hackers.town: 2019-11-30 Sat 00:51

Hang on when did my site get over a thousand pages. Oh wait unless it’s counting tags.

hackers.town: 2019-11-30 Sat 00:58

Pushed a more old pages into the ox-hugo -> flow.

The fact that ox-hugo doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing is both great (I can still publish new posts in other formats) and not (I am adding more work for later)

https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/

Twitter: 2019-11-30 Sat 10:39

That was the week I learned to avoid any block a helicopter is hovering over.

https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1200763727689256962

hackers.town: 2019-11-30 Sat 12:29

currently: clearing junk so i can go pick up junk so i can clear it

hackers.town: 2019-11-30 Sat 20:34

Update: I cleared out the closet but now I can’t find my desk.

Twitter: 2019-11-30 Sat 21:21

Come On Up To The House

https://twitter.com/kennethlove/status/1200962925600493568

hackers.town: 2019-11-30 Sat 23:51

Been watching Lucifer and enjoying it and oh who was the voice in that episode oh OF COURSE it was Neil Gaiman I mean who else could it be

Twitter: 2019-11-29 Fri 10:30

Some accounts you block as a buffer against the urge to hate-read their material.

Twitter: 2019-11-29 Fri 16:39

After the last few years, I’m hesitant to call anything a pivotal moment.

https://twitter.com/Trickyjabs/status/1200367369991917568

Twitter: 2019-11-29 Fri 16:45

Oooh a Hugo book?

https://twitter.com/bphogan/status/1200560626810130432

hackers.town: 2019-11-29 Fri 19:19

In which I learn more about Crystal rather than trying to decipher the ls man page.

https://randomgeekery.org/2019/11/29/directory-listings-with-crystal/

Twitter: 2019-11-29 Fri 19:29

In which I learn more about Crystal rather than trying to decipher the ls man page.

https://randomgeekery.org/2019/11/29/directory-listings-with-crystal/

Twitter: 2019-11-29 Fri 23:46

damn right

going back at least to woody guthrie and probably beyond

https://twitter.com/BrittneyBush/status/1200648941382955008

hackers.town: 2019-11-28 Thu 11:28

@codesections I use spaces, as an intentional concession to folks unfamiliar with the grammatical details.

hackers.town: 2019-11-28 Thu 11:32

Right okay I know Facebook is awful by design, but I’m also glad I keep my account alive for the chance to hear from old good friends.

hackers.town: 2019-11-28 Thu 22:45

What is a holiday for if not obsessively pinching and zooming at your iPad until you get a hand cramp?

Neck cramp, actually. Need to work on my #drawing ergonomics.

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 00:48

Planning out the next 16 or so hours on this #drawing.

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 07:56

Loud Dog spent a full minute trying to lick my armpit, which is disgusting but OTOH quiet.

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 12:10

Loud Dog and Jumpy Dog, failing to live up to their assigned nicknames.

Twitter: 2019-11-27 Wed 18:34

Better archive, screenshot, and otherwise preserve your favorite tweets now before Twitter begins The Purge.

https://twitter.com/UtilityLimb/status/126780301211992064

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 20:33

i now have four mechanical keyboards with a fifth on the way

and a spare apple chiclet keyboard just in case

no plan to be one of those people it just kinda happened

especially if you get good keyboards that do not die

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 22:16

She cut my hairs! So much better than when I do it myself.

hackers.town: 2019-11-27 Wed 22:38

@rabcyr a mystery to me as well

Twitter: 2019-11-27 Wed 22:40

Tiny Toons is why I started paying attention to the credits.

https://twitter.com/JW_Cartoonist/status/1199752268746297344

hackers.town: 2019-11-26 Tue 13:41

https://hackers.town/users/yojimbo/statuses/103206151881590107

Twitter: 2019-11-26 Tue 18:00

Did my order go through? Yes? Ok cool.

Now I can recommend you order one of these keyboards.

https://twitter.com/keyboardio/status/1199393526905278465

Twitter: 2019-11-26 Tue 18:53

i did not log into twitter today intending to be seen so thoroughly

gets back to work before overthinking happens again

https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1199492303263453184

hackers.town: 2019-11-26 Tue 20:47

The tests failed where I expected them to fail, and passed when (and how) I expected them to pass.

I assert that this was not my worst day.

