Berlin, Berlin.
We just took the #lac2018 group photo at Native Space, but I'm not sure I'm on it. It's just way too many people this year.
I'll post a link once it's up.
So, using rawgit.com and a dedicated 'cdn' repo on github, I can now refer to the Charis #webfont with 1 year browser cache times and utilize it from a CSS/HTML generator with just two lines of #CSS:
@import url('https://cdn.rawgit.com/tim-janik/cdn/a8a12dd652e48532faa39657bc5cc268525a89ca/CharisSIL5/CharisSIL-webfont.css');
html { font-family: "CharisSILW", serif; }
No costs involved and no user tracking by fonts.google either ;-)
For a while now, I've been wanting to use the Charis #webfont (SIL license), here's why: https://practicaltypography.com/charter.html
It's not hosted by fonts.google or so, which makes it tricky to refer to it from a #FLOSS project.
Hosting on github has too short cache times (5min) for a large webfont.
Today I finally found https://rawgit.com, a #CDN (StackPath) in front of github with large browser cache times (and mime type fixes).
And an alternative (CloudFlare), also for gitlab: raw.githack.com
Eeek, watch out during upgrades to avoid #ZFS 0.7.7 on Linux, due to potential #dataloss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797932
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401
"NeoPG uses formal grammars even for parsing trivial data structures, down to individual bytes. This article explains why. "
https://neopg.io/blog/no-ad-hoc-parser/
Back from the #libreoffice hackfest /community meetup and some long very interesting talks.
It's a really nice community and having them meet up in Hamburg is something I couldn't possibly have missed!
They are very welcoming, for everyone who wants to get involved as well, here're the easy hacks:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
apologies for linking medium, but here's an interesting take on why blockchains actually aren't good at what everyone hopes to use them for
Holy....shit this font
Brilliant New Typeface Combines Touchable Braille With Visible Letters
https://mymodernmet.com/braille-neue-typeface-kosuke-takahashi/
Screenshots of Open Source Alternatives to Slack that I tested https://flic.kr/s/aHsmfAZH2a
Coming back from the Meet+Greet dinner of the #Libreoffice community in Hamburg. Nice to see old and some new faces again ☺️
Tomorrow is the #Hackfest and community meeting:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/Community-Treffen2018
Twitter.com decided to suspend my account, no reasons provided.
I messaged them and now the suspension has been lifted, but without any explanation. Details here:
https://twitter.com/TimJanik/status/981160389177036800
I'd really like folks to switch and use Mastodon instead. If you run into an ill willed admin, you can simply start your own decentralized federation server.
- But so far I'm happy with the tchncs.de admin, thanks @milan ;-)
JeffConf
I'm off to #JeffConf in Hamburg tomorrow morning, is anyone else going to show up there too?
So jetzt: Leipzig
https://social.tchncs.de/media/OG4qzqqP_i6JgXnK7VY
34c3: https://media.ccc.de
Wow… Habe gerade entdeckt, daß #Grenzwellen mit Ecki Stieg von #Radio Hannover seit ein paar Jahren neu aufgelegt wurde. Für Fans elektronischer Musik ein Muss, damit sind die Mittwoch Abende nun verplant ;-)
Wow… just discovered that radio show "Grenzwellen" with Ecki Stieg has been reborn after a 17 year hiatus. It's coverage of alternative electronic music is unparalleled, the show's an absolute must for fans of electronic music. Now blocking all Wednesday evenings
Finally, the last 'procedure' (a pre-c++ macro/preprocessing monster construct in C for IPC calls) has been removed from beast code and migrated to proper C++ IDL. Been wanting to finish this for a decade. https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/commits/master
You get what you pay for, it's time tax payers GET access to the results of services they PAYed for.