2024-04-08

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 06:52

@eb I like and use the postfix because it adds context for simple pasted bookmarks. If I don’t need the context, I edit the bookmark for that instance. But I consider it a good default starting point.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 06:54

@eb though yeah specifically for the OpenGraph context it makes more sense to use properties like site_name context.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 06:56

@eb oh absolutely. My personal most common use case is pasting a link into my note system, which is configured to fetch the title for that link.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 06:58

@eb on a bad tab bankruptcy day I can have 10-20 links, and if they’re all about a particular hyperfocus target, I’ll have 20 lines that all say something like “Secrets of Web Typography.”

Later on when processing my notes I may scrub out excess from provided titles. That happens a lot with GitHub links, which include project description in the title (my personal peeve).

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 07:07

@eb Current primary is Logseq, but Obsidian generally stays in the top three.

Plugin I’ve been pondering is a configurable “preview” card, only inserting the OpenGraph bits I care about.

But that’s in the middle of a very large TODO stack.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 07:41

@rhosyn @eb Not sure about simple, but I have a sort of system.

If I’m grabbing a link for later and I don’t have a relevant topic page handy, I’ll save it in my journal with the tag #bookmark. Sometimes I add a tag describing what kind of link, like #media/video, #media/BlogPost or #media/RFC.

Nested tags — and Logseq treating tags as pages — means I can usually find otherwise unsorted items pretty easily by going to my media page.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 07:52

Shaving before a job interview — desperate times, desperate measures — and making sure to leave enough time for the blood to dry.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 07:56

Looked at the eclipse path map and I hope Indiana makes it out okay.

Then again maybe a little time with the sun-swallowing dragon will do them some good.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 08:09

@danlyke @axoplasm I hate to say it but “do math for me without me having to learn anything” is hypothetically a pretty good use case for LLM assistants.

It might even get it right. And eventually maybe format it correctly.

And take less than 45 seconds. And not require network calls.

But the idea is there.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 08:22

@vantablack “sub group” as two words (and as the preferred choice over say “small group”) tells me everything I need to know about that author, regardless of how much language they steal from elsewhere.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 08:35

motivating music

I mean it’s right there in the name.

#NowPlaying

Mr. Motivator by IDLES

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 09:19

Oh nice. At some point Logseq stopped using 25%+ of system resources at all times on my MacBook. I can actually use it on battery.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 09:21

@tek dangit that was the encryption key on the planetary security shield. Time for the invasion.

Hopefully the overlords give me time to finish my coffee what no okay fine

brb

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 09:22

@danlyke I think that’s the core problem. The folks who care enough about that kind of math, care enough to find specialized tools.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 10:28

Post-interview, adrenalin now flushing out of the system.

It went good — honest it usually does because I’m a charmer — but we’ll find out if it’s the kind of good that gets me closer to a job.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 10:40

@idlestate

moon: I’m gonna block out the sun!

clouds: TOO SLOW, SUCKA

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 10:50

Too far away for a total solar eclipse. Only one kind of eclipse left.

#NowPlaying

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 11:56

Having fun with CSS, catching up with container queries and whatnot.

CSS has always been fun because I’m careful to never learn enough to get paid for it.

I only need enough to make my site pretty and impress backend devs.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 12:59

you aren’t gonna trick me into going outside

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 14:02

why are the only persistent recruiters the ones for whom not one item of their clients’ skill requirements matches my resume.

five years microcontroller programming experience with C++

sorry no

still no

also no

are you bored or something

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 14:07

#TIL canvas and canvastext for easy dark mode in #CSS

via Dark Mode in 3 Lines of CSS and Other Adventures - DEV Community

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 14:15

@sarajw neat! I might fiddle a bit with the system colors as a base to see if I come up with anything interesting. Or not, as another thing I want to check off the learning list is oklab().

Originally I was looking for a reasonable dark mode palette for some other ideas.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 14:17

@sarajw thank you! Naturally “CSS Naked Day” would be the day I feel compelled to dig deeper on CSS.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 14:31

@sarajw @anniegreens oh light-dark() looks like a headache reducer!

Folks complain about how complex CSS has gotten and okay yeah, but also that’s the new edges. So much of the stuff that used to call for heroic effort is practically automatic now.

Thanks for the links and learning!

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 16:47

@vees Been using Hugo for a while now. I grumble routinely about the templating syntax, but it’s the fastest and most flexible SSG I’ve come across.

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 19:43

Not for the first time it occurs to me I could do all the note management stuff I’m trying to do, in exactly the way I imagine doing it, from Emacs and Org Mode.

(sigh)

at what point do i accept inevitability

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 19:45

@blogdiva hey you’re playing my song!

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 21:47

Welcome to House Physics-Be-Damned

Got a nice elevated backyard.

And unlike some non-existent Imperial safety standards, we have fences along our dangerous drops.

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2024-04-08 Mon 21:56

Using Better Adventures+, plus the Xaero’s world map and minimap mods by @xaero96

Wanted more than vanilla, not quite kitchen sink.