It's aliiiiveeee! (almost) #WiP #confy #gtk4 #libadwaita
Screenshots on last post where blueprint ui files made in Workbench, this is from the wip branch. 🚧👍
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#mastoTip On the fediverse, nothing punishes you for adding links to your toots.
And you don't even need to shorten them: mastodon counts all links as if they had the same (small) number of characters, no matter how long it is.
So, if you're talking about something, *do* post a link to it, don't force people to google for it and hope they're getting the right result!
Some caveats.
* Check the rules of your instance: some of them don't allow links to proprietary social networks, or to commercial services, or they may have other custom restrictions.
* Speaking of commercial services, even if it doesn't violate the rules of your instance, if everything you do on the fediverse is posting spammy links to your own commercial service people will block you, but the usual practice in most parts of the fediverse is that sporadic links to your own commercial things among other things are fine, or even welcome if you are a small artisan selling the things they make or something similar.
* Some platforms may show a preview of the link, so please add CWs as appropriate.
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#mastoTip (pss, don't tell people about this, but you can also post a link to the permalink of a toot, hint, hint :D )
(there isn't anything technically wrong with that, but remember that the mods are human, and in most cases they will know if you're doing it with the intent to harm, and act accordingly)
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TIL: to find out what is attached to a device in /dev/ you can use:
udevadm info -q all -n /dev/<device_name>
especially useful for things like /dev/ttyACMx if you connect more than one of them :D
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It;s 16:23 in the afternoon, and the shirt I want to wear tomorrow is already ironed and lightly starched (spray starch, not the real thing).
What is going to go horribly wrong?
(for context: usually I would be ironing it in a hurry 30 minutes before I have to wear it, while also doing something else like baking bread)
filed under #costuming , because, really, nobody else is going to wear a starched shirt at the family gathering tomorrow.
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I *am* going to bring a lot of starchy food, does that count :D (bread, my contribution to the meal, and ideally to a couple of days of meals for the hosting family, is bread :) )
(and most of my relatives are nice, I'm not dreading the day spent with them)
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Da un quotidiano locale:
“[Regione Lombardia] esteso l’offerta gratuita [del vaccino antinfluenzale] a tutti i cittadini *fino* ai 6 mesi di età. [enfasi mia]”
ah, beh, allora siamo a posto :D
(lo so, è un refuso, può capitare)
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After trying some materials I had at home and not finding anything satisfying, I did a panic buy of #macrame cord to be used in the drawstring backpacks I'm making as gift wrappers, from an online shop.
Since I was already late and didn't have time to get another delivery if the one I bought didn't work, I selected a few different types, just to be sure.
Of course, the type I had most hope for worked just fine, so now I have ~100 m balls of 3 different types of macramé cords I don't have a project for.
Right now I should be finishing my breakfast, taking care of the laundry and finishing the last drawstring backpack.
Can you guess what I'm doing instead?
Why, of course I'm attempting a macramé chatelaine bag.
No, I'm not using a pattern.
No, I haven't done macramé before (but I've done lots of friendship bracelets in the past).
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tea has been had.
a handle has been made.
the laundry has been taken care of.
and I've even taken a shower!
and I've tried to take a picture, but the phone isn't being helpful :(
The phone released the two pictures I've taken yesterday
I believe I've done something wrong, since I've used way more rope than the internet tells me is typical for an average project, so I'll either have a lot of leftovers, or a result that is denser than usual.
As a learning thing, I'm fine with either.
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now #sewing: drawstring backpacks¹ in simple cotton as #reusableGiftWrappings, and it's really nice being able to pin the heck out of it, instead of having to be extremely careful when doing them in waterproof fabric :)
#MYOG
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I try reuse bags too whenever I need to give gifts.
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@zephyr my default giftwrapping solution are furoshiki: cut a square of fabric, hem the borders, wrap and knot it around the gift, and then it can be reused in a lot of ways.
Unless I'm feeling lazy, and I buy dishcloths that are already hemmed, and will be reused as dishcloths or small tablecloths :D
But sometimes I prefer to do something different.
I've just added the character 🗞 to my .Xmodmap.
After copypasting it from the output of ``unicode newspaper`` something like once a day on average for, I think, years.
I think that there is some kind of antipattern at work here.
