Thomas Sibley

Often riding a bicycle or tending the garden. Computing generalist. Papa to two. He/him. Cars ruin cities.

Website: https://tsibley.net
Papa posts: https://dads.cool/@trs

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2026-03-04 01:57:35 UTC

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what is the scale here?

2025-12-06 22:32:51 UTC

Without going down the rabbit hole myself yet, is there prior art out there about transforming one QR code into another via a minimum edit distance?
Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen.
Please reply if you know, boost if you don't!

2025-11-19 03:25:14 UTC

Tomorrow after the school run, I plan to swap bikes and ride over to Roosevelt to take the train to Mt Baker and then ride the new singletrack loop in the Cheasty greenspace. Weather looks like it'll be great! and the train will cut out ~20 miles of round trip. \o/
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/10/21/october-25-seattles-longest-mountain-bike-loop-trail-opens-in-cheasty-greenspace/
(h/t to @npub1w5k…2jvx for the tip that it was opening up!)
#SEAbikes #seattle #BikeTooter

2025-10-31 05:15:54 UTC

In my clipboard I had some Korean I wanted to quickly translate to get the gist of it.
Alt-tabbed to Firefox and started typing translate.goo… as I thought, "but jeez, Firefox can do this locally. how do I access that outside of a web page?"
Ah ha! New tab, type in "data:text/html,<textarea>" instead and hit enter.
Paste the Korean into the text box, Ctrl-A, right click, click Translate selection… and presto!
Now I'm wondering how to invoke Firefox translations from the command line...

2025-08-18 08:58:39 UTC

Could be useful for the Moose-for-Java port. #perl https://wetdry.world/@fish/115048783568716493

2025-01-30 18:44:39 UTC

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How far in that photo to the two clusters of tall buildings?