My birth story with Shæ, I was in a much better place and I wrote the story down and loved to tell people
My birth story with Ro, I was in a lot worse of a space, and I didn't want to remember every detail so I didn't write it down and hardly ever tell anyone
It kinda sucks that I won't have a stored memory for both of them because I wish it could be something celebratory in my mind for Ro too
I guess this is just how it goes... I wonder how many other people had similar experiences, if anyone ever did
My birth story with Ro, I was in a lot worse of a space, and I didn't want to remember every detail so I didn't write it down and hardly ever tell anyone
It kinda sucks that I won't have a stored memory for both of them because I wish it could be something celebratory in my mind for Ro too
I guess this is just how it goes... I wonder how many other people had similar experiences, if anyone ever did
I had to learn how to do JOINs in mysql today
Can I never learn any more MySQL?
Can I never learn any more MySQL?
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So apparently being on @silverwizard 's instance is a cheat code for any questions one has about Friendica. Thanks to the tip and doc pointer from @Tobias I should have proper alt text on this picture:
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The same force within me that blows the world away with fireworks and makes music light up also creates the most vivid and terrifying images in my head that are so powerful it can keep me up at night and I don't know how to resolve that kind of dichotomy in my feelings towards it, this incredibly strong part of me 🙁
I would not have predicted this would ever happen, but I've found a visual bell configuration that I actually like.
I apparently need to find where Friendica allows specifying alt text. Image description: A screen grab of the MacOS terminal bell config; all of "Audible bell", "Visual bell", and Visual Bell's subfield "Only when sound is muted" are checked.
Friendica is using BBCode for formatting of the postings @Dave for the ALT text of images, you can place the text in the middle of the [img][/img]-Tags. E.g.
Have a look at your nodes BBCode documentation for more information about the implementation of the BBCode in Friendica, and things like the "abstracts" which other parts of the Fediverse use for CW.
[img=http://example.com/img/this_is_an_example.jpg]And this would be the ALT text for the image used on mouse over etc.[/img]Have a look at your nodes BBCode documentation for more information about the implementation of the BBCode in Friendica, and things like the "abstracts" which other parts of the Fediverse use for CW.
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Sponge Art
I love exploring art techniques with children, especially toddlers. It's probably my favourite activity to do right now..
Today we painted sponges and dabbed them on the page to create a stippling effect
Picture made from rainbow paint on a sponge dabbed on
I decorated a cake for a toddler!
All pictures of a cake decorated to look like a train
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Setting up a tablet for a 3 year old
I feel like he deserves to have access to technology (and he's alone and inside a lot due to pandemics)
And - holy shit - technology for kids is a horrorscape wasteland
I feel like he deserves to have access to technology (and he's alone and inside a lot due to pandemics)
And - holy shit - technology for kids is a horrorscape wasteland
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I have been wondering about this (as a grandparent of a nearly-two.) I give nothing but clothes, books, and physical toys (wood blocks and - oddly - canvas bags to store toys in have been hits.)
The kid avoids triggering the higher-tech toys which make noises, but loves the blinking lights. Books, which give control of a consenting adult, are huge hits. And computers/tablets in video calls are popular too.
By far the favourite thing is a cell phone, the least-safe tech thing.
The kid avoids triggering the higher-tech toys which make noises, but loves the blinking lights. Books, which give control of a consenting adult, are huge hits. And computers/tablets in video calls are popular too.
By far the favourite thing is a cell phone, the least-safe tech thing.
Yeah, that's kinda the things. Grownups around my kids all have cellphones and use them. Both my wife and I use a phone as an extension of our brain, so it probably feels weird to my kid to not have one.
We are pretty good with books (have dozens), and avoid toys which make noise, but aren't sticklers about it. So far our best toy has been a 5ft geodesic dome in the backyard and a sandbox.
But we also got a https://jooki.com/ for Christmas for our 2 year old, and that's definitely well liked, but has kinda turned into a bedtime toy. Now that he's turning three though we're talking about tablets. I feel like before he was very close to three he could play Balloon Pop and other really minimal games on a phone, but not really engage with them. And I think he was mostly ok with this. As he gets closer to three, video is more exciting to him, and that worries me, I hate passive entertainment like TV, but with a recent bout of bad weather he was inside bored a lot.
LeapFrog makes a fairly major tablet, but I really distrust their privacy model as explained.
Amazon makes one too - but no.
There's a few other ruggedized kids tablets, but I dislike them.
Soon-to-be-three year old has also just begun to figure out the Nintendo Switch, but isn't super understanding.
VTech's Innotab seems to be at least better (assuming you avoid KidConnect which I cannot find usefully laid out privacy info about), though I might DNS blackhole a few domains just in case, and it's primary method of getting games is cartridges, which is a nice to have (no internet needed to install a game). So I'm giving him an Innotab Sunday - my review is only based on what I've read, not first hand experience.
All in all - I'm not an anti-screentime dad, I'm an anti-passive dad, I want my kid imagining and engaging as the first and foremost. And I see a tablet, well used, as a vehicle to do that. I also think that he's gonna need tech to exist in the world we have, so let's figure it out.
Definitely avoiding cellphones without maximal supervision, even though it is a pinephone, which is in theory safer.
We are pretty good with books (have dozens), and avoid toys which make noise, but aren't sticklers about it. So far our best toy has been a 5ft geodesic dome in the backyard and a sandbox.
But we also got a https://jooki.com/ for Christmas for our 2 year old, and that's definitely well liked, but has kinda turned into a bedtime toy. Now that he's turning three though we're talking about tablets. I feel like before he was very close to three he could play Balloon Pop and other really minimal games on a phone, but not really engage with them. And I think he was mostly ok with this. As he gets closer to three, video is more exciting to him, and that worries me, I hate passive entertainment like TV, but with a recent bout of bad weather he was inside bored a lot.
LeapFrog makes a fairly major tablet, but I really distrust their privacy model as explained.
Amazon makes one too - but no.
There's a few other ruggedized kids tablets, but I dislike them.
Soon-to-be-three year old has also just begun to figure out the Nintendo Switch, but isn't super understanding.
VTech's Innotab seems to be at least better (assuming you avoid KidConnect which I cannot find usefully laid out privacy info about), though I might DNS blackhole a few domains just in case, and it's primary method of getting games is cartridges, which is a nice to have (no internet needed to install a game). So I'm giving him an Innotab Sunday - my review is only based on what I've read, not first hand experience.
All in all - I'm not an anti-screentime dad, I'm an anti-passive dad, I want my kid imagining and engaging as the first and foremost. And I see a tablet, well used, as a vehicle to do that. I also think that he's gonna need tech to exist in the world we have, so let's figure it out.
Definitely avoiding cellphones without maximal supervision, even though it is a pinephone, which is in theory safer.
Looks like @silverwizard 's DB crash means I need to re-run my posted tweet. (Is it still a tweet over here?)
I of course meant 'pinned'. Which appears to be represented here with a star and not a pin icon.
Ug - the last hour basically unfucked my day. Social Media is super important to me in the sense of "I like these people", and the fediverse is the place where I am actually happy.
And I was trying to setup some cloud inventory stuff for a few days - and that was gargage.
So now I got both fixed within an hour.
What a weird day.
And I was trying to setup some cloud inventory stuff for a few days - and that was gargage.
So now I got both fixed within an hour.
What a weird day.
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