hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 10:19

Jack has discovered a love of quilting. He offered a few suggestions earlier which Mrs Geek politely rebuffed.

hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 14:36

Exploring a project with five distinct utils namespaces so far and pondering the scar tissue accumulated learning my own hard lesson that utility namespaces are bad and we should feel bad when we stuff everything in them.

hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 14:38

I still have projects with utility namespaces because sometimes you don’t know where to put some logic, but I call them shame.

stuff like that

hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 17:03

So that project with five distinct utils namespaces? Was noticing a lot more, so I finally counted.

hrm

hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 19:18

This quote just popped into my head unrequested.

“You know," said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.”

“Why, what did she tell you?““I don’t know, I didn’t listen.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

hackers.town: 2023-08-31 Thu 22:34

Goofing around in Procreate for 20 minutes and I made glitter?

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 04:42

Made the terrible mistake of going to sleep at a reasonable hour and getting what my body considers a full night’s sleep.

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 05:53

I mean —

I fixed a Windows issue rather than just rebooting into Linux.

How messed up is that? This is what too much rest gets you.

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 09:12

Onto at least the third generation of recommended plugin managers for Neovim and something in my head just clicked over to “nah.”

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 09:13

I have enough headache tracking how to manage Python projects. I don’t need my text editor cluttering up those neurons too.

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 10:08

Somebody bought one of my shirts! Woo!

wait that was me ordering it for @IamMrsGeek

…

Woo!

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 12:38

Look maybe it’s not gonna help you get a job, but to avoid getting the wrong job pay attention to the requirements in that recruiter call.

“Java? Well, how much Java? That much? Yeah you probably want someone else. I’m better with Python, TypeScript, …” or whatever for your use case.

Tech is the least important part of the workplace misery stack, but it’s still worth paying attention to.

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 15:48

I may not be working right now but I can be EXPRT TECHNICAL SUPORT for @IamMrsGeek by DIAGNOSING AND REPAIRING CRITICAL NETWORK ISSUES

mainly by unplugging the router and plugging it back in but hey it worked

hackers.town: 2023-08-30 Wed 21:38

Looking at job entries

“browser automation”

oh heck yeah that is me

“to train AI”

(sigh)

that is not me

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 08:45

Budget prioritization finally reached that LinkedIn Premium account, and yeah I don’t think it’s been worth $33 USD/month. Courses of wildly varying quality, metrics that are cool to look at but not actionable, and most important of all: no job!

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 08:55

@Luther Well they had to up the price to cover the expense of writing your posts with AI.

Anyways yeah I already knew it was a racket, but thought maybe it could be a useful racket? Six months is sufficient to establish with confidence that it is not.

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 08:56

@Luther (useful for me, that is. obvs quite useful to Microsoft)

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 09:43

@mcgrew valuable life lessons?

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 12:08

new note on random geekery:

Dream Aesthetic

#Art #Symmetry #LineaSketch #BedtimeDrawing #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2023/08/dream-aesthetic/

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 12:21

BTW you can buy that drawing on a shirt at Design By Hümans!

https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/pullover-hoodie/dream-aesthetic/1924278/

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 12:29

@RetweetableN14 I finished a doodle.

This usually takes me several months, so quite an event.

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2023/08/dream-aesthetic/

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 14:22

That last regeneration went a little wibbly wobbly.

Pretty much the cutest Doctor yet.

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 15:04

Between self-driving cars not seeing black people and LLMs being a digitized gestalt of Reply Guys –

Skynet’s gonna be the racist zombie bit on Key & Peele isn’t it

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 15:05

I’m doomed but I’ll die savoring the irony of it all

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 15:08

The racist zombie bit from Key & Peele for those who need a refresher:

https://youtu.be/FeTpzn2MkXU?si=vfgBMHkYYdBYlq2E

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 15:15

@martini yep if I could have the entire thought before posting it would save folks some trouble. Sorry about that.

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 17:02

@smartwatermelon I had not, but I will tonight. Thanks!

hackers.town: 2023-08-29 Tue 18:20

After a couple years playing #NoMansSky I’m finally doing some of the stories and I tell you what there’s a tiny bit of WTF in those stories.

hackers.town: 2023-08-28 Mon 10:59

@IamMrsGeek Jupiter. Though I’d need flight too because just plummeting isn’t quite the experience I’m hoping for.

hackers.town: 2023-08-28 Mon 11:19

@andrewt @laser @panegyr I will happily report every LinkedIn email as a phishing attempt.

