Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@social.cleverlibre.org

I go through lots of graph paper, so to save a little money I made a LaTeX template to print my own. It was so handy that @duetosymmetry and I turned it into a LaTeX package.

There are various grid styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc), and both custom and pre-defined color schemes.

Use it to easily print your own paper, or to make pdf page templates for your favorite tablet note-taking app.

Github: https://github.com/mcnees/LaTeX-Graph-Paper
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers?lang=en

What books would you suggest to a junior or intern backend software engineer?

I'm surprised no one has tried this yet.

(Looking forward to ChatGPT generating new right-wing conspiracy theories for us; they can't be any less plausible than the ones we've already got.)

Don't make me tap the sign

#tuesday

Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.

It doesn’t take long to write one.

And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.

Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/)

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon

Want to privatise the NHS? Think again!

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/mineclone2-version-0810-free-minecraft-like-for-minetest-out-now/ #FreeGame #OpenSource #Linux

I'm attempting #AdventofCode in #elm this year, which I will admit has been quite a challenge so far. #FunctionalProgramming is so weird!!! Hoping I start to see the light soon.

Answers here: https://github.com/bielsnohr/elm-advent-of-code

Asking a favor from #opensource #oss friends

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Feel free to boost! Thank you for your time!

I still see posts with people wanting no politics. So I will leave a reminder:

1. Politics = how we make decisions about living together in society.

2. Not participating in politics = endorsing the status quo.

3. Refusing to participate in politics is a privilege. It is also a decision to abandon those in a more vulnerable position.

You might want to abstain and that's fine.
But someone has to combat injustice, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.