I'm making a simple project in circuitpython that should remain running for a few hours, but at times just freezes.
I'm considering putting an except Exception around the main loop
should I write the exception to a log file on the SD card that I will never look at, or just pass?
wrong answers only :D
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Years ago, before I read a bit about the producer, I was looking for an ink in a specific shade of blue, and I bought a bottle of Noodler's Eternal Polar Blue #fountainPen ink.
And it's *perfect*, it's exactly the shade I wanted.
And also, it's *crap*, it feathers and bleeds even on decent paper and using my extrafine nib pens.
I had to add gum arabic to make it vaguely usable (with nib pens), but if I add enough to make it behave it's no longer the smoothest writing experience.
And now I have the best part of a whatever 3 oz is in real units bottle and I want to use it, but I also don't want to use it, and if I keep writing with my usual thin nib pens it will take forever!
(edit: I wrote the ink name wrong)
Nella categoria: problemi auto-indotti.
Anni fa, prima di leggere cose sul produttore, stavo cercando un'inchiostro da #stilografica in una sfumatura precisa di blu, e ho comprato una bottiglia di Noodler's Eternal Polar Blue..
Ed è *perfetto*, esattamente la sfumatura che volevo.
Ed è una merda che spiuma e trapassa anche su carta decente usando un pennino ad intinzione extrafine.
Ho dovuto aggiungerci abbondante gomma arabica per renderlo usabile (coi pennini), ma così l'esperienza di scrittura non è più così piacevole..
E adesso mi rimane una buona parte di una bottiglia da qualunque cosa siano 3 oncie in unità di misura vere, e lo voglio usare, ma non lo voglio veramente usare, e se continuo ad usarlo coi pennini fini mi dura per sempre!
Uooops, missà che qualcuno ha fatto una scelta del nome poco felice, se per caso dovessero scoprirlo gli italiani e/o i veneti :D
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@rubecula non dimentichiamo il Vinculo per Arduino.
Poi vai a sapere magari quanti nomi e sigle nostre fanno ridere in Asia, per carità.
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Per chi prende le linee #trenord che passano da Gallarate:
“Si informa la Gentile Clientela che, dal 26 dicembre 2025 al 5 gennaio 2026, per lavori di potenziamento infrastrutturale a cura di RFI, la circolazione dei treni è sospesa tra le stazioni di Gallarate e Rho; per questo subirà variazioni il servizio delle seguenti linee: a.mktgcdn.com/f/3714691/aKy1DA…
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Programmare FPGA sotto linux.
Mezz'ora d'Amicizia - Programmazione FPGA
Maggiori informazioni su https://casoratesempione.ils.org/2025/12/05/mezzora-damicizia-fpga/Italian Linux Society - Video
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does anybody know whether getting hurt while doing a feudal corvee counts as work-related injury for insurance reasons?
asking for a friend who just hit the back of her ankle with a metal door just after feeding the Marquess (before breakfast, because of course you have to harvest your lord's field before your own).
(I'm fine, it's just a small scrape)
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per caso qualcuno sa se infortunarsi mentre si sta svolgendo una corvee feudale conta come infortunio sul lavoro e va denunciato all'INAIL?
chiedo per un'amica che si è tirata una porta di metallo sulla caviglia subito dopo aver dato da mangiare al Marchese (prima di colazione, perché ovviamente si deve fare il raccolto sui campi dei signore prima del tuo).
(è tutto a posto, solo una sbucciatura)
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Have I just tried to tell the Marquess (a.k.a. #notOurCat) that we have just had solar panels installed, and as soon as they'll get actually connected I'll change the time when I wash my laundry, and thus the time when he sees me putting out the laundry to dry?
Did he understand one single word of what I was telling him? I only implied, but didn't say “and give you kibbles”.
"I find your lack of understanding that my kibbles are obviously NOT subject to puny human thingies like time... disturbing"
- his grace the Marquess
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yesterday I've spent the evening with a low-grade worry that I was forgetting something
this morning I woke up realizing that the bread rolls I was supposed to cook yesterday after dinner had not been cooked
5 minutes ago I had a slice of freshly baked flat loaf :D
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ieri ho passato la serata con un vago senso di stare dimenticando qualcosa
stamattina mi sono svegliata ricordandomi che i panini che avrei dovuto cuocere ieri dopo cena non erano stati cotti
5 minuti fa ho mangiato una fetta di pagnotta bassa appena uscita dal forno :D
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Magari a @LaVi interessa sapere che ho appena restituito retebibliotecaria.provincia.va… ed è in viaggio per tornare in quel di Saronno
(è un libro del 1978, con riproduzioni delle stampe dell'ottocento)
Album di costumi lombardi / presentazione di Giorgio Lise di Locarno, Giovanni
Album di costumi lombardi / presentazione di Giorgio LiseRete Bibliotecaria della Provincia di Varese
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@LaVi beh, lettura è parola forte, visto che c'erano 4 pagine di introduzione e tutto il resto erano stampe di personaggi lombardi, tipo
però indubbiamente interessante
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Is this the day when we¹ all² talk about our writing tools obsessions?