Twitter: 2019-11-26 Tue 20:52

looks at the dumpster fire that is the tech industry

looks at the Cassandra chorus that is your average experienced tech tweet stream

shrugs

Things would be better if we let more non-tech folks in.

https://twitter.com/mykola/status/1198719315589160960

Twitter: 2019-11-26 Tue 20:59

Talking about two things:

1. the condescension that pervades tech, assuming we understand every domain better than that domain’s experts

2. the nihilistic destructiveness of overwriting the world with poorly conceived solutions to problems we don’t understand.

Twitter: 2019-11-26 Tue 22:40

wait

dammit

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1199541684448612352

Twitter: 2019-11-25 Mon 00:17

Well I’m pretty happy that at least one other person had this thought for the quote tweet meme going round, and that I thought to search.

https://twitter.com/AlgusDark/status/1198808477210050560

Twitter: 2019-11-25 Mon 08:11

Yep. I make a point of frequent little breaks so I don’t get too lost in the solipsism of tech.

I end up at an annoyed halfway point: most of what we do doesn’t matter, and what does matter is horribly broken.

This is simultaneously energizing and demoralizing.

https://twitter.com/carolstran/status/1198645726257045509

Twitter: 2019-11-25 Mon 13:32

And don’t be afraid to try new ones periodically. Maybe you’ll switch. Maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll be like me and go “yep I guess I also use that editor now.”

Specialization is for microservices.

https://twitter.com/PerlSawyer/status/1199058329869398021

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 15:19

Just encountered that rarest of workplace occurrences:

a quick fix that was actually both quick and a fix

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 15:20

plz to be ignoring sounds of explosions now ok thnx

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 19:38

Mostly enjoying this round with Emacs. I tell you what though: with emacs configuration * python configuration * docker configuration, I’m not having a great time with Elpy.

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 19:44

@rabcyr yes it is. I usually go with cross-posting Mastodon -> Twitter via https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 20:13

@rabcyr DMs are totally messed up on Mastodon anyways, but I get that.

And it threads if you tell it to, text > 280 characters is truncated with a link.

I have mine forward my public toots and my replies to my public toots, with an exclusion for #nobirb

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 20:37

dangit I need to spend less time with Crystal. Python tests failing for 15 minutes because I forgot about parens on a function call.

Or maybe I need to spend more time with Crystal.

hackers.town: 2019-11-25 Mon 20:38

@estoricru I was using WSL 2 + beta Windows Terminal.

hackers.town: 2019-11-24 Sun 00:47

ugh

my test failed to fail

hackers.town: 2019-11-24 Sun 14:06

So many tabs open I couldn’t tell which one had the notification ding

hackers.town: 2019-11-24 Sun 14:06

but on the bright side I’m getting my emacs config sorted out

Twitter: 2019-11-24 Sun 15:10

this retweet is not an endorsement

or a suggestion

merely sharing a noteworthy point regarding vehicle maintenance

https://twitter.com/glassbottommeg/status/1198725263061745664

Twitter: 2019-11-24 Sun 19:34

take a seat, Eyman

that’s a local politics joke

see, because he stole a chair from Home Depot on camera once

okay it’s a very bad joke

not unlike Eyman’s career as grifting tax activist

https://twitter.com/Q13FOX/status/1198784965724520448

hackers.town: 2019-11-24 Sun 21:06

Didn’t know Flying Lotus yet. My ears thought it was Thundercat. Nope, though he’s featured on another track.

Adding to the buy list.

Flying Lotus “Takashi”

#NowPlaying

https://youtu.be/iRcocoQee-c

I checked the site at Fit on a Floppy.

Websites are getting bigger and bigger. The internet is getting faster and faster but not everywhere at the same pace. A floppy is a physical reminder of filesize.

The first page fits, at least. Thanks to little efforts like 2019-06-01 Weighing Files With Python.

Activity Log

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 00:21

The only hot take I got is at least he’s trying to bring genre-traditional aesthetics to our nightmare dystopia.

hackers.town: 2019-11-22 Fri 10:51

My coworkers learned a new Django thing from me – queryset.explain() – which is a nice feeling.

hackers.town: 2019-11-22 Fri 11:26

The hard part of fixing that bug is writing the test.

I hope.

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 13:08

“gotta bark oh god i gotta bark so bad”

https://twitter.com/IamMrsGeek/status/1197707644623998976

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 14:49

These are two entirely different stories depending on which you cast as The Dowager Countess and which as her loyal assistant.

I would read both of these stories.

https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1197995045649039360

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 17:11

@ossia:

!🚨PSA!🚨 A private equity company just bought the rights to the entire .ORG domain registry.

