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

@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe My group had Time Blindness as a -5 or -20 depending on severity, with the severe version requiring per-turn IQ checks to avoid losing actions in combat.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 08:53

@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe that’s why we had the severity split. The lesser version was just an extreme quirk that impacted social obligations but not survival stuff.

The extreme version was our friend Derek. But yeah it could’ve been addressed by existing disadvantages. We were just having some fun with the game system.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 10:04

Always fun to see how much of my customary workflow I can set up without admin permissions. Constraints can be a boost to creativity.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:07

It’s weird how there are few noises harder to tune out than somebody trying to be quiet.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:38

@IamMrsGeek Oh it wasn’t you, you were making normal polite-level noise. ‘Twas the others trying to be quiet little hobbits while they made food except they’re not quiet little hobbits.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:49

Appreciate the reminder from cohost that I paid for an annual subscription and it renews in a few days.

(cancel subscription to unused service)

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 13:33

@onelson If my budget was more relaxed I might’ve done the same, but with first payday a few weeks away I had to be reasonable.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 14:28

The Serverless Web application framework has been downloaded over 164,000,000 times, but with CI/CD pipelines being what they are these days that could mean ten applications.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 20:44

my python’s starting to look like sql

may want to lay off the list comprehensions a bit

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:04

who am i kidding

my list comprehensions aren’t looking like sql

they’re looking like perl but clumsy and without sigil roadmaps

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:16

@genehack I find list comprehensions (or a good map grep sort @_ dance) are the readable choice for simpler cases, or cases that can be abstracted sufficiently that they look simple to the uninformed observer.

But when it starts getting chunky, for loops may be a better option. As is questioning your life decisions in general.

I think I’m straddling that fence right now.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:18

@genehack (screenshot right while I was in the middle of a clarity edit, so there’s a dangling variable name in there)

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:35

@genehack gotta have the code where you let your hair down and do the things that you’d make a stern note about if you saw it in someone’s PR.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:39

@genehack oh and the extra hidden fun there is that’s pseudo-Hungarian. notes_path is a Path object and note_paths is a list of Path objects.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 22:15

@lmorchard I’ve had Steam open for a few days and haven’t managed any game more compelling than Simon’s Cat on the iPad.

OTOH I’ve been writing a lot of code, so maybe my brain just wants its entertainment elsewhere right now.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 22:34

Bouncy Dog got game. The game is called Being Cute.

#DogsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 06:38

First day with a new job. In my time zone, which is something of a novelty.

Forcing myself to drink this coffee before I go logging in.

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 06:58

“not so much now”

(while doing that fidgety thing where you’re trying not to stim)

Okay David. If it makes you happy to think that.

David Byrne talks about being autistic - YouTube

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 12:56

Payoff of trying every damn PKM out there is I could figure out which ones satisfied work security requirements. (Dendron in VS Code for the moment, though probably Org mode once I figure out their position on Homebrew and Emacs)

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 13:58

Difference in quantity and pace of typing is a bit more intense during onboarding week, so out comes the Model 100 for the first time in a bit.

Hands are cramping up a bit with the basic keyboards.

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 16:45

A good first day. I feel like they could use me, which is giving my imposter syndrome a conniption fit.

hackers.town: 2023-10-30 Mon 17:16

Too hungry to watch the Apple Event but I do generally enjoy them presenting last year’s Android baseline and next year’s Microsoft innovations.

hackers.town: 2023-10-29 Sun 06:57

@chris Windows has been sufficiently useful for my needs for a couple years now thanks to WSL2. It’s a darn shame about all the tradeoffs.

hackers.town: 2023-10-29 Sun 09:17

Walked in while she was watching Knights of the Zodiac.

Didn’t know the movie. Didn’t know the story. But I saw Sean Bean and knew he was there to die in a dramatic futile gesture before the plot climax.

In the running for world’s most specific typecasting.

hackers.town: 2023-10-29 Sun 11:53

We’re watching 3,000 Years of Longing and I am greatly enjoying but be careful with that recommendation as I also enjoy Jim Jarmusch movies and stayed awake through most of my multiple viewings of My Dinner With Andre.

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 12:55

“Now he’s being cute. Dammit.”

