mattgrayyes

mattgrayyes OP , vor 19 Tagen

Once you’ve done that if you like graphs you might want to go here:

https://www.registertovote.service.gov.uk/performance

And see the graph of people registering over the last 24h, month quarter and year!

mattgrayyes , vor 19 Tagen

@foone I do that still too!

mattgrayyes OP , vor 21 Tagen

Most of my posting during the event is on Instagram
Https://instagram.com/mattgrayyes

mattgrayyes OP , vor 22 Tagen

Amazingly I got to visit Adam Savage’s cave today! More here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8N2e6GO1hI/?igsh=MWM2azBwa2M0NHlsZg==

mattgrayyes OP , vor 22 Tagen

@aperture I met him for the first time last year :D

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuyFwz4L4jt/?igsh=MXU2b2Q0NXk5N3p3Yg==

mattgrayyes , vor 23 Tagen

@NanoRaptor \x07

mattgrayyes OP , vor 24 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 24 Tagen)

Explanation of the joke:
The Masters can refer to a group of historic widely-celebrated painters, and also the major tennis championships and their players. (Amongst many other things)

All the best jokes combine slightly niche knowledge of two specific topics with tenuous wordplay…
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And if you’re here to complain about me occasionally using ai generated imagery for a shit pun then just mute me or scroll past or whatever.

mattgrayyes , vor 24 Tagen

@M0KHR @mw1cgg @M0YNG @moon unsubscribe

mattgrayyes , vor 25 Tagen

@thisisjofrank @deno_land yesss!

mattgrayyes , vor 26 Tagen

@tubetime that took me a minute to process the image because I thought the holes on the left were cups of tea!

mattgrayyes OP , vor 27 Tagen

I do like that this went from zero to #2 on trending in under 12 minutes and is still there.
And #1 was a toot enjoying the lefty voting surge in Finland.

Bit different over here to on twitter.

(On mastodon, I think the trending pages are per-instance. So the one I can see is the one for chaos.social specifically because that’s where my account is.)

mattgrayyes , vor 27 Tagen

@squeakyears I’ve done a tiny bit of HOT OSM but not really

mattgrayyes OP , vor 27 Tagen

Woo worked round it and got it going albeit a bit streaky.

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@ryanc
Heat of the moment, eh? 😉

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mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@jonathanhogg
He my fave

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@mattround a third completed it last night I think. (Or they at least got 1000yd away from the end 2h16 into it)

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@mattround I have heard they did complete and were presented with a medal.

Congratulations on your daft flash!

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@seb_ly I was last on site last night but it was beginning to dry up. I’d still recommend boots over trainers.

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

@pa3weg certainly more than one pair of trousers muddy.
It may be wellies muddy if there’s more rain.

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

Yes both Windows 11 and MacOS 14 can read floppy disks.

iOS can see the disk but not read it (I suspect it can’t do FAT16)
Android can see the disk, and read/format it but only when formatted for 360k (single sided single density iirc)

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

@InsertUser
Did that two years ago! :D

https://github.com/MattGrayYes/gbpxl

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@foone those diddy iPod drives are a perfect size for them too!

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@bencc thanks for the earworm :D

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@JennyList ok, I shall look out for one of the few people taller than me. Easy. :D

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@batbeeps nice to see it lasted one week one a pole!

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

Great, Mastodot seems to be working all by itself now!
Let’s see if I get some time/energy over the next few days to get it to do some formatting and image printing!

(It’s turned off now, don’t spam the emf hashtags to make it print plz)

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

I did manage to successfully print images yesterday, I just need to write a more complicated print spooler to deal with it.

Yes. This is the second time I’ve written a print spooler in JavaScript.

Noisy dot matrix printer prints a small picture of Brian Blessed, a larger version of the same photo, then feeds through so you can see both of them and the text “!I’m Brian Blessed”

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

The hard bit here is that, like all ESC/POS libraries, they can’t speak in my LX-350’s reduced subset of ESC/P commands, it’s expecting to control a receipt printer.
It’s mostly fine. But with things like image printing, I’ve had to bodge the library to get some line spacing.
And I haven’t got the text size options working yet, but I think it’s sending slightly more advanced commands for it so I’ll bodge around it.

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

It’s formatting time!
Had to fiddle a bit to get the line breaking working between words rather than in the middle of them.

Wouldn’t have got this far without help from the amazing @thisisjofrank!

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

Found more things im having to do manually. Escape sequences for different text formatting

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

Spent the evening rewriting my bodgy test code into something more useable, and in such a way I can format the toots. Up until now it could only dump the whole toot as a plaintext string.
I’ve got it logging all the separate bits to the console, so tomorrow’s job is to send them to the printer with formatting.
Then see if the library can “just deal with” images from a URL or if I’m going to have to download and convert first.

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Yeeeeesssss! It bloody works!
Just got to strip the html tags out of the toot content, so it’s just text, and it’s basically done! #mastodot

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

See you at EMF, little printer!

mattgrayyes OP , vor einem Monat

Yes it was working. No it’s not working now. That’s tomorrow’s problem.