When I'm home, most of what I write is written using #dipPens, including vintage ones that were in use in the schools of Italy up to the 1950s and modern ones.
AMA :)
¹ flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11…
² craftgoblin.club/@silhelm/1156…
Immagino che tutta #puntarella si starà rallegrando di questa notizia:
ilpost.it/2025/12/04/atac-risa…
(cinque interi euri! pure #trenord riesce a fare di meglio!)
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@Panormus #trenord da il 30% di indennizzo sull'abbonamento per i mesi in cui la linea per cui uno è abbonato ha fatto più ritardi dello standard
sotto forma di buono da spendere su un nuovo abbonamento o simili, e fanno di tutto per non darteli, però è il 30%, non il 2%
(ovviamente li hanno costretti, non è una scelta loro)
(ah, e @LaVi a quanto ne so di solito fa un abbonamento diverso che non ha diritto all'indennizzo)
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dear virt-manager,
when I try to create a virtual machine that uses a network that is not currently active you conveniently provide me with a button to activate it.
*why* don't you do the same when I try to *start* a virtual machine?
*why* do I have to start the network somewhere else???
(Could I add a whishlist bug? yes. Do I want to bother? eh.)
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caro virt-manager,
quando cerco di creare una macchina virtuale che usa una rete attualmente non attiva mi fornisci un comodo pulsante per attivarla.
*perché* non fai la stessa cosa quando cerco di far *partire* una macchina virtuale?
*perché* in quel caso devo far partire la rete da un'altra parte?
(Potrei aprire un bug whishlist? sì. Ne ho voglia. meh.)
Confy 0.9.0
Oh, hey. #confy 0.9.0 has been released!
In this version
- Automatically update schedule when cache expire. Before it was updated only on open.
- New and improved page navigation logic
- Improved handling of shortcuts
- Fixed the sidebar: no more out of order items when opening new conference
- Added the ability to clean the "recent conference" list
- Fixed opening event page from "next up" notification
and some more small fixes
you can get it on flathub, your package manager or install from source
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Alla serata del @Gruppo Linux Como stasera abbiamo trovato il nuovo sistema di init successore di systemd: puntarellad!
e abbiamo anche i sorgenti di puntarellactl:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Nun me va de fa un cazzo"
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PDF Planners 2026
Posted on November 27, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:bookbinding
A few years ago I wrote some planner generating code to make myself a custom planner; in November 2023 I generated a few, and posted them here on the blog, in case somebody was interested in using them.
In 2024 I tried to do the same, and ended up being even more late, to the point where I didn’t generate any (uooops).
I did, however, start to write a Makefile to automate the generation (and got stuck on the fact that there wasn’t an easy way to deduce the correct options needed from just the template name); this year, with the same promptness as in 2023 I got back to the Makefile and finished it, so maybe next year I will be able to post them early enough for people to print and bind them? maybe :)
Anyway, these are all of the variants I currently generate, for 2026.
The files with -book in the name have been imposed on A4 paper for a 16 pages signature. All of the fonts have been converted to paths, for ease of printing (yes, this means that customizing the font requires running the script, but the alternative also had its drawbacks).
