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

2021-08-26

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hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 08:45

Me: “We could use tags for these ad hoc classifications we keep coming up with.”

Coworker: “We could store a bitmap and use bit operations for potential boolean flags.”

Me: “… or we could use tags”

hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 08:54

@nolan I’m way too unfocused to stick to any tech veganism, but I certainly see the appeal. There’s a strict “no Alexa” rule for this house, along with personally disabling any other helpful assistant tech mostly because it annoys me.

Stretching the analogy past the breaking point, let’s call mine lacto-ovo-tech-vegetarian.

hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 09:02

Kind of fascinating when I think about it. Coworker’s background is centered more around networking hardware so of course their brain’s gonna go to a solution for resource-constrained devices first.

Mine is web, so of course I want to Tag All The Things.

hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 10:30

Doing that home office thing where you bounce back and forth between the work machine and the useful machine.

hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 18:30

Almost had a site working perfect with Lektor then I accidentally installed Lektor and now it doesn’t work anymore.

So that’s a little confusing.