rash @rash@chaos.social

Behold! The rare and elusive rash hardware project!

I am always suprised that a company as humongous as google does not have a "Show only nickname" option for profiles and all their products. Best I can get is "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME (NICKNAME)". So now I have to set my nickname as my first name and nothing as my last name (which thankfully is supported). Until of course they need my real name again for some legal bullshit.

What algorithmic clickbait nightmare is this? (also why did my ublock not catch that).

Thanks, creepy ad-laden quiz farm, I already know the answer to that question ;)

TIL about fanned and true temperament frets:
https://guitargearfinder.com/faq/fanned-frets-explained/

I HAVE LÄNDLED.

I'll actually be traveling again soon and I'm looking for new luggage to haul a weeks worth of stuff through trains. In the past I used my large hiking backpack, but carrying around two backpacks (I'll have my small daily backpack for electronics and things with me) is pretty cumbersome.
Does anyone have any recommendations for me? (can be expensive if it means the wheels don't come off after the first trip)

My bestest roommate gave me a present!

"But why don't you use the native html5 input elements instead of building everything with js?" Yeah well I fucking would but input="datetime-local" doesn't even let me specify the locale, which makes it absolutely useless in a UI which allows users to pick their own locale different from the system one.

Hey, banks, if your login form goes from the first to second picture when I enable js, I am running away very, very fast.

Previous versions of buntpapier did control color and size with stylus (css preprocessor) mixins, but those
a) needed a preprocessor
b) could only set stuff at compile time

Which was problematic for venueless, because venueless has theming defined at runtime, and CSS does not (yet) have things like `from these two foreground colors, pick the one with the best contrast for THIS background`, which is happening in js in the playground, if you change the button color to something bright.

If you ask yourself why I am doing this:
I very much dislike setting presentation properties directly on a component.
The way 99% of component frameworks for vue/react/whatever work is basically
`<button color="primary" size="large" tooltip-placement="left">my button</button>`.
This means you basically need to set properties on every. single. component.
Why do that, when you have the power of the cascade and can just do
`.all-my-buttons-container { --button-color: rebeccapurple; }` ?

For the new version of my UI component framework, I am asking myself "what can you control with CSS custom properties?". Colors? Sure. Button sizes? Why not? On which side of the button the tooltip should appear? Of course!
It's a long way from done and requires some JS stunts, but here's a playground preview:

https://buntpapier-v3-playground.rash.codes/

Feedback welcome!

Hintergrund: Im Engineering Team bekommen wir häufiger so Fragen wie "Is subsystem XY working?", worauf die direkte Antwort von "Monitoring says yes" quasi nie hilfreich ist, und die eigentliche Frage quasi immer "I tried XY and expected Z to happen, but it didn't. Can someone help me?" ist.

Ich brauche mal eure Hilfe:
Aus dem Hackerumfeld kenne ich das Konzept von "Metafragen", die man vermeiden sollte, wenn man schnell Hilfe will (erklärt hier: http://metafrage.de/). Im Englischen scheint "meta question" was anderes zu bedeuten.
Wie würdet ihr "Vermeide Metafragen" übersetzen, im Kontext eines englischen Leitfadens für einen englischen Firmenchat?