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Comment on Multi-instance templates [in MediaWiki] and var_final in ~tech
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Comment on Replicating Reddit's best feature on other forums in ~tildes
RheingoldRiver Link ParentI used it a ton!! Though it was more that I used RES's "user tagging" options so I could tag with like "someone who is actually a friend" or "i trust their book reviews" or "this is the bot that...I used it a ton!! Though it was more that I used RES's "user tagging" options so I could tag with like "someone who is actually a friend" or "i trust their book reviews" or "this is the bot that posts the daily faq threads that i'm supposed to help upvote for visibility"
RES also would just count my votes for someone and show that next to names so often it's like "oh there's a +35 here I probably have similar taste to them in books" even without me going through and tagging
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Comment on Multi-instance templates [in MediaWiki] and var_final in ~tech
RheingoldRiver LinkThis is a blog post I wrote last week about how to do something slightly horrifying in MediaWiki. It's not possible on Wikipedia itself since Wikipedia doesn't have the Variables extensions, but...This is a blog post I wrote last week about how to do something slightly horrifying in MediaWiki. It's not possible on Wikipedia itself since Wikipedia doesn't have the Variables extensions, but most third-party hosts do. Even if you don't write MediaWiki code frequently, you might still enjoy the slight horrible-ness of all of this.
(note: normally I wouldn't have posted this to Tildes since I think there isn't THAT much relevance for people here, but with so much discussion about Tildes slowly fading out of existence I'm going to post my content a bit more often so that I'm helping to counteract that. If people find this uninteresting or want me to stop, I won't take it badly!! But, I would also encourage other members to have the same attitude with their own OC blog posts etc.)
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Multi-instance templates [in MediaWiki] and var_final
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Comment on I run a speculative fiction book club in ~books
RheingoldRiver LinkI have sent out additional invites! At this point I think I would like to pause inviting more people, I don't want to cause too big an influx of new people that the server can't cope with. (If...I have sent out additional invites! At this point I think I would like to pause inviting more people, I don't want to cause too big an influx of new people that the server can't cope with. (If you've read and loved half the books on the list and are really really really REALLY interested send me a dm anyway)
Next month's book will be City of Lies by Sam Hawke
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Comment on Fairphone Gen 6+ now available in the US in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Linkdo they offer lighter-weight lesser-charge batteries? if i had the option to have half the charge capacity but knock off like 20% of the weight I think I would buydo they offer lighter-weight lesser-charge batteries? if i had the option to have half the charge capacity but knock off like 20% of the weight I think I would buy
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Comment on I run a speculative fiction book club in ~books
RheingoldRiver Link ParentDefinitely not a requirement!! I'll DM you an inviteDefinitely not a requirement!! I'll DM you an invite
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I run a speculative fiction book club
If anyone wants a replacement for the Tildes book club (and thanks /u/boxer_dogs_dance for running it consistently for so long!!) I run one that might interest speculative fiction readers. Be...
If anyone wants a replacement for the Tildes book club (and thanks /u/boxer_dogs_dance for running it consistently for so long!!) I run one that might interest speculative fiction readers. Be warned that it's a "dictatorship" where I pick every book, and I alternate between lesser-known books I've read and already enjoyed; and books that I'm interested in but haven't read yet.
Here is the list of books we have read:
- The Raven Scholar
- A Song of Legends Lost
- A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet)
- Allow Me To Introduce Myself [the only non-spec-fic we've done thus far]
- Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken Series)
- Kalyna the Soothsayer
- The Black Company (The Black Company)
- Battle of the Linguist Mages
- The Cloud Roads (Raksura)
- Sanctuary Duet
- Ten Thousand Doors of January
- The Dream Hotel
- The Element of Fire (Ile-Rien) [this is the only one so far that I hadn't read yet and didn't really enjoy]
- A Portrait in Shadow
- House of Suns [current month]
- City of Lies by Sam Hawke [next month]
The book club is in an "anyone can invite anyone but it's not publicly listed anywhere" Discord server dedicated to reading speculative fiction with about 1000 members, ~50 active), if anyone thinks like this list of books seems in line with your tastes I can dm you a join link! It's very low commitment and done with threads so you can read the current book or a backlist book and still talk about it + scroll through past discussion easily.
I can also offer advice (how to pick books, how to do things in Discord in a sane way, etc) if anyone else is interested in running something like this
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Comment on What lesser-known sci-fi reads do you recommend? in ~books
RheingoldRiver LinkAre you looking for recent stuff or older? If you want recent and guarantee unheard-of, I really enjoyed The Triple Stars by Simon Kewin. Was in SPSFBO a couple years agoAre you looking for recent stuff or older? If you want recent and guarantee unheard-of, I really enjoyed The Triple Stars by Simon Kewin. Was in SPSFBO a couple years ago
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
RheingoldRiver Link ParentI spend half my life wishing companies changed things less. Tildes is pretty solidly functional as-is imoI spend half my life wishing companies changed things less. Tildes is pretty solidly functional as-is imo
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Comment on Ariana Grande is ‘taking a step back from visibility’ after tour as public scrutiny intensifies in ~music
RheingoldRiver LinkI'm completely OOTL on this, what controversy is the article talking about?I'm completely OOTL on this, what controversy is the article talking about?
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Comment on Better things are possible in ~talk
RheingoldRiver Link ParentI live in Cook County and want to add that Kat lost the primary to Daniel Biss who has been at the local/state level for over a decade and had pretty much the entire establishment behind him, so...I live in Cook County and want to add that Kat lost the primary to Daniel Biss who has been at the local/state level for over a decade and had pretty much the entire establishment behind him, so it was really quite remarkable how well she did.
I am not a big fan of Biss, because of the academic retractions he's had to make and especially after one of his former students disclosed an inappropriate relationship he had with her. I also think he's been pretty ineffectual as mayor of Evanston. But he will probably vote correctly on bills and we could do a lot worse. (I early voted for Kat before the news about Biss's student broke).
Also I will be attending a very small Q&A with Biss next month, if anyone has questions you'd like answered I'd be happy to ask them if I have the opportunity and then convey his answers here, particularly for anyone who lives in the district.
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Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Link Parentoh that seems awesome!! and probably a way easier way to manage bulk bookmarks than what I do loloh that seems awesome!! and probably a way easier way to manage bulk bookmarks than what I do lol
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Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Link ParentAhh that might have been a custom keybind that I made actually, which would be funny if it was the main thing I was using the extension forAhh that might have been a custom keybind that I made actually, which would be funny if it was the main thing I was using the extension for
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - Have you started How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying? in ~books
RheingoldRiver LinkI read this last year and loved it!!I read this last year and loved it!!
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Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Link ParentI used vimium for several years, but eventually I had to concede that it was irritating more often than it was helpful and I disabled it. I still miss typing qq to close all tabs to the right thoughI used vimium for several years, but eventually I had to concede that it was irritating more often than it was helpful and I disabled it. I still miss typing
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Link ParentI just think it's better UX to set it up in the browser, I don't want to type a ! before my search keyword every time (and you don't have to pay for any search engine to have this functionality)I just think it's better UX to set it up in the browser, I don't want to type a ! before my search keyword every time (and you don't have to pay for any search engine to have this functionality)
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Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech
RheingoldRiver LinkI posted a comment about this yesterday, but I think this is a very cool and useful thing you can do in Firefox to make searching a much more pleasant experience so I wanted to share the blog post...I posted a comment about this yesterday, but I think this is a very cool and useful thing you can do in Firefox to make searching a much more pleasant experience so I wanted to share the blog post I wrote a while ago.
TL;DR: If you want to search a website directly, you can save a bookmark with a
%sin it, and then add a "keyword" for the bookmark, and then search by typingkeyword search termin the url bar, it will autocomplete as a search for your string -
Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
RheingoldRiver Link ParentWhile this is a cool feature, if you use firefox you can just make a bookmark like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go and give it a keyword of mw and then...You can search any site directly with customisable "bangs" and "lenses" and "snaps" - I have set it up so !r (query) searches reddit thru Reddit's engine, @r query searches Reddit using Kagi (like site:reddit.com), and the Forums lens will limit the search index to known good forums the list of which the Kagi team maintains, but you're welcome to make your own.
While this is a cool feature, if you use firefox you can just make a bookmark like
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Goand give it a keyword ofmwand then instead of doing your search with !mw you just typemw <search term>and then you're searching through that site's engine. And, better, since this is part of firefox instead of part of a search engine, youre likely to get an autocomplete of the actual page url youre looking for as a dropdown prompt
The template engine is MOSTLY linear, but yeah the whole thing with strip markers is a bit wild. It leads to some wildly broken things when you use extensions that try to persist data in storage prior to strip marker evaluation....