"Lazy afternoon"
Result of an afternoon of playing with Blender.
Models by me following techniques from Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials, except the two plants and pots, which I found on Blend Swap
Textures from Ikea catalog, except for the floor, which comes from an image search, and the two comics (by Leo Ortolani)

I'm using the solar oven for the first time this year, even if the temperature is still cold-ish (<15°C) and windy.

The oven has reached almost 70°C, even if the wind blew the cover and for a while the temperature fell down to 30°C or so. I hope that the jar is reaching even more.

I'm baking apples, so whatever happens they are likely to be good (and safe to eat).

And now I should leave the computer and start sewing the fabric + mylar cover I've been postponing sewing for… years, I suspect.

experiment of the day:
git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/zint-vapi

Vala bindings for Zint barcode generator library , with a simple Gtk UI to generate barcodes

TIL: shlex.split(None) hangs forever.

ok, it's not strictly true, it's trying to read from stdin, but since I didn't expect it to be splitting None, and it was deep in some async code…

bugs.python.org/issue27775

Thankfully it has been deprecated and it will go away:

docs.python.org/3/library/shle…

hot take: the somewhat glitchy notifications¹ on the pinephone aren't a bug, they are a feature.

They work this way to preserve your mental health by protecting you from constant notifications and the pressure to be always available for interruptions :D

¹ they tend not to work while the phone is suspended.

Wooo! new posts on the ex-urbe blog!

exurbe.com/who-we-think-has-th…

and another one is coming tomorrow!

sono le sei meno venti, e a causa di un incrocio carpiato di confcall ho appena acceso il forno (elettrico) per la pizza della cena.

orario previsto per la cena: 18:30

#IRegretNothing #thisIsTheNorth

#wip icon for a (not really) new #wip project: Collector, an app to organize collections of various kinds, built on top of lesana

(symbolic icon is still to do...)

Uh, happy birthday #ReText!

I have to confess that I use it mostly to preview reST files that I've written with vim, but it's one of those nice bits of software that I like to have installed.

Also, I've installed it on my #pinePhone and it works! :D

Testing of De Atramentis #inks continue.

I've finally finished the Pelikan 4001 in my preppy #fountainpen, and filled it¹ with the De Atramentis Document Black

On good paper the lines are slightly wider than the Pelikan 4001, but still reasonable, and it writes nicely (a bit scratchy when reverse writing, but I don't think I can expect anything else when reverse writing on a japanese EF :D )

Then I tried on a bit of the worst printer paper I had around, and I can say “it works”. I could see the line getting wider as I writed, but the result isn't bad.

I also needed a test of the red, so I used a dip pen (with a flexible nib)

and these are the backs of the samples above, with some ghosting, but bleedthrough is really happening only when I flexed the nib.

And now, I need to find the strength of mind to wait until I have finished at least a bottle or two of other inks before buying the whole De Atramentis Document series :D (also, nope, that's way too expensive to buy at one time :D )

¹ not a full converter load, because I don't use it enough

@SlowRain

Lo sapevate? Nella linkopedia del GL-Como ci sono diversi link relativi al #pinephone !

linkopedia.gl-como.it/search.h…

I've had a fix!

I've found the right incantation to enable the right agps on the #pinephone to get a fix in a reasonable amount of time (it was almost instantaneous, but the phone had been outside with gps but not agps-msb enabled for quite some time)

The script I've used to enable everything is:

#!/bin/sh

mmcli -m any --location-enable-3gpp
mmcli -m any --location-enable-gps-nmea
mmcli -m any --location-enable-agps-msb
mmcli -m any --location-status
mmcli -m any --location-get

(of course the last two are just to see that everything is setup correctly).

Now, I need to find out why Maps believes that the location services are disabled, and Settings is telling me that they are enabled…

A coworker¹ just pointed me to youtube.com/watch?v=hgI0p1zf31…

🎵 The PEP 8 Song 🎵

¹ who is currently suffering through a (non blocking! I'm not evil) flake8 check I added to the CI of a project.

Grazie ai grandi avanzamenti tecnologici, da oggi la linkopedia del GL-Como è comodamente ordinata in ordine di inserimento decrescente, ovvero i link inseriti più di recenti sono i primi della lista.

linkopedia.gl-como.it/

Yesssss , #confy on #Flathub

flathub.org/apps/details/net.k…

@Elena ``of Valhalla''

Aleksandr Prokudin

2021-01-29 13:36:31

Showcases are not only people painting environments with Krita, sometimes it's tailors designing garments with free/libre Valentina software :)

librearts.org/2021/01/showcase…

#lasagne #wip