hyperdata.it – here we go again

2021-11-14

Javascript Templating

Text templating/substitution (also known as string interpolation) is really nice to have. I’ve found this very useful in Javascript when building simple browser apps that call a SPARQL server. In fact I recently wrote this up as a paper, with a couple of little demos, proposing a pattern I call Sparql Diamonds. However, I missed a trick. I used the...

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2021-11-13

Upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10, Impish Indri

Apparently an Indri is a kind of lemur. I’d already done the upgrade on a couple of other machines without any problem, decided it was time for it on my main (office desktop) box. This time there were issues – it said it hadn’t completed. But keeping going at apt upgrade (and whatever else it suggested) without rebooting got there...

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2021-11-09

How to do a Mashup (YouTube Download)

Note to self – write script On Ubuntu 21.10 – youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vxHOCeiQ4 [youtube] j7vxHOCeiQ4: Downloading webpage [info] Available formats for j7vxHOCeiQ4: format code extension resolution note 249 webm audio only tiny 52k , webm_dash container, opus @ 52k (48000Hz), 1.69MiB 250 webm audio only tiny 69k , webm_dash container, opus @ 69k (48000Hz), 2.22MiB 140 m4a audio only tiny...

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2021-11-09

Possible Esolang

Some thoughts on an esolang so I don’t forget An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke. Wikipedia There’s a...

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2021-10-29

Gouge Error

I set up a little workshop here initially for practical reasons, house renovation. But I’ve always enjoyed playing with wood, especially carving. When I saw a lathe in a local shop at a very low price, I jumped at the chance. Ok, a cheap Chinese thing, but good enough for occasional use. That would have been about 15 years ago...

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2021-10-22

Apache, symlinks, 403

tail -f /opt/lampp/logs/error_log I’m still in the process of setting things up on this server. Web stuff via Apache on Ubuntu. I’m moderately familiar with the Apache setup as it comes with the Ubuntu distro, but recently had cause to install Apache + MariaDB(≈MySQL) + WordPress on a local machine. I’d recently stumbled on XAMPP (≈LAMPP), effectively a bundle of...

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2021-10-11

Cheap Laptop Upgrade

Upgrading memory & hard drive in an Asus F507M laptop (with mostly-broken keyboard). A €300-ish machine made significantly more friendly with €70 of parts and a couple of hours work (mostly research). Some tips if you want to do something similar. Caveat: I use Ubuntu, no idea what might be different on other operating systems. Background A few years back...

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2021-10-04

Drawing a Million Dots

tl;dr : Live demo, code on github, a million dots (maybe) Edit 2021-10-07 : I’ve tweaked the code to allow upload of arbitrary images and be able to change the parameters Big numbers feature a lot on the news. But how does one visualize millions, billions, trillions..? There are a bunch of things I want to write in Javascript in...

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2021-09-15

Shibboleths in Academia

I’ve wanted an excuse to use this word for years. From Wikipedia : A shibboleth (/ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, -ɪθ/) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining...

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2021-09-06

Make the Difficult Things Easy (the easy things difficult)

WordPress has the most unintuitive user interface I’ve ever encountered. It’s horrible! Ok, block editor, I guess I can see why you might want that. But the way it’s implemented, seems a lot more hard work than something like trad WYSIWYG. I’m way out of touch with HTML+CSS, both seem to have become Turing Complete and probably sentient in the...

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