Gregory's Server
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Maybe this is how we can win! We shall all go and build ad free aggregators like @nikitonsky did for german cinemas. Websites, that are only designed to make all data accessible to users as quickly and easily as possible. "I don’t want to make a product out of it. We have enough products already. It’s time someone took a user’s side" Neil Gaiman wrote: "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game." I'm not Gaiman, and probably neither are you (unless you are, in which case hi, Neil.) But this is true for me and true for most of us.
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 @fatsam I've done that for people who have absolutely no clue 😅 I wish some did that for us 😆
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@nikitonsky it is currently missing the city of Tübingen. When manually loading it via the URL, none of the movie theaters there show up, just surrounding ones. @nikitonsky this is cool! I think @nonnullish might like it as they've been doing similar things recently(?) @nikitonsky where do you get the data from? I’m missing smaller cities like Fulda which has a cinemaxx or similar (not sure which chain) and even smaller cities with independent cinemas Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch That’s not progress
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 @nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind  What if blueprints but for spreadsheets? Exists? Last time I needed a spreadsheet it was very hard to get any derived data, even a simple map/filter, outside of trivialities like “sum this column”
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 @nikitonsky Excel has a good map/join/filter in their data importer. I believe it's called power query This is called Enso and apparently it’s what Luna-lang team pivoted to. Does exactly what I want but the user interface... Not great  Content: fits on one screen Modern engagement-driven services are crazy   @grumpy_website That can't be right. No one in their right mind would do something like that. It's inhumane. atof/strtof should really be locale-independent, and versions that ARE locale-dependent should accept it explicitly
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“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller _____ I agree and would go even further with the usage of standard communicqtion protocols you free yourself from technical dependencies. I.e mastodon to share links and quotes instead of an rss feed or a mailing list, or using an Irc server for chatting and questions.#mailinglist #irc #oldtechnology Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it: https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more TL;DR: It's because Sony.
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@foone I love “the clicky thing that goes pyoing” & “the swooshy thing that goes snap” 😂 Interesting to see users working around the lack of tactile buttons in some modern cars: CSS challenge! First picture is what I need, second is what I get. Can you fix it? Has to stay a single grid. Start here https://jsfiddle.net/3qjebucd/2/
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   @nikitonsky The `.poster` elements should always have a `span` that will cover more lines that you think it should: in this case the second and third poster should have a span 3 and 4. If you're ok with removing the vertical gap from the grid, then you could do something like span 99, but with a vertical gap (like in your example) it won't work. @nikitonsky I did it for #esperanto. Not quite sure what I was expecting but this is kind of boring. :(
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  @nikitonsky If it was sorted wouldn't it be a diagonal line?  |
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