@todayilearned

TIL That after the Caledonian Star encountered a #Roguewave on 2nd March 2001 and the extensive failure of the on-board electrical system caused by it, especially the complete navigation on the bridge, #Captain Karl-Ulrich Lampe first navigated with a magnetic compass and according to the moon and stars. Later he used a hand-held navigation device intended for excursions with inflatable #boats

#til #todayilearned

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/108496-000-A/das-raetsel-der-monsterwellen/

#TodayILearned l'attribut `ping` associé à l'élément `<a>` permet de déclencher une requête HTTP en Post au clic sur le lien. Utile pour remplacer les liens traqueurs par exemple.
https://emailmarkup.org/en/blog/2024/ping-attribute-click-tracking/
#TIL #HTML #WebDev

#TodayILearned (via dem A11y Weekly Newsletter): Shopify hat Pflichtvorgaben, was Barrierefreiheit angeht, wenn man ein Shop-Theme einreichen will: https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/store/requirements#12-accessibility

https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/06/23/accessible-shopify-themes/

#TodayILearned the #RollingStones have played #JumpinJackFlash over 1100 times in concert

Hi friends. It is Saturday. I’m kind of tired & can’t think of much to say. I may deadhead my rosebush later when temps cool, otherwise I’ll be staying indoors #today. In yesterday’s self-defense class, we learned how to use our elbows to wreak havoc on an attacker. I never realized how powerful elbows can be.

Did you know that if you straighten your arm, your lower arm bones naturally extend from your #elbow at a slight outward angle so they don’t hit your body when you walk?

#TodayIlearned dass, wenn ein Vertrag zwischen 3 Parteien geschlossen wird #Anwälte es als "Dreiseitiger Vertrag" betiteln

Außerdem habe ich gelernt, dass von ca. 10 Kollegen die Im meeting waren genau einer diesen Sachverhalt kannte, und genau einer (ich) gefragt hat wieso der Vertrag mit 4 Papierseiten als "Dreiseitiger Vertrag" betitelt und in einem Absatz als "dieses dreiseitigen Vertrages" beschrieben war auf sich hat. Alle anderen gingen davon aus, dass die GF nicht bis 4 Zählen kann

#TodayILearned about #FLISoL, the "Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre", a distributed #FreeSoftware event held in cities throughout Latin America on the 4th Saturday of April each year https://flisol.info/

Hello everyone. It’s Tuesday. I woke up feeling anxious, snarky, and impatient #today. But my pest control guy has already been by to spray for spiders & remove a small wasp nest for me, so that helps me feel calmer.

It is likely to #hail later, so I’m going to set up my homemade hail nets over my flowers & hope for the best.

Speaking of hail, #TodayILearned from NatGeo that the largest hailstone ever recovered in the US fell in S. Dakota in June 2010. It was 8” in diameter & weighed ~2 lbs.

Hello friends. It is Monday. My area has a break from the heat this week, which is likely to be replaced by daily afternoon rain, hail, and thunderstorms. That is our usual “monsoon” weather pattern, although it feels a bit early this year.

According to the National Weather Service, the word “monsoon” comes from the Arabic word “mausim” or “mawsim” which means “season”. So when we say “monsoon season”, we are actually saying “season season”.

#todayilearned: I can stream SoundCloud tracks with vlc just by copying the url and opening it as a network stream. Conveniently, this also bypass the sign-in prompt that SoundCloud likes to force upon their users... Open source to the rescue!

TIL that Android offers a "read aloud" option in the context menu when text is selected. I somehow never noticed that before, but double checked after learning that iOS can read selected text. Turns out that Android can too!

But I've been told that the iOS "read selected text" option doesn't show up when fancy unicode pseudo-font text is selected. Is that really true? Because if I select the following "text" in Android, it reads it to me perfectly:

Fancy UNICODE text test!
𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭!
𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁!
𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑈𝑁𝐼𝐶𝑂𝐷𝐸 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡!
𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘌 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵!

I am curious if there's some way to get iOS to read such "text", since it's pretty common (and I had the impression that iOS usually does unicode better than Android).

The "fancy unicode text test" is copied from this post by Brian Swetland: https://chaos.social/@swetland/110013679833304812

Hello friends. It is Sunday. It is very hot and windy in my area. If your area is also experiencing extreme heat, I hope you are able to stay cool.

#Today I learned that heat is always transferred from hot to cold. So if you feel cold, it’s not because something (like an ice cube on your skin) is giving you coldness. Instead, your body is transferring its own heat to the ice cube. You feel cooler simply because you are less hot.

#Science blows my (very simplistic) mind.

#TodayILearned (#TIL): "The Arctic (/ˈɑːr(k)tɪk/;[1][Note 1] from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos) 'bear') […]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic

finally got around to add dark mode to my website #todayilearned in the process about a neat #css function: invert()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-function/invert

#TodayILearned about the Convair Model 49, one of the weirdest aircraft ever designed. (It was never built.) https://www.slashgear.com/1392925/one-strangest-vehicles-us-army-ever-made-convair-model-49/

Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` command.
Second, the `cssday.pdf` file shows a filled circle with a down arrow as part of their iCloud Status, which represents the "Keep Downloaded" option (i.e., the file has been downloaded and is locally available), while the other file keeps the dotted cloud icon. In that case only the `Screenshot…` file is shown as grayed out in the output of `ls`.

TIL some Windows XP era wallpapers are actually really high quality

For example, Azul wallpaper (the attached) is actually 4341x2841 but Windows Wallpaper version is 800x600

also some original photos on web archives

Sauce:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/dy1221/managed_to_find_azul_in_its_original_4341x2841/
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Azul

#til #todayilearned #windows #windowsxp #wallpaper

Heute gelernt (und vereinfacht gesagt):

Zucker verhindert das Aushärten von Beton.

Krass. Hatte ich keinen Plan von. #TIL #TodayILearned