Spyke

Replies

til

Comment on

TIL all photographic film and photo paper contain gelatin made from animal bones

Fun fact: Kodak had some issues with gelatine that contained too much sulfur back in the 1920s, which ruined a lot of the material they were producing. Happened because the cows have eaten a different type of grass.

This led to Kodak becoming a large cattle farming company too, so they had control over that part.

Side effect of this was the development of faster film.

Film science is completely bonkers.

fahrrad

Comment on

Lastenräder: Zu breit für den Radweg

Ein uebliches Lastenrad braucht nicht mehr Fahrbahnbreite als fast alle sonstigen Fahrraeder. Die meisten Mountainbike-Lenker sind viel breiter. Lastenraeder sind nur untenrum auch breit und wirken deswegen optisch als wuerden sie mehr Platz brauchen.

Source: ich habe ein Lastenrad.

Comment on

Error handling in bash

Let me just drop my materials for a talk i've given about basically this topic: https://codeberg.org/flart/you_suck_at_shell_scripting/src/branch/main/you_suck.md

Mainly because: The linked article is all nice and dandy, but it completely ignores the topic of double brackets and why they're nice.

And also, and this is my very strong opinion: if you end up thinking about exception handling (like the mentioned traps) in shell scripts, you should stop immediately and switch to a proper programming language.

Shell scripts are great, i love them. But they have an area they're good for and a lot of areas where they aren't.