalized users.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

We need to talk about GitHub -- and I don't mean co-pilot. No, I mean the basic "does this work on my computer?" and "is it good?" stuff about, you know, a collaborative UI on top of git.

Helpfully for GitHub's competitors, recent dogma has demanded that it walk away from the (totally functional, accessible) Web Components infrastructure that led it to be a market success, and replace it with...React? Sure? Fine? As long as the UI is still good? Ok.

Whatever.

Except that it isn't.

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jwz wrote:

@SwiftOnSecurity Repeat after me: "I am not paid enough to be deposed for this shit."

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Wow, the gang have overcome significant odds, deftly side-stepping a number of pitfalls that had ruined them in other lives, to liberate Satoko from her abusive uncle in a way that's legal and durable and has seemingly healed the larger community of Hinamizawa!

However, there are still like 4 chapters left and the Japanese title of this episode means "complete slaughter" 🙃

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

My new album "Stay Alive" is out today! On Bandcamp and all streaming services. Check it out if you're so inclined, and thanks so much for listening!

https://digits.bandcamp.com/album/stay-alive #music #toronto #canada

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"we're all shocked that the least-worst person we picked off the rack after chaos caused by our wilting head of lettuce, to whom he had lost a leadership contest 3 months earlier, has not been able to assert total dominance of the fascist wing of his party" -- the UK press rn.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/10/rishi-sunak-faces-tory-civil-war-holds-off-sacking-suella-braverman

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

The comments whenever you mention anything about web components.

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• e63d8b4caa16c1d7.mp4

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Things I learned the hard way https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

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• Linda Belcher from Bob’s Burgers stands in front of a Christmas tree while wearing a lavender bathrobe. Linda has one of her fists raised triumphantly in the air as she yells, “I LOVE BLOGS.” (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Or patch the library locally to add appropriate const type modifiers in all the right places so that sort of thing isn't necessary to satisfy the compiler. It wasn't even that many places.

I think that would've been my first impulse once I started to write code like the above. 'Cause... that's embarASSing.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

You know, when ya see something like this:

(char*) "constant string"

Ya just gotta rethink using that library. 🤔

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's truly bewildering that I'm still manually disabling atime on new OS installs in 2023.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

My nerdy friend just got a PhD on the history of palindromes.
We now call him Dr. Awkward.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Of course, I say this, and about an hour into my session I find a bug in the compiler. 😆

(It has been fixed in a newer version.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've been using Python and the like for so long that it's strangely refreshing to have an opportunity to use a language with a compiler that yells at me for simple blunders and typos before I can run anything.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Carl Svensson's recent blog post on software usability resonates with my own observations and experiences:

https://www.datagubbe.se/usab2/

I don't presently use Slack, but his example there seems like a particularly egregious example.

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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Ink/acrylic drawing of wegui, from the band wedance. I was watching the "Dancing On The Farm" session the other day and I loved how he just had a curtain of hair in front of his face a lot of the time.

#illustration #indiemusic

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• An ink drawing with acrylic color washes of wegui, the guitar player for the band wedance. He's playing a black Fender Jazzmaster and is wearing an elaborately patterned shirt and a baseball cap. His long hair hangs from beneath the cap, completely covering his face. (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I feel like it's pretty rare that the optimal format for a chunk of information is a 40 minute talk but when it's good it's sooooo good