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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Longer hair than you.
Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent@mastodon.social on most social platforms.

Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!


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Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Hello lovely new followers!

πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Trans rights are human rights
🏭🏭 Join a Trade Union
πŸ’‰πŸ’‰ Vaccines work
🐧🐧 Linux rocks

If any of the above bothers you, probably best to unfollow me.

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Some interesting (to me) stats from #FODEM

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.

"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.

What did you think was missing from FOSDEM?

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

πŸ†•πŸ†• blog! β€œA big list of things I disable in WordPress”

There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size,…

πŸ‘€πŸ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
βΈ»
#blog #HowTo #php #WordPress

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Most fruits and vegetables can be fermented into alcohol, right?
Grapes = Wine.
Potato = Vodka.
Wheat = Beer.
Apricot stones = Amaretto.
etc etc.

But are there things which *can't* be turned into alcohol?

I've never seen tomato wine. Or onion schnapps.

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Whenever people talk about embedding alt text into images, I remember that lots of gif search services already try to do that.

Here's BlueSky's gif service. I searched for some popular memes. Each had alt-text baked in.

Take a look and tell me if you think that the embedded text conveys the sentiment of the image? If you couldn't see the animation, would you understand what was going on from that alt?

The idiot sandwich meme. The default alt text is "a man is holding a piece of bread over a woman 's face and asking what are you ?" Clip from The Hobbit with the subtitle "What about second breakfast?". The default alt text is "two men are standing next to each other talking about second breakfast". The meme of Homer Simpson walking backwards into a hedge. The default alt text is "A cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area." The Chuckle Brothers looking at each other. The default alt text is "a man in a striped shirt is kissing another man in a white suit".
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

OK! I think I have a solution.

https://git.edent.tel/edent/SuperTinyIcons/

As suggested by @eivindmork@snabelen.no - I've set up a test Gitea instance using @Pikapods@mastodon.social. Only €2/month and I can bring my own subdomain.

I've added social sign-in via GitHub and GitLab to enable people to send me PRs and Issues. Don't think it is quite as easy as GitHub, but it is a start.

Please kick the tyres, log in, play about with it and let me know what else it needs. I've never configured #gitea before.

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

If you know of a better git service like this, please let me know!

Requirements:

❌❌ Not self hosted. I want as little management as possible.
βœ…βœ… Lets me point my own subdomain at it.
πŸ’·πŸ’· Wallet friendly.

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Thinking of moving on from GitHub - I already have a GitLab and Codeberg presence.

But I find both of them dissatisfying for two reasons.

1. I can't host in my own domain. I don't want to run/maintain a git instance. But I'd like to use git.edent.tel - so I can keep the URL but swap provider if necessary.

2. Lack of community / discoverability. Both GL & CB let new users sign in with GH, but that's still a bit of a barrier.

(This is a nerdbait to help me find the answers.)

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

OK! I think I have a solution.

https://git.edent.tel/edent/SuperTinyIcons/

As suggested by @eivindmork@snabelen.no - I've set up a test Gitea instance using @Pikapods@mastodon.social. Only €2/month and I can bring my own subdomain.

I've added social sign-in via GitHub and GitLab to enable people to send me PRs and Issues. Don't think it is quite as easy as GitHub, but it is a start.

Please kick the tyres, log in, play about with it and let me know what else it needs. I've never configured #gitea before.

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

I love the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts.
This one might have the most unexpected "twist" of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMS4JAy9z0Y

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

Thinking of moving on from GitHub - I already have a GitLab and Codeberg presence.

But I find both of them dissatisfying for two reasons.

1. I can't host in my own domain. I don't want to run/maintain a git instance. But I'd like to use git.edent.tel - so I can keep the URL but swap provider if necessary.

2. Lack of community / discoverability. Both GL & CB let new users sign in with GH, but that's still a bit of a barrier.

(This is a nerdbait to help me find the answers.)

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

I'm guessing the 64 character limit is poor database design. But is ".." valid within the local part of an email address?

Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social

I'm trying not to be a quantified self-indulgent twat who is driven solely by gamification.

But my watch has just given me gold stars in steps and sleep!