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Cool, I'm going to play with this. Looks like a well-written project, and I love this statement in the readme: "it started as a joke and then quickly got out of hand".

> "it started as a joke and then quickly got out of hand"

heh indeed, I've actually stopped writing joke projects because I'm extremely prone to this scope creep. At some point I realize "hey if if I were to just add X simple thing, this might actually be useful" and then pretty soon I've got a project I don't want to build and don't want to maintain, but feel like I need to. In the worst case (which was a rubocop wrapper that initially added silly/joke things on top of rubocop intended to be entertaining and bring some light-heartedness, but turned into an actually useful and easily extendable linting tool for our dev team) at least the company failed-ish and pivoted so we just abandoned it and escaped our self-created prison.


I thought the statement was about Perl, not the project.

(joking, I owe a lot to Perl and have profound respect for it and most of the community, I hope this joke doesn't get out of hand)


In the finest of artistic traditions.

Reminds me of the story of one of my favorite pieces of classical music, 'Scarbo' by Maurice Ravel. It's one of the most technically difficult pieces played today. Ravel wrote it because he 'wanted to make a caricature of romanticism. Perhaps it got the better of me.'.


Similarly I wrote a WinForms bsky client as a learning exercise and to produce some parody screenshots, although I never uploaded it anywhere.

glad you said "bsky" not "atproto"

This looks great, will have to check it out. I've always been interested in computer graphics, I even wrote a ray tracer when studying for my master. It was based on the, then, brand new book "An Introduction to Ray Tracing" by Andrew S. Glassner et al. The book is now free to download: https://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ra...


Google Street View link showing the murial: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac


As a Dane, pikaday reads a little funny, because "pik" is a vulgar slang term for penis, equivalent to English words like dick or cock.


Is Pokemon popular in Denmark?


The "Mastering Emacs" is great. But, you don't need it to get started, instead check https://www.masteringemacs.org/reading-guide


In Denmark there's 4 weeks for the mother (right after giving birth) and then 24 weeks for the mother and their partner each, i.e., a total of 52 weeks. It's also possible to transfer weeks between the parents.


"Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak."



John Oliver explained it (Pig Butchering) very well: https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=yHwqzMX0r2h4mKl-


After about 25 years in Denmark without earning money, ALDI closed all shops here last year.


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