Notices by Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org), page 10

@clacke Thanks for the offer though!

@clacke No. It's on a Gitlab server run by anhonesthost.com but access is restricted due to various policy decisions. We have to tackle this soon!

@clacke I have taken it upon myself to intercept all (top level) show notes and fix them as necessary, turning them into HTML as required. This helps to prevent issues with uploading to archive.org where notes can be sanitised out of existence if they don't conform to their requirements.

@clacke I saw this on my last visit to this aspect of Bash but held off talking about it (I'm always worried about driving away my audience).
Feel free to do a show on it if you would like.

@clacke I think you are right, it's the form - or more likely something behind the form that's sanitising the HTML. I haven't noticed this here before, probably because people don't sent in much HTML. Much of it is plain text or a Markdown variant which I process for them.

@clacke Doh! I just saw your Gitlab notes, and realised the answer was "yes!". Fixed - awaiting Ken's ministrations.

@clacke Thanks for the #hpr show. Your examples 6 and 7 contain: printf '%sn'. I assume you meant: printf '%s\n' (backslash n in case anything gets stripped by Mastodon). Shall I adjust it accordingly?

Listening to the "This Week in Microbiology" podcast. They are discussing how Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bacterium that causes gum disease (ginginvitis), is implicated in Alzheimer's disease. Scary if true, but it holds out some hope for prevention - and warns us to look after our dental hygiene!

@clacke Indeed. With the recent arrival of version 5 I'd been looking at differences there, but my roadmap, though a bit vague at present, is aimed at redirection , pipes, functions and similar in the short to medium term.

@clacke Think of the #hpr show potential!! I have co-processes on my list for Bash Tips, but way out in the future.

@clacke Quite sad I think. My parents moved from the London area to Norwich in 1956 or so and as a child I was shocked at how different the accents were between the two places. The Norfolk accent was impenetrable to my young ears with its weird words like "frawn" for cold (Norman French I think), and weird ways of speaking. Now it's pretty much a continuum from London outwards, and all those rich accents have largely gone.

@claudiom Nice. I have written stuff using Awk to do frequency counts but 'uniq -c' is so elegant.
Also, in Bash the newline for the first 'tr' can be written as $'\n' rather than the two line thing.
Not sure about the sed bit. I'd have used 'sed -n 1p' but maybe I'm wrong ;-)

@clacke If it was me I'd probably try and convince myself it was skill rather than luck 😉

@clacke It certainly seemed well paced to me, and with questions at the end it fit the time well. Other presentations I watched over-ran quite a bit. I think I got the flavour of what you're doing and am intrigued to know more.

@clacke Looking forward to hearing more on #hpr 👍

@clacke Having watched several videos from the same room it struck me that many people had the same problems. Also, as an aside, the camera or production work was often poor in the way the videos swapped between slides and presenter. You saw the presenter when you really wanted to read the slides in detail. Also many were caught by the shortness of the time slot.

@clacke Have a good journey.
I've been browsing the FOSDEM videos today from the Minimalistic Languages Devroom. Your talk was interesting, though a large proportion of it was over my head. Nicely done though!
Watched the Perl 6 talk and the Tcl one so far.

@NYbill I added tags and stuff to your #hpr show 1338 yesterday. The link to JRob's blog was dead, but I was happy to find that it's available on the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). That's a great service 👍

@clacke Those are the criteria of success in my book. Maybe not world-shaking success but a positive outcome nonetheless. 👍
I couldn't watch live (though the feeds are good this year) but I'll have a look once it's on the server.

It's odd that under Bash 5 'select' lists its elements vertically all the time whereas previously it arranged them in columns across the screen. I can't seem to control this, though you'd expect LINES and COLUMNS to influence it.