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  2. Comment on Yorushika (ヨルシカ) - Plover (2026) in ~music

    Bauke
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    Yorushika doesn't miss :D Also love whenever MORIE does their music videos

    Yorushika doesn't miss :D

    Also love whenever MORIE does their music videos

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

    Bauke
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    Ooh, yay! Thank you! :D

    Ooh, yay! Thank you! :D

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Ponderings on unicode support on the site, re: punycode, tags, etc in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Fun tidbit: the reason tags are currently only allowed to be letters, numbers and underscores is because it uses PostgreSQL's Ltree data type which only allows those characters. And dots as the...

    I'd be eager to see Unicode support implemented for tags!

    Fun tidbit: the reason tags are currently only allowed to be letters, numbers and underscores is because it uses PostgreSQL's Ltree data type which only allows those characters. And dots as the hierarchy separator.

    Further reading https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/ltree.html :D

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I've added some more pictures to my folder https://zipline.bauke.xyz/folder/cmkcp0r4o0002akijoc43w4vm Some of my personal favorites: Testing the highspeed rails...

    I've added some more pictures to my folder https://zipline.bauke.xyz/folder/cmkcp0r4o0002akijoc43w4vm

    Some of my personal favorites:

    3 votes

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  12. Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Season 3 Launch Day in ~games

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    @teaearlgraycold I saw in another topic you mentioned getting an offer for the nore.gg TLD. If you're interested in changing the domain at some point in the future we could set up a subdomain on...

    @teaearlgraycold I saw in another topic you mentioned getting an offer for the nore.gg TLD. If you're interested in changing the domain at some point in the future we could set up a subdomain on https://tildes.community (like minecraft.tildes.community).

    I added a CNAME to point to tildes.nore.gg for now and that seems to work in the Minecraft server browser. I'm curious if that'll work when connecting for real. The website doesn't work for obvious TLS reasons. :P

    6 votes

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  14. Comment on Nested noise collapse test in ~test

    Bauke
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    Test Spoiler should be hidden
    Test

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  15. Comment on How do you keep track of detailed work activities? in ~talk

    Bauke
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    I'm in a fairly similar boat, where the platform we use doesn't have a proper backend language (only SQL Server 2016 is available, or older in some cases) and the "backend" is more of a low-code...

    I'm in a fairly similar boat, where the platform we use doesn't have a proper backend language (only SQL Server 2016 is available, or older in some cases) and the "backend" is more of a low-code flowchart type of builder. So here's some stream of consciousness stuff that may be useful:

    Most of my notes end up looking something like this, where I use Obsidian and this custom checkbox theme. The screenshot in Markdown would be this:

    - [x] Updated stuff
	- [?] What do I do with X, Y and Z? Ask Person A
	- [P] Do the thing this and that way
	- [!] Not yet updated in production
- [b] See [[Other]] note 
	- [T] Waiting on feedback from Person B
- [ ] Remaining todos:
	- [ ] More stuff
	- [ ] And more stuff
	- [ ] Endless amounts of stuff

    Sometimes I'll copy over snippets of code into Obsidian I find them important or if I know I'll need them later. If I'll be making a lot of changes to those code snippets I'll version control them in git, though that's usually just so I can get easy diffs later on (particularly for HTML). And for me too they will never be executed outside of the platform and will also be modified by others, so it isn't perfect but it can be useful, especially if you need to make a certain change in a lot of places.

    Typically if I need to change something what I'll do is duplicate what I need from production so I can do tests safely, and then once I'm satisfied with my changes/they've been reviewed by someone else, then I'll move it to production and document on a high level what was changed. I also name all my test stuff with "Test YYYY-MM-DD" so other people don't get confused if they're searching around.

    If I have any inkling that I may want to roll back to a previous version I will just swap my test copy into production and call it "version N+1". Then if I ever want to roll back I can just swap back to version N (it's not always that simple, but it's an option sometimes). And after some time has passed with everything going smoothly version N can be deleted during a cleanup if needed.

    Sometimes I'll take screenshots of stuff before and after changes and put those into Obsidian. Other times if I'm gonna do a big SQL query on a table I'll take a backup of it as a CSV and put that in Obsidian if it's small enough, or version control it if it doesn't have sensitive data, or just keep it on my PC if the file is too big.

