@barefootliam

XSLT, XQuery. XML, Web, dev + courses https://xitter.cf/t.co/Rr7HZiLrTa @barefootliam@floss.social it/its, they/theirs, or he/his

 Milford, Ontario, Canada
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Joined December 2008
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Did you know #XPath 3 (2016) is a Turing-complete functional and declarative language? As are #XSLT 3 (which uses XPath and #XQuery which extends it). And #XProc 3 is a data flow language that also uses XPath. Widely used, powerful, efficient. #XMLisUseful #markupMonday
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Despite being out of work, i am not considering travel to or work in the USA at this time...
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
@migueldeicaza14 Sep 2025
America under Trump is it safe for foreign professionals:
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Donated a small prize (1,000 points) to a @DeviantArt contest in honour of Eid al-Fitr - for the best tile made using the GNU Image Manipulation Program - deviantart.com/alexanderpaup… And yes, i’ll be doing an Easter one too :-) #GIMP #Gimp3

[Winners] Tile and Tapestry Contest by AlexanderPaupoff on DeviantArt

[Winners] Tile and Tapestry Contest — a journal by AlexanderPaupoff on DeviantArt. Published: 2025-03-31 · Likes: 55 · Views: 20924 · Comments: 60

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Canada is not for sale hats seem to be gaining popularity on both sides of the house. strongandfreehat.ca/products… But what is the font? :-)
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Liam R E Quin retweeted
GIMP@GIMP_Official13 Jan 2025
We now have a BluSky page gimpofficial.bsky.social to post news and updates, as well as continuing to post on Mastodon at floss.social/@gimp
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I am slowly updating fromoldbooks.org/books-for-s… (adding one book at a time and also improving the page). Offers entertained; remember Canada Post is on strike & UPS stopped. Includes a Geneva Bible, a Golden Cockerel book, & more #rarebooks #finePress #goldenCockerel #genevaBible
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Upcoming courses - CSS for XML/XSLT people (one day); XSLT 3; Schematron; Maintaining XSLT; Web Accessibility for XSLT People.
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I'd like to share with you the "State of Text Rendering 2024", a survey of the Free & Open Source fonts & text rendering landscape advancements since 2009. behdad.org/text2024/ @harfbuzz @FontTools @googlefonts

State of Text Rendering 2024

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Saga continue. Business Didot is out. The confiant companion for rhe Business Blooming font! typefaces.pizza/type/busines…
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gofundme.com/f/b6mxjv-urgenc… Most Palestinians do not want war - nor to live in a prison camp without safe food & water, with tanks and bombs all around. #gofundme #palestine #PalestineHolocaust
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barefootliam.blogspot.com/20… Should there be a desktop font service? #fonts #typography #linux #libregraphics #gimp #inkscape
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So my university placed me on suspension today. fox34.com/2024/03/04/ttu-ass…

TTU assistant professor suspended for ‘hateful, antisemitic, unacceptable’ social media posts

Texas Tech suspends assistant professor for "hateful, antisemitic, and unacceptable" social media posts.

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Good point
Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M
@sumlenny18 Feb 2024
Six Ukrainian POWs, four out of them wounded, were executed on site by the Russian invaders in Avdiivka two days ago. But the West is shocked by the death of Alexey Navalny. This is how a Russian life is way more important for Biden or Scholz than any number of Ukrainian lives.
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👋 Look what I merged just now on @GIMP_Official main development branch. For people who don't get what this screencast is, it means non-destructive editing will be in GIMP 3.0! 🥳
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Four years after my arrest, I just published "Ruminate with Me: An update on my mental health". 4min read. link.medium.com/QshdUtuRmGb
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Best 16min Physics video you can watch today!
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Noam Chomsky on a talk he did at Harvard:
The Anti-Genocide Project@justinpodur30 Sep 2021
Replying to @justinpodur @MaitreyaBhakal
FOUND IT in Perilous Power.
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Well documented and heart breaking.
Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪
@paulbiggar14 Dec 2023
I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit. blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-s…

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on...

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