@IamMrsGeek is talking about Bouncy Dog.

“Stinky boy!”

I think.

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 13:23

On a related note, my code nearly lets me use #SiYuanNote as a CMS for my blog.

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 18:01

why did it have to be guy who played the friends character with an inappropriately sarcastic response to absolutely everything

I am slightly sad but also trying so hard not to type inappropriately sarcastic catchphrasey commentary

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 18:04

@IamMrsGeek see now that’s dramatic! Moody! Tasteful, even!

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 18:06

@IamMrsGeek Honestly mine too, which is part of why my brain jumped straight to “what would Chandler say?” which you know all things considered is not the correct direction.

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 18:24

@c0debabe https://kinopio.club is my favorite brainstorming concept map / mind map tool, but for more structured mind maps I’d lean towards MindNode

hackers.town: 2023-10-28 Sat 18:25

@c0debabe sample Kinopio workspace at https://kinopio.club/collecting-pkm-notes-OdVpnfOfEEtQD-Cg4M_MT

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 10:18

Hyperfocus isn’t always like a twenty hour targeted session. Sometimes it’s revisiting a game or project routinely not because you like it, but because you aren’t done with it yet.

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 13:39

I want to be clear for anyone who mistakes this for productivity: “the project is incomplete” and “you aren’t done with it” are not necessarily describing the same thing. Project goals might be reached but you wanted to shuffle some things. Or maybe the project is miles from completion but you figure out this one tricky little thing and your brain is done.

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 16:29

Okay right this not good but how do I make it my desktop background

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 16:41

Scanner line chaos aside, I am now set up and ready for work Monday.

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 18:39

@VeryBadLlama @VE2UWY Ella Fitzgerald did the more famous renditions but I still think Maya Angelou’s is the best.

Stone Cold Dead In The Market - YouTube

hackers.town: 2023-10-27 Fri 20:57

Cut myself accidentally during cleanup. Having made the requisite blood sacrifice, this kitchen now acknowledges me as authorized to cook.

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 12:17

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/111302917802249157

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 12:18

@IamMrsGeek dang global conspiracy to keep me from injuring myself I AM AMERKAN IT IS MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO ow oops dang

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 12:21

@IamMrsGeek (waves flag with remaining hand)

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 15:18

It seems like every time some app provides an API to a SQLite database, I struggle with the API a little, then give up and just query the database directly.

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 17:47

“You are a good looking man — more or less.”

Been a bit. Ready to watch a few more times.

#TuckerAndDaleVsEvil

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 22:59

Had actual need for the Python walrus operator := in some code tonight.

And I think that’s enough accomplishment for one day.

hackers.town: 2023-10-26 Thu 23:42

@Wizkid_alex regular expression match and capture.

Didn’t need the walrus operator so much as it was an obvious choice.

I’m not saying it’s good. I’m not saying I’ll stick with it. I just wanted to pull solidly away from the utility-class CSS I was using for a while there. Got real hard to tweak.

So for the moment, a slightly tweaked layout I used regularly a couple years ago.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 10:00

Finally got the neurons free to finish a couple personal code tasks now that job hunting isn’t front and center anymore.

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 14:45

Doing some blog cleanup and pondering how most SSGs are built around an assumption that you’ll get bored of your blog around 20-30 posts. Or maybe not so much the SSGs as the common blog templates.

We’re not even talking build speed here. More like information architecture changes needed when you go from “I should start a blog” to a multi-decade waltz of shamelessness with hundreds or thousands of posts.

“Page 4 of 78” doesn’t quite do it.

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 14:48

I’m not pondering a (edit: another) WordPress or Statamic revamp, you are!

That made no sense.

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 14:51

@socketwench Drupal has the “tweak every little thing” flexibility I’d want. Just — so much to learn!

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 14:53

@socketwench first question is: any hosting recommendations?

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 14:56

@socketwench thank you!

I’ll be keeping it in mind for sure. I’m pulled towards Statamic because I enjoy playing with Laravel, but I know Drupal can do, and probably already has done, anything I can think of.

