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(back from a week of holiday) oh no

New York pals! I haven't been to this exhibition but Elizabeth Breiner, the curator, is a friend with excellent taste (and another friend who doesn't know her enjoyed it).

"The Criminal Type" at Apex Art, 291 Church St

https://apexart.org/breiner.php

grant me the additional strength not to buy a switch

grant me the strength not to install windows just to play the goose game

I finally watched my own lightning talk at GUADEC, and wrote a thing about the same thing. https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2019/09/23/flatpak-external-data-checker/

I don't look anything like as nervous as I was. Funny how speaking for less than 5 minutes about a piece of software you know well to a friendly audience can still be daunting!

but… I was only away for the weekend…

Bot idea: workflow/productivity/lifestyle flowcharts based on this one from Ray Dalio's "Principles: Life and Work"

Nothing like spilling a giant mug of tea all over one's desk to realise one has too much crap on one's desk.

Should I teach my two-year-old about chemtrails?

@mjog Geary 3.34 on Flathub any day now, I suppose? 😀

Is there a directory of websites like arewefastyet.com? A colleague joked about “welcome to the arewefastyet.com web ring!” but I really would like a directory of single-serving domains like this. islinuxaboutchoice.com comes to mind…

My related side-project is on hold though is.godot.here.yt is evergreen.

There's really only so much butchering and people being set on fire that I can enjoy. Fortunately there is only one episode left.

Last time around it was the DUP; no prizes for guessing who'll be propping up the govt in 6-7 weeks.

In a Python programme, I'm trying to add a single element to an XML file (as a grandchild of the root) and write back the XML file, preserving all formatting, whitespace and comments. I've had some success with xml.sax.XMLFilterBase but I just can't work out how to preserve comments or the distinction between <foo></foo> and <foo/>. Any tips?

(This change will form part of a pull request that will be reviewed by a human, hence the need to preserve non-semantic stuff.)

Does anyone know who the voice in the GNOME Settings speaker test who says “Front Left” and “Front Right” is? How is this localized? #GUADEC2019

“When you're given a gift for your birthday, most people don't throw it in your face and say ‘I hope you die’.” – Britt Yazel @ #GUADEC

@mathieu your GUADEC badge has been spotted!