Author: Shrimple

Shrimple software developer with hacker-community afiliations who decided a Wordpress site would be funny.

Reässessing my Canon Selphy CP530 and CP510 — slowly

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I get an inquiry about my Canon Selphy from a close one who wants to fix it to use it. I last touched it several months ago. The same day, I go to a friend’s website and it has buttons linking to their friends. In the blog of one of them, one of the recent…

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Rookie Repairs

Don’t let AI sparkle: idea for self-shame hub access

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This post started becoming a reality after I decided to give up on the project part of it, and at least set the milestone at publishing my thoughts that led me to consider it, about the same as they were to appear as if I would come up with a readymade thing. Chances are your…

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Influencing Society

My setup is a distraction — netbook case

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My lately blog posts have been written in the built-in editor of WordPress (earlier, it was WordGrinder). More than I should, I care about autosave being reliable, and that of WordPress has a somehow bad reputation (no idea why so far), although what I know is it autosaves only every minute. I like to write…

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Smol Web Habits

Atom/RSS feeds dish for a browser capable of framesets — with some Perl

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Just seeing what time was the last update to an RSS feed should be enough for most. And the RSS feeds already have titles, so one might not need a full OPML, but nothing more than a list of URLs as a flat file. Although what follows has some room for improvement, feed reading can…

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Smol Web Habits

Links 2, a graphical browser I wanna build upon. And a quick look at how ELinks is doing.

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We all know the three: Lynx, Links 2, ELinks. And w3m, the thing that pioneered inline images. Of these, Links is also among Dillo and NetSurf as a graphical browser —

Unlike its Links pre-1 fork, ELinks, which never chose to follow the upstream on that one;

Nowadays, elinks.cz web site is defunct for a month now — but exclusively on GitHub, the community remains active. Once a fork, rkd77’s ELinks, once (until 2020) having to call itself felinks, is now the continuation. The INSTALL mentions Alternatively, instead of Meson: ./configure &&… …There is no ./configure.

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Wild Software Writing