Got some spoopy 12VDC LED critters running off our 12VAC landscape lighting wire, which seems safer than running 120VAC extension cord across the porch

Also just realized I could convert that 12VAC to 5VDC and run some form of RasPi off the landscape power. I wonder if I could stash one in a weatherproof case in the backyard and do something fun with it and a camera

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Les Orchard

what the hell is a wonderwall anyway

Firefox & RSS

@charlag FWIW, once upon a time (i.e. in 2011), I built a Firefox add-on atop Live Bookmarks to expand them into even more of a feed reader.

It kind of demolished performance in Firefox overall. The feed polling stuff for Live Bookmarks was rather unloved, and it interacted very badly with Sync.

And I suspect all that code hasn't been touched at all since then up til it's removal

blog.lmorchard.com/2011/01/27/

@sparcipx@mastodon.sdf.org invisible and silent

A funny thing about Firefox dropping the RSS feed preview is that I really disliked it when it first landed back around 2006.

It broke client-side XSL styling of feeds, which let you customize the display for your site.

That actually cost me a few hours at work at the time, because we'd promised a client we could use that stuff.

blog.lmorchard.com/2006/11/02/

That thing where I've had so much garlic with lunch that I'm afraid folks can tell on the other end of a video conference

That thing where there's a box in my office that I should have moved to the attic or basement but the cats have incorporated it into their nap schedules and so now it is office furniture.

@breakfastgolem Well, I don't keep this "Surfus" office god statue on my desk for no reason

@misuba @craigmaloney Well, I think back thenabouts, Thunderbird was considered more of the proper place for RSS reading than Firefox

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Les Orchard
2018/10/16