Notices by rixx (rixx@chaos.social)

Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

I'm home sick, so I'm naturally reading HTML specs and composing my latest rant at how frustratingly half-baked HTML5 is, particularly with respect to forms and inputs.

(I have like three drafts of this rant lying about, time to add a fourth …)

Instead of my rant, I present to you this beauty. Frontend development is great.

#machKaputtWasDichKaputtMacht

@aral Yeah uh thank you for that contribution, very helpful, amaze

TIL: relative colours in #CSS. You define an origin colour, and then modify (with the magic r/g/b/alpha variables for rgb) or override the values. Supported in all major browsers now (except Firefox for Android): https://caniuse.com/css-relative-colors

Example: Use the primary colour, but make it transparent and reduce how green it is:

rgb(from var(--primary-colour) r calc(g/2) b / calc(alpha * 0.5))

Related: Is there something like a caniuse.com newsfeed that tells me when a feature has become supported by all major browsers (or, ideally, supported by major browsers for a month, half a year, a year …)?

Imagine if web.dev, the web development blog by the Chrome team, had the latest coolest tech like … RSS feeds for their blog. Then you could just subscribe to https://web.dev/series/baseline-newly-available and get notified about newly availble CSS features …

(To add insult to injury, they load their list of blog posts via JS, so you can't even point a good feed reader at the /blog/ page and have it scrape for new posts. Eww.)

The officially best news of the $interval:

World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):

https://worldofgoo2.com/

The Tunnel of Eupalinos was built in the 6th century BCE in Greece. It's just over 1km long, goes through a mountain, and was built from both sides.

And! It was built as an aqueduct, so it has two parts; a footpath and a lower water channel. It was in use for a thousand years before the channel silted over.

AND! It still exists and can be visited and we mostly know about it and rediscovered it due to Herodotus mentioning it. How cool is this?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Eupalinos

#til #civilengineering

Recommend to block activitypub-proxy.cf. It's running software designed solely to evade blocks.

The software is based on subdomains – Mastodon blocks subdomains automatically (edit: when you block the main domain), but if you're running different software, you might want to double-check.

#fediblock