2024-01-03

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 08:35

@taylorhadden I don’t mind table widgets in WYSIWYG editors but I hate them when my brain is in text mode.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 08:37

@taylorhadden @jalefkowit@octodon.social factually yes, but a) to my overly cynical brain that sounds even darker; and b) mostly I think we’re describing a mood rather than a practice

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 11:02

One of the reasons I realized “introvert” wasn’t quite right and started digging in the direction that led me to ADHD: I have trouble engaging my brain if work Slack / Teams is too quiet. Like – if it’s just me I may as well work on my Web site or something.

Too much is too much, but yeah for my brain there’s also too little.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 11:31

@ShadowJonathan are any of them a printer or cloud-connected service device like voice assistant, security camera, or light bulb? No? Then I don’t see the problem.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 11:55

Been looking at a lot of Python code from very large orgs as I learn their APIs. TBH getting frustrated how sloppy it all is. Does nobody read import this?

Getting the itch to play with grass-is-greener strictness of Go or Rust, and the “h*ck it we’ll do it live” of Perl.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:00

@tk PHP is a maybe, more because I’m way out of practice than any distaste for (modern) PHP. C never really scratched any of my itches.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:01

@tk no

just

no

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:03

@b0rk I wouldn’t personally describe mine as “many times” but definitely way more than once or twice. And it took very smart people a very long time to untangle the messes. Usually roll back to last working version while they did detective work on main.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:05

@tk still no.

Though most of my incorrect PHP assumptions date back to roughly v4 vintage.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:45

Alas Niklaus Wirth.

Good day to remind the world that Free Pascal continues to exist and be awesome.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:46

@kusuriya okay yeah but it’ll be harder to hook that one up to a Niklaus Wirth memorial.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:49

@loresjoberg @gizmomathboy ah so you believe in hell?

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 12:55

Okay so I never got good at Pascal but I learned a bit of it in high school. It felt so much better organized and easier to understand than my BASIC code I’d been writing up to that point.

The advanced kids in the class were learning C, and – C looked like a step back structurally speaking. Couldn’t read it, didn’t want to.

So Pascal is why I never had any interest in C.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 13:45

@chriscoyier I occasionally miss the immediate available functionality of a CGI script.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 14:33

@philsplace I am in awe.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 15:03

She was watching some kind of business pitch video which she has since wandered away from. At one point the presenter said “the ’e’ in e-commerce stands for ’email’” and twenty minutes later my eye is still twitching.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 18:01

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/111694973581386995

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 20:41

Nothing like taking a smooth suave site theme — in this case Poison — and giving it anxiety tweaking it to better suit my needs.

hackers.town: 2024-01-03 Wed 20:48

I filled my “move” ring while sitting at my desk most of the day — again. Apparently I fidget even more than I realized.