In English:
daily-95×186-en.pdf
blank daily pages, 95 mm × 186 mm;
daily-A5-en.pdf daily-A5-en-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A5;
daily-A6-en.pdf daily-A6-en-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A6;
daily-graph-A5-en.pdf daily-graph-A5-en-book.pdf
graph paper (4 mm) daily pages, A5;
daily-points4mm-A5-en.pdf daily-points4mm-A5-en-book.pdf
pointed paper (4 mm), A5;
daily-ruled-A5-en.pdf daily-ruled-A5-en-book.pdf
ruled paper daily pages, A5;
week_on_two_pages-A6-en.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week on two pages, A6;
week_on_one_page-A6-en.pdf week_on_one_page-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page, A6;
week_on_one_page_dots-A6-en.pdf week_on_one_page_dots-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
week_health-A6-en.pdf week_health-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly health tracker, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
month-A6-en.pdf month-A6-en-book.pdf
monthly planner, A6;
And the same planners, in Italian:
daily-95×186-it.pdf
blank daily pages, 95 mm × 186 mm;
daily-A5-it.pdf daily-A5-it-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A5;
daily-A6-it.pdf daily-A6-it-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A6;
daily-graph-A5-it.pdf daily-graph-A5-it-book.pdf
graph paper (4 mm) daily pages, A5;
daily-points4mm-A5-it.pdf daily-points4mm-A5-it-book.pdf
pointed paper (4 mm), A5;
daily-ruled-A5-it.pdf daily-ruled-A5-it-book.pdf
ruled paper daily pages, A5;
week_on_two_pages-A6-it.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week on two pages, A6;
week_on_one_page-A6-it.pdf week_on_one_page-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page, A6;
week_on_one_page_dots-A6-it.pdf week_on_one_page_dots-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
week_health-A6-it.pdf week_health-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly health tracker, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
month-A6-it.pdf month-A6-it-book.pdf
monthly planner, A6;
Some of the planners include ephemerids and moon phase data: these have been calculated for the town of Como, and specifically forgeo:45.81478,9.07522?z=17, because that’s what everybody needs, right?
If you need the ephemerids for a different location and can’t run the script yourself (it depends on pdfjam, i.e. various GB of LaTeX, and a few python modules such as dateutil, pypdf and jinja2), feel free to ask: unless I receive too many requests to make this sustainable I’ll generate them and add them to this post.
I hereby release all the PDFs linked in this blog post under the CC0 license.
You may notice that I haven’t decided on a license for the code dump repository; again if you need it for something (that is compatible with its unsupported status) other than running it for personal use (for which afaik there is an implicit license) let me know and I’ll push “decide on a license” higher on the stack of things to do :D
Finishing the Makefile meant that I had to add a tiny feature to one of the scripts involved, which required me to add a dependency to pypdf: up to now I have been doing the page manipulations with pdfjam, which is pretty convenient to use, but also uses LaTeX, and apparently not every computer comes with texlive installed (shocking, I know).
If I’m not mistaken, pypdf can do all of the things I’m doing with pdfjam, so maybe for the next year I could convert my script to use that one instead.
But then the planners 2027 will be quick and easy, and I will be able to publish them promptly, right?
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@Fabio I see that somebody *did* notice that it wasn't a random point in Como :D
(it's a temple! to SCIENCE!)
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@Kermode yeah, sorry, I published the article in a way that meant that the links in the rss were broken, and friendica didn't get the fix
the links are now correct on the blog:
this morning:
me: @Diego Roversi , you are legally the head of the household, right?
diego: yes, why?
me: and this means that you have power, right?
diego: [looks at me with a suffering air]
me: [hands him an alarm clock with a dead rechargeable battery] this needs some power, thanks [runs away]
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua eh, ma se lo fai alla sera è problematico anche quello!
e diciamocelo, il vero problema è quando hai dei parenti da andare a trovare regolarmente che abitano a est rispetto a te, e quindi se passi la giornata da loro guidi verso est all'alba e verso ovest al tramonto
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Historically Inaccurate Hemd
Posted on November 17, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing
After cartridge pleating and honeycombing, I was still somewhat in the mood for that kind of fabric manipulation, and directing my internet searches in that vague direction, and I stumbled on this:katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…
Now, do I want to ever make myself a 16th century German costume, especially a kampfrau one? No! I’m from lake Como! Those are the enemies who come down the Alps pillaging and bringing the Black Death with them!
Although I have to admit that at times during my day job I have found the idea of leaving everything to go march with the Jägermonstersattractive. You know, the exciting prospective of long days of march spent knitting sturdy socks, punctuated by the excitement of settling down in camp and having a chance of doing lots of laundry. Or something. Sometimes being a programmer will make you think odd things.
Anyway, going back to the topic, no, I didn’t need an historically accurate hemd. But I did need a couple more shirts for daily wear, I did want to try my hand at smocking, and this looked nice, and I was intrigued by the way the shaping of the neck and shoulder worked, and wondered how comfortable it would be.
And so, it had to be done.
I didn’t have any suitable linen, but I did have quite a bit of cotton voile, and since I wasn’t aiming at historical accuracy it looked like a good option for something where a lot of fabric had to go in a small space.
