hackers.town: 2022-03-31 Thu 23:10

ye gods Stackoverflow’s gone for a muted version of the hot dog stand theme. Must be April 1 in their time zone.

I say “muted” because I can still see. They’re afraid to really commit.

hackers.town: 2022-03-31 Thu 23:18

Now that is a hot dog stand theme. I closed the window five minutes ago and I’m still seeing ghost text.

hackers.town: 2022-03-30 Wed 07:19

Started a #python channel in work slack. My first message was a link to http://calmcode.io. My second was tips on starting a programmer bar fight (best editor, tabs vs spaces, python version management).

It’s good to satisfy a range of tastes.

hackers.town: 2022-03-30 Wed 13:12

Got a can of cold coffee.

Directions say to shake gently once, pop open and enjoy.

I gently shake once, pop open. Half its contents spray me and the floor before I can enjoy.

I ponder the things I could say here if I’d got that shitposter license.

hackers.town: 2022-03-30 Wed 16:38

Vim fold markers as a refactoring tool

In this essay I will — no I don’t have an essay for that. But nested fold markers while you split bits out but haven’t figured out proper namespaces? Good stuff.

hackers.town: 2022-03-30 Wed 16:39

@Mnemonic well I’ll have to remember that for the next date night.

hackers.town: 2022-03-29 Tue 10:46

I’m glad we’ve got the resources to hire lawncare folks and I really appreciate the work they do but I wish they’d let us know ahead of time so I’m not in the middle of a meeting with someone giving me a data science deep dive then suddenly LAWNMOWER GO BRBRBRBRB

hackers.town: 2022-03-28 Mon 00:07

I could cut down on how many times any given link is checked, but with internal link checks I got my site structure baseline covered.

Lots more to add later. Next is getting workflow hooks back in.

Er. It’s after midnight. Maybe not tonight.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 07:21

Pondering some BOFH tactics to keep household network usage under control, since words haven’t done it yet.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 14:43

All right time to find out if I re-imaged the new disk correctly.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 15:14

It rebooted, which is good enough for me.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 15:32

Thank goodness I noticed the Steam storage manager. Now moving games over to their new roomier partition.

Eventually I’m gonna sort things out on the Linux side as well, but that’s getting tagged low priority for the moment.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 17:48

Got 1,312 assertions passing now, but that number is mostly thanks to pytest parametrization. It’s really three tests: frontmatter validation, markdownlint, and checking for some non-CommonMark artifacts in sources.

One more important test: checking internal links.

hackers.town: 2022-03-27 Sun 17:49

And yeah, whether I make posts about the details or not, I’ll at least make a public mirror of the repo available.

hackers.town: 2022-03-26 Sat 08:02

Almost got a new Mac a couple weeks back. Instead I went for the ludicrously wide monitor and a 2TB SSD for my desktop. Roughly half what I would’ve spent.

Not saying it’s an inherently better choice, but it’s been a good fit for me.

hackers.town: 2022-03-26 Sat 15:09

Random idea last night of using Hugo as the previewer for Dendron and it very nearly works!

Not seen is a fair chunk of glue code, of course. Python because sqlite-utils.

hackers.town: 2022-03-26 Sat 22:26

Haven’t been posting much on the site because it’s an absolute mess, but bit by bit getting the automated tests back in place to get closer to a coherent path, at least.

hackers.town: 2022-03-26 Sat 22:27

Well not just “back in place.” Throwing in new stuff like frontmatter validation and content linting for the source files.

hackers.town: 2022-03-25 Fri 04:40

Sometimes you wake up at 4am and around 4:30 you admit you’re not getting back to sleep.

hackers.town: 2022-03-25 Fri 10:14

Went back to the original code and had it write intermediate values to disk to help with test fixtures and assertions.

I should probably talk to my therapist about this at our next session.

hackers.town: 2022-03-24 Thu 09:08

@sohkamyung That could be fun!

hackers.town: 2022-03-24 Thu 13:38

Just created, watched approvals, and merged a PR in VS Code via Github Pull Requests and Issues, and that was nice too.

I mean sure basically “open a VS Code tab” instead of “open a browser tab” but it matched my editor theme which I appreciate.

hackers.town: 2022-03-24 Thu 22:11

Tested and confirmed that my funky little neovim-rst-plugin approach to reStructuredText in Hugo works just fine in Zola, as long as you configure it to accept raw HTML in “markdown” files.

hackers.town: 2022-03-24 Thu 22:14

Why would I do that?

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Oh! A more fully-featured lightweight text formatting language, combined with Zola using Tera for fast + friendly build.

I know. I’m not sure about it either. But it’s an idea.

hackers.town: 2022-03-23 Wed 14:41

Took one function that pylint complains loudly about and turned it into four methods that uh pylint still complains about but not as loud.

hackers.town: 2022-03-23 Wed 16:50

Me and the cat with a bonding moment as we growl at the loud neighbor kids.

hackers.town: 2022-03-22 Tue 10:19

Everybody knows Jesus’s middle initial is H but somehow nobody’s comfortable using their full Christian name of Jesus Heather Christ.

hackers.town: 2022-03-22 Tue 13:49

Got the notification that my Magic Trackpad Windows license was expiring (it’s already been two years?) and renewed because yeah I still like it.

https://magicutilities.net/magic-trackpad/features

hackers.town: 2022-03-22 Tue 18:25

Pandera is exactly the sort of super-fussy data validation framework you’d think would be right up my alley, but I need to get the hang of things before I start telling coworkers to use it.

Meanwhile Datatest covers all I need & the API’s easier for the non-hyperfocused.