hackers.town: 2022-09-30 Fri 08:09

Survey to try out a new note tool.

Checking off from a list of tools I’ve used.

Next up is what other ones I’ve used and frankly neither of us have that kind of time.

hackers.town: 2022-09-30 Fri 08:22

Got out of bed at six and ten minutes later my 8:30 meeting is about to start.

hackers.town: 2022-09-30 Fri 20:10

If these whiteboarding apps really wanted my love they’d have WASD keyboard navigation.

Though I would accept vi command mode — wait that’s not a request that’s a curse. Can you imagine implementing G on an infinite canvas?

hackers.town: 2022-09-30 Fri 21:39

Thing I love about chatting with my mom is I can say something like

“I enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but not enough to keep liking them as JKR got all weird and TERFY”

and I don’t need to explain (or defend) any of it. Not even about liking the books.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 07:12

@tk Oh, I know.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 08:21

“So. What’s for breakfast? Banana and peanut butter? I’ll take two to go and a large coffee please. Half-caff. Don’t want to be up all night!”

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 08:41

Important but challenging to communicate knowledge with someone who works from deduction and logical principles when my technique is to light everything on fire and take note of how it burns.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 09:48

Fighting the thought that Lektor, Statamic, and Datasette would each make interesting foundations for a PKM in similar but different ways.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 09:49

Fighting that particular thought because I have stuff to do.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 10:05

Well, I guess it’s leaf blower season.

hackers.town: 2022-09-29 Thu 10:16

And now a car alarm.

Whoever tells you the suburbs are quieter than the cities is absolutely full of it.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 06:55

She: “I wish I could be like you and just wake up.”

Me: “Probably something to do with how I was raised.”

Me: “BRIAN GET THE FUCK UP YOU’RE GONNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL”

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:04

Wanted to share some public Kinopio boards last night but it was heckin’ late.

Knitting and other yarn folks may be interested in this crochet board

https://kinopio.club/-crochet-diary-4h1bgB0tQ_S2QD7P0Iyp1

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:12

A community chess game!

https://kinopio.club/community-chess-s2-x2OL8XtiGZ37DWucM_WMn

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:17

a cool animated connection panel, though I’m not awake enough to capture video.

https://kinopio.club/connections-02-electrified–OxGZcr3TGAVpRasAulXOL

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:37

SQL notes!

https://kinopio.club/-intro-to-sql-Mh71b-ETCppNLw6OWAYEJ

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:46

Many links about generative AI for text, voice, music, art, game assets, personalization, etc etc

https://kinopio.club/-generative-ai-yV5H7t4GzOYi3PYxcsKpC

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:47

Stopping now but clearly I like the shared public option for boards in Kinopio.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:55

Kinopio details for my PKM friends.

• local: no- free tier: up to 100 cards- paid tier: $6/month or $60/year- API: yes- browser extension: yes- native mobile: no- mobile web: good on iOS Safari

Core ethos fits well in #SmallTech

https://pketh.org/organic-software

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 07:59

Spent so much time this because I think Kinopio would be useful and fun for more than just my usual digital hoarding crowd.

Made by one of the Glitch folks, and it shows in the collaborative & creative features.

https://help.kinopio.club/about/

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 08:34

@seachaint yep as far as I can tell. I feel less strongly about the FOSS aspect when they’re taking other kinds of cultural sustainability into account, after one too many open source projects put out there by those Own The World type of companies.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 11:14

What is it when you answer the phone and it is a telemarketer and you let them get a sentence then politely tell them you are about to start a meeting oh and you’re not interested but have a good day & you hang up proud to check off all the social checkboxes.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 11:15

I answered the phone because today it might not be a telemarketer. But yeah I knew it probably would be.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 11:41

The real test of how keyboard-friendly your app is comes when I bust out the Model01.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 20:55

Use AWS. Relive the thrills from your early days like spending a damn month learning how to set up a database.

Also: yay! It worked! I removed a complication and it worked!

Now to put the complication back in.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 21:31

Probably should’ve figured a stopping point of “information wants to be free” would be mass corporate surveillance, power multipliers for autocrats, and sucking the marrow out of art so we can have better celebrity deepfake porn.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 21:33

Was gonna say “endpoint” but I’m not feeling that optimistic.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 21:46

I’ll be feeling better shortly but sometimes I just gotta share the background noise.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 22:14

I admit I have more faith in Terraform’s ability to get this right every time than mine — especially since I’m stuck with the kind of brain that wants to see it go a hundred times so it can get the shape of things.

TF makes that part easier for sure.

