2023-01-21 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 09:18

@mikaellundin I’ve worked at orgs with unlimited PTO before. It has an interesting psychological impact. What it worked out to is I didn’t panic about sick days but never took an actual vacation.

But those places were unlimited PTO from the start. I’m curious about what happens when introduced at a large established company.

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 10:52

Everybody using job titles in their LinkedIn profile:

Then there’s my crowd:

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 12:10

Part of the plan for the day includes putting together the start of a /uses page on my site. Hit the “Software” chunk and got a little overwhelmed.

It’s okay. I can come back to it later.

SiYuan Note split screen with daily journal in one half, and outline for a tool listing in the other. Under the heading “Software” I typed “ye gods”

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 12:14

@perigrin There’s gonna be a big ol’ ADHD disclaimer at the top, that’s for dang sure.

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 20:17

Checking the basic code idea for what’s probably be one of my more niche blog post ideas.

And that’s saying something.

Terminal showing recent updates from the Stardeus game changelog

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 20:28

@mjgardner Does it? I couldn’t find any from a quick skim of their Changelog page.

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 20:36

@mjgardner Darn. Was hoping I missed something obvious. Yeah, the problem is they haven’t updated the game’s Steam news for a month. No blame, considering the pace of development.

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 21:15

@mjgardner BTW if you’re a fan of the game and impatient to extract the Stardeus Changelog updates, here’s a chunky Perl + Mojo one-liner equivalent to the Dart code I have so far:

hackers.town: 2023-01-21 Sat 21:17

@mjgardner Hm. May have pushed Glitch’s Markdown magic a little further than it was ready. Replace that HTML entity with a double quote and you’ll be good.