And the company newsletter.

And the security emails.

And the Jira notifications.

And the meeting invites.

And the emails demanding I stop reporting everything as a phishing attempt.

Can’t be too careful these days.

hackers.town: 2023-08-28 Mon 16:30

@FerdiZ Went and checked. It’s not just you.

hackers.town: 2023-08-28 Mon 19:02

Checking in post-TweetDeck.

On my 5120x1440 display, Xitter has room for one tweet.

xeet?

Whichever. I am impressed.

hackers.town: 2023-08-28 Mon 19:04

@FerdiZ looks to be back up now, so I can return to ignoring it.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 00:35

Almost done with this #drawing. Bit of cleanup, decide if I want to add any extras, stuff like that.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 11:46

@IamMrsGeek Oh good! You helped guide the color choices!

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 15:44

We went Outside where there were People, but we were in the shade and also there were many dogs so it was pretty nice actually.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 15:53

@tk Not that I saw, but we were only there for a little bit.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 15:55

@ovid I went with “We’ll Make It,” using an admittedly ambiguous estimate of “we.”

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 16:37

@hannu_ikonen Is there something wrong with the original comic that its art and examples needed to be changed, and its creator credit removed?

Pictoline with English translation at Skepchick

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 16:49

@slightlyoff It’s like when people see me knitting socks there’s always someone to ask “Oh! Do you save money?” and the answer is of course “oh god no. It’s more expensive and takes much longer.”

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 17:11

Upset that “vore” isn’t in our scrabble dictionary.

All those years of internet research for nothing.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 18:43

@IamMrsGeek ok but there was and I was surprised. Maybe it was a dove. I’m no cryptozoologist.

Perhaps I could’ve been more quietly surprised what with you driving and all.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 18:43

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/110964687310304066

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 18:47

@IamMrsGeek No I screamed

“THAT PIGEON HAS SOCKS! PIGEON WITH SOCKS!”

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 19:00

@bitprophet @IamMrsGeek I do and I do. But PIGEON WITH SOCKS

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 19:46

@bitprophet @IamMrsGeek

…

…

…

I GUESS

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 20:49

@GillBates @IamMrsGeek your imagination is correct!

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 20:49

@IamMrsGeek with the possible exception of plummeting space toilets.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 20:50

@IamMrsGeek probably does. They look like a trouble maker. Pigeon from the wrong side of the tracks, wanted by the law for sartorial presumption.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 20:58

Been spending some time on BlueSky and I tell you what it can be cute and fun but it also depressing as fuck real doomscrolling vibes there half the time

so they got that part of the twitter experience down

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 21:03

@GillBates we may not always be sitting right next to each other but I am always in close proximity to @IamMrsGeek if I can possibly help it, and yep we’re often comparing notes or loudly announcing “I TOOTED”

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 21:05

@GillBates @IamMrsGeek don’t assume.

hackers.town: 2023-08-27 Sun 21:26

@vantablack My “2016 sucked” shirt is kinda —

I stopped wearing it about a month into 2017, and now it’s awkward and embarrassing to look at.

hackers.town: 2023-08-26 Sat 13:53

@IamMrsGeek when gray gets into a new zone it’s a bit unsettling.

hackers.town: 2023-08-26 Sat 18:21

need to defrag my emacs config

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 07:26

@jmac 88-90 was the between times. A very brief window of optimism between the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the invasion of Kuwait. The hair metal was bouncy and poppy and the alternative scene had “Right Here Right Now” and “Deeper Shade of Soul” and Paul’s Boutique.

But we also had Alice in Chains and “Bleach” and the 90s were getting ready to happen.

Sometimes I feel like Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. killed the 90s we might’ve had.

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 07:42

A little pre-90s nostalgia

#NowPlaying

De La Soul — Three Feet High and Rising

https://album.link/us/i/1657705063

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 09:26

The dogs and I share a deep appreciation for routine.

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 10:33

just update the system

dangit

wrong system

yay -Syu doesn’t work with Homebrew

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 10:42

Arc browser has an update

update browser

link to see what’s new

click the link expecting a blog post

somebody starts talking

the update info is in video form now

close tab

quit browser

uninstall Arc

hackers.town: 2023-08-25 Fri 11:32

this may have been a little brash

arc was the only chromium-based browser that could handle a few annoying sites w/o going straight to Chrome.