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 22:31

holy crap the thing worked like it was supposed to

quick quick git commit before you screw it up

hackers.town: 2022-09-28 Wed 22:34

and git push and pencils down for the night

hackers.town: 2022-09-27 Tue 10:42

Friend reminiscing about when we were a couple, I’d put myself in the hospital, and the call she got from my boss’s boss:

“can you bring him his laptop? Oh is he going to live?” Yeah he is. “ can you bring him his laptop then?”

She said no BTW

hackers.town: 2022-09-27 Tue 10:43

I’m not sure but I think the 2022 shift to Fall affected folks pretty quick.

hackers.town: 2022-09-27 Tue 10:43

@c0debabe they all tend to avert their eyes anyways

hackers.town: 2022-09-27 Tue 23:03

Whiteboard apps out there looking too polished, prepped, and ready for investors?

#KinopioClub!

I — I couldn’t think of anything else. Anyways here’s a board I made tonight.

https://kinopio.club/trying-kinopio-qLwW_Ga_QTaqQXhGljoEj

hackers.town: 2022-09-27 Tue 23:11

Looks as if Windows panicked on the screenshot. Let’s try that again.

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 07:08

@gizmomathboy Oh that’s on the list of Annoying Assumptions (most) Software Developers Make.

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 07:29

Made it nearly three weeks with an application before bringing up APIs.

Giving myself a 🌟 for that one.

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 08:10

On the first sips of first coffee, where the day’s task list looks like

[ ] stuff[ ] things[ ] WHO AM I TODAY

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 10:51

Got the keys. I figure the keyboard can’t be too far behind.

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 11:18

Got some new responsibilities and was it just some evil plan to make me learn Jira? Did my Jira-loving wife put them up to this?

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 11:19

s/learn/use/

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 11:21

@maddiefuzz oh my! I got vertigo! Though that may just be the angle.

Well done on the boldness and yes it is aesthetically excellent as well!

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 13:20

holy crap i had a question and was able to form it into a sentence and was so shocked by this turn of events that i asked the question

dunno if it got answered yet everything went hazy

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 21:41

Doing the Lord’s work, explaining Time Cube in a PKM chat.

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 21:45

It’s the channel’s fault. They linked to InfoQube so I downloaded it and

and

it’s like if someone implemented Org mode with Office 2007. It’s a note app from a parallel universe, with a Visual Basic editor where you’d expect JS or Lisp.

https://www.infoqube.biz

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 21:54

I think that’s a good thing that he’s getting some sleep out in the open like that. Means he’s comfortable, or something?

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 21:59

InfoQube looks like a pretty good tool for folks who understand it, but it’s more alien to me than Org mode. Heck it’s harder to understand than user-contributed SiYuan widgets, and those are written in Chinese including the function names! (thank you utf8)

hackers.town: 2022-09-26 Mon 23:20

Slowly but surely learning the difference between a database and an AWS serverless cluster v2.

The former holds data, while the latter mainly serves to impress people at tech gatherings.

I’m kidding of course.

Whoever heard of a tech gathering?!

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 00:28

When I worry that I’m overdoing it with my digital note systems I go to r/bulletjournal and feel way better. They’re really overdoing it.

Anyways back to this script that builds an AST from scraped HTML, identifies core bits, tags them, and adds them to my notes.

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 14:29

I understand Youtubers gotta do what they gotta do, but I’m way past tired of the “pose (one of six permissible) + product image + 25 character title text” thumbnails

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 15:16

Generally: just because I hate gatherings, events, social obligations, and people, you don’t get to use me as an excuse for not inviting my partner. She has her own schedule.

Besides, the premise is not guaranteed.

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 15:21

https://hackers.town/users/lori/statuses/109061367836813686

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 22:03

Finally remembered to enable the Flickr auto-uploader.

hackers.town: 2022-09-25 Sun 23:54

Enabled HDR on my monitor and suddenly a couple of ridiculous gray on black apps were — not great, but readable — and now I get to add a new thing to Annoying Assumptions (some) Designers Make: that their users should have monitors with 10,000:1 contrast ratio

hackers.town: 2022-09-24 Sat 10:55

Played with a simple stylus in Infinite Painter on the iPhone for #KaleidoSaturday

hackers.town: 2022-09-24 Sat 11:38

Somebody in Discord made the mistake of asking about task management. Gave them three names —#Taskwarrior, #OrgMode, #Amplenote — and a reading list.

