Daily Shaarli

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December 14, 2020

Bilbao Crystallographic Server
  • Space-group symmetry
  • Magnetic Symmetry and Applications
  • Group-Subgroup Relations of Space Groups
  • Representations and Applications
  • Solid State Theory Applications
  • Structure Utilities
  • Topological Quantum Chemistry
  • Subperiodic Groups: Layer, Rod and Frieze Groups
  • Structure Databases
  • Raman and Hyper-Raman scattering
  • Point-group symmetry
  • Plane-group symmetry
  • Double point and space groups

How to cite the BCS. Related papers are tagged "Bilbao Crystallographic Server" in Zotero.

Just figured out how to send Shaarli notes to Mastodon and Twitter

Sorry about the mangled toot earlier!

I just figured out how to send any note I make in my Shaarli instance to my Mastodon and Twitter feeds. Awesome! Now I can keep my content on my own site, but still share it with silos like Twitter.
https://shaarli.chepec.se/shaare/YSJ_Cg

Open Broadcaster Software®️ | OBS

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Windows, Mac or Linux.

I heard about it just recently, and in short order stumbled on a number of interesting ideas:

Podcast (Hanselminutes) with OBS project lead Hugh Bailey (July 2020)

Plugins

https://obs.ninja

A reproducible workflow
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Ok, so this video is a few years old, but it does not have anywhere near the views it deserves. It's never too late to do reproducible science! (Video 1m 44s)

Reproducible science not only reduce errors, but speeds up the process of re-running your analysis and auto-generate updated documents with the results.

Pressbooks Directory

This directory provides an index of 1506 books published across 79 Pressbooks networks. Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.

Via Edtech Factotum

Scripts Are Your Friends
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To me, buying an app is serving me a fish dinner; giving me a script I can modify is a lesson in fishing. I’d rather fish. You?

That's a nice analogy by CogDog. I'll have to remember it.

Cross-posting Shaarli -> Mastodon -> Twitter

Trying to apply the idea of POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) to my own posting. Here I'll summarise my results.

Automatically tweet public links I add to Shaarli (this would be a very convenient solution). But did not work because Twitter now requires you to jump through hoops to get access to the Twitter API from within your own Twitter account! Most egregiously, there is no way to complete their application procedure without handing over and verifying your phone number. Not doing that, Twitter can forget about it.

I still liked the idea of using Shaarli as my canonical source, so to speak, so let's look into Shaarli -> Mastodon instead. Alright, that's awesome and works great (well, unfortunately my Mastodon instance does not render Markdown, but that's not shaarli2mastodon's fault - I'll just have to avoid using Markdown in Shaarli notes posted to Mastodon).

With Shaarli -> Mastodon working, let's explore whether Lond's Mastodon <-> Twitter cross-poster can tweet our toots.

And yes, indeed, that worked right away. All I had to do was authorize the app on both my Mastodon and Twitter accounts. It needs lot of permissions, but hey, at least its source code is public, and it's even possible to self-host it.

That's positively awesome! I can now select to post any Shaarli note to Mastodon, and doing so will automatically
cross-post the same to Twitter too. Well done, POSSE!

Seems there is a new kid on the block: moa.