I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This apparently depends on the program now … Some Qt6 programs still allow that, others don’t. I can’t remember if GTK ever had that feature. 🤔 But yeah, this whole “move stuff around as you please”-mentality is mostly gone.

I know I keep referring to StarOffice 3.1 a lot, but it’s just such a good example for all these things. All the toolbars and panels could be rearranged:

https://movq.de/v/2fb714931d/s.png

(This is running in Wine, btw.)

LibreOffice is the descendant of StarOffice and it doesn’t support anything like that anymore.

Maybe it was deemed too confusing for users? “Oh no, I mis-clicked something and now that bar is gone! How do I get it back? I don’t even know what it’s called!” 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-07-03/0/POSTING-en.html Oh yeah, the toolbar handles. You could actually move the toolbars around and sometimes even customize them. I have no evidence, but to me it feels like a lot of programs don’t allow that anymore nowadays.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh! Von wann ist denn das? Und ja, Innenaufnahmen wären richtig fein. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Wie sah’s denn drinnen aus? 😅

Heute sollten Bilder vom alten Eingangsbereich des URZ gefunden werden. Ich fand!
Hier eine Collage:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It was an easy and quick fix, though. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Ah, ein Jahresband. Man darf dann auf Beiträge dazu im Blog demnächst gespannt sein. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net No. Since the other party was using the original twtxt, I used the twtxt format for my reply. However, that was changed by yarn 😆

Hmm… https://twtxt.net/twt/rb4c47bj2b2k.

@prologic@twtxt.net this was supposed to be a reply to this, not sure how it ended up all there, by itself, sad and lonely. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net they are not the operator, but a user. I think @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz is the operator.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I think you need to update your yarnd instance 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It varies… We tend to prefer bowtie collars for all of our little boys, but they like to wrestle sometimes, and since they’re indoor-only, they can go for months without collars at all.

@arne@uplegger.eu LOL really? 😅

@arne@uplegger.eu The new hashes read like planet names from the game No Man’s Sky. 🚀🌍

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Die “2000” bezieht sich auf das Jahr. Darin befinden sich zwölf Ausgaben aus dem Jahr. Das “Mecklenburg Magazin” ist mir bisher gar nicht unter gekommen. Gibt’s wohl schon seit 1990.

@bender@twtxt.net twtxthashgeddon, word of the year! 😂

@arne@uplegger.eu Ist die Zahl 2000 ein Verweis auf das Erscheinungsjahr oder einfach nur eine fortlaufende Nummerierung der Zeitungsausgabe und bei Erreichen der zweitausendsten Ausgabe dann als Bonus beigelegen? Frohes Schmökern!

@prologic@twtxt.net woot!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah nice, I didn’t know about pytest’s parameterization feature.

@arne@uplegger.eu Yay! So I’m the only one who fucked it up. 🤪🙈

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net It werks!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks! The sunset just beats everything.

@arne@uplegger.eu Success!

@arne@uplegger.eu Well, it works, I think. 😎

@arne@uplegger.eu Foo, bar, and baz! Does it work? Is the houseplant happy?

Letzte Woche habe ich einen Mecklenburg Magazin Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2000 in einer Bücherkiste gefunden und schon viele schöne Stunden damit verbringen dürfen.
Neben verschiedenen plattdeutschen Texten sind viel Historie und Ortsnamenskunde enthalten. Ein Fest.

@arne@uplegger.eu if you see this reply threaded nicely then yes you did! 😅

Well well well, the big twtxt-hash version change took place and with just two lines of code I hope, I covered it up in my fiddely little webclient. houseplant programming 🪴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, those are some amazing photos! 🤯

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Test!

Today was really nice. Around 20°C all morning long, only in the arvo we got up to 25°C. Headed out with my mate for a quick stroll: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-01/

How pretty! https://photo.nullprogram.com/birds/ycnh01/

https://codeberg.org/hellfire103/misc-scripts/src/branch/trunk/scram.tcl

🎶 カタルン カララン https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0c0FBQlQ0o

Junited 2026 is over, and once again, I only managed to create a handful of links. I wonder if these kinds of blogging events are even for me.https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2026/junited-recap

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me twtxt is like an email in a bottle. Just toss one every once in a while. Off topic, weechat is awesome, isn’t it?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah. The thunderstorm was supposed to hit us, sneak north and south around us, directly pay us a vistit again, miss us to the north, directly hit us, and now it’s back to a northern diversion. The thunder heavily roars in the distance at the moment. It’s down to just 10 liters. A mate just got a wet laundry, though, and had to mob up a – luckily – just tiny flood.

As I type, the first drops begin to fall.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, you live in “the zone”: https://social.bund.de/@DeutscherWetterdienst/116839789079697685

First 12, then 37, now 63 liters per square meter, what’s next?

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2026-06-30-19-12-33.png

If you like Wordle, you’re gonna love Poople: https://poople.io/

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com … does your cat wear a bow tie?

Although producing our podcast has always been a lot of fun, this is the official end of it after almost six months of inactivity.https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2026/server-side-stories

@bender@twtxt.net There already is one haha 🤣 I already wrote ed and vi in Go 🤣

Summer Season 2026 at the NLJ: America at 250 ?~L~X https://thenewleafjournal.com/b/E3c

@prologic@twtxt.net gonix-vim, of course. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i’m tired too

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear! :-(

Now, it’s cooler outside than inside. Time to open the windows and start the wind machines.