BTW task apps: if you say you can schedule recurrence, I’m gonna be comparing it to this:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html

hackers.town: 2022-09-24 Sat 12:56

@Scmbradley oh just the org link I already shared and a blog series of mine on Taskwarrior:

https://randomgeekery.org/series/taskwarrior-babysteps/

hackers.town: 2022-09-24 Sat 20:04

Had an idea for importing Dash docsets but I don’t think Logseq would appreciate me adding 245MB worth of notes per set. Especially with my initial idea of “one note file per docset.”

It would work. It just wouldn’t work very well.

hackers.town: 2022-09-24 Sat 20:05

So I’m looking at Trilium’s API again.

hackers.town: 2022-09-23 Fri 17:03

She: “Did you eat?”

Me, panicking: “I uh I ate I had some of the bottom of that bag of old chips and — uh — no?”

She begins to laugh

Me, triumphantly recalling conspicuous calorie consumption: “DONUTS! I ATE TWO DONUTS!”

hackers.town: 2022-09-23 Fri 17:09

Made her snort-laugh so definitely a win.

hackers.town: 2022-09-23 Fri 23:07

Force font DPI (96 → 115) so I can be less squinty. KDE says I should be using screen scaling in display settings but apparently EndeavourOS doesn’t include that bit. So DPI change it is!

Besides, I like the small UI elements. My eyes just want bigger text.

hackers.town: 2022-09-23 Fri 23:25

Ah it’s not that EndeavourOS KDE lacks the screen scaling, it’s that I’d installed minimal KDE over a Qtile base install. Got the full desktop now, but decided I still prefer DPI change to screen scaling.

hackers.town: 2022-09-23 Fri 23:50

@raboof The claim is that icons and UX components may render weird if you only scale the font. Haven’t seen that yet and I’d have to see it a lot before I cared, because generally yeah I agree with you.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 10:30

Hurt my shoulder putting ketchup in the fridge and although I appreciate not being dead this whole “getting older” thing is unacceptable.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 11:04

@Johannab Oh lord. Yep. That is awful.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 15:52

Me: “⸘wat‽”

[Spouse looks on in concern]

Me: “Copy — and —paste, motherfucker!”

A professional at work.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 15:58

@c0debabe Yeah same. I can’t emit the quality code curses in an office.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 16:01

I appreciate when folks I respect endorse my creative works.

I mean to me it’s vomit. Wait that sounds wrong. I like creating (writing, drawing, etc) but there’s an undeniable “get it off me get it OFF” aspect to the process.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 16:02

BTW Here’s your DevOps #HelpfulHint for the day:

Try not to hit C-c when Terraform’s doing something.

hackers.town: 2022-09-22 Thu 16:43

oh no

I ran terraform plan. It did its usual ASCII dump on my screen. I recognized an incorrect planned change.

I am starting to understand Terraform ASCII dumps. I AM A TERRAFORM SCATOMANCER

mom would be so proud

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 07:13

Somebody commented “There is no Internet” in Slack and I was about to throw some cheeky reply like “at last” until I noticed it was the support channel.

Thankfully support was already taking care of them.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 10:50

Learning new industry buzzwords is always a bit of a mixed blessing. On one hand, now you know what they’re talking about. OTOH, now you know what they’re talking about.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 13:33

@tk @IamMrsGeek 40-something?

As a 50 year old nerdI want to update my introso that folks get an accurate mental picture.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 16:58

“Just try the idea out in Docker. It’ll be quick,”

he said

an hour or two ago

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 17:01

Addendum: I am grumbling to grumble, not asking for help. Just complaining about my still-insufficient practice with containery things.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 19:42

“Limit time outside”

I already do. But I made the mistake of opening the window for fresh air this afternoon. Now we all have headaches, and everything tastes like the neighbor got a new fireplace.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/limit-time-outside-unhealthy-air-quality-spreads-beyond-seattle/ar-AA125reM

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 21:49

Heptabase is very pretty and handy for a certain kind of thought processing, but — export. Handing folks anything beyond screenshots and Markdown snippets still requires a fair amount of post-processing.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 22:16

@ocdtrekkie Using it for quick setup and teardown of a postgres server so I can better understand enabling and checking db extensions.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 22:27

Well I didn’t do the thing but I have documented progress on it, which is nice.

Similarly, didn’t play video games like I wanted but I did adjust Satisfactory settings so it got 85 FPS on Linux instead of 12. I’ll be ready for some portion of the weekend.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 23:02

Info dumping is my love language so I’ve been using the internal blog feature of work Jira a little bit.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 23:05

And maybe someday I’ll remember that Jira and Confluence are technically two distinct things and not a giant katamari ball like one might get from a first (few years) impression.

hackers.town: 2022-09-21 Wed 23:54

Tonight’s bedtime doodle, with Ibis Paint