Illustration of a pink flower with five petals, a central cluster of black dots representing the stamen, and two green leaves below.

I’ve drawn a flower for my wife yesterday, and we used it for a custom postcard. The flower is based on a Sakura tree.

 

⤑ Start your community funding.

wemakeit Communities is the Swiss solution for ongoing community funding. Instead of raising money once for a clearly defined project, you build a community that supports you with monthly contributions.
Communities is the first genuine alternative to Patreon and the like. We’re independent of US Big Tech, community-owned and chart our own course. We only coll

It looks like an interesting product, not sure how usable it is for people outside of Switzerland (especially at the start). But I think it is good to get another option in this space.

/link

I’m not yet convinced about the whole Ralph loop stuff, but one big issue is also that my subscription is not big enough for it to work though the night. And it certainly also needs a fully tested and thought though set of tickets to work from.

/coding

It looks like I learn new stuff about the PDF file format everyday Oo.

 

This is a poster for the TV show “The Apothecary Diaries.” It features two animated characters standing in front of a traditional building with ornate wooden architecture. The character on the left has long purple hair and a blue outfit, while the character on the right has dark hair, wearing a green top and pink bottom. The title “The Apothecary Diaries” is displayed prominently at the top with a mortar and pestle icon. Sunlight streams into the scene, adding a warm glow.

🍿 The Apothecary Diaries (2023)

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!

⤑ TMDB.

We finished watching all the season yesterday, and I want more. Loved the series!

/tv /animation
Casey Liss asked “What is FileMaker?” on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Episode 700. Since I grew up in the FileMaker era and was immersed in that world, I couldn’t resist answering his question and reminiscing about the old days. The following is what I wrote to Casey [ the guys responded to my ema

⤑ Dear Casey, A Walk Down FileMaker Memory Lane… (via Leon Mika on MB).

I never got warm with it, but I also never did give it as much time as I gave HyperCard which came with more introduction and help (I was a child at the time and could not just buy books). We got the HyperCard book for free. And if I remember correctly the introduction stacks were also a good resource (which came with the tool). So I spent a lot more productive time with HyperCard than Filemarker, but I remember trying to build some libraries with it.

/link
A side-by-side before-and-after of the Carta map app, labelled v1 and v2 with a green arrow pointing from left to right. On the left, v1 shows the United Kingdom as a plain outline with a few rivers, scattered red city dots and an orange halo, sitting in a narrow column beside a checkbox list of layers. On the right, v2 shows the same country in far more detail: the map fills the frame with labelled cities, coastlines and neighbouring countries, an orange route runs from Inverness down through Edinburgh and Manchester to London with its final leg dashed, and two circular magnifier panels enlarge Loch Ness and London. A floating toolbar spans the bottom, and a phone-sized view of the same map is inset at the right edge, showing the narrower mobile layout with its two-row footer.

Finished v2 of Carta, it fixes the biggest issue of the first version: Showing multiple countries at the same time. And it works now also on phones (not as well as on desktop).

/carta /tools
A dish of fresh rice wraps is neatly folded on a light blue plate. The Banh Cuons are topped with a mixture of sautéed ground meat, chopped green onions, and fried shallots, adding a touch of color and texture. The plate is set on a wooden table.

My wife tried a new recipe yesterday: Banh Cuon. It is tasty :-)

 

Looks like I’m in a sentimental mood today, listening to the reunion of Elayne and her mother right now and it makes me sad and tearful at the same time. No tears but to them.

/wot

Finally finding the time to watch this film. I like it so far, although is is hard to follow with the fast paced subtitles it uses. The story reminds me a bit of Lés Mis. But it is also clearly visible a propaganda piece.

The YouTube video thumbnail features a black-and-white image of a woman with long hair, looking upwards with an expression of surprise or fear. At the top, the text reads “CHINESE FILM CLASSICS.” Below the woman is the title “The White-Haired Girl” in red, followed by the Chinese characters “白毛女.” In the bottom left corner, there’s a circular emblem with a stylized design.

ABOUT THE FILM: The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) is a seminal work of New China cinema. A musical film adapted from a stage production, which in turn was claimed to have been adapted from a popular folk legend, The White-Haired Girl is an ideologically-freighted story of liberation and rejuvenation. A fresh young country girl is subjected to inhuman suffering by a despicable landlord, before being rescued when the communist Eighth-Route Army liberates her village and sees justice done. Xi’er’s new lease on life became symbolic of the rebirth of China, whose modern history was divided into two distinct periods by the slogan: “The old society forced humans to become ghosts / The new society turns ghosts into humans.”

⤑ The White-Haired Girl 白毛女 (1950) with English subtitles.

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Oh, a new season of Ted Lasso? Not sure this will work, but of course I will want to watch it OO