hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 00:56

Missy Elliott: “Kitty cat kitty cat —“

Jack: “MEOW!”

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 06:04

Arizona freeways got more crossovers than a 90s comic shop.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 06:08

@mills_lane @WuMargaret @Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online @perigrin @semifor @genehack @gizmomathboy @ericawrites @Basmitharts @dillyd @fitzgepn @jacobydave

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 06:10

No pictures because all our windows are spattered with bug bits but it’s real pretty out.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 06:29

We are currently driving through Phoenix which from every bit of visual evidence seems the ideal approach.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 08:54

The three percenter sticker does not make your family SUV more intimidating.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 10:11

We are in the new place. I got my SPF 50. Dogs have been walked. Cats are in decompression chamber (open truck in closed garage).

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 10:27

@genehack I’ve only seen LA’s airports but Phoenix definitely feels like it wants to be LA.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 14:05

Oh that switch is the garbage disposal.

(revives the pets with smelling salts)

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 14:29

Saw a squirrel skitter out from the bushes into the sun. It reached a tiny patch of shade from a tree and immediately flopped down to recover. A moment later it got up, ventured back into the sun, and immediately burst into flame^H^H^H^H casually went about its business.

I’m not going outside right now.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:10

Looking at Outside the New Place from my traditional vantage point.

As you can see, the property has some lovely landscaping. We have a quiet northern view from our biggest window, letting in plenty of light but much less heat.

Babad Do’ag, listed on my map as the Santa Catalina Mountains, provide a comforting outer fence to this view.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:14

@nomad I was running out of material.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:30

@lordbowlich woot!

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:35

Freshly moved from Northwest to Southwest, so yeah it’s time for a new #introduction

disclaimers:

not great about CWs, especially for food / beverage / eye contact pics

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:43

@thegibson Hedge fund thinking? Hypothesis: investors and possibly many C-level executives believe everything of value that can be created, has been created. Therefore all that remains is resource extraction.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:49

@thegibson this is tied to a depressing thought I had about generative AI the other day and the laughably weak controls on quality and output.

These organizations don’t care about muddying the waters of everything created after generative AI because they genuinely don’t believe humans are capable of creating any more art, labor, or communications worth salvaging.

Whatever the surface thoughts they have on it, it’s some deeply fascist reactionary beliefs about art that drives this.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 15:55

@thegibson Honestly it’s more of a gut feel than anything, trying to find some kind of context that would make the pattern of these actions comprehensible though not what I would tag as “reasonable.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 16:04

@halcy and when things have calmed down enough that you can just go for a walk and admire the progress of your work. I love that.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 16:28

The hackers.town hoodie I wore when we picked Jack and Barry up as kittens three years remains one of their favorite security blankets. After escaping the cat bed, Barry hid in it on the 1,500 mile drive here.

I set it next to Barry in his current safety spot earlier.

Seems he approves.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 16:33

I didn’t realize that the hoodie was his chosen spot during the drive, of course. Just that there was a spot he wouldn’t budge from until very late into the drive when both cats decided the outside view was basically a fancy version of the 300 hours of Truck Simulator they watched me play, and they wanted a closer look.

Anyways, I found the hoodie crumpled and covered in cat fur at his spot when clearing things out this afternoon.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 16:41

I’m lingering on all this because the cats were a major part of why we picked this place so far from anything we knew.

Most everything around the state of Washington was out of our price range and / or had a limit of three pets. The cats are particular about their humans. We couldn’t see them doing well rehomed, and couldn’t risk them being split up.

So we looked for affordable places, in a state where @IamMrsGeek could keep her job, in a place we could afford to keep all four pets.

