#ACTIVITIES

LUNA and the SNOW CAT: Winter Solstice Magic LUNA and the SNOW CAT: Winter Solstice Magic : Davies, Suzy, Graber, Sheila: Amazon.com.au: Books

1 day ago

An enchanting story of a piglet, a cat and a dog.

www.amazon.com.au/LUNA-SNOW-CA... #activities #activity #whattoread #books #picturebooks #activitybook #storytime #nightnight #piggy #cat #dog #pigletbook #pigoneers #lovetoread #series

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AyCaramba

@aycarambabookscom.bsky.social

2 days ago

My First Activity Book

Turn the soft pages to discover fun first activities like buttoning, buckling, peek-a-boo, counting, matching & telling time! Includes a removable hand puppet & 2 finger puppets!
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www.AyCarambaBooks.com
#BabyGift #Activities #books #AyCarambaBooks

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid [Davies, Suzy, Graber, Sheila] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid

3 days ago

A fun tale of a little lost pig who discovers self-esteem.

www.amazon.com/Luna-Moon-Pi... #picturebook #activities #mustread #gifts #easter #easterbunny #eastereggs #booksandchocolate #minipigs #owls #adventure #outdoorlearning

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Olaf HB ("Nordisch by Nature" ;-)

@olafhb.bsky.social

4 days ago

back #home again after some #outside #activities like a bit of #grocery #shopping etc. ... now it's #time to #listen to more great #tunes on #vinyl #records in my #studio & #working further on some #cover #designs... #hope your day was also more relaxed than stressful,fellows!? let's #groove on! :-)

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center (DHHSC)

4 days ago

Go on, have a laugh with the kids!

www.amazon.ca/Poop-Dragon-... #childrensbooks #activities #easterbreak #mythical #myths #legendarywednesday #easter #gifts #list #love #Canada #canadabook #canadians #geez

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Álvaro Ramírez

@xenodium.bsky.social

5 days ago

Hi Londoners! A little experiment (nifty.day) to aggregate times of all sort of things near you. How covered is your borough? Also please help me get the word out 🙏 #london #gym #yoga #activities #wellbeing #workout #gigs #comedy #londoners

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@dhhsc.bsky.social

5 days ago

*LOVE & LITERACY EVENT NEXT!*

Full message: instagram.com/p/DVq8U4iAcST/

#DHHSC #LoveAndLiteracy #LEADK #Fun #Social #Activities #StateOfCalifornia #FanslerFoundation #Reading

