~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

It's so disheartening when a project's domain name *redirects* to a GitHub README page. There's not even anything worth bookmarking.

Even something as dead simple as this is miles better:
https://soju.im/

pan

RE: https://mk.nixnet.social/notes/8wlr1zeof8

Another recent example.

Indent all but the first line of your paragraphs. This is useful when you have long lines which, when wrapped, become hard to dicern. It’s like a cross between a description list (<dl>) and a list (<ul>).

p {padding-left:2rem; margin:0; text-indent:-1rem}

Also, use <dl> and !

Reminder that negative margins and paddings in CSS are a thing, and are quite useful. Some of my favourite uses follow.

More space between document sections:

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {	margin: 2rem 0 -0.5rem;}

When viewport width is small (mobile, etc.), <pre> stretches to the walls, and it’s content is aligned with the rest of the document’s text:

pre {	margin: 0 -0.5rem;	padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;}

https://torresjrjr.com/ast/style.css

https://torresjrjr.com/

@freemo
Thank you for hosting and administrating this instance. If I can give back, please let me know how.

Am I deep down a lisper?

List of keyboard “complications” that should become commonplace, from a mostly laptop & terminal user (in descending order of importance):

a. Thumb keys. Long spacebars are a waste of space. Split ‘em!

b. A Control thumb key. I might just consider using emacs. Damn emacs’ pinky. Scrolling in vim is a pain without this.

c. Scrollers. Those flat scroll wheels or barrels on some keyboards that adjust the volume. Should be remappable; imagine whizzing through tmux windows, cmus track entries… a tonne of unforeseen possibilities.

d. Context Menu key (analoguous to “right click”). Usually found on your typical boomer 2000’s GUI desktop setup. I sometimes miss this on my laptop.

e. “fn numpad”. Some keyboards have a mode where m=0, j=1, k=2, l=3, u=4, etc. I’ve not much experience with it, but could be useful with rapid entry. But software can also do this, so meh.

ThinkPad mouse “bean”? I haven’t fiddled with it, and doesn’t look effective.

Flat joystick? I have a keeb with one and it sucks.

Split/Ergo keebs? I tried the Moonlander, wasn’t for me. I like my keebs flat and low.

That’s it. If a keyboard with the aforementioned complications exists, please bombard me with your wisdom.

Mastodon Linux
https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~mastodon/

Amazing illustrative article on GPS
https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

I love federation