And also I guess because her daughter also recently moved to AZ. Whatever. It’s because of the cats.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 16:56

@karlhigley Context unneeded. Go forth and tilt at that windmill.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 17:01

oh thank goodness I do still own clean underwear

We had to cull pretty hard-core, all the way to the final moments of loading the truck.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 17:12

@c0debabe Right?! It’s kind of a sniffly moment.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 17:19

Just so this isn’t an all-Barry thread: when they came out of hiding, Jack decided he wanted his view to be from a lap. He enjoys lap time more than Barry, but I never could get more than a few minutes from Jack.

Last night he spent a few hours in each lap as we rotated driving duties.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 18:23

@MxVerda @thegibson I don’t mind at all. Thank you for asking!

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 18:49

@genehack absolutely my intent.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 19:19

Well I quickly adjusted in one context. Taking the pups out for an early evening stroll, temperature 95F with a light breeze.

It felt downright pleasant. Still heckin’ hot, but more “welcome to the beach” and less “you picked a good day to die”

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 19:51

@jamie it was very weird before we left Seattle area. 57F but 72% humidity. I was cold but sweating like I was gonna die.

This is way better.

hackers.town: 2024-05-31 Fri 21:29

Oh that’s right! Arizona is one of those states that hates voters.

This gonna be an intriguing year. Gotta make sure all my papers are in order.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 06:25

The cow says “Moo!”

The Bouncy Dog says “WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!”

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 10:39

Barry the cat has escaped his bonds, found a dark hiding spot in the truck and you know what that’s gonna have to be okay for the next couple days.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 10:51

Surrendering to the moment there because I found his spot quick, can’t reach him without risking a more direct escape attempt, and from precedent once he finds a spot he stays there until the general area is secure.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 13:37

Cicada-geddon. Real hard to clean off the windshield.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 16:34

Oh hey there’s good news about Trump

I know I’m not supposed to speak ill of the dead but —

Oh he is. Okay. He got convicted? 34 felony counts? That’s good too I guess.

Anyways as I was saying, fuck that guy.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 16:36

Bouncy Dog making sure to pick a spot where he can be sure we both hear him whine pathetically.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 17:20

@lmorchard “can I be in three meetings at once? Watch me.”

(declines all meeting invites)

No. I cannot and will not.

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 17:53

I get water. Make sure all the critters drink some.

Five minutes later I remember I’m supposed to drink some too.

#ADHD ?

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 18:26

Nevada has some great mountains. Not tall, but dark, foreboding, and just enough square footage for an evil wizard’s tower.

(In Tonopah, home of The Clown Motel, setting of my future nightmares.)

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 18:36

There are better examples than these but it’s enough to give you the idea. Can I interest you in an arch-lich compound near Winnemucca?

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 19:45

@bitprophet not just the name. I was too unnerved to take pics but I bet you can find good ones.

“Good”

hackers.town: 2024-05-30 Thu 20:58

Glad I found my shorts because tonight I am reintroduced to Always Shorts Weather

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 06:55

@technoid_ yep. Only 247 to go. Though I probably won’t play the reruns.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 08:47

If you have to do a form letter for your applicant rejections, you could do worse than this template.

“Thank you so much for your interest in joining the COMPANY team! We had so many fantastic applicants for the JOB_TITLE role and have ultimately filled this position.”

(conversational but generic “we’ll keep your resume; follow us on the socials” boilerplate)

It’s the common practice zero-feedback rejection, but I got a little warm fuzzy from it. Course, if I got ten of these I’d be feeling a little less fuzzy.

So I guess I’m asking you to tweak your form letters to better reflect your company culture.

#Fedihire

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 09:10

Trying to get into the habit of conventional commits. After forgetting and amending my commit messages too many times, I set up pre-commit and compilerla/conventional-pre-commit.

Much better.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 09:14

@genehack well hell I’m bookmarking that one for later.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 09:18

I got the most amazing shirt from @IamMrsGeek yesterday.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 09:22

@Scmbradley yeah I guess all I’m hoping for is more “please” in the “fuck off.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 12:56

@lordbowlich or that it could at least opt for “WiFi-only” on those activities when there’s insufficient signal.

