Pat
@patalinguist.bsky.social
Linguistics PhD. Believe me, that’s not a flex. Miss my linguist life and peeps. I’m a programmer now, I think? I love deno, web components, CSS, HTML, JS, and the platform. And pretty much every human language. And rabbits.
June 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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June 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
These numbers surprised the hell out of me.
May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
These numbers surprised the hell out of me.
Wow.
“Donald Trump's current approval compared to the share of votes he won ”
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
“Donald Trump's current approval compared to the share of votes he won ”
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Wow.
“Donald Trump's current approval compared to the share of votes he won ”
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
“Donald Trump's current approval compared to the share of votes he won ”
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Let’s compare and contrast. Well, obviously anything as pinko as “workers’ rights” would have to be taken down immediately, am I right??
April 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Let’s compare and contrast. Well, obviously anything as pinko as “workers’ rights” would have to be taken down immediately, am I right??
I was curious about how color-mix could be used to generate shades of a color using various color spaces. LCH looks like the winner to me.
April 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I was curious about how color-mix could be used to generate shades of a color using various color spaces. LCH looks like the winner to me.
Also, depressing.
Firefox 😭
Firefox 😭
March 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Also, depressing.
Firefox 😭
Firefox 😭
I found this surprising, to be honest. Awesome, but surprising. A public service announcement about a mobile breast cancer screening program purely in Malecu.
February 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I found this surprising, to be honest. Awesome, but surprising. A public service announcement about a mobile breast cancer screening program purely in Malecu.
When you let Copilot keep suggesting 😅
February 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When you let Copilot keep suggesting 😅
February 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
And Safari. Ah well.
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
And Safari. Ah well.
It does work in Chrome…
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It does work in Chrome…
Ugh, support for CSS in WebVTT is… not great.
You're supposed to be able to style <u> and <b> tags inside a VTT caption. In the demo, the <u> text "lord of the universe" is supposed to be green.
As you can see in the screenshot, in Firefox, it isn’t.
You're supposed to be able to style <u> and <b> tags inside a VTT caption. In the demo, the <u> text "lord of the universe" is supposed to be green.
As you can see in the screenshot, in Firefox, it isn’t.
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ugh, support for CSS in WebVTT is… not great.
You're supposed to be able to style <u> and <b> tags inside a VTT caption. In the demo, the <u> text "lord of the universe" is supposed to be green.
As you can see in the screenshot, in Firefox, it isn’t.
You're supposed to be able to style <u> and <b> tags inside a VTT caption. In the demo, the <u> text "lord of the universe" is supposed to be green.
As you can see in the screenshot, in Firefox, it isn’t.
Golly a little more “programming” and it’s working much better.
February 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Golly a little more “programming” and it’s working much better.
Kind of freaky how easy it was to get something working as an OCR web component. I’ve been trying out Claude.ai as an alternative to Chatgpt. The OCR isn’t super great, but it’s better than nothing, and not bad for ~100 lines of js and 25 lines of CSS.
February 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Kind of freaky how easy it was to get something working as an OCR web component. I’ve been trying out Claude.ai as an alternative to Chatgpt. The OCR isn’t super great, but it’s better than nothing, and not bad for ~100 lines of js and 25 lines of CSS.
TFW you start studying something and get “sidetracked” into broader context…
Reading about Maleku ➡️ reading about THE Maleku ➡️ reading about Rama ➡️ reading about THE Rama ➡️ finding out that plans for a new canal through Nicaragua would go right through Rama lands…
hakaimagazine.com/features/ram...
Reading about Maleku ➡️ reading about THE Maleku ➡️ reading about Rama ➡️ reading about THE Rama ➡️ finding out that plans for a new canal through Nicaragua would go right through Rama lands…
hakaimagazine.com/features/ram...
February 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TFW you start studying something and get “sidetracked” into broader context…
Reading about Maleku ➡️ reading about THE Maleku ➡️ reading about Rama ➡️ reading about THE Rama ➡️ finding out that plans for a new canal through Nicaragua would go right through Rama lands…
hakaimagazine.com/features/ram...
Reading about Maleku ➡️ reading about THE Maleku ➡️ reading about Rama ➡️ reading about THE Rama ➡️ finding out that plans for a new canal through Nicaragua would go right through Rama lands…
hakaimagazine.com/features/ram...
So there is a global called for some reason `gBrowser`, which is (I think) like `browser` in extensions, and low and behold, it has a .tabs property:
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So there is a global called for some reason `gBrowser`, which is (I think) like `browser` in extensions, and low and behold, it has a .tabs property:
when you get into web development. It looks like this:
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
when you get into web development. It looks like this:
I wonder why WebVTT isn’t used more in language documentation. It’s a powerful format, but the mega-tool everyone uses ELAN, only offers .srt import, not .vtt. Wat?
The table below came out of ChatGPT after going through a comparison of VTT and SRT.
archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/
The table below came out of ChatGPT after going through a comparison of VTT and SRT.
archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/
February 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I wonder why WebVTT isn’t used more in language documentation. It’s a powerful format, but the mega-tool everyone uses ELAN, only offers .srt import, not .vtt. Wat?
The table below came out of ChatGPT after going through a comparison of VTT and SRT.
archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/
The table below came out of ChatGPT after going through a comparison of VTT and SRT.
archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/