hackers.town: 2022-06-30 Thu 09:38

@jaywilliams ah but then I’d have to go somewhere. I am checked and mated.

hackers.town: 2022-06-30 Thu 11:12

Used “safe mode” as an off-the-cuff description of the way my brain’s working real careful through a task I haven’t done for a while and

damn that’s good

“safe mode”

I’m gonna have to put that one in regular rotation.

hackers.town: 2022-06-30 Thu 12:08

@nomad oh no

hackers.town: 2022-06-30 Thu 15:57

Apparently that was one too many Electron apps for my computer.

Admittedly, it was a number significantly higher than the optimal value of zero.

hackers.town: 2022-06-29 Wed 07:36

@jens good lord do I feel that last sentence in particular.

hackers.town: 2022-06-29 Wed 08:14

So yay I got anxiety meds but mostly they make me sleepy so if I’m having an anxiety spike I gotta decide if this is worth taking a nap for.

Sometimes yes. So far usually no. But having the option does make it easier to breathe through it.

hackers.town: 2022-06-29 Wed 14:27

Someone else joined her 1:1 and in classic weird-brain-wiring fashion I’m still mad there’s at least two folks in her org (the half of the 1:1 for inviting + the 3rd wheel for accepting) with such egregious disregard for accurate terminology.

hackers.town: 2022-06-29 Wed 21:36

[start to get some work done]

BIG NEWS MORNING

[start to get work done]

MEETINGS

[start work]

DOGS BARKING AT EVERYTHING

[start]

CATS PLAYING WITH SCISSORS AGAIN

[sigh]

hackers.town: 2022-06-29 Wed 21:56

and now i gotta EAT?

wait hang on i like food

brb

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 08:14

With all the prep / retro / status meetings involved, a two week sprint kinda feels like it has somewhere under a week of time for doing the work. Partly an ADHD “TODAY IS MEETING DAY” thing.

Not saying that’s good or bad, but I should take it into account for estimates.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 09:44

I’m jotting down post-meeting notes.

The cat comes to say hi. I pet the cat.

The cat starts wandering on the desk. I worry about the cat knocking things over. I remove the cat.

I’m picking up what the flailing cat knocked over and looking for the neosporin.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 09:48

Ooh Vim 9 coming in with some scripting syntax updates!

https://vimhelp.org/version9.txt.html#new-vim-script-9

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 09:49

Kinda sweet. Cat came back into the office all cautious like and Jumpy Dog got huffy. Reassured her that it’s okay, cats are just very sharp.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 10:15

@rafial One that I was insufficiently caffeinated for.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 11:25

Distracted by the rigid taxonomy of ticket trackers with epics / stories / tasks / etc compared to my real-world workflow of infinitely nested subtasks, tagged for “clarity.”

Not sure that my Turtle Stack is better mind you.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 16:21

So anyways my arm is now slathered in neosporin and wrapped in cellophane to keep from smearing. I’d share photos but even though it’s surgace scratches there’s enough surface involved I’d want to CW it.

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 17:41

Coworker asking about note-taking apps and I’m offering suggestions along with many caveats about own Logseq workflow (in development, needs tweaking with plugins, etc) and they go “ok I’ll use Logseq” and this is not brer rabbit but okay

hackers.town: 2022-06-28 Tue 17:42

Like, I’m not offering warnings about the tools I use because I think they’re too cool for you if I’m saying an app is rough then it’s rough

it lost my data or threatened the cat or bullied the neighbor kids

hackers.town: 2022-06-27 Mon 08:47

Good news! I’m far enough along in my JavaScript / Node.js learning that I can be mad we’re not using the latest dot release.

hackers.town: 2022-06-27 Mon 17:16

so intent on busting work out so i could go do a thing that i missed the window of opportunity to go do the thing

hackers.town: 2022-06-27 Mon 17:24

Oh but hey I could do the laundry I forgot about over the weekend.

hackers.town: 2022-06-27 Mon 23:19

Just having some quick fun with #InfinitePainter

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 11:22

Setting up the Linux partition with Pop OS — it’s good enough and compatible enough with stuff I need — but the important part is my “minimal workflow” setup has 26 items and yeah time to experiment w/Ansible or Nix or GNU Guix.

I mean.

Not today but sometime.

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 11:24

Could probably replace 23 of those tools with the perfect Emacs config but that is also not happening today.