Out here in the exurbs, I often have one bar and obnoxious latency. I don’t want it downloading updates via those towers. But downtown? Go hog wild.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 12:57

We are moving way slower than we want but way quicker than a middle-aged couple (or rather a middle aged dude and his radiant and ever youthful spouse) have any right to expect when clearing out of a four bedroom house.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 17:31

@tek I’m always finding pleasant surprises in the Python ecosystem these days, to roughly the same degree I once found pleasant surprises in Perl’s.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 18:29

@tek I remember when Zope was Python’s killer app, so okay. Yeah.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 18:54

Nearly the last step: coaxing the cats out of hiding so we can prep them for their first road trip.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 18:54

@maddiefuzz @bitprophet @tek I still got it.

(Sorry)

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 19:11

“Just mix the anxiety meds into their food it’ll be great,” advised somebody who clearly had some kind of weird cat that didn’t pay attention to what it ate.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 19:49

I think I have successfully drugged my cats, with good old fashioned Greco-Roman wrestling.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 21:32

Keys on counter. Pets in truck.1,555 miles remaining in our 1,555 mile journey.

Me: Are we there yet?

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 21:43

Whatever the heck else happens, this is the biggest “next chapter” yet for us, individually and together.

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 22:06

Rimworld or Minecraft?https://botsin.space/@weirdsatellite/112528240588057693

hackers.town: 2024-05-29 Wed 22:10

@genehack it’ll be guaranteed memorable for duration and prep trauma, but yeah let’s hope that’s it!

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 08:48

Got strong clarity on how I want this chunk of my code to look, what I want it to do, and how to address at least one of the more obvious issues with that approach, when there’s about thirty far more urgent things to be done.

But hey I got a chunk of notes and a few related commits in place before the day’s pressing issues started pressing hard. That’s progress.

#ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 12:54

Feels kinda silly having my car picked up and delivered to the new home at a cost probably higher than the car is worth, but @IamMrsGeek is right. Having the mobility and the familiar vehicle will do me good.

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 17:17

Ah the sounds of an unprepared bald eagle being harassed by crows.

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 19:04

Discussing some things from an outsider perspective and a thing I just said amused me so much I had to post.

“I cannot assign intent, but these are not the patterns of a people-oriented workflow.”

Which is how a polite bookish neurospicy might say “What the FUCK”

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 20:13

Remember to lift with your back not your legs!

Ow wait no I think it was the other one.

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 21:19

Feeling the urge to catch up on @nightvaleopenings from the beginning. Again.

hackers.town: 2024-05-28 Tue 21:48

Yeah I know @nightvaleopenings is not the Night Vale account. But it’s a good bot and worth highlighting.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 06:49

Very rudimentary – I haven’t added attributes or support for placeholder links – but now I’ve got my Logseq graph connections loaded into Kuzu, with a pretty good graph view in the Kuzu Explorer interface.

Was hoping to get this much done before we were on the road for our move. Pleased to have met my deadline.

I’m 1 for 34,982! Go me! :party_parrot:​

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 09:15

Pulled this from my code sketches folder into its own repo in case you’d like to steal ideas for your own Logseq (or other PKM) external processing workflow:

rgb-logseq-toolkit

Impressed myself with the README I put together in about 45 minutes.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 11:41

We’re on to the “crap or keepsake” stage with an unsorted pile of non-obvious stuff. The good news is much of it fits in one room, after I logged many trips up and down our stairs.

Many trips.

My Apple Watch asked if I’m a hamster.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 11:43

No, not one room. But three rooms less, anyways.

Good lord one can accumulate a lot of crap over three years in a suburban house.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 12:34

A hackers.town gaiter from before we switched primarily to N95. Forgot I had this.

Bet it’ll come in handy as a dust filter. I’ll keep it.

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

I have multiple versions of this playlist. The core’s about the same, though.

#NowPlaying

Butt Dancing Vol 1 - YouTube Music

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 16:48

Trying to give away a breakfast nook. Folks online asking @IamMrsGeek “do you have any other pictures of it?” And uh sorta but we weren’t exactly taking pictures of the table and bench.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 21:48

The urgent move crisis mode impulsivity has faded for a moment, and it’s starting to sink in just how many of my anchors I’ve irreversibly discarded.

I’ll make new ones, but the short term is gonna require extra mindfulness on my part. I chucked 30-40 years of who I’ve been. It’ll be a bumpy ride.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 22:03

Also, I’m almost certain I’ll start feeling better once we’re filling a place up instead of emptying one out, and especially once I set up my security blanket of the last eight years AKA the desktop PC.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 22:16

Sometimes I’m good about noticing my patterns.

I always have myself some kind of anchor point in a room. As a kid it was the bookshelf, young adult it was stereo and the bin with my sketch materials, tech years it’s been my computer.

And this particular Theseus Brand desktop, where the only original part is the case? Yeah that’s a strong one.

It’s been suggested multiple times that my animal equivalent is the rat, because small and furry, plus I set up a cozy comfortable nest in some corner somewhere, which I will scurry to 100% of the time if there’s a loud noise or somebody turns the light on too quick.

Also if you leave snacks out overnight and I’m around the snacks will disappear.

(munching coookie)

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 22:29

Sometimes the obvious grammatical violation isn’t a mistake or a deep poetic statement.

sometimes you just put it there because it’s more fun

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 22:36

then again i suppose to some folks “language can be fun” is a deep poetic statement

or a mistake

Some folks are wrong. I’m not sure which ones, but I’m reasonably certain someone is.

hackers.town: 2024-05-27 Mon 23:06

Got Minecraft on the phone, loaded it up, went to accessibility settings, and was reminded that Bedrock Edition lacks subtitles / captions.

Dangit. I can’t play this, at least not much. Java edition captions are really good, and basically why I got so heavy into (Java) Minecraft after my right ear went bust.

I know there’s already a parity request. Just had to grumble.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 07:46

Updating netlify.toml to use a fresh Hugo. Forgetting that was not good.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 07:51

Wanted to update my now page, remembered I had some cards with math and Hugo supports rendering LaTeX now.

So as per my usual, a two minute #NowNowNow update resulted in an hour of fiddliness.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 11:24

Staying out of the way while movers move the stuff.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 13:53

Moment of drama as Barry evaded room lockup. Had to warn them to keep an eye out for a skittish cat burying himself between the boxes.

Within five minutes a blurry black streak as all that midnight kitty parkour pays off and he launches himself past all three movers before his feet touched floor.

From there — with many loud complaints but very little claw — he let me pick him up and put him in the safe room with his brother.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 16:17

Holy crap. Helping paralyzed people speak is the kind of experiment gets me deeply curious about AI. https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/112509354857977346

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 16:27

It’s been an exhausting couple days. A nap would be good.

(commence neighborhood child scream party)

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 16:43

Noting that for whatever reason, on macOS on wifi and on battery power, Safari gives me a much better browsing experience. Quicker, more responsive, even images load better.

As an added bonus a lot of app-oriented sites don’t work.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 18:42

As I fork some mayo onto the bread for a sandwich, and think about maybe forking myself a slice of cheesecake from the fridge, it occurs to me that we may have been a little overzealous in packing what with still having a couple days before we leave.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 19:20

Hardly for the first time in my life, feeling strong Summer School vibes:

“You know what we need, Wonder Mutt? Besides bread.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 20:52

49" monitor is en route, so I’m sitting here trying to squeeze maximum pixels into my laptop display.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 21:16

Whoa hey my script loads my entire Logseq graph. Had to clean up a few entries that Logseq was fine with but were inconsistent with how I try to do things.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 21:57

I don’t always share my terrible ideas. Here’s one:

If I (or anyone else) did a series of blog posts on learning data science by exploring the Panama Papers, that sure would filter out a lot of employers I (or anyone else) don’t want to work for.

hackers.town: 2024-05-26 Sun 22:04

edit because it’s an idea, not a plan. The blog post series from me would be me learning data science by exploring the Panama Papers.

Which could still be fun 🤔

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:09

How much extra do I need to pay so Notion will stop pushing their “Ask AI” at me every time I open my workspace?

Is it more than the “Ask AI” upgrade? Because I would be willing to pay more if that’s what it takes.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:14

Been a long time, but I really enjoyed the six months or so we had between “pop-ups have been blocked so effectively that we stopped using them” and “oh hey we figured out we could advertise upgrades, subscriptions, and chatbot help in-browser with really intrusive UI!”

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:57

@spinningthoughts been pondering similar, and one thought I had is only one core cell type, but the view determines long-form or short-form editing mode. Default short-form, hit Mod-Enter to switch to a document view of that cell (basically)

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 10:45

@spinningthoughts I admit I have to think hard about long-form vs short-from view since that’s not my natural pattern.

For my usage patterns I can’t help viewing every page as a tree, with each branch providing a particular context.

The branches of a header are its section. A bold cell on its own is a term and its subtrees are definitions and explanations. A note or tip in Logseq is a sidebar in my head, Past a certain depth, sections are more likely to indicate chapters in a series, with their own sections. Stuff like that.

So with that approach the main difference between scribbled notes and a document is how much thought I put into grammar and synthesis.

What I crave is a meaningful rendering flip between tree view and publishing view. Logseq’s document mode absolutely doesn’t cut it there. And also it’s a perspective that doesn’t give much insight to the kind of long-form synthesis you describe.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 10:58

https://hackers.town/users/feonixrift/statuses/112503009490259364

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 11:12

@spinningthoughts Well keep in mind that ADHD is a strong driver in all things for me, and one aspect of my flavor is “there are no rough drafts.” Everything builds iteratively on what’s already there. If I work on a fully synthesized version of my notes involving too big of a context shift in construction technique, it’ll never happen on its own.

The main successful path I’ve found is to cut and snip my branches like some kind of Bonsai tree, then feed the work into one of my export scripts if I want to share it with the world. My brain very much forces me into the “knowledge garden” school of PKM thought.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 11:40

@spinningthoughts Yep agreed. And in my style, those three bullets get edited and clarified into one.

I do a lot of single sentence or even sentence fragments when capturing, but at some point they turn into paragraphs (and lists because sometimes a fragment is still right).

I suspect our processing stages function similarly. Mine just has extra indentation and a leading dot as an artifact of my toolkit (EDIT: which I choose because that’s closer to how my brain groups concepts even after processing).

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 13:46

Far enough along in the Logseq graph loading experiment to try it on my actual notes so I can see both where it breaks and where I need to improve error handling.

Lots of places.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 15:39

Packing. Reminding myself to breathe occasionally.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 15:48

Every time I move awkwardly carrying a curtain rod (which is every time I move carrying a curtain rod) Bouncy Dog cowers into a tiny scared little ball and looks up like “This is it. This is how it ends. Tell Jumpy Dog I love her.”

So I’m trying to be extra careful, and extra reassuring.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 17:20

Cats are getting annoyed. All their favorite hiding holes are disappearing.

It’s okay you’ll get new ones.

hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 23:12

At the stage of the big packing day where things hurt when you move.

And kinda hurt when you don’t move, too.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 07:33

@mills_lane @WuMargaret @Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online @semifor @Chanclatrix @genehack @minego @gizmomathboy @perigrin @Trg404 @fitzgepn @jacobydave

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 08:01

@maddiefuzz Prometheus chained to the rock with an eagle gnawing on his internal organs at dawn

welcome to another workday, am I right big P?

