Ivan Habunek @ihabunek@mastodon.social

@highvoltage There's a GTK clone of Paint.net called Pinta. I like it for simple image manipulation. A bit buggy though. https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta

WebCamp Zagreb is looking for speakers. I'm handling the speakers this year so if you apply I'll treat you like you deserve. :)

https://2018.webcampzg.org/cfp/

"You get a disease that spreads through the very act of thinking. The only way to slow its spread is to think as little as possible; the only way to save your intelligence is not to use it."

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7875

The wisdom of zen says:
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

So, here's nine ways to store 3 numbers in Python:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSnBvQjvqnA

@cosine Comments are still useful to explain why you want to collect cranks. Business logic can sometimes be strange.

Decided to drop python 2 support for toot. It was too much hassle. I hope most users have no problem with that.

On the bright side, v0.16 has many internal improvements which should make it easier to add new features.

https://github.com/ihabunek/toot/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

#AdventOfCode is done and it was fun. Not sure what to do with my life now that it's over. Sleep i guess. Here are my solutions in Clojure: https://github.com/ihabunek/aoc2017/ https://mastodon.social/media/so_6F10bkAfbuj7uc18

Youtube periodically suggets that I watch this video, and I always do. It just makes me happy. Shows real dedication, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10133nm58I

It's nice to see ScummVM still running strong. Release 2.0 is here with support for old Sierra titles. http://www.scummvm.org/news/20171217/

When all you have is a Lisp, every problem seems like a good fit for recursion. And it usually is. #AdventOfCode

@marijn I switched to DDG as a matter of principle and privacy, but the quality of the results is not as good as google yet.

Still, it's usable, and if I cannot find what I'm looking for, i add "!s" which redirects the search to startpage.com, which is basically a privacy wrapper around google.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand.
-- Books of Bokonon

uMap is a great open source mapping tool built on top of OpenStreetMaps & friends. Here's my yesterdays hike using OpenTopoMaps base layer. http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/runda-po-samoborskom-gorju_175054#15/45.7533/15.6150

Cat delivered to island.

Cat related injuries are beginning to mount up.

@hirojin Yes, I saw that pattern and it puts me off as well. Maybe some monads can fix that. :)

@hirojin Reading this thread does not encourage me to venture into go. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/RKymTuSCHS0