hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 00:28

I was going to be mad about all the breaking changes in #Nushell 0.72, but every bit they removed was something that at some point annoyed me enough that I had to set Nu aside for a little bit and practice my breathing.

So — yay?

https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2022-11-29-nushell-0.72.html

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:09

@cinebox I’m used to it, but I know folks that have basically done aliases / functions for stuff like ls | grid to get just names in one row. And now they can use a block in their alias: ls | each {|it| print $it.name }

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:09

@cinebox what happens if you try open config.toml

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:10

@cinebox or rather:

open config.toml | table --expand

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:11

@cinebox ohh right there’s already an open under macOS. There’s a setup to work around that, but naturally I’m on the Windows machine right now.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:14

@cinebox Even after a couple years, I don’t use Nu as my login shell because of little surprises like that. But it’s awesome enough for file processing that I have a binding in tmux to open a new window in Nushell.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 01:19

@cinebox Stuff like this that sure I could do the equivalent in Python but I’d need modules and some additional massaging.

(I’ll chill now. I just have so much fun with it)

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 03:08

Another day when I’m at my smartest at 1am.

Not THAT surprising. Very little chance of any distracting requests, meetings, or barking dogs.

Well at least the bug was identifiable that this much brain was sufficient.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 08:59

there will be naps today

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 09:00

@halcy That sounds right, but I did all my rst stuff in context of a Hugo site, so missed out on most of the Sphinx specifics.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 09:01

@WuMargaret Would love to get my productivity rhythms a little closer to that of others, or at least closer to their waking hours. Especially those of @IamMrsGeek!

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 09:08

Last night as my brain was wandering I pondered what whether anybody did any #ActivityPub / #IndieWeb crossovers and of course Aaron Parecki already has a relevant project:

https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 09:23

TFW when trauma sorry I mean valuable work experience makes you blurt in the meeting to support the data person’s work giving every date value a time and time zone (to be converted to UTC)

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 10:08

@yenzie I’d default to h-card but it’s mostly down to personal preference. If you’re using an SSG you can handle multiple and hide the complexity behind a template / shortcode.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 10:26

@yenzie And it’s a very forgiving format. You could have <a class="h-card" href="...">...</a> and handlers could do something with it.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 14:22

@jacob Well, mostly I assume somebody else will also take a nap on this world.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 14:59

Honestly I kinda like my 2022 Wrapped playlist. I go to Spotify in very specific moods, and this includes material from each of those moods. Big recognizable titles prioritized over curious explorations. That’s what Bandcamp’s for.

#NowPlaying

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1F0sijgNaJdgit?si=d63dff6a451b4ac2

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 16:44

Snow again? That’s just confusing.

hackers.town: 2022-11-30 Wed 23:24

Entertaining myself with the #JuliaLang Term.jl library examples this evening.

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 09:02

Trying the tut TUI Mastodon client. Off to an interesting start!

https://tut.anv.nu

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 09:03

I just want to mention that Loud Dog woke me up at 4:30am and I really really wish I could’ve gotten back to sleep.

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 09:18

We have weather. Who said that was okay?

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 11:55

@gizmomathboy Well I’m just itching to give terrible advice, so let me know if you have any questions.

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 12:01

We got a handy JS file that goes in an HTML file and does a useful thing.

Kinda want to use it locally, but as an app.

I’ll use Electron!

But I’m not too fond of JS.

Let’s use Pyodide instead.

Hey maybe some htmx would amuse.

wait where’d the handy JS file go

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 12:25

@gizmomathboy Ooh yeah with a file handler widget that will recognize and launch the electron application!

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 12:28

@gizmomathboy I’m thinking I do want a feedback option, if not full-on comments.

Could also rebuild proper support for WebMentions. The part I got hung up on was sending WebMentions, when a post of mine is a response to someone else.

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 13:34

@gizmomathboy Yep, any language that’s got a Jupyter kernel out there can be run in a notebook. I was doing notebook stuff with Raku a little while back.

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 17:26

@halcy It depends what folks need.

“give us a way to look at this data” means Datasette

“No, a fancy way” means Dash

Something with functionality and a clear purpose? Probably FastAPI using its HTML rendering.