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 11:27

Listening to an 80s nostalgia mix and yep that’s 80s music sure enough but their nostalgia does not overlap much with my nostalgia.

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 13:28

Two hummed notes from her and now I’m ear-bingeing Led Zeppelin and wishing I could replace my computer speakers with a Marshall stack.

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 18:51

Trying a couple new-to-me things: Opus Magnum and uploading a GIF with a toot.

Optimized for cost on that one.

hackers.town: 2022-06-26 Sun 21:26

Finally occurred to me to check if maybe an app I use is in the software manager for my Linux distro and yep it is (Logseq on Pop OS).

Sure it’s a flatpak but not like I’m expecting an Electron app to be a finely-tuned monster of efficiency.

hackers.town: 2022-06-25 Sat 13:06

Basically got the Linux partition usable. Not perfect, by any means, but everything I need to do the stuff I need to do.

SO SHUT UP ABOUT “TIME FOR A REINSTALL” OKAY BRAIN?

Thinking hard about whether to keep splitting my attention between multiple sites.

Sure, it’s only two. But I consolidated everything to Random Geekery several years back for a reason: if I have more than one site, at least one will be badly neglected.

Not taking any hard action at the moment. I’m just gonna keep pondering for a bit.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2022-06-23 Thu 10:53

Discord asking me to log in again.

Maybe later.

I don’t like you, you know. You’re just Slack with a skateboard, a backwards baseball cap, and a “MUSIC BAND” t-shirt.

hackers.town: 2022-06-23 Thu 21:20

ah yes the raspberry pi4 is easier to connect to when i power it on

amazing how that works

hackers.town: 2022-06-24 Fri 08:19

Is it still doomscrolling if you’re just staring in shock at your screen?

Well I guess technically yes, since the firehose of awful is scrolling on its own.

Better switch browser tabs.

hackers.town: 2022-06-24 Fri 08:31

I know folks got justifiably more pressing concerns right now, but when you got room in your brain, think about locking down your sensitive notes and communications. Not just private, but local.

Any service offered to you is a weapon that can be used against you.

hackers.town: 2022-06-24 Fri 08:54

Staying clocked in for work because busyness is a good balm sometimes but also noting in my status that I’m not all there right now.

Seems like the polite thing to do, and a work environment I feel ok doing it in.

hackers.town: 2022-06-24 Fri 09:25

Mentioned in Slack that I’m “mildly dissociating” today as half-joke and half-that-is-how-it-feels. Looking at my on-camera self during standup and yep I got that detached face I do sometimes and I think I picked the right descriptive.

hackers.town: 2022-06-24 Fri 23:54

Anyways slowly but steadily re-redetaching my main stuff from Github now that I’ve got the pi4 powered on and local Gitea running again.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 07:19

@y0x3y That’s awesome! “Better task notes” is part of why I’ve been trying to merge my Taskwarrior tasks into Logseq / Obsidian / etc.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 07:22

@jaywilliams Kind of a tangent, but it’s part of why Notion has been challenging for me as a notes app. When you’re fundamentally a chaos monkey, you need to be able to use tangential associations and accidental insight in order to remember a thing.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 08:15

Fiddling a bit to get the work MBP cooperating with the ultrawide because my desk does not have room for another monitor.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 08:23

My little in-slack google schedule reminder updates at 7:30am. Saying that out loud to remind myself not to look at 7:15, see nothing, go “well that’s all good then,” and wander off to miss the 8am meeting.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 12:36

Me: “That was a good meeting but I am emotionally exhausted.”

She: “Do you need crinkly fries to recover?”

Me: “yes”

She sees me.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 13:33

Sometimes my notes are useful to other people and that’s pretty cool too.

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 16:31

I suspect this may be relevant to the interests of a few friends.

Nicole van der Hoeven — “How I use Obsidian to run and play D&D online”

https://youtu.be/3pt6_srUZ7U

hackers.town: 2022-06-22 Wed 17:35

How the heck is it already 5:30? It was 1:15 just a minute ago.

I’m not dead yet! Site wasn’t updating because Netlify failed with an exit code 2. Bit vague. Finally had a few minutes to look closer.

Turns out it’s because I’ve been keeping up locally with Hugo releases and syntax changes, but not telling Netlify. They need the same version of Hugo that I use.

So now I’ve got a basic netlify.toml based on Netlify Hugo docs.

    [build]
  command = "hugo"
  publish = "public"

[build.environment]
  HUGO_VERSION = "0.101.0"