hackers.town: 2022-12-30 Fri 09:17

First job I’ve had where everyone had the same last day since 2009 or so.

The exchange of parting GIFs is a nice touch.

hackers.town: 2022-12-30 Fri 14:57

One sticks around for the GIFs, says their goodbyes, and logs out.

alternately, one stays on until the last moment to make sure it’s dead

hackers.town: 2022-12-30 Fri 14:57

ready for a double tap just in case

hackers.town: 2022-12-30 Fri 19:24

@thomasfuchs because I followed you on Twitter — originally for JavaScript stuff, eventually for the cool photos.

hackers.town: 2022-12-28 Wed 19:46

Search not working. People not seeing their replies. Content not loading.

Twitter’s like my self-hosted ActivityPub server, but at $44 billion instead of $12/month.

hackers.town: 2022-12-28 Wed 19:51

@mjgardner Now! Through the ⭐ POWER OF IMAGINATION ⭐

hackers.town: 2022-12-28 Wed 19:51

@WuMargaret durn tootin'

wait I’m not running Mastodon over there.

durn postin'

hackers.town: 2022-12-28 Wed 20:09

@LitMoose @bitprophet I can do both, right? I was planning on both. I get the whole year! I hope.

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 14:31

And yep sure enough, spent a couple seconds looking at my Rules file (the ruby code that drives a Nanoc site build) and I was rebuilding the complete map of site tags for every page.

Fixed that so the tab map only gets built once, and build time goes from 23s using 3.2+YJIT to 8s.

Easiest performance optimization: be smarter than you were yesterday.

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 14:37

It’s not easy, multi-classing in the Fediverse:

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 14:49

@jacobydave home, the way home, roads, or stupid?

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 17:17

@junebug I had rather expected my idealized form to be a little taller. I guess technically it is if you count the horns. But it’s just me, devilishly perfect.

Gonna need to knit some new hats though. And be extra careful in bouncy castles.

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 17:18

https://hackers.town/users/randomgeek/statuses/109582762036441615

hackers.town: 2022-12-26 Mon 17:27

@Lady_Aleena Deleted a reply in the wrong context. Anyways yeah. Multiple accounts on multiple instances isn’t a problem if you just keep them separate. I’m always crossing the streams though.

hackers.town: 2022-12-25 Sun 12:47

Ain’t no benchmark like an unscientific ad hoc benchmark

Nanoc builds sites faster with 3.2.0

#Ruby #Nanoc #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2022/12/nanoc-builds-sites-faster-with-3.2.0/

hackers.town: 2022-12-25 Sun 21:11

@joelle it would be nice if more kids (and adults) were given the tools to deal with matters of personal identity as more than a checklist of unexamined assumptions.

hackers.town: 2022-12-24 Sat 14:50

Gonna take a minute from breaking my own instance to come over here and CERTAINLY NOT BREAK ANYTHING HA HA WHAT A SILLY THOUGHT

hackers.town: 2022-12-24 Sat 14:56

None of these tools over in this box play nicely with any of those tools in that box.

Clearly what I need is another box of tools.

hackers.town: 2022-12-24 Sat 15:39

@thegibson @RUSirius squeee

I mean yes hello welcome!

hackers.town: 2022-12-24 Sat 21:22

Still a few days before job hunting proper, but I guess it’s time to pull the ol’ LinkedIn account out of the shed and check the oil.

hackers.town: 2022-12-24 Sat 21:55

Oh wait I’ve had a LinkedIn pro account since that last gig last year.

That must be why I was getting all those emails.

Should probably check my LinkedIn more often. And my email.

hackers.town: 2022-12-23 Fri 09:46

@yenzie the voice of someone you basically like when they’ve hit the Finding Out stage is not as uplifting as when someone you dislike has gone from FA to FO.

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 20:33

@Perigrin @yenzie It’s okay I brought matches and gasoline back from vacation.

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 20:35

Problem with a sudden business pivot to The Void is inertia carries more than a few off the cliff face as we stare at them waiting for the moment they — like Wile E. Coyote — remember gravity is a thing.

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 20:35

@gizmomathboy @Perigrin @yenzie insurance? solstice?

I’m just here for the fire.

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 20:39

@Perigrin @gizmomathboy @yenzie

four new bugsthree more deploystwo last ticketsand a LinkedIn recommendation

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 22:02

Remembering that I had set up the tut #TUI client for #Mastodon and that I should play with it some.

https://cliapps.com/p/tut-mastodon-tui-client

hackers.town: 2022-12-22 Thu 22:07

I don’t think tut knows anything about Glitch-soc, but my account preferences (default to Markdown) seem to have done the right thing with tut’s input.

hackers.town: 2022-12-21 Wed 09:12

@mwop I mostly use mobile to drop a quick note to process later.

For my use, I’m thinking maybe a synced folder rather than a full installation. Maybe Joplin or similar using Dropbox sync on the phone, with the folder set up as a notebook on desktop. nb’s notebook handling simplifies such shenanigans.

hackers.town: 2022-12-21 Wed 09:24

@mwop Nothing yet, as I’m still in vacation mode. But yep, edit via nb later is my intent.

I’d likely handle bookmarking with a post-processing script:

hackers.town: 2022-12-21 Wed 09:25

@mwop (the importer script is simple enough that it could be a bash file for those with that preference)

hackers.town: 2022-12-21 Wed 22:50

@thegibson we’re just trying to get home. Flight’s delayed a couple hours. Pants are in bags, ready for quick change on arrival at SEA. Gonna be icy tomorrow, but sounds like our Hawai’i storm will be warming things up in the PNW and then flooding them on Saturday yayyy

hackers.town: 2022-12-19 Mon 19:14

There’s another couple from the vicinity of Seattle on this eight hour tour and they talk a lot about tech and Twitter and stuff I have opinions on, and they are not awful opinions, but I have not participated in their conversation because they talked a lot and my ears are tired.

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 11:16

Given my habit of being on many social networks and sharing what I find on other social networks, guess I’ll follow the new Twitter TOS by editing my profile, deleting my tweets, disabling the forwarder, and setting twitter.com to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 11:29

Supposedly that policy change only covers accounts that exist primarily to promote other networks, but good luck convincing Twitter that your recent name change to “at fuck elon at twittersucksworsenow dot social” is just the most amazing coincidence and not promoting another network.

And more realistically, artist / music / crafter promotional accounts are really and properly screwed.

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 11:34

And this policy change can only be intended to reduce Twitter’s population to True Believers via attrition, as the rest get tired of repeatedly defending their repeatedly reported / autodetected links, and kill their accounts.

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 18:02

Whole lot of familiar faces coming into the Fediverse via Mastodon and hey welcome! I’d tell you all you gotta do is be cool but I already know you’re cool so that’s redundant. Have fun!

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 18:05

Was grumbling about inconsiderate fellow tourists. Started something like “fucking rich white people –” and uh hang on there.

I know – technically a mix and not “buy a social network so I can kill it” rich, but awful pasty and never could’ve imagined vacation in Hawai’i as a kid.

So uh yeah. Anyways. Stupid tourists–DAMMIT never mind

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 18:09

@WuMargaret Plus there’s something broken in every American mirror where we can’t see ourselves as poor – “inconvenienced millionaires” was Steinbeck’s line I think – or as rich, because there’s always someone with more.

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 18:13

@WuMargaret Also true! I’ve had enough bad breaks and paid attention, so I broke that thought habit.

hackers.town: 2022-12-18 Sun 20:30

@Perigrin @WuMargaret that’s the one. Thank you!