At first I considered making it with a bit less fabric than the one in the blog, but then the voile was quite thin, so I kept the original measurement as is, only adapting the sleeve / sides seams to my size.
With the pieces being rectangles the width of the fabric, I was able to have at least one side of selvedge on all seams, and took advantage of it by finishing the seams by simply folding the allowances to one sides so that the selvedge was on top, and hemstitching them down as I would have done with a folded edge when felling.
Also, at first I wanted to make the smocking in white on white, but then I thought about a few hanks of electric blue floss I had in my stash, and decided to just go with it.
The initial seams were quickly made, then I started the smocking at the neck, and at that time the project went on hold while I got ready to go to DebConf. Then I came back and took some time to get back into a sewing mood, but finally the smocking on the next was finished, and I could go on with the main sewing, which, as I expected, went decently fast for a handsewing project.
While doing the diagonal smocking on the collar I counted the stitches to make each side the same length, which didn’t completely work because the gathers weren’t that regular to start with, and started each line from the two front opening going towards the center back, leaving a triangle with a different size right in the middle. I think overall it worked well enough.
Then there were a few more interruptions, but at last it was ready! just as the weather turned cold-ish and puffy shirts were no longer in season, but it will be there for me next spring.
I did manage to wear it a few times and I have to say that the neck shaping is quite comfortable indeed: it doesn’t pull in odd ways like the classical historically accurate pirate shirt sometimes does, and the heavy gathering at the neck makes it feel padded and soft.
I’m not as happy with the cuffs: the way I did them with just honeycombing means that they don’t need a closure, and after washing and a bit of steaming they lie nicely, but then they tend to relax in a wider shape. The next time I think I’ll leave a slit in the sleeves, possibly make a different type of smocking (depending on whether I have enough fabric) and then line them like the neck so that they are stable.
Because, yes, I think that there will be another time: I have a few more project before that, and I want to spend maybe another year working from my stash, but then I think I’ll buy some soft linen and make at least another one, maybe with white-on-white smocking so that it will be easier to match with different garments.
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@Kermode no, I don't think that there is a club or something about historical clothing in this area (there are some reenactment things, but they are focusing mostly on other aspects), but I believe that a number of people here on fedi do know about historical accuracy
and I don't care about having it, since I'm basically making clothing for day-to-day wear, but I think it's important to say what is accurate and what is not, for people who are reading this and may have reason to care
(and yes, the shirt does need something around the waist, be it a belt or being tucked in in a skirt)
@Kermode yeah, lately we haven't been doing a lot of electronics: the soldering iron is always out for small repairs and stuff, but we haven't made anything *new*
raise TooManyThingsToDoError :D
TFW you are sewing a skirt, with various meters¹ of fabric on your legs, and need to check your notes², and you know that you've updated them somewhat on the laptop, but you're on the PC, so you git pull and. timeout.
the VPS³ where you have the git repository is down. and you could sync directly with the laptop, but you're here under various meters of fabric and the laptop is over there, turned off, on the other side of the room!
or you can complain on the internet until the VPS is back :D
(and find out that you didn't push your commit from the laptop)
¹ we don't do those “90 cm cut of fabric, good for a skirt here. it's ankle-length at the very least, and finished circumference at the hem above 3 m or GTFO
² what will become instructions on my website
³ contabo, if anybody is wondering
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@Possumantha the one I'm doing right now is going to be 375 cm (3 panels of 125 cm wide fabric)
with a cage crinoline I guess more than 4 meters would not surprise me (but I still don't have one)
@Possumantha error: length is not defined for a fractal :D
(seriously: even with regular gathered flounces I'm not sure what is the correct way to measure them as “hem of the skirt”: when hemming them the ungathered length is the one that matters, but when worn they act more like a skirt where the hem is as long as the *gathered* hem (or just a bit more), but with more thickness)
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sto meditando di mettere un
except Exceptionattorno al main loop.meglio scrivere l'eccezione su un file di log sulla scheda SD che poi non leggerò mai, oppure metterci solo un
pass?solo risposte sbagliate, grazie :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua purtroppo sto usando un adalogger che non ha il wifi, altrimenti potrei vedere se il sito delle poste ha un'api che si possa usare da microcontrollore per inviare il file error.log via posta ogni volta che il dispositivo passa da una rete alla quale riesce a connettersi
sarebbe comodo, no? :D
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Scimmia di Mare
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