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Wed, 21 May 2025 14:04:06 +0200

The power sofa

On Repeat Today: Leave You to It (Sleep Dearie Sleep), The Crown Soundtrack

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:30:59 +0100

Adri and I have enjoyed The Crown series on Netflix. It’s drama at its finest, with great actors. And, as with many good shows in the past few years, the score was really nice! I’ve enjoyed the music for the whole 6 seasons. It was often used to anchor the viewer in the right time, and although the themes could be repetitive, they had to given that we were following the same characters for…

On Repeat Today: Leave You to It (Sleep Dearie Sleep), The Crown Soundtrack

git flush

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:09:26 +0100

@R1Rail@mastodon.gougere.fr Person j’ai un alias dans mon .gitconfig, que j’ai appelé flush, et qui fait git restore – . && git checkout – . && git clean -f -d. C’est nucléaire, mais ça me permet de revenir à un état propre. Je trouve ça plus pratique que stash, qui n’est pas assez pour gérer les fichiers qui ne sont pas encore staged ou committed. Et c’est plus intéressant que reset qui est…

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Et vous, vous faites comment pour bosser avec un chat ?

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:56:19 +0100

Et vous, vous faites comment pour bosser avec un chat ?

POSSE Photos

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:36:44 +0100

@blog@alexsirac.com @alexture@todon.eu Je ne suis pas encore entièrement satisfait avec ça non plus, mais je dois dire que l’application mobile WordPress s’approche de plus en plus de mes besoins, en étant de plus en plus simple à utiliser. Depuis mon application Photos, je choisis “Partager” et je peux publier sur mon site après avoir renseigné un titre et des tags si je le souhaite. En moins…

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Matin tranquille

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:18:12 +0100

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Bonjour !

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:08:24 +0100

Bonne journée ! #Sunrise

Bonne journée !

Bonjour !

Les pauvres bêtes…

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:34:39 +0100

Pas la vie facile en ce moment pour nos deux monstres, avec le temps qu’il fait dehors…

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On Repeat Today: El Layali, Barry Can’t Swim

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:30:11 +0100

Today’s song on repeat is by a scottish DJ, Barry Can’t Swim. Enjoy!

I realize that’s one more Ninja Tune artist on my list of songs on repeat. I don’t do it on purpose I swear 🙂

On Repeat Today: El Layali, Barry Can’t Swim

worlds beyond number is sooo good!

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:29:01 +0100

marinscos:

worlds beyond number is sooo good!

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:26:40 +0100

inemi:

via indiarosecrawford

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:26:27 +0100

grumpygreenwitch:

forkingandcottage-deactivated20:
via indiarosecrawford
Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸
𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ
Ok, I adore the Frogs to begin with, but the sheer finesse and dedication of this one boggles my mind.

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:24:31 +0100

wackom:

The Beast that Bothers

On Repeat Today: Dive, Tycho

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:08:52 +0200

Another day, another track on repeat! Today is “Dive”, by Tycho. I have been listening to other tracks by Tycho, but I think this one is a good one to start with 🙂

On Repeat Today: Dive, Tycho

Thanking my RSS readers

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:08:28 +0200

I just stumbled across this nice little message at the bottom of all posts on @kev@fosstodon.org ‘s blog:

I do want to encourage folks to use RSS more on my site, but this little message made me realize I don’t actually acknowledge my RSS readers. I should, and that little message is a nice way to do just that!

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New profile pic!

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:12:38 +0200

After 18 years, it’s time to update to a new profile picture! I avoided changing until now because I wanted people to easily recognize me online. I figured the flashy green background and the picture’s point of view would help people quickly place me whenever they would see the picture in their Slack / forum / Twitter / Fediverse feed.

I couldn’t keep that old picture from 2006 forever though!…

New profile pic!

