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oh, thanks :)

hah – yes, it's an old username, it's not possible to change username on here or I would :)

cleric here, so excuse me for getting theological: but there should be (and at times truly has been, even if flawed) a shared understanding of the dignity and worth of every person…

thanks to you both, I'll check whenever and Pendulum out! :)

I used this (via polyfill) for my Typescript implementation of the calendar of the church, and it was fabulous. Using the old Javascript dates I felt like I was always tripping ove…

How are decentralised platforms managing abusive content? TikTok had some bumps in the road maybe five years back with this, but got it under control. I know I don't want to be scr…

Some extension of the Patreon model onto decentralised social media could work. I pay a few bucks a month to the creators of webcomics and other content that I enjoy, just because …

I was taught Biblical Hebrew by an Australian scholar who learned hers in the south of the US, and I picked up from her the habit of translating the second plural as "y'all" :-) Yo…

"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?" "My dear Doctor, they're all true." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies."

What a beautiful use of technology to uphold someone's personhood, and let them know they are loved, despite (and with regard to) a profound injury. This reminds me of a desire I'v…

It's pretty heavily used in some on premises HPC contexts... used to run a large supermicro cluster which we would power down when not needed, which saved a fair amount of electric…

The great thing about Australia/Eucla is that it’s not officially gazetted, and yet there are road signs informing travellers about it. I love that people just do it and everyone g…

My car has this stuff in it too (BYD Dolphin) and it's a mixed bag. I find the "watch out, car/object moving into your path" stuff really useful – here in Australia, driving in the…

There's a tendency for Westerners to view every religion through the lens of protestant Christianity. Religion is a notoriously hard to define concept (this was the running joke of…

We had a situation here in Australia where there wasn't an open source way to verify the outcome of Federal senate elections. The algorithm is slightly complicated, mostly because …

Temporal is quite nice; should be coming to browsers soon: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/

Here in Australia, ISDN Data over Voice (DoV) was in fairly common use. Telstra (the major telecom here particularly in those days) charged an untimed flat "local call" rate (a few…

Awesome! Have a look at https://github.com/grahame/church-calendar which the current code uses; it should be fairly easy to add the Episcopalian calendar. One neat thing with my ch…

I was surprised too – and if you use Github's inbuilt editor for `README.md` you can literally drop an mp4 file on the editor and it uploads it and pastes in the link. Quite fancy!…