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• SPARQL 4: Be Extra Careful on your Birthday

  2022-08-05

  

  Enough Yak Shaving already.

  • Subqueries in SPARQL, and 50 Labels per Entity
  • Named Subqueries and Planner Barriers
  • Finally: Numbers. But what do they Mean?
  • Control: What About Day -1 and Day +1?
  • Control: What about a Month? And Well-Defined Sampling?
  • Appendix: Born in the Future

  I am now three parts …

• SPAQRL 3: Who Died on their Birthdays?

  2022-08-04

  

  A lot of Yak Shaving left to do here.

  • Getting Labels
  • Determining Day and Month
  • Appendix: People born in the future

  Now that I have learned how to figure out dates of birth and death in Wikidata and have made myself sensible tools to submit queries, I can finally start …

• SPARQL 2: Improvising a client

  2022-07-31

  

  There is still a lot of hair on the Yak I am shaving in this little series of posts on SPARQL. All the Yaks shown in the series lived on the Valüla Mountain in Vorarlberg, Austria.

  • Uploads, Multipart, Urlencoded, Oh My!
  • Making the Output Friendlier: Turtle?
  • Making the Output Friendlier …

• SPARQL and Wikidata 1: Setting out

  2022-07-27

  

  If you continue, you will read about a first-rate example of Yak Shaving

  • Basics: RDF in a few paragraphs
  • CURIEs
  • Long URIs in RDF?
  • Non-speaking URIs
  • SPARQL
  • And what about birthdays now?
  • Why read when you can type?
  • Oh no! Javascript and Local Storage

  While listening to a short biography …

• PSA: netsurf 3 does not accept cookies from localhost

  2022-07-10

  As I have already pointed out in April, I consider simple and compact web browsers a matter of freedom (well, Freedom as in speech, actually), and although there's been a bit of talk about ladybird lately, my favourite in this category still is netsurf, which apparently to this date is …

• Entering Wild Unicode in Vim

  2022-06-02

  

  This is what this post is about: being able to type PILE OF POO (a.k.a. U+1f4a9) in vim in…tuitively. For certain notions of intuition.

  As a veteran of writing texts in TeX, I've long tended to not bother with “interesting” characters (like the quotes I've just …

• HTML and Word in mutt

  2022-05-14

  I read my mail using mutt, and even though I was severely tempted by astroid, mutt just works too nicely for me to make moving away an attractive proposition. And it is a fine piece of software. If you're still stuck with Thunderbird (let alone some webmail interface in the …

• Globaldokumente in Libreoffice zusammenführen

  2022-04-16

  • Wie machte ich aus einem Satz von ODTs oder DOCs ein einziges ODT?
  • epubedit
  • Stilfragen
  • Und die Stichworte?

  Ich hatte gerade einer armen Seele zu helfen, die drei Bücher mit Microsoft Word für Windows geschrieben hat und dazu Word-Zentraldokumente verwendet hat, vor allem wohl, weil vor 20 Jahren – als diese …

• Replacing root-tail when there is a compositor

  2022-01-07

  Since there hasn't been real snow around here this year until right this morning, I've been running xsnow off and on recently[1]. And that made me feel the lack of a compositor on my everyday desktop. Certainly, drop shadows and fading windows aren't all that necessary, but I've been …

• Perhaps I should be moving to gentoo

  2021-02-13

  I'm reading PDFs quite a bit, most of them in my beloved zathura. So, I was dismayed when today I paged through a book that showed in zathura as on the left side of this figure:

  

  The metrics are off so badly that readability suffers.

  Rather than try to fix …

• An Xlib-based Screen Ruler in Python

  2021-01-24

  In my bad prediction (in both senses of the word) on what we'll see in the intensive care stations I've mentioned a screen ruler I've written.

  Well, since I've still not properly published it and I doubt I'll ever do that without further encouragement, let me at least mention it …

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