Vasilis

Lazy creator of things

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Last Notes

2024-09-07 22:23:29

The pix clock is almost full. Just ten minutes are missing.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/pix-clock/

2024-09-06 19:44:44

Drinking a glass of Pangalactic Gargleblaster.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/voto/pangalactic-gargleblaster/240906214344/

2024-09-01 09:24:21

Dear people who live in Den Haag. I’ll be in Den Haag next Saturday. I’d like to take some pictures of clocks. Are there any beautiful, wonderful, weird clocks I need to add to the Pix Clock?

2024-08-30 15:24:14

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@npub15n0…9kpy You can send the worrying surplus my way.

2024-07-13 15:12:38

I put all the alternative texts of the Pix Clock into an old rotary phone. When you pick up the horn and dial 002 (ask an older Dutch person why) it reads out the alternative text of an image that tells the right time.

2024-06-17 14:19:39

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@npub1urz…39sc some sort of a Schrödinger's cat of meeting people.

2024-06-16 19:29:58

Today I met someone I hadn’t seen for 30 years.

2024-06-13 17:25:35

The internet was down here at home for a few hours. Which means that my mastodon was down as well. Anything I missed?

2024-06-04 06:03:44

I switched to a classic iPod again for listening to music. It's really good at playing music and it does nothing else. It also does this in a very uncomplicated way. Just some wires connected directly to the device and to my ears.

2023-10-01 16:16:00

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@npub16an…7pnm Thanks for letting me know. I think I fixed it now.

This is a test

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@npub16an…7pnm Indeed! Let’s see if I can fix it.

2023-10-01 15:49:30

Test

2023-10-01 15:37:00

In a few weeks I’ll be in Nürnberg for the wonderful web conference called border:none. I heard there are still some tickets left. Unfortunately not enough for each and everyone of you.
Ten years ago I gave a talk there with the title "Do we have to reinvent the wheel?" Back then I said "no, we don’t have to." This time I’ll do a talk with the same title, but with a different answer.
☞ https://border-none.net/2023/

2023-10-01 15:33:10

Tonight I saw an excellent show by Baxter Dury and his band.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/voto/baxter-dury/230927231607/

2023-09-27 16:27:40

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@npub1dht…0paa Very clever, thanks!

2023-09-27 16:07:03

I have this HTML:
````
<div><span>hello</span>  <span>hi</span></div>
````
Is there a way to hide the   with CSS?

2023-09-27 06:17:48

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@npub1ln6…dsaf Not sure if it is easier to understand. Like with all shorthands: yes, easier to read, but only easier to understand if you really know how it works. Since I work in education I almost never use shorthand.

2023-09-05 15:51:33

En echt snel is deze supersnelle trein niet.
#ikklaagniet #ikzeggwn #tuftuftuf

2023-08-31 17:49:51

In my hotel room. I just practised the talk I’ll give tomorrow morning. After such a first practise I always think people will throw tomatoes at me. I found out that Swiss people are too polite for such actions. I’m a bit concerned about the handful of Dutch people in the audience though.
Will do more practising tonight.

2023-08-29 06:10:39

I bought and restored a very old Akai tape deck. And destroyed it in the process. So then I bought an already restored Akai tape deck.
I didn’t really miss the quality of tapes, because it’s not that good. But I did miss the turning of the tape. Music is better when it’s physical.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/voto/tapedeck/230829080829/

2023-08-16 14:06:06

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@npub1urz…39sc Dit is zo spannend!

2023-08-07 11:12:33

There’s a way to block the chat j'ai pété bot from accessing your site.
☞ https://ruby.social/@olivierlacan/110846882340835196
I updated my blogpost about bocking bots:
☞ https://vasilis.nl/nerd/how-to-disagree-with-googles-privacy-policy/#andwhataboutopenaiandotherdelcompaniesdelinsthugsins

2023-07-16 19:04:45

Today it would have been Saturday, 24 February 217053 BCE if on the 20th of April 271821 BCE time was as slow as it was during the first billion years after the big bang.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/big-bang-time/09/

2023-06-26 06:12:32

I read a post by a certain Gruber about facebook joining the Fediverse. What struck me most is that for him it is about winning *or* losing. That the Fediverse should become the biggest social thing. That it should come out victorious in a battle between competing platforms.
That’s such a silly, and such a very american way of seeing things, IMO even a barbaric view.
Here’s a very good article that explains in detail why it is a good idea to defederate facebook
☞ https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on_the_fediverse_to_block_or_not_to_block
#meta

2023-06-19 19:19:37

I received an apple watch as a present — and as way to convince me to optimise the pix clock for an apple watch. That trick worked, I made an optimised version. But now I wonder, what are the use cases for an apple watch, other than optimising arty websites? Seems to be mostly about health stuff and an extra way to receive alerts — both things I am not very interested in.