Nathan @natronics@toot.cat
I like space stuff a lot, like stars and rockets. Also I'm a kitty! (he/him)
Do you miss web rings?
Another Lego render: Mini Space Shuttle!
Tools used:
I looked up real Lego instructions pdfs (this one is set #6939) and then "assembled" the model using LeoCAD[1], a Lego-specific CAD tool.
I then exported the model as a .3ds file and imported it into Blender3D[2]. I created a scene in Blender (lighting, materials, etc.) and used the built in "cycles" ray tracing render engine.
Finally had some time again to play around with silly Lego renders 😅
A tiny Lego X-Wing rendered with Blender:
Another update on RSS improvements for webcomics, fanfiction, and the like:
I wrote a WordPress plugin! I had no idea how to do that but within a few hours today I had a mostly-working implementation of the RFC5005 standard.
If you're a bleeding-edge early adopter, and you have a WordPress site, and you want to help me test this plugin, it's here:
https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory
I also documented it pretty well, I think, if you want to study it and see how to implement RFC5005 in other CMSes.
Update on making RSS better for long-form work like webcomics and serial stories! (See this thread for background.)
Based on nice feedback from a WordPress core contributor, I think I understand how to add RFC5005 support as a WordPress plugin.
Does anybody want to build that plugin with me? It should be mostly straightforward but I haven't programmed in PHP for about two decades and I'm intimidated.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-rfc5005-support-to-wordpress-generated-rss-feeds/
Floof tree is coming back! Very Excited to plant this when I found out it's a remnant from the days of mastodons. It relied on MASTODONS!
It's a Kentucky coffeetree, currently native to a few swampy river drainage areas in the Midwest.
It's got super hard seed pods whose seeds don't germinate unless they're chomped open by megafauna.
Nowadays they only germinate if they fall in wetlands that can rot the pods open. That seriously restricted their range.
My favorite part of @keweddji's newest blog post about programming (https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2018/5/structural-types-and-duck-typing) is the sample program which is valid Ruby source with duck-typing but can also be statically type-checked by the Crystal compiler.
My second-favorite thing is it's a post about duck typing that uses animals in examples but doesn't mention ducks anywhere.
(Quack! 🦆)
Given how important the WebFinger protocol is to Mastodon, I got curious about where this use of the word "finger" comes from. Fortunately somebody in 1990 thought to record the story of events from 1971, so that 47 years later we can discover what happened: https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1990Feb20.023931.13825@cs.rochester.edu
tired: delivery
wired: digiorno
inspired: di-jorts
This is Launch 13 (zero-based, of course) for PSAS. Final measured weight of this rocket, fully loaded, is 65.7lbs (29.8kg). The vehicle in Launch 12 had a 34kg lift-off weight (https://github.com/psas/Launch-12) so this rocket is a little lighter than past launches, which I believe is largely due to using a carbon fiber airframe for the first time this launch.
The live stream died briefly but it's back again! It's amazing they're getting enough cell coverage to stream anything. https://www.youtube.com/user/PSASrockets/live
i got a surprising number of replies to my toot about the tea genome getting sequenced so for the curious, here is the fulllllllllllllll paper~~~
"Draft genome sequence of Camellia sinensis var. sinensis provides insights into the evolution of the tea genome and tea quality"
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/17/1719622115.full
#science 🍵
Waves under grating
FULLY
FEDERATED
OPEN SOURCE
GAY
SPACE
CO-OPS
Boneless Tide Pods.