aschmitz @aschmitz@lardbucket.org

[meta: I've gone ahead and made my account locked, so I guess you'll have to wait for me to approve your follow request if you want to follow me. If you're an actual person, I'll probably approve it, I just don't want to have to keep evicting bots ex post facto.]

I missed out on #introductions last time, so:

I'm a person. I think people and communities and subcultures are pretty interesting. Sometimes I try to archive these things, sometimes I just idly find them fascinating.

I appreciate things that are {open source, secure, well-designed}, most of the people I've met here, and @srn ​in particular.

I like to think I'm trustworthy and available. Feel free to reach out even if I don't know you.

(A few thousand more words available via my profile.)

Someone, upon seeing a DDR pad in my living room: "Ooh! Can we play DDSM?"

Me: "Uhh."

So I had to restart my server to make more space, and everything's quite nyoomy now. Not sure *why*, though.

This seems like it belongs here. Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood interview of Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.

"Lots of children would rather be a witch than almost anything else."

https://youtu.be/W23FRsHnegE

Taking a two hour nap until the next thing. 'nightish, Mastodon.

I used to be marginally surprised or amused by a bunch of things, so I said "huh" a lot. (Still do, but probably a little less.) Adapting to recent trends in my typing, however, my phone's swipe typing now assumes I mean "hug" rather than "huh".

I'm good with this.

Happy summer for the northern hemisphere folks 🌞, and happy winter for the southern hemisphere folks ☃️!

Woke up for an N-am call that's happening in five minutes... plus a week. Oops.

Did anyone happen to notice if the ICE DB popped up on GitHub's list of "trending" repos? Is there a way to identify "things like this" before they get disappeared?

(I have a way to watch and archive repositories automatically, it's just a question of identifying them in the first place.)

Was that the first Walkyverse crossover? Or just the first one I noticed?

sudo pg_dropcluster 9.3 main

@kibi Do you have a suggestion for a simplified set of relationships in an ontology? Like "555 IC" is-an "integrated circuit" but also has 8(?) pins, (which is-a "pin count").

Bonus round: is there a good editor for data like that you like?

Walkies, and then maybe bread? Should be a decent Sunday.

Artists from my most-played songs on one service.

1. Bonobo
2. Mojave 3
3. Röyksopp
4. Zero 7
5. Lykke Li
6. The Avett Brothers
7. Mazzy Star
8. Naomi
9. Sigur Rós
10. Fischerspooner
11. Vienna Teng
12. Freezepop
13. Ulrich Schnauss
14. Grimes
15. Thievery Corporation
16. The Killers

That's not really the list I'd've guessed. (I'd add Moby, Sia, Enya, Boards of Canada, and depending on timing some generic rock like Tom Petty / Coldplay / Hootie & The Blowfish.)

Implemented (enough of) `CBLC` and `CBDT` to extract images given a glyph ID. Looks like I need to implement `GSUB` next to be able to actually pull any multi-codepoint glyphs out, and since that's most of what I want, I guess that'll happen... later. When I'm more rested.

You win for tonight, OpenType.

(Attached: a diagram of GSUB's features. 😬​)

"We want to store PNGs for glyphs." If you're OpenType, that means:

* Create two tables.
* The first table has a header and subtables. Those point to other subtables, in one of five formats, that ultimately describe the location of the images in the second table.
* Depending on the subsubtables, each entry in the second table might have font metrics (or not).

Oh, and because it's OpenType, all of this is spread across four sections of the docs, without clear cross-referencing.

@kibi Do you happen to know if U+1F9B0 through U+1F9B3 are supposed to be representable on their own? The Unicode emoji ordering file says yes, but they're not(?) in Twemoji.

In case you wanted to see all of Emoji 11.0 right now, I've updated my poster for Twemoji, which already has support for it.

Up at https://aschmitz.org/output/emoji/twemoji_11_poster.png

It's happened several times that people I follow comment vaguely on Discourse that's going on elsewhere in the fediverse, but I also largely don't follow people who are actually discoursing. (Or not enough of them to see it, if it's @'d messages.) Only rarely have I actually wondered what's going on in the rest of the 'verse.

This is good and nice. Thanks, y'all.

Also, if I happen to say Things at a bad time given discourse elsewhere, I might just not know. Feel free to tell me.

Somewhere around wondering why I'm still up 4-5 hours later than usual, I remembered I had about half a cup of coffee this morning.

Well then.

Looks like Salvation Army folks are out in force across the city I work in today, dressed up in 70s-military-reminiscent dress uniforms and asking for money. Zero chance I donate to that organization, but it would be nice to have a fast way to explain why to the 6+ representatives I passed, rather than just laughing at the idea I'd be willing to do so.