Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2020-05-22

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hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 00:40

Having entirely too much fun with Gatsby — and React, by proxy.

Starting to understand why folks liked ColdFusion.

[goes to the hive mind]

holy crap ColdFusion still exists.

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 02:09

Fun with symmetry #drawing tools in#autodesksketchbook

Radial symmetry line drawing

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 10:36

Just remembered that time in 2004 when I was too broke for Internet & I [redacted] so I could email my resume.

Hey I could’ve put that on the resume.

For some jobs.

[you know it’s a good memory when you have to look up statute of limitations before posting]

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 13:13

@thegibson I think I’m safe, but I wasn’t completely sure. Determined it was a case of Better To Be Snarky Than Sorry.

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 13:17

That’s one way to get me looking right at the camera during interviews.

Webcam on tripod on stack of GRR Martin books to get it at eye level

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 13:25

Me, suddenly able to articulate the “Rewrite It In $X” urge — and why I try to be more careful/patient with work code:

“I know I’m always most aware of the limitations in the thing I’m using, and the features of the thing I’m not using.”

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 21:21

Time for soothing nostalgia music to code to

#NowPlaying

Hole — “Pretty on the Inside”

https://album.link/i/724490181

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 21:45

Running mogrify to convert 3,296 images takes a bit.

hackers.town: 2020-05-22 Fri 21:46

Ah I probably could have left that other folder out of the one-liner.