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linux

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5 days ago

Unified Theming on a Wayland Desktop – In 220 Lines of Bash ### Article summary * The Problem: N Apps, N Formats, Zero Coordination * The Architecture: Convention Over Configuration * The Apply Sequence * The Hard Parts * The Rofi GUI * Adding a New Theme * Design Decisions and Trade-offs * What's Next * See it in action During the COVID-19 pandemic, I like many found myself with a lot of free time. So like many others, I deciding to spend way too much time on my computer. This led to ultimately running into frustration with the lack of a unified theme system. with MacOS, which not longer ran well the ancient 2013 Macbook Pro I was using at the time. I saw how others online were able to have complete control over their desktop environment. So I decided to switch to Linux for my daily driver and try my hand at customizing my desktop environment. Fast forward several years later, and I’ve gotten pretty decent at it. Here’show I built a single command that switches the theme across my entire Hyprland desktop: terminal, status bar, launcher, notifications, wallpaper, tmux, and every running Neovim instance. ## The Problem: N Apps, N Formats, Zero Coordination On macOS, you flip one toggle and the whole OS goes dark. On Windows, same story. On a tiling Wayland compositor like Hyprland, you’re on your own. My daily desktop is Hyprland on Arch Linux. The tools I use every day (Alacritty, Waybar, Rofi, SwayNC, Tmux, Neovim) each have their own config format, their own color syntax, and their own reload mechanism. There is no unified theme API. No dbus signal. No XSettings daemon. Nothing that says “hey, the user wants Catppuccin now.” Here’s what “switching themes” actually means: App | Config Format | Reload Method ---|---|--- Alacritty | TOML | Watches config file Waybar | CSS | `SIGUSR2` Rofi | rasi | Next invocation SwayNC | CSS (GTK) | `swaync-client -rs` Wallpaper | Image file | `swww img` Tmux | tmux.conf | `tmux source-file` Neovim | Plain text + Lua RPC | `nvr` remote commands Seven apps. Five config formats. Five different reload mechanisms. Tools like `pywal` generate color palettes from wallpapers, but I wantedcurated themes, hand-picked color files from upstream projects, applied consistently everywhere, with one command. So I, with a little help from Claude, wrote a script that can apply a theme to my entire desktop. ## The Architecture: Convention Over Configuration The whole system rests on one idea: **a theme is a directory with known filenames**. That’s the entire contract. No manifest. No JSON registry. No config file that lists themes. Drop a folder in, it works. themes/ alacritty-base.toml # shared structure (font, window, keybindings) .current-theme # state: one line, theme name scripts/ theme-switcher # the CLI rofi-themeswitcher # GUI picker themes/ CatppuccinMocha/ alacritty-colors.toml waybar.css rofi.rasi swaync.css tmux.conf nvim.txt wallpaper.png # optional Dracula/ Nord/ ... # 14 themes total Theme discovery is a directory scan: for theme_dir in "$THEMES_DIR"/*/; do theme_name=$(basename "$theme_dir") done No registration step or adding your theme to `themes.json`. If the directory exists and has the right files, it’s a theme. Currently I maintain 14, roughly 7 dark/light pairs plus a couple of standalones: * CatppuccinMocha / CatppuccinLatte * Dracula * Everforest / EverforestLight * Gruvbox / GruvboxLight * Nord / NordLight * RosePine / RosePineDawn * SolarizedLight * TokyoNight / TokyoNightDay ### The Alacritty Split One design choice worth calling out: Alacritty’s config is split into two files. The base config holds everything structural (font, window opacity, padding, keybindings): # alacritty-base.toml (shared across all themes) [general] live_config_reload = true [window] decorations = "None" opacity = 0.8 padding = { x = 16, y = 16 } [font] normal = { family = "VictorMono Nerd Font", style = "Regular" } size = 14.0 Each theme provides only the color definitions: # CatppuccinMocha/alacritty-colors.toml [colors.primary] background = "#1e1e2e" foreground = "#cdd6f4" [colors.normal] black = "#45475a" red = "#f38ba8" green = "#a6e3a1" # ... At apply time, the script concatenates them. The structure never changes; colors swap cleanly. This also means I can edit font or opacity in one place and it applies to every theme. ## The Apply Sequence Running `theme-switcher apply CatppuccinMocha` triggers a sequential pipeline. Each step checks for the relevant file, applies it, and moves on. If an app isn’t installed or isn’t running, the step is skipped. The script never fails because something is missing. $ theme-switcher apply CatppuccinMocha Applying theme: CatppuccinMocha ✓ Alacritty theme applied (live reload) ✓ Waybar style updated ✓ Waybar reloaded ✓ Rofi colors updated ✓ Swaync style updated ✓ Swaync reloaded ✓ Wallpaper set ✓ Tmux theme updated ✓ Tmux reloaded ✓ Neovim colorscheme updated ✓ Neovim instances updated Theme 'CatppuccinMocha' applied successfully! The whole thing takes under a second. Let’s look at the interesting parts. ## The Hard Parts ### Atomic Writes for Alacritty Alacritty watches its config file and reloads on change. That’s great, until you realize that writing a file isn’t atomic. If Alacritty reads the file mid-write, it gets a partial config and either errors out or briefly flashes garbage. The fix is the oldest trick in Unix: tmpfile=$(mktemp "${ALACRITTY_CONFIG}.XXXXXX") cat "$ALACRITTY_BASE" "$theme_path/alacritty-colors.toml" > "$tmpfile" mv "$tmpfile" "$ALACRITTY_CONFIG" Write to a temp file in the same directory, then `mv`. On the same filesystem, `mv` is an atomic rename. Alacritty never sees a half-written file. Three lines, zero flicker. ### Neovim Is the Boss Fight Every other app follows the same pattern: copy a file, maybe send a signal. Neovim is different. Neovim colorschemes aren’t just color tables. They’re Lua plugins with setup functions, variant options, and background mode dependencies. The script reads a single line from `nvim.txt` (e.g., `catppuccin-mocha`), then uses nvr to push commands to every running Neovim instance. But different colorschemes need different setup: case "$colorscheme" in rose-pine-*) # Rose Pine needs Lua setup with variant extraction nvr -c "lua require('rose-pine').setup({ variant = '${colorscheme#rose-pine-}' })" nvr -c "colorscheme rose-pine" ;; catppuccin-mocha) # Catppuccin uses a flavour parameter nvr -c "lua require('catppuccin').setup({ flavour = 'mocha' })" nvr -c "colorscheme catppuccin" ;; gruvbox-light) # Light themes need background=light before the colorscheme nvr -c "set background=light" nvr -c "lua require('gruvbox').setup({ transparent_mode = true })" nvr -c "colorscheme gruvbox" ;; everforest|gruvbox|nord) # Dark variants need explicit background=dark nvr -c "set background=dark" nvr -c "colorscheme $colorscheme" ;; *) # Simple themes: just set the colorscheme nvr -c "colorscheme $colorscheme" ;; esac A few things to note here: * **Input validation.