マリウス @mrus@merveilles.town

Began implementing a #Go module for the Symmetry454 calendar.

https://github.com/mrusme/symmetry454

Current status. #theWorkshop

TIL that the best “pets” to have in a tropical region are purple martins, swallows, geese, terns, ducks, migratory songbirds, goldfish, guppies, bass, bluegill, Gambusia affinis, frogs, tadpoles, red-eared slider turtles and dragonflies, since they are all natural mosquito predators.

You can also add spiders and bats to that list as well, but, errr, let’s better not.

This is pure gold in /r/SonyAlpha

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyAlpha/comments/l189w6/my_roommate_got_in_front_of_my_camera_1_or_2/

“In a study of 48,000 Britons, vegetarians were unusually resistant to heart disease, but prone to strokes.”

That’s quite an interesting take on diets: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/16/japanese-people-may-have-gained-longevity-by-balancing-their-diets

Some stats on this build: As of right now (still in progress) it contains of over 9000 parts, worth around $8000. The ship is 176cm/69” in length, 78cm/31” wide and around 121cm/48” tall (including the masts). It weighs around 16.4kg/36.1lb.

New curfew-hobby is coming along nicely. #theWorkshop

@rek @neauoire do you two happen to have a (publicly available) “maintenance and running costs” document of your boat somewhere? I was wondering what the financial part of “living in a boat” means. I’m trying to figure out whether all in all it’s more expensive than renting an apartment.

Oh hai open-source #RISCV hardware running Linux! https://beaglev.seeed.cc

*showing Raspberry the finger*

The latest develop branch of #journalist now contains the readability implementation, meaning that no matter how short a site’s RSS content might be, you’ll always get the full article to enjoy in your RSS reader!

https://github.com/mrusme/journalist/tree/develop

#theWorkshop

https://vimeo.com/498907228

#journalist #theWorkshop

Just published the GitHub repository of #journalist, a RSS aggregator and (some day) replacement for Feedly.

https://github.com/mrusme/journalist

It’s a development preview and definitely not something that works reliably yet, but it’s already possible to connect to it via Reeder (macOS/iOS) and sync feeds.

#theWorkshop

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

Besides, due to the (incredibly awful) Fever API that I’m implementing so that one can connect existing RSS clients, it makes use of auto-incrementing IDs, relations and all sorts of things that most embedded databases won’t do. Hence I switched its backend to PostgresSQL.

Pushed a very first version to a private GitHub repo. Initially I intended to go with an embedded single-file database (as I used in ‘zeit’ and ‘geld’) but I dismissed that idea.

The aggregator is supposed to be run as a daemon and I’m planning to let it run on a serverless infrastructure where it’ll only cost me $ when I’m actually using it. Having an embedded database therefor wouldn’t have worked.