#Photos from Egypt show archaeologists and divers recovering #AncientArtifacts from the seabed

#Archaeologists & #divers worked together to retrieve #statues, Roman #coins & other #relics from the #Mediterranean seabed in #Alexandria, #Egypt on Thursday. Among the finds were a headless statue, a #sphinx & an unknown priest figure.

#Photo gallery curated by AP photo editors:

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/egypt-alexandria-divers-ancient-artifacts-f8c4e808cd671cf08ddad3ce00aaa07b

She halted before the sphinx issued a challenge and set up camp. She hung a sign from her tent:

"The answer to the riddle - 2 silver"

After a dozen travellers had passed safely, the sphinx called out. "Do you also sell riddles?"

"I have one no man had solved."

"Will you sell it?"

"For a kiss."

我為何偏好 rST 而非 Markdown
➤ 剖析 reStructuredText 的結構化優勢與 Sphinx 的強大擴展能力
✤ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown/
作者分享了他從 Markdown 轉向 reStructuredText (rST) 的經驗，並詳細闡述了 rST 在結構化、擴展性以及處理複雜文件需求（如書籍中的習題與解答的靈活呈現）方面的優勢。儘管 rST 語法較為複雜，但其背後強大的文件處理架構，特別是 Sphinx 工具鏈，能透過自訂指令和後處理轉換，實現比 Markdown 更為精細和彈性的文件生成，尤其適合大型或有特殊排版需求的專案。
+ 雖然 rST 的語法確實讓人卻步，但看到它能處理像習題解答這種複雜的呈現方式，確實很吸引人。
+ 我一直習慣用 Markdown，這篇文章讓我重新思考了工具的選擇，特別是對於我正在進行的技術文件項目。
#文件標記語言 #Sphinx #rST #Markdown #文件處理

I might have finally found the tooling I was looking for on requirement engineering: sphix-needs, extension to the #sphinx documentation tooling from #python land.

I always disliked the idea of the big comercial ones to have a db for requirements - i wanted "requirements as code" sit next to the code, with the option to have full traceability back and forth from high level specs down to code and back...

This seems more then promising due to customization options

https://sphinx-needs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'm trying to add a vertical timeline to my sphinx project. There is an extension that does this? The `sphinx-timeline` is only horizontal.

Ideally I could add internal links in the description or bubble too.

Moon Data for the next fews days + the Witches' Pyramid

Echoes of Language
"The Sphinx"
https://art.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/imageViewer.cfm?id=72
#Sphinx #ArtificialIntelligence #Cats

George in #Sphinx position.

When in doubt of which type of code block alias to use in your RST file, pygments provides all available lexers for a neat documentation project
https://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
#pygments #RST #sphinx

Late last week, I dusted off a project that had been abandoned by one of our drive-by volunteers about three years ago.

I was strugglin' a bit getting the dependency restraints updated and re-familiarizing myself with the repo and publishing configurations. I think that's in good shape now & I can mostly focus on document conversion & layout.

Now that I've got more familiarity with #Sphinx and #pandoc than I did three years ago, I looking forward to making some progress this week.

It's been a long time itch to scratch of mine & now I've got some time & motivation. We shall see....

The cat came back, the very next day....

I'm wrapping up the last two pages of documentation for my thing and while documenting a handful of example commands in interactive mode, I thought

"Man wouldn't it be nice if this had syntax highlighting, at least for keywords and arguments? I wouldn't need to use 'console' for sphinx code blocks, and it would not be this drab gray..."

Fast forward 45 minutes later, I'm in the middle of a gnarly custom Pygments regex lexer and I think:

"Oh but what if I just read the commands module source tree and parsed the AST to extract command names from functions that have the typer decorator? I would never need to maintain that list again and they'd always be keywords!"

The real "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" moment was marginally offset by how it actually worked on first try, against all expectations.

Sphinx is insidious. Once you start extending it there's no end in sight.

Title: Sphinx (1925)

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250718_12/ #ShinHanga #Art #Taisho #HiroshiYoshida #Summer #Sphinx #Cairo #Egypt #Japan

Ausgerechnet der #Zwergmilliardär und #BigShort-Abzocker(#SchwarzerMittwoch) #ScottBessent, empfiehlt seinem Kumpel #ElonMusk, sich aus der #Politik herauszuhalten. Ein Mann, der selbst so widersprüchlich, wie die #Sphinx höchstpersönlich, ist (siehe Profil auf Wikipedia)-der in einer prinzipiell homophoben #Regierung arbeitet; will Musk Vorschriften machen.

#DonaldTrump nennt Elon Musk eine »Vollkatastrophe« und Gründung einer neuen #Partei »lächerlich« - DER SPIEGEL
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trump-nennt-elon-musk-eine-vollkatastrophe-und-gruendung-einer-neuen-partei-laecherlich-a-d1487166-b8b1-4458-8696-dbc653be55f8

I made a #pencil #sketch of the chubby #sphinx at the Galerie du Temps at #LouvreLens (still #MuséeDuLouvre I guess). It's really awesome that entry to the museum is free of charge and that you even get to borrow a folding stool! More artists should make use of French musea #MastoArt #TraditionalArt

(The original is quite faint so I boosted the contrast on this scan.)

I set out to train proportions and clair-obscur. I got decent proportions down surprisingly quickly, but the face still ended up slightly too slender. When I noticed this I got mad and just winged the rest. I guess I am still positively surprised with the result. I spent too much time on one sketch so I guess I should try drawing on a timer next time.

Sometimes you just gotta "A" you know 

I really enjoy drawing her, something about how Sphinxes look thats super appealing 
expect more Lexie 

Any recommendations for a general cross-language interface description?

Especially ones with #Sphinx integrations?

CyMaIS statt Workday: Digitale Souveränität für HR & Organisationen

Während viele Organisationen sich von Workday begeistern lassen, wird oft übersehen, dass diese Lösung in einer proprietären Blackbox läuft – mit allen Risiken von Vendor-Lock-in, Datenspeicherung in Drittstaaten und hohen Lizenzkosten.Doch es gibt eine echte Alternative: CyMaIS, das freie Framework für selbstbestimmte IT-Infrastruktur.

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https://blog.cymais.cloud/blog/2025/06/19/cymais-statt-workday-digitale-souveranitat-fur-hr-organisationen/