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Himalayan balsam in the early morning light. I know it’s invasive but I can’t help finding it pretty. #Flowers #Nature

Not a good start to the day: the handle of my favourite, handmade coffee mug basically exploded in my hand, while the mug was full of coffee. Much breakage, such a mess. RIP favourite mug.

I've just bought a used Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon from about 5 years ago, and will put NixOS, Noctalia, Niri and friends on it when it arrives. It's a bit beaten up as is normal for an ex-corporate laptop, but that is easily solved by stickering the heck out of the boring case. Send me your favourite sources of cool stickers! 'Training data' and other stickers from @robb@social.lol are already on my shopping list...

I’m also in that ‘signing back in to AAALLLL the things’ stage of setting up a new phone.

I've got a question for the Masto hive mind on behalf of Mr. Bsag.

He doesn't sleep well and is very sensitive to sound (#AuDHD), so he wears noise-cancelling headphones a lot, especially at night to play white noise etc., when outside to mask traffic noise, and so on.

He has a couple of pairs of AKG N60s, but they eventually wear out and they are getting hard to source used.

Does anybody have recommendations for headphones similar to these that are:

• on ear (not in-ear or over-ear)
• have active or passive noise cancellation
• preferably don't have touch or physical buttons on the shells that can control phone calls. Volume/play/pause etc. is fine if not too sensitive, or can be turned off in an app

Thanks in advance! Boosts very welcome.

Just checking if this gets posted on Mastodon...

@neatnik@social.lol Yay, that worked! I obviously didn’t read your email carefully enough! No problem and thanks for the help.

Of course, this self-hosting success is highly dangerous because now I’m thinking, why don’t I just spin up a VM, install NixOS with Caddy and friends instead of using a static host service. I’ve run a VM in the past to host my site but I’m trying to be a Sensible Person ™️ now and remember why I stopped doing that. tldr: you have the freedom to set things up how you want but you are responsible for cleaning up the mess when you do something stupid. 😏

@neatnik This is fabulous! Got it set up now.

In related news, does anyone have experience of https://statichost.eu Their hosting seems admirably simple, their docs and site are clear and uncluttered, and they charge a fair price. However, they don't yet have a CDN (they have one in beta though) and I can't see a way to automatically provision a certificate. I'm weighing them up against Bunny.net, which also seems great but much more difficult to understand. Any experience of either would be helpful in making a decision! I'm looking to leave Netlify for a variety of reasons, one of which is wanting to be hosted on EU servers.

I posted this to status.lol with cross-posting to Mastodon toggled on but it (and another post on Sunday) didn’t actually make it to social.lol for some reason. Precious posts have always worked fine. Paging @neatnik@social.lol ?

Ever have one of those days where you just can't figure out a bit of code that should be simple? I'm trying to put together a big `` template in an #11ty nunjucks shortcode. I have an external image store and optimiser, and so I just want to pass the filename so that I can piece together the correct query url to resize/optimise the image. Can I get that to work? Can I bobbins! It seems to be trying to insert an object rather than interpreting the filename as a plain string to insert into another string. Any help given might stop me exploding with frustration. I expect that I am doing something dumb.

@neatnik@social.lol I feel the same way about anything AI produced. I always tell my students that I would much rather read an essay that they wrote themselves, with all the little slips, lack of polish, structural problems and so on, than read soulless *blah* that says nothing about how they are thinking.

@neatnik@social.lol A while ago, but then using Joanna’s Status.log app recently it asked me for authentication again, which I did. I think that was before posting the second post which didn’t cross post. The one before that I created in the Status.lol web app and got no authentication request. Before those two, everything worked fine from the web or the app.

@neatnik@social.lol Congratulations! 🥳

@neatnik@social.lol looks great!

@neatnik@social.lol Oof.