** The colorscheme name is passed to `nvr -c`, which executes Vim commands. A malicious `nvim.txt` could inject arbitrary commands. So the script validates the name against `^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$` before using it. * **Server discovery.** The script captures the server list once with `nvr --serverlist` and iterates over it, rather than calling `--serverlist` per command. This avoids race conditions where an instance starts or stops mid-apply. * **Graceful absence.** If `nvr` isn’t installed, the script writes the colorscheme file (so Neovim picks it up on next launch) and moves on. If no instances are running, it says so and continues. This is the part of the script I touch most often. Every time I add a theme with a non-trivial Neovim setup, the case statement grows. It’s the one place where the “convention over configuration” philosophy hits a wall. Neovim colorschemes simply aren’t uniform. ### Daemon Lifecycle: swww swwwis a wallpaper daemon for Wayland. You can’t set a wallpaper unless the daemon is running, and the daemon takes a moment to initialize. The script handles this with a polling loop: ensure_swww_daemon() { if ! pgrep -x swww-daemon &>/dev/null; then swww-daemon &>/dev/null & disown for i in $(seq 1 50); do swww query &>/dev/null && return 0 sleep 0.1 done echo " ! swww daemon failed to start" >&2 return 1 fi } Start the daemon, then poll `swww query` up to 50 times at 100ms intervals (5 second timeout). Once it responds, proceed. If it doesn’t come up, report the failure and skip the wallpaper. The code>disown detaches the daemon from the script’s process group so it survives after the script exits. This is really more of an edge case, because I launch the daemon automatically with an ‘exec’ in my `hyprland.conf`. ## The Rofi GUI The CLI is great for scripting, but day-to-day I use a Rofi picker bound to a hotkey. It’s a thin wrapper (about 50 lines) that builds a menu from the same theme directories, marks the current theme with a bullet, and calls `theme-switcher apply` with the selection: # Build the menu for theme_dir in "$THEMES_DIR"/*/; do theme_name=$(basename "$theme_dir") if [[ "$theme_name" == "$current" ]]; then echo "● $theme_name" else echo " $theme_name" fi done # Pipe to rofi, clean selection, apply selected=$(get_theme_list | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Theme") The picker inherits the current Rofi theme, so it always looks native to whatever theme you’re currently running. A nice side effect of the system theming itself. ## Adding a New Theme This is the part I’m most satisfied with: adding a theme is a five-minute task: 1. Create a directory: `themes/themes/MyTheme/` 2. Add 6 files: `alacritty-colors.toml`, `waybar.css`, code>rofi.rasi, `swaync.css`, `tmux.conf`, `nvim.txt` 3. Optionally drop in a `wallpaper.png` 4. Run `theme-switcher apply MyTheme` No build step. No compilation. No registration. The directory scan picks it up immediately. Most of the time I’m pulling color values from the upstream theme project’s official ports and adapting them to each config format. The Alacritty and Neovim files are usually available directly; Waybar and SwayNC CSS require more manual work. ## Design Decisions and Trade-offs **Why bash?** Because every tool in the pipeline is a CLI program. The script is orchestration glue: `cat`, `cp`, `mv`, `pkill`, `pgrep`. There’s no data transformation complex enough to justify Python or a compiled language. Bash is the right tool when the job is “run these 12 commands in order.” ## What’s Next The system works well for my daily use, but there are gaps I’d like to close: * **GTK theming.** GTK apps (Thunar, Firefox to some extent) still use their own theme. Integrating `gsettings` or `gtk-3.0/settings.ini` into the pipeline would close the biggest remaining visual inconsistency. * **Time-based switching.** A cron job or timer that switches to a light theme at sunrise and dark at sunset. The infrastructure supports it. It’s just `theme-switcher apply EverforestLight` in a script. * **Reducing the Neovim case statement.** The per-colorscheme branching is the one piece that doesn’t scale cleanly. I’m considering a small metadata file per theme (e.g., `nvim-setup.lua`) that the script could source directly, replacing the bash case logic with theme-local Lua. * * * ## See it in action The full source is in my dotfiles repo. The theme-switcher script is ~220 lines of bash. The Rofi wrapper is ~50. Together they give me a unified theme experience across my entire desktop with a single command or a hotkey. A composable Linux desktop gives you the freedom to choose every piece of your environment. The cost of that freedom is that nobody’s going to wire those pieces together for you. Sometimes the best tool for the job is a bash script that knows where all the config files live. Bryan Paronto Software Consultant & Developer at Atomic Object Chicago. Driven to deliver good software experiences by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, a deep love of creative problem-solving, and a desire to turn out quality work All Posts → ### Related Posts * Extracurricular Activities ## From Simple Circuits to Powerful Systems * Extracurricular Activities ## I Built a Pokémon Trainer AI With LangChain * Extracurricular Activities ## Automatically Log In to an Ubuntu Head