On Repeat Today: No Man’s Sky soundtrack

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:20:18 +0200

I’m cheating a bit with this one. Yes, I have it on repeat, but it’s a 2-hour long video with multiple tracks! 🙂

I would take that opportunity to recommend No Man’s Sky if you’re looking to try a new video game.

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How do you take a photo of time?

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:12:38 +0200

thefrogman:

sirfrogsworth:
sirfrogsworth:
I’ve been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We’d gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.
It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.
Several heroes emerged.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.
You can’t forget about Flo-Jo.
And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.
Which formed… The Dream Team.
Was this fair?
Well… they won each game by an average of 44 points.
So… no. It was not fair.
Though it became more fair as time went on.
But, umm… yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.
But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.
He was cool as heck.
For one thing… gold shoes.
But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.
And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn’t even close.
Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.
Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.
It didn’t even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I’ve ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.
After I saw that initially, I was like… who the heck won???
Even in slow motion I wasn’t sure.
This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.
The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.
The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big “Wooooo!”
I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.
And that’s when my inner nerd took over.
Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.
Why is the track white?
Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?
So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.
Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren’t used until 1937.
Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.
And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.
But we have come a long way since then. And I’d like to introduce you to the Omega Scan ‘O’ Vision Ultimate.
This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.
Only the finish line itself is actually captured.
And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 20,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.
So why don’t the photo finishes just look like, well… this?
That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.
As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.
It’s almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.
Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.
What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn’t move… what would that look like?
Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.
So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.
NEAT!
Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?
I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!
Clavicles!
The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.
So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.
Two more fun facts!
The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.
The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.
They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn’t actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.
And the final fun fact…
Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?
That isn’t superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.
But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?
That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O’ Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.
So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.
Pretty clever, Omega!
@aya-m3k Are you talking about the Omega logo?
Sorry, Tumblr allows 30 images per post and I wasn’t able to show the example I wanted to fully explain that.
So if you look at the sliver that the camera captures, there isn’t enough room for the full Omega logo.
So they put a little vertical display right in line with the finish line that shows a small piece of the logo for each frame the camera captures.
If you were standing in front of the display it would just look like the logo is moving to the right at pace with the runners.
And when the final image is assembled, the full logo shows up at the top.
Imagine the runners running and the Omega logo moving with them. It’s basically an optical illusion simulating that.
Hopefully that helps.
First, I apologize for the broken collarbone image. I had some heavy brain fog when creating this post and I was so worried about getting all of the big details accurate that I let that small detail slip by. I honestly didn’t even notice it until someone pointed it out. Despite how big of an ouchie that seems to be.
I also wanted to reblog this better explanation of the Omega logo thing since a few people had trouble visualizing it.
I’ve actually been having a visualization issue myself. I started watching events again, armed with all of this new knowledge, and my brain keeps doing something annoying.
I keep adding an imaginary finish line to the photo.
Like, I’ll see the photo finish and go…
“THERE is the finish line.”
Like, my brain actually draws it in for me. And I keep thinking everyone else is behind it.
Then I keep having to correct myself and force my brain to visualize many finish lines before I view everything properly.
“Okay, brain. ALL of these are the finish line. Just at a different point in time.”
I’m getting better at this, but I just thought it was funny how I can understand something on a certain level but still not UNDERSTAND it subconsciously.

On Repeat Today: Every You Every Me, Placebo

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:18:05 +0200

YouTube Music seems to be in a nostalgic mood today, it’s serving me some older songs that I really liked… 20 years ago 🙂

I chose to stop and start looping on this old Placebo song. Enjoy!

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12 years, 3 Logitech mice

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:03:01 +0100

In 2012, I bought a Logitech Performance MX. It was my first wireless mouse. My first expensive mouse. I was really happy with my purchase. It held its charge for a long time. It was heavy but easy to move around, it was sturdy, its arch design perfectly fit in my hand, and I immediately fell in love with that famous “free-spinning” scroll wheel.

5 years later, it was starting to show its age:…

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