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{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2024-03-18 · 18:36 UTC

I've spent since 8:00 this morning tracking down a bug that turned out to be due to a misunderstanding on my part of how the #OpenXML #DotNet API class hierarchy related to the OpenXML tag hierarchy.

I HATE OPENXML

THE DOCUMENTATION IS BAD

THE EXAMPLES ARE TERRIBLE

Also XML in general is terrible.

I have wasted more time on this project wrestling with this kafkaesque (the roach guy, not the event streamin lib) excuse for a format/API combo than anything else.

#openxml #dotnet

{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2024-01-16 · 12:22 UTC

My son in his #PillowFort unintentionally cosplaying the Wicked Witch of the East.

#pillowfort

{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2024-01-10 · 17:02 UTC

This seem a little weird to anyone else?

#UNC #UniversityOfNorthCarolina

#unc #universityofnorthcarolina

{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2023-10-19 · 15:48 UTC

With #Bandcamp becoming another victim of capitalist shortsightedness, let's remember to pour one out specifically for the fact that they took up #Cakewalk 's #Sonar software after it had been abandoned by Gibson, and released the best version of it since Sonar 4, FOR FREE.

#bandcamp #cakewalk #sonar

{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2023-09-21 · 18:11 UTC

#LiteXL, where have you been all my life?

https://lite-xl.com/

#litexl

{ id: d2718, ok: 🇵🇸🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 } @[email protected] · 2023-06-07 · 19:56 UTC

@MadMike77 You might be able to use a feature. Have your tracking operate through a function call, and in the function definition,

···
[#cfg(tracking)]
fn track(args, blah, etc) {
// tracking logic goes here
}

[#cfg(not(tracking))]
fn track(args, blah, etc) {
// this version is a no-op
}
···

#cfg

Dan @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 00:04 UTC

OKAY you guys nerd sniped the hell out of me.

This is pretty unimpressive as web servers go (it's two separate barebones pages), but I do have a proof of concept here:

https://alttext.fly.dev/index.html

If you use most browsers, it will render totally normally, but if your browser sends a user-agent that starts with the string "lynx" or "elinks", it will filter the page you requested for "img" tags, run those images through an ascii-art image-to-text thingy, and replace the IMG tag with a PRE tag containing the ascii-art output (and then serve you THAT).

Were I to expand this into something like an actual image-hosting site, it'd probably do the asciiartification on upload. But then you'd still only get the effect if you were viewing it on this server; cross-links would just serve the file normally. (You can't actually serve "text/plain" to a browser expecting some sort of image content and have it work, which is why this implementation has to process the text of the HTML file before sending it.)

Anyway, it's possible, in a limited way!

. #NerdSnipe . #AsciiArt

#AsciiArt #NerdSnipe #AsciiArt

#asciiart #nerdsnipe

Dan @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 00:04 UTC

OKAY you guys nerd sniped the hell out of me.

This is pretty unimpressive as web servers go (it's two separate barebones pages), but I do have a proof of concept here:

https://alttext.fly.dev/index.html

If you use most browsers, it will render totally normally, but if your browser sends a user-agent that starts with the string "lynx" or "elinks", it will filter the page you requested for "img" tags, run those images through an ascii-art image-to-text thingy, and replace the IMG tag with a PRE tag containing the ascii-art output (and then serve you THAT).

Were I to expand this into something like an actual image-hosting site, it'd probably do the asciiartification on upload. But then you'd still only get the effect if you were viewing it on this server; cross-links would just serve the file normally. (You can't actually serve "text/plain" to a browser expecting some sort of image content and have it work, which is why this implementation has to process the text of the HTML file before sending it.)

Anyway, it's possible, in a limited way!

. #NerdSnipe . #AsciiArt

#AsciiArt #NerdSnipe #AsciiArt

#asciiart #nerdsnipe

Dan @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 00:04 UTC

OKAY you guys nerd sniped the hell out of me.

This is pretty unimpressive as web servers go (it's two separate barebones pages), but I do have a proof of concept here:

https://alttext.fly.dev/index.html

If you use most browsers, it will render totally normally, but if your browser sends a user-agent that starts with the string "lynx" or "elinks", it will filter the page you requested for "img" tags, run those images through an ascii-art image-to-text thingy, and replace the IMG tag with a PRE tag containing the ascii-art output (and then serve you THAT).

Were I to expand this into something like an actual image-hosting site, it'd probably do the asciiartification on upload. But then you'd still only get the effect if you were viewing it on this server; cross-links would just serve the file normally. (You can't actually serve "text/plain" to a browser expecting some sort of image content and have it work, which is why this implementation has to process the text of the HTML file before sending it.)

Anyway, it's possible, in a limited way!

. #NerdSnipe . #AsciiArt

#AsciiArt #NerdSnipe #AsciiArt

#nerdsnipe #asciiart

Dan @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 00:04 UTC

OKAY you guys nerd sniped the hell out of me.

This is pretty unimpressive as web servers go (it's two separate barebones pages), but I do have a proof of concept here:

https://alttext.fly.dev/index.html

If you use most browsers, it will render totally normally, but if your browser sends a user-agent that starts with the string "lynx" or "elinks", it will filter the page you requested for "img" tags, run those images through an ascii-art image-to-text thingy, and replace the IMG tag with a PRE tag containing the ascii-art output (and then serve you THAT).

Were I to expand this into something like an actual image-hosting site, it'd probably do the asciiartification on upload. But then you'd still only get the effect if you were viewing it on this server; cross-links would just serve the file normally. (You can't actually serve "text/plain" to a browser expecting some sort of image content and have it work, which is why this implementation has to process the text of the HTML file before sending it.)

Anyway, it's possible, in a limited way!

. #NerdSnipe . #AsciiArt

#AsciiArt #NerdSnipe #AsciiArt

#asciiart #nerdsnipe