Svante Bengtson
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Svante Bengtson
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Accidentally creates a new nonprofit every 3-6 months, creating rope skipping related rules and technology. Libera Chat Staff and Treasurer.
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I'm not sure I have a point or a punchline here anymore, in a sense I guess I just needed to get this off my chest. 6/6
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm forever grateful for the bubbles of joy and good I've found myself in, but most of them are under attack, and most of us don't have the energy to keep holding it up and they will break into isolation.
I'm scared, and we must keep fighting for the better world we we're promised growing up. 5/
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
And on top of that are all the shitty powehungry people in communities that you once found important, once promising great things for all and a better future, now trampling the joy and stepping on your fellow queers for personal gain to create a better world for the few. 4/
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Before AI, sure, it was easy to notice that "you don't seem to think this is as important as I do", but it was often implied and you could keep powering through to make something good, now you get the answer immediately as a slap in the face synthesised by AI back. 3/
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
AI doesn't help. Sure, it's a useful tool for some of the actually boring parts when wielded well, but it also sucks when you get sent reports or docs or art where the thing matters to you, and it's obviously AI, and you realise the person who sent it doesn't give a shit about the thing. 2/
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today I'm using cqmax mostly for font size which works better most of the time, except when it doesn't, like in the second example
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Good point, it was way too early in the morning to have thoughts like that hah.

Here's some examples where it could be useful, in the grid layout I've gotten to a vette place than I was two years ago when I had hard-coded various font sizes based on number of columns and rows and the screen size 1/
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Similarly they have a top corner with names, here too would be good with a "given x and y space, make the names as big as possible, multi-line"
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
2. Dynamic grid layout of scores + info:

Make the center score number that's 1-4 digits fit within a box that's x cqw and x cqh, so that it starts big for events that don't go above say 100, but shrinks some if the number overflows + doesn't overflow the box width and get hidden from overflow 5/
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The examples I don't want to share screenshotss for publicly because names include things for projectors or LED walls, such as:

1. Leaderboard - make the names as big as possible on one line (with a max size so they don't overflow the height)

4/
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
As it'd allow me to say "within this size box, text-wrap: balance these names and then make them as big as you can"

Similarly, a way to do some form of clamping on the bottom banner if someone has too many roles would be useful (max this size, but if it's tight, shrink the text to fit the width) 3/
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
That get exported to PDF, like the example below, here I'd love fit-text to improve legibility at distance for the name - I currently have to select a font size based on a guess of the longest name.

Multi-line would be fantastic here 2/
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Is there a way to share screenshots privately? I have some that include personal info of people, that is public info, but I'd rather not connect it with my social media account?

I can attach one example where even multi-line could be useful, I use the Web to generate event accreditation cards 1/
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yeah and well it's great, only included in business standard and up, you can't share even a read only version with guests, free users, or I think even business basic. Which naturally isn't obvious. Etc etc.
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
You mean the slow and clunky Microsoft loop?
October 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In "good" news I remember running vista on an and phenom x3, and there was quite a few pieces of software that did not handle that well™
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Is this a case of "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."?
August 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM