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2019-09-04

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As a fan of Slashdot and Everything2 – and actual user of PerlMonks – in years past, I’m sure the next half hour will be chock full of nostalgia for me.

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hackers.town: 2019-09-04 Wed 08:38

TIL syncthing works across the internet too. Been using it a few years & never thought to try.

hackers.town: 2019-09-04 Wed 08:43

Me, 1999: The Web is great! Why, with some time and some work we could make real applications in a browser.

Me, 2019, trying to avoid accidentally clicking the wrong thing in Asana: not like that

Twitter: 2019-09-04 Wed 11:17

Well who wouldn’t want that?

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1169312375247212545

hackers.town: 2019-09-04 Wed 11:50

oh no Hugo .58 supports EXIF and hey I could use that for location checkins on my posts and notes and wonder if I can incorporate OpenStreetMap for NO I HAVE WORK TO DO DAMMIT

Twitter: 2019-09-04 Wed 12:09

That’s lovely. I confess I misinterpreted the tweet at first, but no regrets.

https://twitter.com/CUEngineering/status/1169324897945997312

Twitter: 2019-09-04 Wed 12:42

They’re all gonna be jealous when I show up with the Cusacks.

https://twitter.com/amybchesler/status/1169333699931848704

Twitter: 2019-09-04 Wed 14:12

Come for the non-Euclidean crochet hats. Stick around for the Harry Potter textile erotica.

https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1169310779289456640

hackers.town: 2019-09-04 Wed 18:37

Friend comes up asking if I can help update his WordPress setup.

I have no time to help him of course.

So obviously I start asking about completely rewriting the stack.

Squirrel brain gonna squirrel. Brain.

hackers.town: 2019-09-04 Wed 22:30

fixing these tests might be more fun if they ran faster