Oh, and ICANN removed price caps, too.

If your nonprofit owns a .org domain, go extend your registration out to the maximum 10 years before prices skyrocket.

crap

brb

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 18:23

Don’t try to make me like the cybertruck

https://twitter.com/KiefoNilsson/status/1197991940450476032

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 19:54

Fancy spoon! https://t.co/CyfROEaOMk

hackers.town: 2019-11-22 Fri 21:45

I let my spotify premium expire and now I’m listening to the radio.

Just like that.

okay fine the internet stream of my favorite public radio station. But still.

Twitter: 2019-11-22 Fri 22:33

poor charlie

right in front of his salad

https://twitter.com/iglvzx/status/1198111755555074048

hackers.town: 2019-11-22 Fri 22:55

If this test passes too early I’m going to be annoyed.

hackers.town: 2019-11-23 Sat 02:11

I sure do love giving myself more work in a #drawing

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 09:24

A well-applied wholesome meme template makes my day.

https://twitter.com/maediocre/status/1197720725815087104

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 09:28

see?

https://twitter.com/benschwartz_/status/1198109120986902529

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 09:34

I saw Devin Nunes’s high school photo and I’ve never been more specifically mad at the annoying members of my generation.

“YOU. I remember you.”

Not literally of course. But come on folks we all remember him.

https://twitter.com/brianwisti/status/1191624724096274433

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 09:56

This is great.

I mean I just started integrating ox-hugo into my site flow, and ox-hugo exports to Blackfriday, so my site will be even further from default Hugo, but that’s great.

Great.

https://twitter.com/GoHugoIO/status/1198282210526351361

hackers.town: 2019-11-23 Sat 10:33

uh oh mixcloud must know something i don’t

oh well

might as well embrace it

destroy the humans i guess

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 13:12

I’m polite, sure.

But as a rule, I distrust anyone who values civility over individuality, regardless of what they keep telling me their voting record is.

https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/1198251975906865152

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 15:42

This is awesome. Moving faster than my whining does.

https://twitter.com/kaushalmodi/status/1198357992179195904

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 18:13

The Moebius recolor took away the motion.

https://twitter.com/kevinpanetta/status/1198249589901529088

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 19:17

Out for dinner and there’s a Japanese language news show on the TV talking about Hong Kong.

I don’t know the language but I know what they’re selling — what with footage selection and the fact that the only person interviewed was a cop.

Twitter: 2019-11-23 Sat 19:34

My mistake. The subtitles were Japanese. The show was on TVB News which — well — apparently I guessed that part right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVB_News

hackers.town: 2019-11-23 Sat 22:36

All right FINE I’ll use the debugger.

Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 08:23

We’ve got our modern IBM, GM, Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc looking right at us. (not like eugenics or anything for profit were new with them either)

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1197373795071397888

Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 09:21

886 retweets 5,800 likes

5,800 cowards more like.

RETWEET THIS I DONT CARE IF YOURE THE INTERN ON THE COUNTY GOP ACCOUNT

https://twitter.com/Flailmorpho_/status/1197143572807438336

hackers.town: 2019-11-21 Thu 10:01

Got blessing to ignore any meeting longer than 15 minutes so I can focus on my current pet fire.

Honestly that is bliss.

Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 18:18

Click through and regret it.

https://twitter.com/Viss/status/1197685034498416640

hackers.town: 2019-11-21 Thu 21:50

when you have to maximize the window and shrink the font to get the whole SQL EXPLAIN in

That’s good, right?

I mean I only had to write three lines of django code for that.

Great return on investment.

Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 22:46

oh well done indeed

https://twitter.com/BrettHamil/status/1197752242540908544

Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 22:49

and the collector nostalgia piece of 2043

https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/1197744160377393153

Art Nouveau, Psychedelia, and a Kalevala tangent

No object was too mundane to be beautiful.

Probably my favorite comment about Art Nouveau.

Whoa. The Wikipedia entry mentions that it was called “Kalevala style” in Finland. Which – looking elsewhere – might be a little off. I mostly see references to National Romanticism, which is a bit of a mixed bag historically speaking. For Finland it was an urge to assert itself as a nation and not just some dirt swapped back and forth between Russia and Sweden. Writing down the Kalevala was a part of that same movement.

And yeah JRR Tolkien loved the Kalevala, tying in another piece to hippy culture. I think every bookshelf I saw as a kid had a copy of The Lord of the Rings.