Parker Higgins @xor@mastodon.xyz

If you take the "c" and "x" off the ends of "cardboard box", you're left with a perfectly repeating ardbo-ardbo

My crossword downloading software (https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl) has become the spaghettiest code and I would love to learn how to make it not so much that!

Don't recommend running out of memory, personally

Is it the case that default Ubuntu installs are set up with a RAM/swap configuration such that you can just... run out? Like a lot? My last three installs have been set up this way and I don't understand it

Is there already a tool that takes a video with a subtitles file and produces a collection of one screenshot per line?

Oh, huh, I forgot to consider how link shortening would mess with that toot's text. BUT if you copy and paste it still works

You can download the entire @pomological collection in high resolution for example with:

curl https://usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/pom/download.xhtml?id=POM0000[0001-7584] -o POM0000#1.jpg

If you do that let me know!

I just had an occasion to use curl's URL globbing feature and I was reminded how great and powerful it is. Highly recommended for downloading large numbers of well-ordered files! https://ec.haxx.se/cmdline/cmdline-globbing

Went back to read the code from my crossword puzzle client (`cursewords`) to see how I did something and... the whole code base is completely inscrutable to me. It was apparently written in a fugue state. I want to ship updates but it's in an alien tongue.

new thinkpad arriving momentarily. what operating system should i run?!?!

The plan is to get another 15% better at Python and then finally learn JS (lol)

Got a recommendation for Effective Python. Anybody have strong feelings on that one, for or against?

I've been realizing lately that my fascination with generativity is kind of about brute-forcing aesthetics, and how that's sort of a technoutopian stance