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 17:33

new note on random geekery:

Revisiting an old layout

#Site #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2023/10/revisiting-an-old-layout/

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 17:33

that was more about double-checking my syndication script than any big weighty blog post

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 18:50

So glad there were no witnesses to tonight’s dinner preparation.

Well technically the dogs. They were more like accomplices really, helping clean up evidence.

hackers.town: 2023-10-25 Wed 19:04

Baked cheesy chicken with veggies. Thank goodness the veggies cooked down.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 09:45

@gizmomathboy @minego singing the song of my people there

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 09:57

@minego @gizmomathboy even for me it clarifies more than it amplifies.

Family’s got a history of self-medicating stronger stuff, so I figured caffeine was an acceptable choice all things considered.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 10:04

@minego @gizmomathboy Fingers crossed this helps more! I had to revert to self-medicating thanks to the executive dysfunction obstacles involved in staying medicated with the current US health care system.

Coffee (less than before, and switch to mushroom coffee mid-afternoon) is not as helpful but also not as much of a hassle. An acceptable tradeoff for me.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 10:09

@minego @gizmomathboy but you did it because of course you rock.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 10:10

@th @twistylittlepassages when somebody steals your catalytic converter so you put a straight pipe in.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 12:50

@ieatkillerbees that and sometimes had to go for her when she was working two jobs

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 12:52

@ieatkillerbees yep that’s the one.

Course, it was a gas station not a deli but it was the place that would cash her checks, let me buy smokes for her, and have some of the hot burritos they were about to toss

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 15:31

@lowqualityfacts “I wish I was the smartest person in the room” or something like that

Devastating, whatever the exact phrasing was.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 15:39

@robby @mhoye every time I want to add a feature to my IDE, PKM, or task manager, it occurs to me that it can be and probably already has been done in Emacs.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 17:33

@amydentata I’ve gotten so much smug over the last few months. Really uplifting.

That said I’m looking forward to paychecks and buyer’s remorse.

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 21:16

@genehack the grandpa was inspirational and the badge thing was irritational. What a ride!

hackers.town: 2023-10-24 Tue 21:23

@genehack Yes indeed. It meshes with “flow” which is absolutely not just a thing for individuals. Good teams have a flow.

hackers.town: 2023-10-23 Mon 10:13

Got the itch to putter with Emacs today.

Last time I had some kind of org version mismatch. Need to double check my early-init.el.

hackers.town: 2023-10-23 Mon 11:46

Went to the acupuncturist with complaints about back pain. They stabbed me in the neck and now I don’t even notice my back at all.

hackers.town: 2023-10-23 Mon 15:24

After hearing some annoyingly clangy noises with my (mysteriously but consistently hearing-impaired for the last six months) right ear, thought I’d try an equalizer experiment to see if I could tune the computer’s sounds.

Yes. But.

This is like the opposite of how I usually prefer my music, so it’s for one-eared listening only. My left ear is very unhappy with the sound range my right ear can register.

hackers.town: 2023-10-23 Mon 18:08

Pasta is one of the things @IamMrsGeek has to look out for with the blood sugar thing, so we made beef stroganoff with zucchini noodles!

Hey do you want a 37 minute info dump about digital color? Of course you do.

Your Colors Suck (it’s not your fault) - YouTube

Topics covered include: Quantization, color banding, dithering, value mapping, palette swapping, radiometry, photometry, how humans perceive color, colorimetry, spectral rendering, the rgb color model, deriving srgb, the hsl color model, gradient mapping, randomly generated color palettes, perceptual color spaces, the lab color model, oklab

tl;dw: use OKLAB not RGB or HSL. There’s even oklab() in CSS now.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-10-22 Sun 09:17

Frustrated by Electron apps that don’t offer an API. Thankfully it’s getting less common but still.

Your app is 200MB of JS in front of 10MB of data. I know there’s an API in there somewhere. Just let me use yours.

hackers.town: 2023-10-22 Sun 12:04

From a chat with my mom, who’s looking for smaller scale hub-and-spoke storefronts for artists (sort of like Fediverse Etsy for lack of a better analogy), me contrasting her goal with VC-funded storefront sites:

“targeting sustainable income and community for all involved parties, which is the real unicorn honestly. Anyone can look good for a few months and flame out dramatically if you give them a few hundred million”