Julian Fietkau
@fietkau.me
Human-computer interaction #HCI, computer science & programming, home server & self-hosting, games and other fun stuff.
Fediverse tool builder: @encyclia, @canary […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fietkau.social/@julian, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Fediverse tool builder: @encyclia, @canary […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fietkau.social/@julian, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
[Drawn blood and gore]
I forgot to post about it, but last month I got the #artbook for “Slay the Princess” by @blacktabbygames, a 2023 game which btw is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut/
The […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
I forgot to post about it, but last month I got the #artbook for “Slay the Princess” by @blacktabbygames, a 2023 game which btw is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut/
The […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
[Drawn blood and gore]
I forgot to post about it, but last month I got the #artbook for “Slay the Princess” by @blacktabbygames, a 2023 game which btw is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut/
The […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
I forgot to post about it, but last month I got the #artbook for “Slay the Princess” by @blacktabbygames, a 2023 game which btw is on sale right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989270/Slay_the_Princess__The_Pristine_Cut/
The […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
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I've had it with #google #Scholar. Currently trying to do a little bit of automated bibliometrics, and there's a ton of Scholar parsers on Github in various states of brokenness, sometimes with fully integrated proxy support and Selenium backend and whatnot so it doesn't get banhammered...
Yeah […]
Yeah […]
Original post on hci.social
hci.social
December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I've had it with #google #Scholar. Currently trying to do a little bit of automated bibliometrics, and there's a ton of Scholar parsers on Github in various states of brokenness, sometimes with fully integrated proxy support and Selenium backend and whatnot so it doesn't get banhammered...
Yeah […]
Yeah […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115691254009259024
Engelbart's demo is well worth checking out. SRI has a nice 5 minute highlight cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Xerox PARC developers cite him as a direct inspiration for the Xerox Star (http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html […]
Engelbart's demo is well worth checking out. SRI has a nice 5 minute highlight cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Xerox PARC developers cite him as a direct inspiration for the Xerox Star (http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html […]
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115691254009259024
Engelbart's demo is well worth checking out. SRI has a nice 5 minute highlight cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Xerox PARC developers cite him as a direct inspiration for the Xerox Star (http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html […]
Engelbart's demo is well worth checking out. SRI has a nice 5 minute highlight cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Xerox PARC developers cite him as a direct inspiration for the Xerox Star (http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html […]
I recently gave a makeover to the project page for the first video game I ever made: https://fietkau.media/revelation_mentis
The game itself is a small adventure/exploration game for DOS. It's not much to look at. But I touched up the game itself and the […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
The game itself is a small adventure/exploration game for DOS. It's not much to look at. But I touched up the game itself and the […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I recently gave a makeover to the project page for the first video game I ever made: https://fietkau.media/revelation_mentis
The game itself is a small adventure/exploration game for DOS. It's not much to look at. But I touched up the game itself and the […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
The game itself is a small adventure/exploration game for DOS. It's not much to look at. But I touched up the game itself and the […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
As a European, I have nothing to do with American Thanksgiving, but the timing of the holiday coincides with a hardware donation I just sent off to @computertruhe (after checking with them which parts they'd want). I feel like that kinda matches the spirit of the thing. 😄 They use them to […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As a European, I have nothing to do with American Thanksgiving, but the timing of the holiday coincides with a hardware donation I just sent off to @computertruhe (after checking with them which parts they'd want). I feel like that kinda matches the spirit of the thing. 😄 They use them to […]
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Hey #fediverse people, I've an ask: If you appreciate all that I do for the fediverse and open social web, and you'd like to see me continue to do that work, please support my work financially.
Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet […]
Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey #fediverse people, I've an ask: If you appreciate all that I do for the fediverse and open social web, and you'd like to see me continue to do that work, please support my work financially.
Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet […]
Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet […]
I've been taking a bit of time away from all the noise lately, but there's also still good stuff happening. 🙂 As of today, my first journal paper is out:
https://fietkau.science/body_tracking_longitudinal_ambient_display_studies
It's essentially a project report covering much of my work from […]
https://fietkau.science/body_tracking_longitudinal_ambient_display_studies
It's essentially a project report covering much of my work from […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I've been taking a bit of time away from all the noise lately, but there's also still good stuff happening. 🙂 As of today, my first journal paper is out:
https://fietkau.science/body_tracking_longitudinal_ambient_display_studies
It's essentially a project report covering much of my work from […]
https://fietkau.science/body_tracking_longitudinal_ambient_display_studies
It's essentially a project report covering much of my work from […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
Following the recent partnership between @ORCID_Org and Clarivate, the latter can write Clarivate certified information into the ORCID record of those who have granted permission for Clarivate to do so.
I had granted this. I discovered today, thanks fo @encyclia , that Clarivate had […]
I had granted this. I discovered today, thanks fo @encyclia , that Clarivate had […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Following the recent partnership between @ORCID_Org and Clarivate, the latter can write Clarivate certified information into the ORCID record of those who have granted permission for Clarivate to do so.