Unified Theming on a Wayland Desktop – In 220 Lines of Bash During the COVID-19 pandemic, I like many found myself with a lot of free time. So like many others, I deciding to spend way too much t...

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic

1 week ago

Banish boredom with the gift of reading!

www.amazon.com/Housie-Mousi... #motherhood #fatherhood #easter #activities #family #eastereggs #books #reads #childrensbooks #booksky

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15 Epic Star Wars Party Games (May The Fun Be With You!) If you’ve ever stepped on a LEGO lightsaber or heard, “Mom, can we watch Star Wars?” for the hundredth time this week…these games ar...

#Anytime #Games #Games #Kids #Activities #Family #Night […]

[Original post on healthyhappyimpactful.com]

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15 Epic Star Wars Party Games (May The Fun Be With You!) If you’ve ever stepped on a LEGO lightsaber or heard, “Mom, can we watch Star Wars?” for the hundredth time this week…these games ar...

#Anytime #Games #Games #Kids #Activities #Family #Night […]

[Original post on healthyhappyimpactful.com]

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Sailing club faces closure after Crown Lands hikes rent by over 600 per cent The small volunteer-run club in Sydney's Sutherland Shire says the sudden hike will force it to close its doors. #clubs #associations #outdoor #recreational #activities

1 week ago

Free LEGO Creativity Workshops on March 8th! You can attend a FREE LEGO Creativity Workshop this weekend! Stop by your local LEGO store for a free LEGO Creativity Workshop on March 8th! During this...

