I managed to get may AWS Lambda photo publisher thing working again. #birds #ducks #green #Photographyhttps://so.nwalsh.com/2026/09/20/153849
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Norm Tovey-Walsh
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mastodon 4.6.5By way of #introduction, I'm an inveterate hacker of markup (XML, HTML, SGML, TeX, JSON, DocBook, RELAX NG, XML Schema, Schematron) and wrangler of bits (XProc, XSLT, XQuery, Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript, C#). Author. Photographer. Occasional cook. Frequent bottle washer. Employed by Saxonica. Resident of Wales. Website tinkerer, https://norm.tovey-walsh.com/
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If you claim to be a source of news and the date of publication for an article isn't clearly displayed (ideally adjacent to the title of the piece and the byline), you are not a news source.
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@sarahdalgulls It would be nice to have some legislation that required labeling to identify the ultimate corporate owner for all products. With care taken to prevent loopholes and teeth for violations. But the billionaires don't want that, so no.
I'm just boggled by the fact that Microsoft can simultaneously shove Copilot into Word (where you write critical business documents), Excel (where you track business critical financials), and the rest of the Office suite that they've worked relentlessly for decades to get into every business and school, and at the same time claim that it's "just for entertainment purposes". My dude! I assure you that even if you manage to amuse me, either the board nor the auditors will be amused.
I boosted a Mastodon toot that pointed to this blog post, but damn it, I want to boost it again: https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/.
🧩 XML 🧩. I love how the pieces fit together. In this case, for a possibly mad idea about publishing with Typst. #XML #InvisibleXML #DocBook #Markdown #MarkupMonday
Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse
It may take me a few minutes to recover from the horrifying realization that I hadn't backed up the "production" databases for several of my websites since...October, 2024. I feel a little unwell.
I think Liquid (Gl)ass is ugly, but aesthetic choices are personal. How did *this* get past QA? #screenshot #ux #Photography
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@mwichary That's how I do it. My workflow for publishing an image taken with my phone is: capture, edit, augment EXIF, push to S3, push to my photos site. My downstream weblog and Mastodon posting tools use the EXIF caption (IIRC) field as the alt text.
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@fehrtrade@toot.community I fear the response is going to be "no." But I did add my name.
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@julianlawson I've been running some simple things: lights, motion sensors, and a few switches, for five or six years. The little GU10 spots in the kitchen are the only things I know I've replaced. Usually a failing component turns out to be a flat battery in some switch somewhere breaking the mesh. :-)
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@mreinhold@mastodon.social suggest changing the answer to question 4 to "yes" on ethical, environmental, and economic grounds.
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@LaChasseuse I like it. And given that I forgot to put the bins out last night, perhaps it's time I made one!
My MacBook Pro vintage 2023 has started to exhibit doubled key presses. Reminds me of that gawdawful butterfly keyboard. Anyone seen this on more recent vintage hardware? Suggestions?
Bravo, Apple. You sent a "track your package" link when you shipped my package today. That link takes me to the DPD website where they confidently assert that they delivered that package in September, 2025.
They're going to kill us all.
I've painted myself into an unfamiliar corner in Java. I have, in my left hand, a variable (the returned value from a function). It has the type "Fx<?>". I would like to pass it to another function that takes an argument of type "Fx". But no. Type erasure biting me, I suppose, but like I said, an unfamiliar corner. Can I get out of tis without walking across the wet paint and starting over?
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@timbray@cosocial.ca My credibility is wholly intact. My will to live on the other hand…
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@ujay68@mastodon.world In fact, holding my nose and using Object here works, so that gets me unstuck. Thanks.