I mean I could use the clippyGPT browser or the NFT browser but neither of those really excite me, you know?

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 06:30

Nothing like a sunrise during wildfire season.

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 08:56

Brought the iPad with me.

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 09:23

The dogs have had quite enough roughing it, and are lounging comfortably in the tent with @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 10:39

@VE2UWY @IamMrsGeek I’ve been enjoying it but I’m also happy to now be heading back home where there are comfy chairs and coffee and device chargers and 49” ultra wide monitors

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 12:14

All right. Home, responded to a couple recruiter pings, and couldn’t help noticing there’s a #NoMansSky update.

https://youtu.be/8g2YqU-_GtA?si=XhRjV5GilhN45Oln

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 18:46

@markgdavis @baldur unconvincing. Let’s have midjourney render a few hundred expressions and pick the most plausible.

Hm

Did you always have seven eyes?

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 19:22

Me: “I need to give someone my resume but I need to make an edit and I’m in Linux.”

Also Me: “Are you going senile? LibreOffice.”

Me: “Oh right! Want to make sure I don’t lose any formatting from compatibility mode though.”

Also Me: “Oh uh well —”

Me: “Never mind! Found the PDF Export option.”

Also Me: “right absolutely that is exactly what i was gonna say just waiting if you figured that out on your own”

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 21:08

@synlogic I don’t mind GUIs, though they aren’t needed for quite as many purposes as they get used for.

And I do prefer text sources for everything, though after looking at a friend’s notes the resume will probably start in YAML for processing and shuffling into whatever specifics are needed for a given gig.

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 21:23

Seeing headlines “Can AI fix —?” and saving a lot of reading time by remembering Betteridge.

hackers.town: 2023-08-24 Thu 21:41

@thrillcat My font killed delivery of your pun here, sorry

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 00:00

Of course I have to make coloring the #drawing as much of a process as getting the lines down in the first place.

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 14:38

We are Outside. It is lovely. I am wearing a hat and hiding under a tree.

@IamMrsGeek came up with this idea. As long as I avoid direct contact with sunlight it is an excellent idea.

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 17:31

There’s a burn ban on, so it’s a charcuterie table for camp dinner with @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 17:32

@IamMrsGeek lawsuit time!

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 18:28

@IamMrsGeek and I trying to figure out whose phone or other device is making that weird noise but it’s a cricket.

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 20:09

@technoid_ @IamMrsGeek a massive potential market!

Anyways I need to find this cricket and put it on Do Not Disturb.

hackers.town: 2023-08-23 Wed 20:34

Neon Campfire

Art installation by @IamMrsGeek (2023)

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 10:27

@IamMrsGeek I suppose responding with a 🖕 would be inappropriate

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 10:31

#TIL Windows lacks the middle finger emoji?

brb nuking the partition

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 14:20

Hospital. A lot of coughing and hacking. Not nearly enough masks.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 14:23

@banjofox2 yes but to be fair I also just downed an energy drink so not all the twitching is anxiety.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 14:54

Better now — though still not enough masks — but seriously for a few minutes there it was like a roomful of people that quit smoking this morning.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 15:05

@WuMargaret that seems like common sense to me. But there’s not enough of that around.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 18:36

Mom tells me about the difficulties finding decent tech support in Kansas.

Me: Over here there’s overpopulation and a culling program. Anybody asks if I’m a programmer I try to distract them by eating a flash drive

She: How’s that working for you.

Me: Fine until I poop

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 19:26

@Macross was escorting family for lots of tests and waiting around until those tests were done.

My common sense started tingling after a bit and I spent a lot of my waiting time outside.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 19:28

@genehack thanks but I think she’s got it.

We’re talking through, and the core issue is she needs a new computer (dead pixels in display, dead keyboard, half the USB ports don’t work, don’t buy cheap PCs off AMZN). But we got a short term fix planned out, with USB hub and keyboard on her list.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 21:52

Had a mysterious driver issue with sound on my Linux partition.

Sound driver didn’t support generating audio output after I accidentally turned off the speakers with my foot.

hackers.town: 2023-08-22 Tue 22:51

No context me: “that’s child endangerment! Call the ASPCA wait hang on”