jonathanmatthews

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to Cat

Charlie the #cat found his happy place this afternoon … entirely coincidentally on the heated mat I turned back on for a few hours … #Caturday (almost!) #CatsOfMastodon

A white and ginger cat lies sprawled out on a red blanket, on some black plastic shelves.

jonathanmatthews, 3 months ago to hiking

Today I went #hiking along the #Ridgeway 😀 I managed to go 13 miles, though it was a really hard slog at the end!
I went past Wayland's Smithy, #Uffington Castle, and a LOT of hedgerows ... here's a little thread of photos I took:

1. Wayland's Smithy

Wayland's Smithy: a large green raised patch of earth (a barrow) under blue skies and white clouds. There is much exposed earth in the foreground, and some standing stones at the left edge of the barrow. Trees surround the structure.
Wayland's Smithy: a large green raised patch of earth (a barrow) under blue skies and white clouds, with a bright sun. There are lots of fallen leaves in the foreground. Trees surround the structure.
Wayland's Smithy: a handful of large standing stones at the entrance to a barrow, under blue skies and white clouds.

jonathanmatthews, 3 months ago to hotsauce

UK #condiment fiends: share your best sources of hot sauces, lime pickles, etc!
I don't know /anything/ about where to get good ones - please enlighten me 😀🥵
#condiments #hotsauce #limepickle #AskFedi #Food #chilli #chillisauce

jonathanmatthews, 10 months ago to random

I’m exactly halfway through “Eagle Eye” (2008), and here’s my prediction for the end of the #movie. Please don’t tell me if I’m right or wrong!!

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#spoiler #spoilers #EagleEye

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to random

I know this'll be unexpected, possibly unpopular; and it's a big, big decision, but ...

I've decided to change my standing desk layout so the screen's in portrait mode.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

jonathanmatthews, 7 months ago to random

@grammargirl 👋 Here's a question that came up today in some writing...
(How) Do you capitalise the words at the start of a sentence when the first word is in parentheses, as this one is, as it's asking 2 questions simultaneously? Are both words capitalised? Just one?

jonathanmatthews, 2 months ago to random

Would anyone care to recommend a CO2 monitor I can prop up next to my desk to remind me when to ventilate?

Bonus marks if it's both powered and portable, so I can occasionally take it to meetings and opt out when things get too muggy. I don't care about recording numbers over time. UK purchase.

Q: it is #CO2 I want to monitor, both for air quality and as a proxy for the fact that #COVIDisAirborne, right?? #AirQuality #AskFedi #lazyweb

jonathanmatthews, 1 year ago to random

I’ve lost my house keys. For the first time in over 30 years, I have lost my set of keys. But they must be in the house, because /I’m/ in the house. I’ve looked everywhere - even in the fridge, in the bin … but no sign of them. I genuinely think I’m losing my mind 😳😳😞

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to random

@sarahdal Heya 👋 So I recall your XLS-shouldabinnaDB problem, and I noticed that @simon posted this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199041) in a (🙄) HN discussion of Datasette, his open-source-but-also-SaaSy data-thing - and his comment stood out to me as something you /might/ be able to use to help convince your, er, colleague that using something DB-ish is a positive, & not the loss-of-control that I infer from your toots that you believe they might fear!

jonathanmatthews, 1 year ago to random

Can #deaf kids take part in #SpellingBee competitions? If so, how do they find out which word they need to #spell? Genuine question.

jonathanmatthews, 19 days ago to random

Well done, Siri. Top notch "AI"ing.

jonathanmatthews, 21 days ago to startup

I've started actively working on a tiny #SaaS whose user interface is #SFTP. Please do your best to convince me I'm making a silly mistake - I either need to be dissuaded ... or to make it happen 🤔 #Startup #SoftwareDevelopment #bootstrapping

jonathanmatthews, 1 month ago to random

I pushed two new (tiny!) #static #websites today ... which is pretty good for me, being 100% not-an-HTML guy!

They both use @amin's #readablecss because I absolutely don't understand that stuff but want to have, well, easily readable pages 😃

The first is a starting point that indexes things I have (and will have) written: https://writing.by.jonathanmatthews.com/

Then there's my company / #FediHire Me site: https://www.jcm-systems.co.uk/

jonathanmatthews, 1 year ago to random

The few times I’ve used #Hugo the #StaticSiteGenerator I’ve rapidly become bogged down in off-putting low level detail. I just want to write words, select a theme, run a command, and push the resulting nice-looking site!
What #StaticSiteGenerators can I check out that would give me a closer-to-hosted-Wordpress level of “choose theme; type words; have website” initial effort (even if that absolutely implies a low degree of customisation/flexibility)? #SSG #Websites

jonathanmatthews, 5 months ago to random

Does anyone know if @tailscale has published a schema for their ACL file anywhere? The docs are fine but aren't (really) machine readable, so translating them into #CUE or #JSONSchema will be a manual process that's boring to repeat as the docs evolve and features are added. Got any ideas? #tailscale

jonathanmatthews, 10 months ago to random

I’m editing JavaScript. Send help.

jonathanmatthews, 22 days ago to random

Anyone know if it's possible to get #curl to read a #netrc file and pick up a bearer token? I.e. not to discover a username and password, and munge them into a Basic Auth header, but to use a value verbatim from the file ...

jonathanmatthews, 19 days ago to random

I just got served an (anti-Labour) UK political ad on YouTube - that's illegal, innit? Genuine question.

jonathanmatthews, 19 days ago to email

Current status: cup of tea in the garden. Reading a 2007 book I bought in 2012, about some software first released in 1995 handling a 1981 protocol that I'm going to use as the cornerstone of my teeny tiny SaaS in 2024.

May we all have such a long-term effect on the world!

#Email #SMTP #SaaS #bootstrapping #softwaredevelopment #sysadmin

jonathanmatthews, 8 months ago to technology

I think I'm going to need to move away from an utterly bog-standard #mouse and start using the stationary #trackball variety. Not for ergonomics or similar, but for desk layout.
Is there anything I should know about different types, brands, or sub-varieties before taking a punt on one? #technology #reccomendations #reccomendation #SuggestionsPlease!

jonathanmatthews, 11 months ago to opensource

I know that asking an AI something-or-other to take the logos of a couple of #FOSS projects that I'm glomming together, and to generate a picture of their half-human-half-logo personifications getting hot and steamy would be wrong ...
... but would it be wrong wrong? #NowKiss

jonathanmatthews, 8 months ago to random

The fact that quite a few #toslink optical cables advertised on Amazon make a feature of their "gold-plated connectors" is ... concerning 🤦‍♂️

jonathanmatthews, 9 months ago to random

Which of the #emoji in this list would you use to mark the start of a distinct step in some documentation? ":step:" isn't available :-( https://github.com/ikatyang/emoji-cheat-sheet/blob/master/README.md

jonathanmatthews, 8 months ago to Korean

What are the most syllable-dense English language words you can think of?
Ignoring single letters ("a"), the word with the highest syllable-count/letter-count score I can think of (without searching online!) is "folio". And "Io", of course; but that feels like cheating :-)
Edit: Let's rule out proper nouns, so no "Io", or "Oreo", etc #words #language

jonathanmatthews, 4 months ago to running

Took my first non-trivial tumble whilst #running today. Nothing serious - a few scrapes on my forearms and knuckles. Definitely surprised me, though!