The short-form week of 15–21 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2016
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:57am
Proposition: God took Scalia during Obama's term; must want O to appoint next Justice.
GOP faithful should therefore ratify immediately, no?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:23pm
@ndw @gimsieke It’s used as a JATS -> HTML «style sheet» in https://t.co/L0p9IjIp8rr. 💖💞💓—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @gimsieke So a non-standard, ad hoc implementation of a subset of XSLT defined with an imperative
language?—@ndw
@ndw Yup. The advantage: it actually runs in the environments that matter to me. @gimsieke—@robinberjon
@ndw Yeah. It would be a bigger win if I could just use XSLT, but I’m done waiting… @gimsieke—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @ndw Unimpressed. In terms of expressiveness and efficiency, this even falls short of
XSLT/XPath 1.—@gimsieke
@gimsieke @ndw Well of course, it's a 1h hack. Yet it's already more readily usable in Node and
the browser.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw Also, that's not entirely true. The matcher is an arbitrary JS function, as is the
template. JATS is only using a tiny bit.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @ndw I wouldn't want to write a (kind of global) Matcher method when I can have XPath
in my template's matching pattern.—@gimsieke
@gimsieke @ndw It could also support CSS, or something domain-specific. Walker is independent of
it.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw There's nothing global about Matcher. It could use XPath, it would be trivial to
add given an XPath lib supporting patterns.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw Finally, it wasn't done to impress but because I need that transformation working
now :-)—@robinberjon
@ndw @gimsieke Which means there is so much potential for growth, both individually and as a group
:-)—@robinberjon
Monday at 03:09am
Monday at 07:13am
Monday at 05:20pm
@_james_fuller @gimsieke I think #XMLAmsterdam was thinking of a workshop this year, perhaps on pipelines. #serendipity ?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:21pm
@ndw @_james_fuller … But if everybody agrees, we’ll be happy to organize a commemorable conference.—@gimsieke
@gimsieke @_james_fuller Definitely get @XMLAmsterdam in the loop. It makes sense to coordinate.—@ndw
@ndw @_james_fuller Then let’s revert to Jim’s original suggestion, Nov 11. I wasn’t aware that CWI is
already about to organize sth …—@gimsieke
@ndw @gimsieke yes - happy to help ... I think XML Amsterdam workshop would be a good adjunct will
setup hangout https://t.co/ZPjnXt6lKY—@_james_fuller
Tuesday at 12:50am
@ndw @gimsieke yes - happy to help ... I think XML Amsterdam workshop would be a good adjunct will
setup hangout https://t.co/ZPjnXt6lKY—@_james_fuller
Tuesday at 12:53pm
Wednesday at 12:25am
Wednesday at 12:40am
Wednesday at 07:13am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:51pm
Didn't make it to Prague. Won't make it to London. #grumble (but I'm on vacation in June, so less grumbly maybe) https://t.co/ETtueI8AbZ—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:38pm
That thing when you push the once-in-12-hours 'update DNS' button and *then* realize
you borked something. Talk to me after 4a CST tomorrow.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:00pm
Thursday at 12:02pm
TIL (also: Things I Am Not Happy About): the standard Google Camera app (on Marshmallow)
does not record DateTimeOriginal in image EXIF.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:34pm
"The stable state of a living organism is to be dead." --Norbert Weiner /via @JamesGleick—@ndw
Friday at 02:43pm
Web developer, what happened to you in life to make a web app that automatically posts
to twitter? Were you raised by bears?—@notwaldorf
Friday at 03:34pm
Friday at 03:44pm
OH "I'm not going to make any promises about how it handles your f*cked-up cluster."—@ndw
Friday at 08:21pm
RT @amyvdh: I support transgender access to bathrooms (and all public spaces) https://t.co/hKWPQdZy1l—@ndw
Friday at 08:23pm
Saturday at 12:07am
.@Kellblog @ndw Why did I install VirtualBox on my iMac at home? Because Mac flavor of *nix sucks
and so I could run Linux as a guest OS.—@MartianOdyssey
Saturday at 08:20pm
RT @ellenduffer: always remember that in the american legal system a corporation is a person but
a woman isn't https://t.co/uCYMCE76Ok—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:27pm
OH "Don't put your balls back in the fire ants."—@ndw
Sunday at 11:33pm
RT @ChrisGrace: The thing about modern art is yeah, you could have done that. But you didn’t. So
shut up.—@ndw
Sunday at 11:35pm
Thursday at 12:12am
RT @SnoozeInBrief: A zeugma walks into a bar and orders a drink, the barman to fetch the manager, and
the books on the shelf alphabetically.—@ndw