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Un articolo (in inglese) scritto davvero bene su perché mastodon.art ha chiuso le iscrizioni durante i boom di nuovi iscritti e in generale su come e perché per il fediverso è molto meglio avere tante piccole istanze (anche sugli stessi temi) piuttosto che delle megaistanze.(nel caso in cui su altre piattaforme non arrivi, questo è il link diretto all'articolo, quello sopra è il post sul fediverso che lo annuncia) patreon.com/posts/76099798?pr=…
I was going to make this as a thread but then the words became Many and I figured I'd do it as a Patreon post instead XDOn instance scale and federation scale:
patreon.com/posts/76099798?pr=…
I posted yesterday that .art closes registrations to protect the growth and health of our community and some people asked why we'd want to limit how many people are here. This explains why. :)
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Fuor di celia credete ci sia spazio per mini/micro istanze tipo quelle realizzabili con #epicyon ? Vedi monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/…
@Curator
Epicyon ActivityPub server
Epicyon ActivityPub serverActivityPub server written in Python, HTML and CSS, and suitable for self-hosting on single board computers I may have found a Fediverse server I want to run Epicyon is …Paolo Redaelli
@Paolo Redaelli @Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: effettivamente sì, mastodon ha alzato di molto l'asta su cosa venga considerato piccolo rispetto alle altre piattaforme storiche del fediverso.
Però Welsh Pixie e gli altri mod di .art hanno un bel po' di esperienza nel gestire con successo una comunità vivibile con moderazione forte, per cui mi fido quando forniscono numeri che lo permettono.
Detto questo, io sono su un'istanza da quattro gatti con moderazione debole (perché le iscrizioni sono chiuse, e quindi bisogna moderare solo quel che arriva da fuori, e di solito non c'è neanche davvero bisogno di farlo a livello di server) e mi ci trovo molto meglio (ho risposto alla tua domanda? :) )
/me, pouring water in the transparent teapot: this green #tea is really pale, it will probably be very delicate
/me, 3 minutes later: wait, that water is *really* pale
looks at the still sealed bag of tea
(and it's not even a *morning* tea, here it's afternoon)
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The hot air soldering station set at 260°C worked quite nicely to warm up a pair of needles to bend them for coptic #bookbinding.
Better than using a candle flame, I'd say, as there was no soot to clean up afterwards.
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@Sibylle I wouldn't mind. the phone minds a bit more, at this hour in the night¹ :D
The white part is a reflection of the light, they are just regular big sewing needles (size 2 sharps - I believe that bookbinding needles should have a rounded tip, but right now this is what I have)
Now that I've tested them, I believe that they will have to be bent a bit more, especially the top one.
I don't think tomorrow I'll have time to shoot proper pictures, but I hope in the weekend I will.
¹ it's not really night, it's just dark :)
uops, apparently it's not safe for me to go to the haberdashery to buy just a spool of buttonhole thread.
No, I don't know what to do with it, yet. maybe on a skirt? maybe on a capelet? maybe on a decorative apron of some kind? right now it will go in the stash until I find the right fabric and the right project.
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How to program an attiny85 from arduino ide, in linux.
Having looked at many instruction on the internet, those are the more complete (and working) I have found:
gist.github.com/Ircama/22707e9…
TL;DR:
1) open Arduino Ide from your preferred linux distro (mine is debian/testing)
2) File -> Preferences -> Additional Board Manager Url
3) add this link raw.githubusercontent.com/Armi…
4) ok
5) Tools -> Board Manager, add Digistump AVR Boards
6) Tools -> Board -> Digistump AVR Boards -> Digistump
Now it's all classic "Verify" "Upload" steps to program the attiny85
Yesterday we went for a walk and @Diego Roversi took a few pictures of the flannel shirt I've just finished (and I forgot to button it up completely before the pictures were taken, uoooops)
The pattern is always sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , but I've cut away the excess material in the front rather than pleating it.
#sewing #HistoricalSewing #1880s @sewing group #FreeSoftWear
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've never really used the pockets in shirts, so no (not yet?)
there are two pockets in the skirt, plus access to the detached pockets below it, of course.
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Project red shirt has started!
red as in Garibaldi, not as in Star Trek, and right now I've only done one cut, and then moved on to other things (it was time for tea :D ), but I plan to finish cutting most pieces tomorrow and then start (slowly) #sewing
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I've stopped procrastinating sewing in the sleeves!
ok, technically I'm procrastinating right now, by writing this comment, but I'm going back to it *right now* :D
(oh, and the collar is finished, and the two side seams have both been felled)
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straight part of both sleeves done!
now I have just a bit more time before dinner, but do you think i'm going to press the seam and move on to the gathered part?
nope. brain off. front hem.
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gathered part of one sleeve done, the next will be sewn hopefully tomorrow. Very little hemming done.
I'm starting to suspect that on New Year's Eve I will be making buttonholes while waiting for the new year, rather than wearing the shirt :D
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This morning I took a break to visit the Risorgimento museum in Milan (and spent something like 15 minutes in the small room dedicated to Garibaldi :D ), but still both sleeve seams have been felled!
Tomorrow hem and reinforcement patches (have I ever told I much I hate them?), saturday buttonholes?
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've already been there, can confirm :D
We still have to go back and visit the last couple of rooms that we didn't have time to visit because the museum was closing down, but we keep postponing it because it's just two rooms, and what if we get lost rewatching everything else, and still miss those?