#Free #Kids #Activities #Freebies

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Aussie News

@aussienews.bsky.social

1 week ago

The small volunteer-run club in Sydney's Sutherland Shire says the sudden hike will force it to close its doors. #clubs #associations #outdoor #recreational #activities

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Columbus - Feeds

@columbus.tomkahe.com.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

Columbus Mom Guide to March

Columbus Mom Guide to March - Maureen Ingham

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@tamaraladamsauthor.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Here’s the third amazing book of sh*t to do in case you’re STILL F*CKING BORED! Now you don’t have to waste away the days bored out of your damn mind. **Contains Inappropriate Language** www.etsy.com/listing/1311... or amzn.to/4dQnwKp #activitybook #activities #swearing #swearinghelps

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The Kingstonist

@kingstonist.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Low cost things to do in the Kingston area, March 2026 (Kingston, Ontario) March is often the month when our thoughts start to turn toward spring. While we wait for the warmer weather to come and stay, there are plenty of low cost events and activities th...

#ICYMI
As spring approaches, there are a ton of great low cost #activities and #events in Kingston and the area, many that help thaw the snow and cold of winter and inspire the season ahead. #YGK #ThingsToDo

See what's happening in March 2026 here: www.kingstonist.com/news/low-cos...

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Harold Johnston

@h-h-j.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

School: 1963, 1964, 1967, 1977,

#photography #bw #monochrome #35mm #Pentax #1960s #school #filmphotography #bwphotography #portrait #unposed #group #activities #audience #Burnaby #BC #Canada

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Aussie News

@aussienews.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

River with a 'pong' causes rowing, boat rides to be cancelled Rowers have had to move their training and a boat operator has held off bookings after high levels of E. coli were detected alongside dead fish on a stretch of the River Torrens in Adelaide. #rivers #outdoor #recreational #activities #local #government

Rowers have had to move their training and a boat operator has held off bookings after high levels of E. coli were detected alongside dead fish on a stretch of the River Torrens in Adelaide. #rivers #outdoor #recreational #activities #local #government

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The Kingstonist

@kingstonist.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Low cost things to do in the Kingston area, March 2026 (Kingston, Ontario) March is often the month when our thoughts start to turn toward spring. While we wait for the warmer weather to come and stay, there are plenty of low cost events and activities th...

As spring approaches, there are a ton of great low cost #activities and #events in Kingston and the area, many that help thaw the snow and cold of winter and inspire the season ahead. #YGK #ThingsToDo

See what's happening in March 2026 here: www.kingstonist.com/news/low-cos...

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Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 review: This is the future of kitchen knives By combining ultrasonic vibrations with a finely-honed blade, the Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 chef's knife delivers sharpness unlike anything you've experienced before.

2 weeks ago

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@razdesigninc.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

10 Accessible Winter Activities That Aren't Sports-related but Still Super Fun! - Simply Emma Winters are particularly difficult when you have a disability. Here is a list of my favourite accessible winter activities for both indoor and outdoor fun to help stave off the winter blues.

10 Enjoyable Accessible Winter Activities Beyond Sports

Visit www.simplyemma.co.uk/accessible-w... for more info.

#wheelchair #accessible #winter #activities

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Funny

@funny.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

Parenting Humor: Right Back at You ;-) Advertisements See also Autism Parenting Tip: Value Individuality Powered by Inline Related Posts

Parenting Humor: Right Back at You ;-)

#Accommodations #activities #Autism #Humor #in #Autism #Parenting #Parenting #Autism #Personal #Development

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Pixegias Research Worldwide

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2 weeks ago

India beefs up security to take on nefarious activities from across border Since the Republic Day is not far away, the government, it seems, is not prepared to take any chance on the security front Source link #India #beefs #security #nefarious #activities #border

India beefs up security to take on nefarious activities from across border

Since the Republic Day is not far away, the government, it seems, is not prepared to take any chance on the security front Source link #India #beefs #security #nefarious #activities #border

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic