2024-05-13

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 09:23

Needed to run a morning errand. Made a fresh pot of fancy coffee. Filled my favorite travel mug. Took one sip. Forgot it on my desk when I ran the errand.

#ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 09:32

@raganwald Been looking long enough that I have to bite back less helpful responses.

I still go with something like “after twenty five years working predominantly in startups, I’m looking for a job at an org that’s not actively making the world a worse place.”

They usually like that answer. Not enough to hire me, but it’s still warm fuzzies all around.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 09:34

https://hackers.town/users/pixelpaperyarn/statuses/112434744885752762

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 09:53

@zachleat @baldur so many great projects big and small that faded or just dropped right off a cliff because they got money to sustain development, and then the money and structural support just went away.

Part of why I have mixed feelings about “big orgs should pay for the FOSS tools they use.” Kind of a “yes and” — yes and there should be some kind of community support for budgeting assistance so sponsored projects aren’t dependent on a money funnel.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 09:56

@zachleat @baldur It’s exciting! I was excited for you! It seems like such a great idea. And parts of it are.

But oh lord it’s so dependent on the whims of people who don’t really care.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 10:07

@thomasfuchs thank you for bloomscrolling.

We’re moving from the Pacific Northwest to Tucson very soon, and expect going from “50 shades of gray” here to “50 shades of brown” there.

I appreciate reminders that the local spectrum at least occasionally extends beyond that.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 10:16

@pathfinder @KitMuse@eponaauthor.social @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @neurodiversity@a.gup.pe this! I feel like I’ve got the same patterns and baseline, but the improvised tools that got me through the first few decades have worn out, and I need to be more deliberate.

which honestly is a challenge with ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 10:59

@IamMrsGeek well at least one of us is happy your shirt is on

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 12:27

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/112435408482220658

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 13:07

We’ll be driving 1200 miles in a pickup truck with four pets. We’ve got to fit the belongings of a four bedroom house into a single hired moving truck, destined for a three bedroom house.

So my question is:

Do I bring my Geek Orthodox Box of Unsorted Legacy Cables, or start the ritual collection anew when we arrive?

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 13:24

@bmac Likeliest path is ensure we have cables for core devices, maybe a couple spares, but everything else goes. When something vital turns out to be gone, we just hunt down a replacement or converter.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 14:19

@thegibson

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 14:35

@thegibson My brain automatically retrieves from Real Genius anytime somebody mentions popcorn.

or God.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 14:36

@thegibson Oh and running, because I used that line for years.

“Do you still run?”

“Only when chased.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 17:28

Stretching my brain writing some Go code that is dead-simple, but not tutorialized.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 18:32

Just enough directory listing, file reading, and line parsing to count public pages in my graph.

A little Lip Gloss to pretty it up.

hackers.town: 2024-05-13 Mon 20:41

Go supports abstraction through aesthetic compulsion, as the fiddly bits of your core logic are so unpleasant to look at that you must hide them away in a package.

Pretty clever really.