Couple decades now
Twenty years ago – give or take a couple weeks – I started working as a backend programmer in tech for a real live paycheck, as opposed to designing sites for cigarette money from local ISPs.
About six months later the outer layers of the dot-com bubble frayed and I experienced my first layoff. Couple recessions and a few mental breakdowns later, I’m still at it!
I have no deep thoughts on the subject. I still like writing code, even when I hate it. I also enjoy eating. Being a programmer has made both these things easier.
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2019-10-26 Sat 10:03
Sometimes when you’re getting stuff done you want the long version.
#NowPlaying
hackers.town: 2019-10-26 Sat 10:30
Curious about streaming #music services that let you buy tracks. I like the warm fuzzy of a transaction.
So far I know Bandcamp (primary feature) and Apple Music (off in a dropdown, but it’s there).
Twitter: 2019-10-26 Sat 12:23
All I wanted was to export my Spotify playlists. Just the list. Not the files. @PlaylistConvert gave me track titles and artist names in a CSV. Perfect.
http://www.playlist-converter.net
via @PlaylistConvert
Twitter: 2019-10-26 Sat 13:23
KIDS! TELL YOUR PA TO PULL THE PODCAST PLAYER FROM THE CLOSET DUST IT OFF AND CRANK THE MOTOR THERE’S A NEW EPISODE.
https://twitter.com/dev_hell/status/1188188440686419968
hackers.town: 2019-10-26 Sat 18:51
This view did not exist a few months ago.
There was a big gray viaduct blocking everything.
See those walls? No viaduct means they’re being exposed to the sun for the first time in decades, wan and confused by the light.
Very Seattle.
We used to have a chunk of unfinished overpass a little ways north of here. It’s sort of a park now.
Apparently Seattle decided the old pedestrian overpass to the ferry terminal would make a fine tribute.
Oh yeah. Ferry terminal’s gone. Mostly.
No worries there’ll be a new one.
This shot commemorates the Seattle between time, after the viaduct and before whatever we’ll spend the next few decades complaining about in its place.
Anyways we had a lovely walk on the waterfront, enjoying sunlight where there used to be shadow and water where — well — where we already had water.
Twitter: 2019-10-26 Sat 22:01
Today’s magic word is “ambivalent.”
https://twitter.com/ProfessorGeorgy/status/1188279361838997504
hackers.town: 2019-10-26 Sat 22:06
@hummingrain Very. It was a fantastic waterfront walk, which ordinarily I wouldn’t have considered even that little bit south of the main piers.
Twitter: 2019-10-26 Sat 23:05
I use more than 4 websites, but yeah there’s 4 I keep pumping into my brain routinely even though I hate them.
https://twitter.com/shnupz/status/1187901703208632322
hackers.town: 2019-10-26 Sat 23:14
On the one hand, it’s great that ATT site developers make such extensive use of console.log
OTOH I wouldn’t know this if I wasn’t trying to figure out why the damn site is broken.