“I dunno, maybe look at some data and maybe do something later?” Django’s admin setup will get them started

hackers.town: 2022-11-29 Tue 22:32

@mcgrew @halcy I like how heavily FastAPI leans into type hinting, but you’re right. Flask is a better choice for getting something small and focused up quick.

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 00:19

@gizmomathboy only way to be sure

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 10:14

All right. Got enough material to talk about PKM stuff at work. First version of a talk, at least.

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 11:36

That was a lot of talking. Fun, but now my brain’s all “are we done? good. let us not speak out loud for a while please.”

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 12:53

More of a lightning talk than a full deep dive, because that’s my style.

The Kinopio space I used for slides / notes

https://kinopio.club/talk-pkm-intro-for-tech-folks-eaz3vJ_qEEbAwLQEhyZ5K

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 13:40

Starting to think we should specify in our #introduction posts whether we prefer fave or boost. Some folks need the visibility of a boost for professional or other reasons. Some would rather avoid it, but don’t want to lock down their account.

Me, I don’t care which you do. I’m just happy we’re both here and we see each other. #nobirb

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 14:03

New hackers.town hoodie arrived. The one with all the logos.

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 14:57

@bitprophet The Elonification of Twitter is a viable option, though honestly it’s more fun to leave it open and just say the Internet clock of eternities has move forward a month. Looking forward to Eternal November. Hoping to be dead before Eternal December.

hackers.town: 2022-11-28 Mon 15:25

Used our treadmill in the first time since (please don’t ask) and walked more than 30 minutes for the first time since well before (please don’t ask) and not even a fast clip but I’m still feeling it.

Confusingly, I need to do that more often.

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 02:16

Time for something besides my usual symmetry bedtime #drawing.

https://at.tumblr.com/randomgeekery/having-some-fun-with-perspective-because-usually/o473byxef4yz

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 08:02

@rhosyn Did that with Procreate on an iPad!

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 16:55

I miss living within lazy walking distance of stuff to do.

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 18:32

Loud Dog does not approve of my dancing style. She has a point but that’s just too bad.

#NowPlaying

Cameo — “Word Up”

https://song.link/us/i/1444076759

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 18:33

@Perigrin even their crimes are boring

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 18:51

Trying Django as a static site generation layer over a notes app because there’s no kill like overkill.

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 18:53

@bitprophet I understand the why but all it means is it’s not quoted and notifications don’t go out for it.

So folks use it as an old school subtweet. This is not necessarily an improvement.

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 18:56

@bitprophet Incidentally, that’s just a Mastodon thing. Misskey is also ActivityPub, and it supports quotes. Course, it’ll look weird to Mastodon folks. Welcome to federated communication!

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 19:07

@Perigrin I had not, and that was definitely worth the minute of my time!

hackers.town: 2022-11-27 Sun 23:28

There we go. I can wedge a Dendron vault into a Django project.

I can’t do anything useful with it yet, but I wasn’t aiming for useful today. It’s Sunday, for crying out loud.

hackers.town: 2022-11-26 Sat 12:16

Starting to use Tumblr as a drop spot for doodles, since they don’t to terrible things with image compression, aren’t run by some dude trying to speed run for Most Terrible Company Ever, and aren’t adding to storage costs for a Fedi instance.

https://www.tumblr.com/randomgeekery/702010878190616576/for-something-ive-probably-done-a-hundred-times?source=share

hackers.town: 2022-11-26 Sat 13:05

@mwop Thanks! I put my favorites on my site, but I also go through phases of nightly doodles, and putting all of those on the site tests my patience for static site generation.

Examining other options like WordPress, Statamic, or a Django idea floating in my head. But meanwhile, Tumblr works!

hackers.town: 2022-11-26 Sat 13:49

Me: (light headed from hunger, eating delicious Turkey soup)

She: “makes sense if you just ate crackers today.”

Me: (indignant) “I did NOT just eat crackers. … I also ate two brownies.”

hackers.town: 2022-11-26 Sat 19:22

https://hackers.town/users/Medus4/statuses/109412965984788759

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 00:52

Sometimes the bedtime #drawing is just trying a few ideas for texture and shadow, this time in #LineaSketch

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 09:55

Oh hey I just noticed django-mirror for a CodeMirror editor widget in Django projects. This gives me many terrible ideas.

https://github.com/pavelsof/django-mirror

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 11:51

Decided to try wearing contacts for the first time in several months and I got them both in, and in less than ten minutes!