I had granted this. I discovered today, thanks fo @encyclia , that Clarivate had […]
I had granted this. I discovered today, thanks fo @encyclia , that Clarivate had […]
RE: https://fietkau.software/daily_rucks/ap/activity/2025-11-08
I have added Mastodon-style (FEP-044f) quote post compatibility to my @DailyRucks bot. You can now quote post the daily voice lines as much as you want! 🥳
This would be noteworthy on its own if there weren't already a bunch of […]
I have added Mastodon-style (FEP-044f) quote post compatibility to my @DailyRucks bot. You can now quote post the daily voice lines as much as you want! 🥳
This would be noteworthy on its own if there weren't already a bunch of […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
RE: https://fietkau.software/daily_rucks/ap/activity/2025-11-08
I have added Mastodon-style (FEP-044f) quote post compatibility to my @DailyRucks bot. You can now quote post the daily voice lines as much as you want! 🥳
This would be noteworthy on its own if there weren't already a bunch of […]
I have added Mastodon-style (FEP-044f) quote post compatibility to my @DailyRucks bot. You can now quote post the daily voice lines as much as you want! 🥳
This would be noteworthy on its own if there weren't already a bunch of […]
I haven't posted about my QR code generator in a while: https://fietkau.software/qr Check it out if you need QR codes, it has cool customization options and lots of fedi project logos.
An exchange with @yaarur and @ai6yr reminded me of an idea I had a while back. I've added a function (under […]
An exchange with @yaarur and @ai6yr reminded me of an idea I had a while back. I've added a function (under […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I haven't posted about my QR code generator in a while: https://fietkau.software/qr Check it out if you need QR codes, it has cool customization options and lots of fedi project logos.
An exchange with @yaarur and @ai6yr reminded me of an idea I had a while back. I've added a function (under […]
An exchange with @yaarur and @ai6yr reminded me of an idea I had a while back. I've added a function (under […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news
Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]
Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news
Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]
Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]
Okay, so either Deno's OpenTelemetry metric “http.server.active_requests” (https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/open_telemetry/#http.server.active_requests) is actually cumulative over the lifetime of the process, or I have found the explanation for why […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Okay, so either Deno's OpenTelemetry metric “http.server.active_requests” (https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/open_telemetry/#http.server.active_requests) is actually cumulative over the lifetime of the process, or I have found the explanation for why […]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
[Original post on fietkau.social]
Hey @bonfire @mayel and crew, if you ever feel like putting a spec down to attach academic citations to #activitypub objects for your Open Science Network, ping me.
I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of […]
I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hey @bonfire @mayel and crew, if you ever feel like putting a spec down to attach academic citations to #activitypub objects for your Open Science Network, ping me.
I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of […]
I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of […]
Just want to say out loud how much I enjoy @cscw posting tirelessly about their latest conference contributions this week. 🤩 I've never even been to CSCW myself, but if you care about the latest research on how people use technology to communicate and collaborate, check out their account.
Here […]
Here […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Just want to say out loud how much I enjoy @cscw posting tirelessly about their latest conference contributions this week. 🤩 I've never even been to CSCW myself, but if you care about the latest research on how people use technology to communicate and collaborate, check out their account.
Here […]
Here […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]
Original post on friend.camp
friend.camp
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]
Over the past few days I have finally gotten postgresql working with @encyclia. That was one of two remaining tasks to finish up before the alpha test, the remaining one now is logging and resource monitoring.
Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]
Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Over the past few days I have finally gotten postgresql working with @encyclia. That was one of two remaining tasks to finish up before the alpha test, the remaining one now is logging and resource monitoring.
Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]
Although I still gotta figure out why it's slow as molasses compared to sqlite. 🫠 I […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November.
FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag.
#readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]
FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag.
#readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]
Original post on gts.authorhelp.uk
gts.authorhelp.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November.
FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag.
#readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]
FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #fedibookfair hashtag.
#readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #christmas […]
I want to write a program to extract a list of clickable links from a PDF page.
#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.
To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]
#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.
To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I want to write a program to extract a list of clickable links from a PDF page.
#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.
To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]
#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.
To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
This should have been big news!
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This should have been big news!
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
That's a wrap on #muc2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲
So @jannis, you […]
So @jannis, you […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
That's a wrap on #muc2025 for me. Thank you @mucConf! 👍 I got to meet @marmarta, @raka_a11y and @maxpascher for the first time 👋, and I reconvened with @jannis after a year. 😃 I saw @kakoepferl and @GUPA_President from a distance a few times, but regrettably didn't say hi. 🥲
So @jannis, you […]
So @jannis, you […]
Starting the last day of #muc2025 by checking out of my hotel. 🙂 After that I'll be at the conference's last paper session. The only person I can spot in the list who has an account on here is @DBuschek, co-author of “Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
September 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It got late at #muc2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too […]
Original post on fietkau.social
fietkau.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It got late at #muc2025 for me, which is expected enough for a conference dinner I suppose. I spent the afternoon with association organizers to talk about secret projects™, and from there I went to the conference dinner. Very funny crowd at my table and the food was nice. 🙂 The event was, too […]
Reposted by Julian Fietkau
Albrecht @AlbrechtKurze und Karola @kakoepferl haben auf der #muc2025 den Besteht Demo Award bekommen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! #erika #digitaldiversity @tuchemnitz
September 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Albrecht @AlbrechtKurze und Karola @kakoepferl haben auf der #muc2025 den Besteht Demo Award bekommen! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! #erika #digitaldiversity @tuchemnitz