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  • ...conflict, and it's not clear which path one should take. Makes me go from one to the other and back again, and never make any progress. :( ...
    293 bytes (52 words) - 21:26, 28 December 2018
  • ...not intimately familiar with (or even on one with which one is), the first thing is to write the description of some small test. Just a sentence or two abou The thing with mocked components is that they assume you know enough about what those ...
    979 bytes (169 words) - 17:29, 21 January 2019
  • ...y good in most respects. I think there are a few things that it doesn’t do well though. One of those is ''structured data'', and I’m attempting to solve that in one respect via [http://tabulate.readthedocs.org Tabulate]. ...
    948 bytes (145 words) - 01:32, 13 August 2016
  • ...ep closer to local overrides (and maybe one day even deploying the blasted thing). ...TDESC:Lorem ipsum}}</nowiki></code> magic word. I reckon this could be the thing that is displayed in parentheses after a person's name in family trees (it' ...
    2 KB (270 words) - 05:29, 12 January 2018
  • ...ike much, but it&#8217;s really useful to only have to change the title in one place, and have it show correctly all over the wiki. (This is much the same ...e sort of extension that I really like: it does a small thing, but does it well, and it makes sense as an addition to the core software. It&#8217;s not try ...
    1 KB (225 words) - 23:23, 27 March 2018
  • ...nt, and maybe familiarity takes precedence over attempting to do the right thing. ...
    269 bytes (42 words) - 09:56, 14 September 2018
  • ...tus update' and 'blog post' datatypes of this wiki onto one generic 'post' thing, I think. And add a 'repost' aspect to it. And 'photo' probably, although t ...
    272 bytes (44 words) - 02:37, 18 November 2019
  • ..., on the other hand, makes the ''subject'' of the words the most important thing, much more important than ''when'' they were written, and the words are mea One of the problems with the topical-page approach is that often one doesn't have any idea of what's to be written until ''after'' it's been wri ...
    2 KB (367 words) - 12:27, 8 September 2023
  • ...heir values are tracked in the page history. Of course, it also means that one has to do more scripting for some types of data modification, but for the m ...day too, because I'll have separate things that don't fit together! But oh well.) ...
    2 KB (360 words) - 02:47, 19 October 2018
  • ...tiful elegant little systems for doing things. It’s the most fun. It makes one feel like the world is actually nice and ordered and will obey rules. ...s to feel like compromising. But that’s all okay, because the bones of the thing are pure… maybe all of this new stuff belongs in plugins, anyway? ...
    2 KB (310 words) - 01:36, 13 August 2016
  • ...ve the morning time, while the brain is still sharp enough to focus on one thing and get it done, but dull enough not to remember the other things and derai ...
    351 bytes (62 words) - 04:47, 19 June 2018
  • ...any number of derivatives — should be grouped together and called the same thing. But even that is messy, because individual physical parts need to also be ...
    2 KB (240 words) - 01:13, 13 July 2023
  • ...e morning to a nice warm café, a good book, and the ignoring of everything one’s supposed to be doing for a few hours?! I mean, ''really''! ...ated blip in the universe: I am actually, very really and dependably, just one of millions of billions of little blips in the universe. And so there’s n ...
    2 KB (280 words) - 01:36, 13 August 2016
  • ...py with it (and again, I would post a photograph, but can’t), although one thing that annoys me is that it’s blank. It feels nice to hold, and to open; th ...
    1 KB (262 words) - 01:34, 13 August 2016
  • <li>Combine all the images into one PDF: ...se, when one suggests this sort of thing to someone who wants to use Word, one invariable ends up doing it for them. Which is why I’ve posted this here, ...
    1 KB (243 words) - 01:34, 13 August 2016
  • ...ther little hand-coded sites that I’ve got elsewhere is an email archiving thing that ends up producing a yearly LaTeX-formatted tome of all my emails). ...r instance — but it’s time to go. I have at least kept my one-post-per-day thing going for the ''third'' day in a row!)'' ...
    3 KB (541 words) - 01:36, 13 August 2016
  • ...ng to put up with it (she hasn’t really got a choice though, has she? Poor thing.). ...
    1 KB (186 words) - 04:16, 26 November 2019
  • ...I could find the same sense of neccessity in my woodwork… I’m sure I will one day, when it’s a matter of a table to eat at. ...t the ephemeral conversation is no good, it’s inaccurate and anyway, how’s one supposed to remember something only heard once?! ...
    2 KB (434 words) - 01:36, 13 August 2016
  • ...rfect to any measure but touch – not even because I particularly want this thing round – but rather it gives me a a hint of the unseen. The something that ...particular piece of music, the goblins and shipwrecks, the tiptoeing from one end of the universe to the other. Fabulous (in the original sense). ...
    3 KB (476 words) - 01:36, 13 August 2016
  • .... So I can keep my own, local, list of books and annotations, but for each one see what other people have to say about it, and see what else they’re rea It’s a fairly basic thing, really, and I’ve done a bit of the basic formwork for it. I just have to ...
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