Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

I'm home sick, so I'm naturally reading HTML specs and composing my latest rant at how frustratingly half-baked HTML5 is, particularly with respect to forms and inputs.

(I have like three drafts of this rant lying about, time to add a fourth …)

The officially best news of the $interval:

World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):

https://worldofgoo2.com/

the return of the https://www.gibtesnochcongresstickets.de/

#37c3

TIL long-eared hedgehogs exist and are adorable

Ja klar, ist immer leichter, für Pflichten der anderen zu sein, nichtwahr?

Really really cool use of GPT-3: Getting it to explain code/maths to you. Always with the usual caveats – but still, seems like a really cool way to get unstuck on understanding something: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jul/9/gpt-3-explain-code/

You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book.

Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK.

You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. >

German lesson of the day: "übermorgen".

"Morgen" can both mean "tomorrow" and "morning", and you probably know "über". Together, it means "amazing morning".

Used in a sentence: "alter, ich hatte einen über morgen!" – "dude, I had an amazing morning"