Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

I will do anything to not have to use #Python for data processing.

I will even create the most awful #Neovim macros one has ever seen.

It now takes 3 key presses to go from the unprocessed file to the processed one...

`5@a`

Recently learned one of the reasons why lofi hip-hop started getting popular. Interesting story I had never heard about and never looked into.

#music #LofiHipHop #lofi #HipHop #Nujabes #SamuraiChamploo

Black Lagoon, a show where every problem is solved through violence.

Great show.

#BlackLagoon

And just like that, I'm no longer interested in #Ladybird at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcK1A-n3Sg

(And no, not because it's using #Rust...)

I've been processing some songs with MusicBrainz Picard in my spare time and the experience with Jellyfin has improved so much! It automatically finds all the metadata reliably, songs are in the correct order, there are no weird duplicate items... I also added a lyrics plugin to the Jellyfin instance and it automatically found most of the lyrics for the music online. Combined with Finamp, it is so enjoyable to use!

#Picard #MusicBrainzPicard #Finamp #Jellyfin #SelfHosted #MediaServer

You know what, now that I tried #Okular again, it's actually pretty good. Obviously I have to use it a bit longer to discover all the quirks, but so far it has all the functionality I need and more. It also looks quite nice on its own, even though it looks completely out of place between the other GNOME programs, but I don't really mind that.

Using #wallhaven as a wallpaper website: :blobcatneutral:

Using wallhaven tags to see what's trending in the world: :blobcatfingergun:

Most useful stats ever.

#wallhaven

Open-source music players are beautiful. The colored UI reminds me a bit of #Amberol. Maybe there's a bit too much text in the UI, but the colors absolutely make up for that.

#Finamp #Jellyfin

Finally watched Your Name on a TV with decent sound. I still can't believe how beautiful that movie is. The level of detail in every scene, the backgrounds, the ambient sounds, the saturated yet believable colors (especially in the scenes on the mountain) and of course all the music.

I feel like you can pause the movie 99% of the time and have a beautiful computer wallpaper.

#YourName #kiminonawa #君の名は #movie #movies #MakotoShinkai #RADWIMPS

After years of using #NetworkManager because I had no clue what a #wpa_supplicant or #iwd was, I finally switched to systemd-networkd. I don't dislike NetworkManager and I will miss the integration in GNOME Settings, but I just prefer systemd-resolved, which depends a bit on systemd-networkd for some #DNS functionality I want.

I also discovered #impala for configuring iwd. What a neat utility. And it's written in Rust, which automatically makes it even better.

#Nichijou is hilarious. I don't understand half the jokes, but the ones I do make it so worth it. How did I only discover this show in 2025!?

Also, Mai is obviously the star of the show: As unpredictable as the Belgian weather, showing no mercy for anyone, while always keeping the most neutral facial expression.

What a show...

#MyOrdinaryLife

Anyway, I removed all the crapware that I knew for sure she wasn't using (which she confirmed) and installed #mupdf and #LibreOffice viewer from #fdroid. Funnily enough, the only app she immediately wanted to remove was fdroid, as she didn't know what it was :blobcatgiggle:

Me: sits there for 2 hours thinking about a problem involving vectors, and it doesn't work.

Also me: makes this simple drawing in #RNote and implements it in 1 minute.

:blobcatfacepalm:

Convention over customization.
This is why I love projects like Keep a Changelog, Conventional Commits and Semantic Versioning. They allow for some neat processing by other tools which just wouldn't ever be possible if everyone did their own, custom thing.

#git #ConventionalCommits #SemanticVersioning #Neovim #NeovimLazy

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Yes, #edX, please sign me up for whatever that is. Sounds exciting.

If skin cancer is not on your bucket list, **please use sunscreen**! Better yet, stay out of the sun when possible.

#health #summer #sunbathing #beach #sea #tanning #sun

Any network people on here who know if this old thing is still worth anything? I have no clue as I'm not familiar with network equipment at all.

From a quick lookup of the model number on eBay, there seems to be quite a few being sold for around €35-40. Might try that on a local marketplace.

#network #SysAdmin #switch #hardware #3com #admin #NetworkEquipment

Yet another program that adds stories for no reason whatsoever. Repeat after me:

"Not every program needs stories."

#Firefox #Mozilla #stories #SoftwareBloat #bloat

I just drew our home network to try and assure my parents that it's not that hard and it's all secure, and when looking at the final drawing...

Yeah I won't even bother trying to explain it to them because it's complicated as shit and they would only worry even more.

Also I love #rnote. What an amazing #GNOME app. Even though I won't use the drawing, it was good practice to try and use it. And it's written in #rust

#RustLang #network #security

Just look at this. It's beautiful. Some random implementations in #winnow. I am having lots of fun learning about parser combinators, even though I'm having trouble understanding some of the more complex and generic parts of this library.

I've skipped learning parser combinators for a while now because I always disliked any parsing. Now that I started with AOC (better late than never), I felt like it was a good time to give #winnow a try, and I love it. It's so simple (once you get how it works). I already know I'm going to use this thing A LOT!