Ready for the stand-up at 9? Sisyphus says he finished the TPS reports but I got a feeling we’re gonna send him back to touch them up again.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 08:45

Yes I absolutely did just write a one line toggle function because my brain tripped every time I read flag = not flag in my Python code.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 08:52

I know what flag = not flag means, of course. It means grab the opposite of flag, when treated as a boolean.

But I have to think about it for a fraction of a second every time I see it, so hide it behind the verb my brain’s translating that to.

Way better than adding a comment above saying # toggle the flag. Now that would have been silly.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 08:55

@raganwald Thanks! I never felt bad about it in my Perl or Ruby code, but tiny functions for narrative abstraction are more popular in that world.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 08:57

@mmastrac @deno_land well dangit. Okay well I’ll just have to track a new place then!

Congrats on what sounds like a positive move?

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 10:07

My brain’s not in great deciding-mode today – a frequent issue TBH – but it is doing great at seeing obstacles to that process.

So rather than deciding what and how to pack, I’m pulling everything from the hard to reach corners and putting them in easily accessed but out of the way spots. That way deciding what and how to pack should only take a step or two.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 10:31

I don’t like using mypy in strict mode. Explicit return types feel redundant in Python.

But I’m treating this code as a prototype for similar in maybe a more strictly typed language, so I’m preparing for that strictness by using mypy --strict.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 10:32

@chuck I do appreciate that! I know only Pydantic and mypy care about types in Python, so if this wasn’t helping future me I’d feel pretty silly.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 10:39

Thanks to thinking more about return types, I’ve also finally figured out something I do all the time is maybe not the best choice: factory class methods to construct an object.

See, if using explicit return types, your factory method needs to reference a class you’re still in the process of defining. You can reference it as a string or import the future annotations feature.

Normally I’d just do whatever to make mypy happy and move on. But it finally clicked that these are workarounds, and need extra work from both your type checker and future you.

A factory function defined outside the class would require no workarounds and less explaining to someone unfamiliar with typed #Python.

Anyways, there’s my morning brain fart.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 10:45

A lot of programming lessons boil down to “it hurts when I do this,” and “stop doing it then.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 11:43

Reminded of a job a few years back that felt like a good job at the time. Everybody was so nice and emotionally supportive.

However.

Everything that was presented as a choice or decision between paths, they already had made the choice.

“Task A or B?” “ooh B sounds right up my alley.” “Oh gosh sorry, we really need someone on A. Maybe later you can do B.”

“Team X or Y?” “oh gosh, X is doing things I love and my skills would fit in perfect with their needs.” “Oh gosh sorry we need to put you on Y. Budgeted project priorities, you understand. Maybe next quarter?”

Unsurprising that I was constantly stressed and did not do my best work.

That pattern went all the way to a “quit with severance now or keep trying and maybe not get fired later.” I knew what choice I wanted to make, but I’d figured out the pattern by that point. Wasn’t a great severance, but enough to help us out for a bit.

Anyways, “nice” is fucking useless at work.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 11:49

@zwol Oh me too. The LSP usually catches inconsistencies, but without some kind of external reminder I’d be in trouble. The mypy thing is a conscious decision to make those inconsistencies more obvious.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 11:50

@lordbowlich Apparently neither could I.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 14:45

@flyingsaceur Oh I routinely write my code with an LSP and linter in hand, which is probably why explicit return types feels redundant. But it’s just a feel. I don’t fuss about it that much.

As for the cognitive load part, I’ve found type aliases help immensely there. ConfigDict is less work to read than dict[str, str|int|bool] and way less than deciphering the code without type hints or LSP.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 14:51

@flyingsaceur I usually start with dataclasses, then go to namedtuple or Pydantic if I feel the bit needs to support less or more complexity.

attrs does the job well too, but Pydantic has stolen a lot of the mental space for “when dataclasses aren’t good enough” that attrs used to occupy.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 14:59

Back in Reader, I had dozens of categories and subcategories for my RSS subscriptions. That carried over into Feedly, but I wasn’t really paying close attention to what went where.

