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!

Intanto: piano segreto di corrompere l'Italia al consumo di cenovis:

una nuova vittima

BUAHAHAHAHAH

Almost a year ago I made myself a few new white camisoles in a hurry.

Now I need a couple black camisoles, and they are starting to be quite urgent.

*Where* did I leave the printed pattern???

(I could print it again, I still have everything I need, but it feels wasteful)

@LaVi LaVi! guarda! a furia di leggere cose in inglese¹ scritte da tedeschi ho trovato una cosa in italiano!

modarchive.unicatt.it/

“Il progetto FLATIF – Linguaggi e Terminologie della Moda tra Italiano e Francese: costruzione e disseminazione delle risorse nasce come un’iniziativa di ricerca multidisciplinare, interdisciplinare e plurilingue volta a indagare i linguaggi e le terminologie della moda nel periodo compreso tra il 1880 e il 1980.”

¹ pallia.net/blog/italian-and-fr…

@Giorgia Mecojoni signora Presidente del Consiglio, volevo porre alla sua attenzione una conseguenza forse inaspettata delle continue proroghe degli sconti sulle accise, ovvero l'affollamento dei nostri distributori di benzina da parte di extracomunitari¹ con auto di grossa cilindrata che fanno rifornimento coi nostri carburanti.

Cosa che tra l'altro risulta essere un comportamento ancora più contro natura di una relazione amorosa omosessuale: da tempo immemore la tradizione era che fossimo noi a recarci da loro ad acquistare carburanti economici.

¹ residenti della Confederazione Elvetica, ovviamente

@Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo , per caso vi è arrivato un pacco per me? da DHL? (visto? so persino da che corriere arriva!)

qui dicono di essere passati a consegnare mercoledì scorso senza trovare nessuno (in un orario in cui c'erano tre persone in casa), per cui sto cercando il pacco nei punti di consegna, e sicuramente potrebbe essere arrivato da voi :D

(non è vero, l'assistenza del negozio da cui ho ordinato è riuscita a dirmi in che punto ritiro era finito, all'ultimo giorno prima che il pacco tornasse indietro. grumble. grumble.)

(però ho ritirato, e tutto è bene quel che finisce bene)

# Even if today the weather has been cloudy for most of the day, we still produced more energy than we used, even with two washing machines (a lighter program for cushions, but still), three dishwasher loads (one is still running) and a long shower with hot water from the resistive heater. Batteries are 99% full and we still have one hour of production.
# Some of the kitchen things I brought here yesterday from the old home have been washed and are ready for me to find a place for them
# dinner for tomorrow is almost ready (and that's more electricity used today that won't need to be used tomorrow)

#ThreeGoodThings

Il Corriere delle Sera pensa che la canzone che gli inglesi hanno portato a EuroVision sia a favore della Brexit.

Un estratto del testo della canzone:

Countin' in English doesn't cut the mustard
So sick of munching roly-poly with custard
I'm so bored with it, bored with it
Oh, what's the point of it, point of it? (Oh, ja, ja, ja)
I've always been a fan of aviation
I'm jumpin' on a plane to another nation
And all my pounds, they feel counterfeit
I need some euros to counter it

Cioè uno che canta che vuole lasciare l'Inghilterra e trasferirsi in Europa e convertire le sterline in euro, sarebbe a favore della Brexit. Complimenti al giornalista.