@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[ivor@social.ivor.org]

@Edent also this! this is how you learn!
My start was a thin book that you typed in a "duck shoot" (I think it was) game page by page as you went through the book.
I wonder if that book's still in my parents house somewhere. 🤔
But also many magazine type ins too.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@ivor Yes!

Please do buy a copy and let me know what you think of it 🙂

[cd_newton@hachyderm.io]

@Edent This is so cool! Defo going to order a copy, looks fun, but also honestly think there’s something to be said for “having to look closely and manually type out code” as a learning exercise!

[defectivewings@infosec.exchange]

@Edent
I recall reading a kids novel with BASIC code in it that intentionally had a bug it, which was part of the plot. You had to debug it in order to fix the targeting system brfore the incoming missiles destroyed the station you were on

[edent@mastodon.social]

@DefectiveWings I would like to read that!

[liebach@mastodon.art]

@Edent Potatoes from potatoes.com. Kudos to the marketing people not trying to be "smart." That's a rare thing.

[simonbtemple@mstdn.social]

@Edent have you dared sign up for their email list though?

[richardloxley@mastodon.richardloxley.com]

@Edent I was so hoping for this…

[owenblacker@dataare.cool]

@Edent warning: it might freak out CJ Cregg

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@Edent That's the wedding present sorted (Cousin living and getting married in NZ in the New Year)

[edent@mastodon.social]

@ben awesome! We're heading to NZ this Xmas - such a lovely part of the world.

[abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es]

@Edent They could call it ... Hydro power..

[smyru@social.vivaldi.net]

@Edent Put a turbine into gutter drainpipe?

[briansmith950@mas.to]

@Edent
Well, there are downpipe generators...
But they are unlikely to produce enough to be viable, even in the UK.

And also this
But I don't think it has made it out of the lab yet.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscentsci.4c02110
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYm49Kd4Gy8

[ketumbra@infosec.exchange]

@Edent there are panels that can also harvest energy from rain drops hitting them.
Quick Google leads me to the term TENG for this.

[jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent I've got a stream running past the house, and sometimes I just stand and watch the Watts I could be capturing flow past.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@jezhiggins put that river to work!

[jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent It's love to!

(I have looked into it, but it's nowhere near as straightforward as solar+batteries)

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@jezhiggins @Edent

Seems like the sort of thing you could just knock up in a weekend

https://youtu.be/KEsrAmM07fs?si=_aThb0ZFVb0UC5sZ

/s

[jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk]

@pikesley Yes, but also no. I suspect my neighbour down the hill could run one of these - I mean he's literally lives on the old mill. I could get 2 or 3m head, but I'd need to run pipes, and probably take out some trees to do it 😕