Beto @beto@fosstodon.org

In February 2019 I rented a house and invited a bunch of musicians to spend the weekend making music together. This music video was made on the first day.

https://blog.taoetc.org/one_more_way_to_paradise/index.html

Testing the integration between my blog and WT.Social.

https://blog.taoetc.org/wtsocial_integration_test/index.html

How to build a soil moisture sensor for your plants, getting notifications when they're dry.

https://blog.taoetc.org/having_arduino_tell_you_when_to_water_your_plants/index.html

Testing the integration between my weblog engine and Mastodon.

I released my first album last Thursday, made only with an #OP-Z while traveling! It was recorded straight into my phone.

You can hear it on Bandcamp, Spotify, Google Play Music, etc.

https://thefishermenandthepriestess.bandcamp.com/album/orions-belt

https://open.spotify.com/album/6l0R1SI7BulWUE3WG9FjkU

https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/artist/Aacxtrqjecfe7ar5cq66hkbnfiy/The+Fishermen+%26+the+Priestess

Trailing commas are the best invention, ever,

What is the widest DOM element you've ever rendered?

I have a table that when rendered is more than 2.1 million pixels wide! Does anyone know a React component that dynamically loads table columns (in addition to table rows)?

This is a great tutorial for building a preamp for contact microphones:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Guitar-Contact-Microphone-Preamp/

Signs of a computer expert:

☐ uses vi or emacs
☐ uses git or mercurial
☐ uses tmux and/or mosh
☑ copies a form before submitting

My favorite sport: typing faster than the typeahead can give recommendations.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll create a tagging system." Now they have #two #problems.

I swear, if a UI has a 1 px non-clickable line between two elements, that's where I click 90% of the time.

Hi, friends in the US.

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Will Go 2 implement GOTO?

https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come

"I don't know how the programming language for scientists in 2025 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN."

https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html

How do I create an encrypted filesystem inside a file?

https://askubuntu.com/a/877597

I still want to do this, 4 years later:

https://twitter.com/dealmeida/status/558312564732329985