(no, we've never been thrown out of a museum because it was closing. we always left them with good grace after the second or third announcement that it was closing, *before* they actually have to come and grab us with force :D )
(and it's not because we get there late :D )
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today I sort of got distracted by polymer clay, but I did finish the hems!
also, I found that the reinforcement patches I've cut are too small, so tomorrow I'll cut new ones. and then buttons and buttonholes.
The plans for the evening (meeting people online) have changed, so there is a decent chance that the dress code will be “evening dress, i.e. pajamas”, but wearing the new shirt on New Year's Day looks feasible.
Also, there is still a bit of thread on the spool, probably enough for the patches.
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aaaaand done! the patches have been added, the shirt can be worn!
I still have to cut and sew at least one detachable collar, but that will happen later, now I think I'll move on to the jacket project and ideally the Augusta Stays.
I hope to be able to take proper pictures of the shirt this weekend!
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I've decided I need to do something vaguely useful with a few microcontroller boards I have, use some of the simple ESP8266 ones to collect temperature and humidity data from various rooms of the house to a MQTT server, collect that data in a RRD and show the current values on an epaper panel together with the current time and weather forecast.
Current status is:
* the MQTT server at home is no longer working (uops, that's why I wasn't receiving other unrelated notifications. I believe I know what the reason is, and how to solve it, but not today. I have mosquitto installed also on the laptop and that one is working)
* the python library I wanted to use to read data from MQTT is broken in debian testing (bug opened at the end of november)
* I can't find the ESP8266 boards. I know that they are around here somewhere, but WHERE???
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Then, with the board nicely sitting on a breadboard, a stable 3.3V and no ratnest of jumper cables I've seen that the code I wrote last week works: the board turns on, connects and sends the temperature and humidity data from the DHT22 on mqtt, sets a timer and goes into deep sleep.
As long as you don't use Serial.flush(); before going into deep sleep, otherwise it will hang on it until it *gets* a serial, or something, and it will not have a serial while running on battery (uooops).
(yes, the DHT22 seems to be working fine on 3.3V, probably as long as it's close enough to the board that the voltage isn't dropping. and I'm not going to have 5V while on battery, so 3.3V it is)
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The Bag of Random Sensors that had the DHT22 also gifted me with 3 (THREE!) BMP280 (temperature and atmospheric pressure, I2C or SPI).
While playing with them I've learned:
* The #esp32c3 can use #i2c on any pin; the default I believe is 8 and 9, but they are also used while programming, so meh
* You can change the i2c pins in #arduino by calling Wire.setPins(I2C_SDA, I2C_SCL); before any Wire.begin();
* There is an example sketch called Wire -> WireScan which scans for i2c devices (you will have to change it to use the pins you want to use with a call to Wire.setPins) which is a godsend.
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aaaand, temperature and pressure have been read.
for some reason, however, right now arduino isn't compiling the sketch twice in a row (with the error “panic: runtime error: index out of range [9] with length 9”).
But I'll look into it probably during the Christmas holidays, for today I'm ok with this.
oh, right. I was supposed to look into the arduino failures.
instead, I've looked a bit at the python side of things, and surprisingly what I did worked fine, even if it wasn't much.
The whole ESP32 family can do hardware I2C on most of their bidirectional GPIO pins. I2C is a relatively simple protocol that can be simulated in software on any GPIO pin on any MCU (FYI):
github.com/bitbank2/BitBang_I2…
GitHub - bitbank2/BitBang_I2C: A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any system
A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any system - GitHub - bitbank2/BitBang_I2C: A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any systemGitHub
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They've found an unpicked dress and reconstructed the way it has probably been remade four times from an 1740s original into possibly the 1940s.
Students piece together the mystery of a 280-year-old yellow dress – National Trust
Fragments of yellow silk discovered in a bag have been reconstructed into a historically accurate 18th century dress, thanks to a collaboration between the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the National Trust (NSW).National Trust
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I couldn't help but shudder at the fourth item, just a little jacket? Were they mad? That looks like a home sewer who had no idea what it was, somehow got this and had a go at remaking it. Oh dear god...
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TFW you want to do something, but you're too tired and unfocused to decide what to do, so you start taking notes on #train timetables and possible alternatives for a commute. for somebody else.
and somehow you're focused enough that it works :D
Una chiacchierata su: il Fediverso
Il come e il perchè del Fediverso. Links: San Benedetto del Tronto https://social.as59715.net/users/cittasbt Account sul fediverso del comune di San Bened...social.gl-como.it
From today's wikipedia trip: a 1920 ad for work clothing that mentions that they are made by unionized workers.
