Cooool, apparently the English 'gas' originates from Dutch, first attested in 1648 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gas#English
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Lars Willighagen
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Studying ecology, biodiversity, taxonomy. PhD candidate @Radboud_uni@mastodon.social. Interested in bibliographic data (@citationjs@fosstodon.org), digital humanities (#CDLI), statistics.
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Looks like public requests to the Google Books API now have a quota/rate of 0 per minute. RIP
Using GBIF RDF to find applicable taxonomic literature
https://larsgw.blogspot.com/2026/08/using-gbif-rdf-to-find-applicable.html
You accidentally merge ONE (1) pull request "co-authored" by an LLM and it just shows up in the Contributors section forever even after rewriting the Git history?
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@citationjs/117300508142020558
The cover photo is yellow *and* blue, get it?
(I always make the cover photo of Citation.js a bright yellow, after the logo. But yellow is also for JS and here I add support for TS so blue)
Wow, I am *so* behind on modern JavaScript https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using
