Mr Taps @kristapsdz@bsd.network
Enough code... Let's take some time to enjoy this beautiful kelp pipefish giving me a coy 3/4 profile. One of my favourite parts of nighttime deco, alone in the cold Hood Canal darkness, is watching the pipefish wind and unwind from the sea grass at 6m. Someday I'll photograph one with eggs! #scuba #underwaterphotography #macrophotography
Do you want to write manpages but the strange manpage language is just too much? All mysterious looking ".Op Fl v Pf = Ar baz", whatever that means? This is your moment: lowdown v3.0.0, just released, has support to properly convert manpage-like Markdown to idiomatic mdoc.7 and man.7 output. It's described in https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/mdoc.html. Focus on your code, and let lowdown handle the docs. Full link: https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown
(Salacious intro aside, this has been a long piece of development; and yes, it makes me a little sad, because mdoc.7 is a format I enjoy. But let's face it: sticking to mdoc.7 (or worse, man.7) is a losing battle. We can do better!) #unix #manpages
Blackwater photos of tiny jellies is one of my new favourite activities. Unfortunately they love to congregate in the worst visibility! I have no idea what this one is, nor what its squiggly insides do. But they're so pretty! #underwaterphotography #scuba
It's been over a month since I've been in the water having macro fun! Fortunately, a bit of time cleared up and this Dirona albolineata came out to visit. 🥰🥰 #scuba #weloveslug #underwaterphotography
Spicy icy chutes under the summit of Mount Hood, Oregon. In this weird climate, there were a few open I'd never seen before that I was able to explore. Beautiful conditions yesterday but incredibly hazardous icefall! #mountaineering
A spicy icy summit of Mount Hood, Oregon this morning with a beautiful sunrise on the way down! So far, the snow cover on Hood this year had been shockingly sparse, looking in January as I'd expect it to look in late May. This has an effect in significantly increasing icefall, one of the major causes of injury on the mountain. Always remember to wear a helmet! #mountaineering
One more #squid to round out squidmas? Yes, please. It's amazing to be able to see the full body plan within! This little Doryteuthis opalescens was no more than finger length and enamoured of my strobes. From last week in Hood Canal. #scuba #underwaterphotography
Something a little different for a #weloveslug new year? This Tritonia festiva photographed with my new #nauticam smc3 diopter. I love supermacro but feel like it's a fight with my Sony 90mm lens, which has a limited minimum aperture. I'll just need to be more careful with a shallower depth of focus. This fella photographed a few days ago in Hood Canal. #underwaterphotography #scuba
Last #squid photo of the year! This enormous Doryteuthis opalescens (relative to the ones I usually see, anyway) was hiding out beneath some anemone in the dark depths of Hood Canal a few nights ago. #scuba #underwaterphotography
Taking a break from squid and refocussing on core #weloveslug. I think this is a Diaulula odonoghuei #nudibranch, found lounging on some vegetation around my shallow deco stop. Hood Canal, Washington state. #scuba #underwaterphotography
More #squid times! These little Doryteuthis opalescens are usually just a finger in length, but can also grow to 30cm or so. Once I see one zip around (or their tell-tale ink puffs), I'll just hang out in place with lights shining, hoping they such around. Photographed at midwater in Hood Canal a few days ago. #scuba #underwaterphotography
It was a merry squidmas in the cold, dark depths of Hood Canal! Despite poor visibility from rain runoff, I was able to play with my new #backscatter HF-1 strobes with an abundance of Doryteuthis opalescens squid. These little fellas had a grand old time with the focus lights, and took some serious backfinning to get in frame. #scuba #underwaterphotography
Merry octomas from Herbert, our local great pacific #octopus! This is from this morning under Herbert's sunken sailboat in Hood Canal. (He didn't want to come out and play, though I waited patiently.) #scuba #underwatervideo
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When the diving's over but you're just not ready to go home... #scuba
Enough machines and more #octopus. This juvenile (I think east pacific?) was among many of its siblings in the shallow kelp beds of Hood Canal earlier this week. Any #marinebiologists know how to differentiate great and east pacific octopuses when still smol? #scuba #underwaterphotography
Do you write (or want to write) portable C software with an #openbsd flavour? After many years of it languishing as a readme, I've finally put up a page for oconfigure, https://kristaps.bsd.lv/oconfigure, which creates a compatibility shim for doing just that. Take all the arc4random() and strtonum() goodness with you wherever your sources go! In the latest release, I've parallelised the configure script for faster feature detection. Have any non-portable OpenBSD goodies you want to be detected or added as a compatibility shim, or does the script with properly on any operating systems I haven't mentioned? I'm always happy to look at pull requests.
Some #underwatervideo from a nighttime 40 metres deep in Hood Canal a few days ago. Landlubbers have Santa Claus in a reindeer-drawn sleigh. #scuba divers have...
Just celebrating some #weloveslug with this white-lined dirona posing magnificently earlier this week in Hood Canal. #nudibranch #underwaterphotography #scuba
I'm especially thankful for baby octopuses. 😍 I still don't know how to differentiate the enormous great pacific octopuses from the smaller red #octopus when they're this small: they all look the same. This from Hood Canal, Washington a few nights ago in the shallower kelp beds. #scuba #underwaterphotography
