Gm. He is risen!
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Monday of Easter Week
Grant, we pray, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with reverence the Paschal feast may be made worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR THE RENEWAL OF LIFE
Monday
O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Here's a rough draft of the water map for my design. This has been a fascinating—and challenging—site to design for! Steep, very steep.
Now that Holy Week is finished, I need to finish up my Final Design Exercise for my Permaculture Design Certificate. Due Friday. :grimace
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed!
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Easter Day
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may, by your life-giving Spirit, be delivered from sin and raised from death; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR STRENGTH TO AWAIT CHRIST'S RETURN
O God our King, by the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ on the first day of the week, you conquered sin, put death to flight, and gave us the hope of everlasting life: Redeem all our days by this victory; forgive our sins, banish our fears, make us bold to praise you and to do your will; and steel us to wait for the consummation of your kingdom on the last great Day; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Yes. Sneakers. Literally the only cypherpunk movie in this thread so far. Maybe the only cypherpunk movie ever made?
"NSA. We're the good guys, Marty."
I'm writing a small nostr-based game to learn the platform better. I'm also just finishing up my PDC final design with Geoff Lawton. I'll find ways to start publishing about those.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Holy Saturday
O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR SABBATH REST
Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary, and that our rest here upon earth may be a preparation for the eternal rest promised to your people in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Good Friday
Almighty God, we beseech you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the Cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR ENDURANCE
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.
Any thoughts on how to best implement highlights for editable text?
There is quite a bit of prior work on this for "scroll to text highlight" in browsers.
Good discussion around it all here: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194
Scroll to text fragment seems like a separate matter—the core feature is to highlight text, not scroll to it, yes? Like the crowdsourced highlights in Kindle?
I was involved in a project about ten years ago that involved highlighting arbitrary runs of HTML in an online Bible. The browser Selection and Range API was a mess back then—looks like it's come a long way, and may actually be reliable: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection
If there are still any cross-browser gotchas, the Rangy JS library may help paper them over: https://github.com/timdown/rangy
We used the selection interface to inject spans into the DOM, then styled those spans with classes. We had a set of colors that customers could use to highlight arbitrary Bible passages. We even supported overlapping colors! 😅
Making it work on arbitrary sites with arbitrary styling will be a nightmare. For your use case, you could follow Kindle and do a simple underline or other non-color decoration.
Also, because the web evolves over time, you'll have the problem of text that shifts on you, getting edited, completely rewritten, or outright moved. (People forget that *Cool URIs Don't Change*!) There's only so much one can do about this.
In our application, we controlled the text, so we could use a simple addressing system based on chapter/verse number and character offset. You won't have it so easy. :(
I saw a presentation on this problem a number of years ago, and the advice from someone with experience was to "chunk the text and hash the chunks". If a chunk of text changes, the hash changes, and your highlights disappear.
Looks like there's been movement toward a robust Text fragment linking interface, but it's not widely supported: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
Prior work you might look into for inspiration:
- "Purple" numbers (paragraph-level addressing): https://eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html
- Dissenter browser extension (a centralized Gab-led effort to add "a comment section for the internet"—might be defunct?)
Good luck!
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Maundy Thursday
Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it in thankful remembrance of Jesus Christ our Savior, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR GUIDANCE
Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pandoc's pretty capable. I wrote a python library for HTML -> Markdown, long ago, when I was a lesser engineer. It worked against a pretty constrained set of HTML. Not sure how well it would work against The Internet. https://github.com/crossway/antimarkdown
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Wednesday of Holy Week
Assist us mercifully with your grace, Lord God of our salvation, that we may enter with joy upon the meditation of those mighty acts by which you have promised us life and immortality; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A COLLECT FOR GRACE
O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, you have brought us safely to the beginning of this day: Defend us by your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin nor run into any danger; and that, guided by your Spirit, we may do what is righteous in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
A COLLECT FOR PEACE
O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
But conversely, the infinite miserable paths all lead to one place, while the one way leads to an uncountable multitude of unique expressions of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Yeah, looks like different clients handle this differently. Oh well.
https://void.cat/d/7f8evW1tGEoExWWgZewxsX.webp
Holy shit! The Binder says if Brazil and China decide to use their own national currency to do business with each other, it is a "violation of our citizens (US) rights". What the actual fuck!
All I know is the dollar's reserve status is crumbling, no one has a fuckin clue and Brandon's administration is claiming forcing the world to use the dollar is a right of all US citizens? And literally threatens war over it.
Stack stack stack folks!
Also since apparently I am retarded and can't figure out the equivlent of "quote tween" on snort or iris, the orginal source of this is @bkb2443
Re: quote tweeting, I pasted a note id the other day and it seemed to work.
It would be so easy to solve the California water crisis with something like this. Any of the southwestern states would benefit.
> We may not be able to maintain 3
The Eternal September still hasn't ended. Anything as useful and intended-to-be-widespread as Nostr will eventually be overwhelmed.
A lot *can* be done to shape the culture as the userbase expands. Facebook is still fake. Instagram is perfectly poised and color coordinated. Twitter is equal parts earnest and snarky.
Nostr has an interesting advantage that no other victim of Eternal September has had: zaps to quietly reward good behavior. This is how the culture will be shaped.