    I also have a knowledge base folder in Obsidian together with a "Documentation TODO" note where I'll just add stuff that I want to document because I want to refer back to them in the future, but I don't have the time to document them now. So any time I have some downtime I'll check my documentation todo and work on that.

    The knowledge base is super simple where I just make the note title something I would search for, like "Internal tables in SQL server" or "Search stored procedure definitions" and then in those notes I'll just put whatever relevant information is useful.

    Those are generally the way I do things. I think the biggest tip I could give though is just to write stuff down in a way that makes sense for you. It may take a while to figure out what that looks like but the more you do it the better you'll get at it. My notes from a year ago compared to my notes today are a complete night and day difference.

    And the second biggest tip I can give is to have an Archive folder where you can dump old notes in and forget all about them. And also don't be afraid of leaving notes unfinished, I have sooo many notes that are like half filled in because I didn't "complete" them, but it doesn't matter since all the work that needed to be done has been done. But do keep them, you know, just in case.

    Hopefully that's somewhat useful. :D

    8 votes

  16. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Hardcore - Live at 20:00 UTC today in ~games

    Bauke
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    Made it about an hour before almost dying of starvation, then finding some pigs thinking I'd be saved, only for a creeper to sneak up behind me while cooking and I couldn't react quick enough. :D...

    Made it about an hour before almost dying of starvation, then finding some pigs thinking I'd be saved, only for a creeper to sneak up behind me while cooking and I couldn't react quick enough. :D

    RIP https://i.imgur.com/V829ZoT.png

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Possible site bug: Cannot send PM with moose emoji as the subject in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    You are correct! Specifically this section is removing our moose friend. In [6]: from tildes.lib.string import simplify_string In [7]: simplify_string("") Debug: Category Cn Out[7]: '' <-- Empty...

    but I think something's processing the title before it gets to the length check code.

    You are correct! Specifically this section is removing our moose friend.

    In [6]: from tildes.lib.string import simplify_string
In [7]: simplify_string("🫎")
Debug: Category Cn
Out[7]: '' <-- Empty title! Oops

    The moose is falling under the Cn Unicode category in that function and is being filtered out of the string.

    While for example our frog friend falls under the So category and doesn't get filtered out.

    In [8]: simplify_string("🐸")
Debug: Category So
Out[8]: '🐸'

    I've made an issue for it in GitLab: #831

    13 votes

  18. Comment on Can Bearblog links show authors? in ~tildes

  19. Comment on Can Bearblog links show authors? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Tildes uses Embedly's Extract API behind the scenes to grab that information, you can actually try this out yourself here and see the results:...

    Tildes uses Embedly's Extract API behind the scenes to grab that information, you can actually try this out yourself here and see the results:

    In the omeru.bearblog.dev example it doesn't grab any authors (presumably because it lacks any kind of author indication in the meta tags) but with your blog it does grab "Andrew Phoenix".

    You can also see the other data from the og:... and other meta tags Embedly can grab.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on How I setup the open-source paperless-ngx to manage documents in ~tech

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    Great article! Paperless-ngx is so cool, I've been using it for a little while now myself but only for digital documents for now. But I recently migrated my setup to a local system and with that I...

    Great article!

    Paperless-ngx is so cool, I've been using it for a little while now myself but only for digital documents for now. But I recently migrated my setup to a local system and with that I explored the email processing feature a little more and I came up with a pretty nice little automated workflow.

    The first thing I did was I created a dedicated email address for Paperless, just so I don't have to worry about anything getting imported that shouldn't. And then I made the Mail Rule in Paperless check for only emails coming from my personal email address with PDF attachments. This is pretty standard I think for automated mail importing.

    But then in my mail client of choice, Thunderbird, I added this message filter. So when I archive an email and it has an attachment, and the sender is in my "Paperless Correspondents" address book in Thunderbird, it'll forward that email to the Paperless address and get automatically imported. Isn't that so cool!! I found it so neat when I figured out Thunderbird can do all this in an easy way.

    I also run my setup with the consume directory available via Samba so should I want to bulk import something it's easy enough to do it there. Though the web UI works too in limited numbers.

    3 votes