Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Any of y’all #ios havers understand how to add a podcast by RSS url in the podcasts app?

I unfortunately have a few #apple users in my life and when I try to add podcast feeds available locally, nothing seems to work. Safari doesn’t know what app to open RSS feeds with, so I go into podcasts, click the three dots and “Follow show by URL”, click submit and then… nothing. No indication of success or failure, and the show doesn’t seem to be there.

This is the best write up I've seen for how and why to use #pytest 's xfail. I think the key part is it's helpful when managing an *evolving* codebase.

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pytest-xfail.html

Best =
* Tallies with my thoughts ✅
* Written far clearer than I could ✅

By @pganssle and I found it in this thread: https://fosstodon.org/@pythonbynight/109502171357299066

#python

Medieval landlords regularly collected eels as rent. But they didn't always eat them. Sometimes they bought things w/ their eels.

In the early 1200s the Ramsey monks rented a local causeway at the yearly rate of 1 pair of scarlet pants, 2 pounds of pepper & ginger, & 1,000 eels.

Later on, the property owner's widow renegotiated the causeway lease. She wanted 40 carts of firewood, 1/2 mark, and 1000 eels per year.

Apparently she was done with the red pants.
#Eels #History #medieval

👋 Hey again #Mastodon.

Giving this a spin again, whatever the future of general purpose social media may be.

I'm into #python, #software, #opensource, #foss, #wikipedia, #freeculture, #فارسی, #fintech, and #photography. Oh, and lately, #fatherhood.

More about me on my site: https://sedimental.org/about.html

New short blog post on the PyPy blog, bit of a PSA: Repeated string concatenation is quadratic on PyPy (and sometimes on CPython)

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2023/01/string-concatenation-quadratic.html

#python #pypy

https://ctgraphy.tumblr.com/post/129031716304/why-you-should-photoshop-your-cosplay-pictures This detailed explanatory blog post is, for me, doing for photography a bit of what Greg Milner's excellent "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music" https://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/04/perfecting-sound-forever-great-book-on-history-of-recording/ does for audio recording and playback. The author demonstrates and explains, about post-processing manipulation/retouching/editing involving correcting light and color:

"And so that’s what photoshop means 95% of the time. It’s correcting what the camera couldn’t do."

I'm translating an #svg figure for a #Wikipedia article. I have an alignment problem due to the #font being not available everywhere. Is there a way to right-align text boxes independently of the actual font being used? I want them to remain editable as text. I'm using #inkscape.

This is the file's page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D
In my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), the text is misaligned (image 1). Image 2 is the screenshot of the relevant SVG code.

From what I can gather, text-anchor:end is indeed what we want to ensure right-alignment but it's not working. Any idea on how to make this work?