Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If you've ever wondered why so many websites are a fragile JS hellscape, here's what a typical conversation in a web development channel might look like, and I think that tells you all you need to know

Don't mind me, just implementing automatic image hiding and album grouping in my #Matrix client

Spotted this absolute gem at the shops today

Today in more obscure news: the manufacturer of the de-facto standard municipal trashbin in the Netherlands, has declared bankrupcy

Voorbereidingen voor Te Land, Ter Zee En In De Lucht in de Efteling

#Efteling

Meow? #38c3

Experimenting with a design idea for a low-stimuli chat client, specifically the visualization of unread messages and notifications (I cannot sufficiently express my burning hatred for anxiety-inducing bright-red-background notification counts)

This is a graph from a Dutch news article about changes in revenue (blue) and sales volume (red) in the Dutch retail industry. Above 0 means it went up, below 0 means it went down, compared to the previous year. The massive dip in volume are the years in which there were COVID measures.

But I want to draw your attention to the "revenue" line. Notice how it doesn't meaningfully dip compared to previous years, and revenues continued to climb, *even though* the sales volume decreased?

Next time someone tells you that ever-increasing consumerism is necessary to keep the economy running, remember this graph.

(The CBS, which is the data source for this graph, is the Dutch governmental statistics agency.)

Proof

WTF kind of measurement unit is this for a supposedly academic paper?!

Very looking forward to Danse Macabre, though realistically I probably won't have a chance until quite a while after my transplantation...

One might almost think that the Stack Overflow people are a little bit obsessed with "AI"

?????

I genuinely have no idea how this could happen, I guess the salt restrictions assume neurotypical folks who cheat on the restrictions or something, and they're not designed to be actually followed to the letter??

If you saw me like this and you could do anything, what would you do?

Tweedehands 10 bar tankcompressor, gratis op te halen in Rosmalen als je er een (anarchistisch of vergelijkbaar autonoom) goed doel voor hebt.

Gebruikt, maar niet heel veel. Is vervangen i.v.m. geluidsniveau - let op, je hebt echt gehoorbescherming wanneer deze ingeschakeld is! Compressor zelf in goede staat, slang/luchtpistool ontbreken, filterbehuizing moet gelijmd/vervangen worden (beiden standaard koppeling, volgens mij).

Specificaties in foto/alt-text. Stuur een DM als je interesse hebt!

Success! Some small adjustments need to be made (forgot to add water in the oven so the crust was too tough, and the liquid ratio was too high in the dough mixture and I needed to adjust that later), but overall I'm very satisfied with the result.

The outcome: a roughly 600 gram bread containing only 2 grams of salt, yet at about 0.3/100gr salt, it tastes slightly nicer than your typical supermarket bread in NL (which is usually around 1/100gr salt), and has a much nicer texture. Without using potassium salt, and therefore kidney-disease-friendly!

The original recipe:
- 2gr dry yeast
- 2gr salt
- 350ml lukewarm water
- 400gr flour
- 1 teaspoon ground fennel
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 tablespoons cooking olive oil
- 2 tablespoons oat flakes
- 1 tablespoon peeled sunflower seeds
- 1 teaspoon broken flaxseed
- a bunch of pumpkin seeds

Mix all at once, *except* for the pumpkin seeds, knead thoroughly, let sit in bowl overnight at room temperature (would've been around 10 hours for me), *do not* add sugar or use an oven (dough proofing is deliberately slow).

Next morning, flatten and fold like you usually would with bread. Add some cuts at the top, make a bit wet, and add some pumpkin seeds on top until it looks nice.

Let sit for an hour, then bake it for 40 minutes in a preheated 200C (convection) oven. Add an ovenproof bowl of water in the oven, to keep the environment humid. Beware that it will increase significantly in height!

(Picture is missing the top, because uh, well, see previous post - but the rest of the bread was salvageable, and still nice!)

Ever wondered how those corporate invoice scams work, where companies are tricked into paying bullshit invoices for services they've never purchased? Well, I just received one of those, so let's look at it!

Lidl seems to be trying to pick a fight with the trademark deities

Ehh...