Doesn’t mean I’ll manage the same tomorrow, but I’m still proud of myself.

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 13:28

Mom mentioned a guest playing guitar and trying to sing Bowie yesterday, and of course I had to ask if she knew about Seu Jorge. She didn’t, but she does now!

#NowPlaying

Seu Jorge — The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions

https://album.link/i/1440916686

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 13:58

ADHD family moment: Mom and I bouncing back and forth sharing tracks and tangents at a pace that would likely melt the brain of more neurotypical folks.

hackers.town: 2022-11-25 Fri 17:54

@genehack Is it on what?

hackers.town: 2022-11-24 Thu 18:17

Jumpy Dog wishes she was on the side of the bars where the turkey is.

hackers.town: 2022-11-24 Thu 20:17

I bought Exploding Kittens six and a half years ago. We played it for the first time tonight. Lots of fun, and not just because I won.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 09:12

Still no ADHD meds. USPS tracker’s shown it as “Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item” since yesterday at 3:30am.

So I’ll just do the best I can do.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 09:22

@d20jarrod Today? All of the above. Thank goodness it’s a short week in the US.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 11:15

@tek thanks for reminding me! I need to charge up my other phone for 2FA so I can log in on the main phone via Metatext.

Should probably transfer that at some point. But hey there’s no security like: a thing you are, a thing you know, and a thing you had on you two minutes ago, where did you put it this time?

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 11:18

Been using Toot! for a couple few years. I like it, though I never have gotten notifications working. Not always a bad thing.

Now trying Metatext for the Mastodon mobile experience.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 12:13

Oh well hey it’s at the local post office now! With a new estimated delivery date of the 25th.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 12:25

@banjofox2 oh yes there’s been a lot of eye twitching over the last week.

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 21:24

When I read some talking about something’s productivity impact being “10x” “100x” “4x” or any “Nx” where N is any number greater than oh say 1.1

and I know they’re using their brain to break wind

hackers.town: 2022-11-23 Wed 21:57

Setting up a local Statamic project via Laravel Sail because I’m too cool to just use PHP I gotta use containers too.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 00:07

A few adjustments left, but pretty much done with that particular bedtime #drawing.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 08:46

@panasaurusrex they can be soothing to draw, too!

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 09:20

Three pharmacies in two months due to changing insurance policies and anyways I hope my ADHD meds show up today.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 09:22

I’m just so tired.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 10:27

Some poor soul in the meeting: “So what are folks using instead of Twitter?”

Me: (takes deep breath, grabs list)

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 13:49

Making sure to ask the dumb questions because of brain fog, but the duration of “… is typing” suggests maybe it wasn’t such a dumb question.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 14:46

Sometimes you’re just in the mood.

#NowPlaying

Cheap Trick — at Budokan

https://album.link/i/193204065

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 20:05

@baweaver I adore Ruby the language, and most of its community (at least what I know of it circa 2000-2010). A few egos (including but not limited to DHH) made the idea of going near Ruby distasteful.

hackers.town: 2022-11-22 Tue 20:09

https://hackers.town/users/benbrown/statuses/109388622934838622

The toilet fire that is Twitter’s new management strategy continues apace. Felt compelled to take my normally wide-open account and lock it. I don’t want to deactivate and delete. Somebody else can come along, grab the name, and spam the hell out of people with it.

But hey, where else can you find me? I’ll update my h-card once the dust settles, but here’s where I’m at roughly in order of how much attention I’ve given it:

• Mastodon
• Cohost
• Tumblr
• Pillowfort

Meanwhile I’m pondering the plausibility of a single-user Fediverse instance as a way to enable comments. Or I could just set up a WordPress site. Until I decide on that, you can find me at one or more of the listed sites.

And all this is kinda depressing after 15 years on Twitter. Okay yes I hated it half the time but that uh that came from a place of love. But anyways enough gloominess. How about a picture of Jack?

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2022-11-20 Sun 14:56

Borderlands 2: also good on the MBP 14.

Anyways, back to the day’s tasks. Sure hope my ADHD meds show up tomorrow.