... e non rompere

Some time ago my mother bought (online) some pairs of white cotton shorts with whitework at the hems, she tried them on, they fit, she used them a couple of times, washed them, and they no longer fit.

so, she gave them to me, and they fit me, as in “i can put them on, but I'd need to take in the waist”, but as long as I'm unpicking them to make them narrower I might as well unpick the crotch seam and turn them into proper split drawers that I can wear both as shorts under skirts to prevent chafing and as underwear under properly victorian dress with a corset and everything.

the funny thing? they have #pockets (and decently sized pockets, too!)

so, yeah, my underwear is going to have pocketses :D and I didn't even have to make them from scratch :D

Today it was too hot to do, well, anything, really, so we decided to take a day off and rest.

Which means that I've spent the whole day #handsewing.

Which, one could assume, means that I've finished the vampire shirt? of course not, I still have to attach two pairs of finishing patches to the sleeve slits, of course.

But I've worked quite a bit on a new-ish project, so that's good, right?

And to be fair, I had cut the fabric for that project close to two years ago, so it didn't completely count as a *new* project either.

(It's a towel hair wrap, and a second one in a lighter fabric to use as general head wear)

ilpost.it/2026/06/27/energia-e…

“Il massimo storico risale a luglio del 2015, quando toccò 60,5 gigawatt. Negli anni più recenti i picchi si sono assestati su valori un po’ più bassi, probabilmente grazie a una maggiore efficienza degli impianti di condizionamento”

mi chiedo quanto abbia influito anche la maggior diffusione dei pannelli solari, perché i consumi dell'aria condizionata di chi li ha in teoria non dovrebbe essere visibile a Terna (se non come calo di produzione)

Intanto su ferrovie nord

varesenews.it/2026/06/tranciat…

varesenews.it/2026/06/ripristi…

#trenord #treno

/me, rivolta a @Diego Roversi: “stamattina quando sei entrato in casa dicendo che avevamo un pffft nellla mmm”
diego: “eh?”

si capisce cosa stavo dicendo, vero? ditemi che si capisce cosa stavo dicendo, *vero* :D

TFW you see a building with scaffolding covered by netting in the colours of the Italian flag, and you think WTF

but then you realize you're in San Fermo della Battaglia, i.e. (if I'm not mistaken) on the very place of a locally important battle of the wars of Italian unification, and one fought by the army of idealistic volunteers, not the regular one, and then it becomes ok.

#patiotismIsOkButOnlyUpToThe1860s

I was level 9.

I kicked down the door.

I found a mid-level monster.

It was the first encounter with a chance of victory, I expected everybody to throw anything and everything at me

And they did. and it wasn't enough.

I won.

#munchkin

Bella serata ieri al Circolo Gagarin di Busto, con @Alessandro e @alephoto85 . @Kenobit ha presentato il suo libro "Assalto alle piattaforme" e poi ci ha sparato svariati dB di energia 8bit dritti nel cervello. C'è stata anche una improvvisata dimostrazione di come la magia viene creata.

Alla fine siamo rimasti a nerdeggiare fino a tardi. Che ogni tanto ci vuole.

And a bit of a #sewing update

The three initial cockades have been actually finished, and I still want to make another couple to write instructions for two more centrepiece variants. Technically I could just make the centrepieces, since they are the only pictures I need, but completionist, I guess?

Meanwhile, I've picked back up the victorian vampire shirt, and it's closer to being finished than I remembered. These couple of days I've made all of the buttonholes (just 7) and finished the sleeves, and now the only things missing are attaching the sleeves to the body, and hemming half of the bottom edge (which I'll either do during my next confcall, or at the very end of the project, whichever comes first).

And I've also done some flossing on one (1) boning channel on the corset. That corset that has been worn a few times already.

And I've found at least one new sewing project I want to make (for which I already have almost all materials (I need to check if I have suitable sewing thread).

I was in the living room, putting back the (black) cover on the couch, I thought “I could do with a bit more light”, so I went to the office, opened a shell, run mosquitto_pub with a bit of json, and then back to the living room to see the LED bars turn from cycling rainbow to full white

and then when I finished doing stuff on the couch I went back to the office, and set the LED bars back to cycling rainbow

that's the normal way to deal with smart home stuff, right?

You will not use your normal email address with Delta Chat.

Wait. Wasn't it the main point of Delta Chat "You don't need another account" ?

I will post on the blog about it later in the month (hopefully), but if anybody has a pressing need to make a cockade with multiple colours, say with a deadline in June, I've just published my instructions

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

(they do look finished in the pictures, dont' they? yeah, they aren't. I'm still sewing the backs, but nobody needs to know about it :D )

#sewing #pride

I'm trying to write a thing in #vala with #javascriptcoregtk to run some user-defined scripts. I want to create an object which 'proxies' data from the app.

I'm trying to use Context.register_class to register a class with some properties, and then create an instance via JSC.Value.object, but I can't manage to get the object I want.

// test.vala
// valac -o test --pkg javascriptcoregtk-6.0 test.vala && G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all ./test

static void main() {
  var vm = new JSC.VirtualMachine ();
  var ctx = new JSC.Context.with_virtual_machine (vm);

  var test_cls = ctx.register_class ("Test", null, null, null);

  var test = new JSC.Value.object (ctx, null, test_cls);
  info ("test is %s? %s", test_cls.name, test.object_is_instance_of (test_cls.name) ? "true": "false");
}

Anyone can tell what I'm doing wrong? 😊

If somebody else is stuck cursing the syntax change in .screenrc, this is a guide to the new colours:

pingle.org/2026/04/26/screen-5…

#GnuScreen

e oggi #hoVistoCose!

ho visto passare alle obliteratrici #trenord una tessera con un abbonamento comprato poche ore prima, e l'ha riconosciuto e attivato!

#aspettativeAbbassate

His Grace (#notOurCat) was inside our home, on the couch with us, and we had a window open so he was joined by the Lady (who in reality is quite afraid of us).

Outside we could see a few wild mid-sized big cats, and then one of them got close to the window and he wanted to enter too. I closed the window, and he remained outside, looking at us with an Innocent Cat Look, asking us why we were so cruel and we didn't allow him on the couch too!

(they were *wild*. not domestic. not even feral (or somewhat feral, like his Grace and the Lady). *wild*)

/me, trying to draw a pcb and having to mix mm and mils.

if I ever build a time machine I'm not going back to kill Hitler. what I'm doing is going back to 1793 to save the ship with Joseph Dombey and the sample of the meter!