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(sorry, I don't have the energy right now to copy the rest of the text, it's mostly what one would expect, but if somebody can write a complete image description I'd be grateful)
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Today I've been "nerd snipped" by a friend.
He had to write some excel formulas, and he was writing them in 'pseudocode' before putting the formula together, while commenting about "why I can't write formulas in a sane language".
So I've spent my evening (and part of my night) doing this:
Next step: a web page to run it in a browser :D
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I've published a new pattern, for classic jeans.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
They are based on a menswear block, so for people who need more fullness in the front than in the back; one day I will also draft the same pattern based on a womanswear block, but right now I don't need jeans-like trousers in non-denim and I don't have a source for decent denim, so don't hold your breath for it :)
@sewing group @FreeSoftWear group #sewing #sewingPattern #jeans
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@Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] let me know how it works!
I'm not sure how easy valentina is to use (even if just to enter the measurements and print out an existing pattern), and I'm not proficient enough to write a guide myself :(
And if you have any doubts on the instructions part feel free to ask! That part I take full responsibility for :)
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Things I've done lately:
- Dist-upgraded my VPS from Debian 10 to Debian 11
- Updated the ansible playbook which configure my VPS almost up to date with the real state of my VPS. Things have started to diverge many moons ago. Now is quite back on track to be able to run without any unwanted side effects
- Installed Dentrite matrix homeserver with a couple of bridges, using the aforementioned ansible playbook
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Status update on the flannel shirt: all of the main pieces have been assembled, two buttonholes out of five have been done. I still have to fell the seams on the sleeves and the sides, and hemstitch the hems. And then I must not forget the reinforcement patches at the sides and sleeves. The one I've almost forgotten about about every time I think on what's still to do on the shirt :D
Being able to wear it this weekend is starting to sound feasible, unless something unexpected happens.
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all 5 buttonholes done, all 6 buttons attached (there is an additional button in the center back of the collar for detached collars).
still missing: hemming and reinforcement patches.
chances of wearing it in the weekend: very high (but I hope I'm not jinxing it)
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hem done!
And I've also added a button that was missing to the white linen shirt of the same pattern.
tomorrow I'll cut, press (that's going to be a hassle) and sew the reinforcement patches, and then it will be done!
And then on the pile I have the facing of the bathrobe and — cough — a couple of things that I really would love to have mended :D
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reinforcement patches, done!
the shirt is complete!
I'll wear it (and take photos) in the weekend!
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I have a problem: the tutorial¹ I'm following says to leave the thing in a warm place until it's dry enough that the cat will sleep on it, but I currently don't have a cat.
pliz help: what should I do? wrong answers only :D
(no pictures, because it's white linen fabric wet with xantan gum on white poster paper in low light, and I didn't even try. just imagine you're on a low bandwidth connection and you're reading the image description here.)
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Serata del 1 dicembre: il Fediverso
Visti gli argomenti di cronaca tecnologica delle ultime settimane :D per
la prossima serata del giovedì 1 dicembre pensavamo di proporre il tema
“il Fediverso” (ovvero i social network federati, ovvero ciò di cui fa
parte Mastodon).
Il piano è:
- 20:30 ritrovo alle 20:30 su meet.gl-como.it/GL-Como per
convenevoli e consueto cazzeggio
- 21:00 breve presentazione di cos'è il Fediverso
- 21:15 circa, scambio di esperienze, domande, risposte, consigli eccetera
eccetera.
Come l'altra volta, partecipando si autorizza la registrazione della
call, a partire dalle 21:00 e la sua eventuale pubblicazione.
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#til that there is yet another #fabric-based thing that is called buckram and it has some similarities, but is definitely a different thing from the other two I knew.
A mesh material used to make fursuit eye pieces.
(The other two are the buckram used in hats and the one used to stiffen stays)
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in reply to Fabio • • •I'm interested as eons ago I started an automatic binding generetor for #LibertyEiffel that uses the same wrapper/binding infrastructure used by Python.
And I should soon restart working on it 😅
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in reply to Paolo Redaelli • •I was quite dramatic here :)
it's a nice binding, very pythonic, without being too different from GObject api. Given the obvious different things (like define a gobject subclass property. Or how enums are named, etc), you can read gtk docs docs.gtk.org/gtk4/ and write almost correct code at first try.
But then you want to do something more exotic, like define your enum. you can't. And many other little thing.
Or try to assign a complex model to an AdwComboRow, then you may want to assign a Gtk.ClosureExpression, which for what I can tell it can't be created.
Unfortunately the project looks like it's in need of some love.
And TBH sometimes Gtk4 it's in your way on itself. Why
GtkSearchBaris final? it's a container. It need a child element to work. I would like to subclass it, attach an ui template, setup the logic into the subclass and then reuse this subclass in another ui template. You can't, because it's final. You have to wrap it in another non-final widget, let's say a GtkBox.Fabio
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