These days it’s way simpler (and one category’s for debugging my site generator). But I like it.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 15:06

@tk No, I’m using NetNewsWire (when on macOS)

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 17:16

Apropos of absolutely nothing I mean heck I’m not even working right now so clearly this ain’t about me but

I just want to mention that I’m occasionally reminded, by contrast, just how good @genehack and @perigrin have always been at the empathetic and understanding communication part of being a people manager.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 17:19

@IamMrsGeek MEDICAL CHEESECAKE

IT IS FOR YOUR HEALTH

AND THEIR SAFETY

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 17:25

@neauoire Oh no. I’ve seen this movie.

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 17:26

@neauoire so a body count of at least one

hackers.town: 2024-05-24 Fri 20:52

Remembering when Jack helped us decide it was time for new bookshelves.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 05:20

@matthiask Out of curiosity, which distribution and which card?

EndeavourOS (Arch-based) plus Ti 3070 went smooth for me, but I know there’s a lot of variation.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 08:56

The thing I’m dreading more about the move than heat, more than scorpions, more than rattlesnakes:

figuring out my #ADHD med situation living across new state lines and under new insurance that can’t start processing until we’re at the new address.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 08:59

@antijingoist I switched off of iTerm2 a little while ago as it was already overkill for my needs (and I needed something with roughly the same config across platforms).

Now it’s really overkill for my needs.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 09:55

Pleased with a rare show of coding discipline on my part.

Doing a thing, ADD (ADHD-Driven Development) style adding a lot of stuff way before the foundation is solid but hey at least I have tests.

Realize the foundation is not solid. Make a “spike” branch to focus on just that core. Decide what’s needed to call that spike done.

Spend several days getting the foundation where it needs to be, only occasionally distracted by unrelated ideas (then rolling back from those).

Actually finish the spike (!?¿ first time for everything I guess)

Merge that back into main, incorporating the tested ideas I’d tried the first time through.

Pause for air.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 09:57

push to remote

Okay now I can pause for air and get back to being useful in the house.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 11:33

ADHD is real good for catching important cues in a private conversation you’re otherwise completely blanking out on.

timezones, arson, stuff like that

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 11:54

She, a normal person trying to get stuff done: “What’s wrong with this Web page?”

Me, a computer genius: “It’s broken.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 12:16

Direction I’m going with the PKM parsing stuff, starting to realize one of the stopping points will “writing my own linked note application”

which has me thinking about a) wonder if that could be a rent-paying or at least pizza-buying path; and b) a graph data / text processing variant on the very good SSG-as-learning-project talk by @genehack

A static site generator should be your next language learning project | PPT

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 12:25

Bouncy Dog bullying the bumblebees again.

Impressed he hasn’t been stung.

Wondering how much to worry about moving to the land of much spicier bugs.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 14:44

“opt-in by default”

Opt-out. That’s called opt-out.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 16:51

Basically gonna have to spend the next week with part of my brain going “are we there yet?”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:05

Looking at the Google AI Overview screenshot via Ars Technica – couldn’t tell you what Google looks like today as I actively avoid it – and thinking back to the search engine I abandoned because Google Beta was so much cleaner and with better Web search results.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:24

Need to set up peertube or something.

For those who partake in Instagram, Bouncy Dog at war with the spicy sky raisins: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7VLQkUvwcW/?igsh=MWdvZmZsOXozdXl3aw==

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:26

@WuMargaret well that’s a given. I was evaluating whether the fuckedness was intentional or accidental.

It was fucked because some pop-over wouldn’t load after the page had already done the “lock out interaction on this page and gray the window out” so it was kinda both.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:27

https://hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/112493223368220411

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:39

So anyways with the spike I disabled the coding assistant (more accurately I’m on the laptop where I haven’t enabled it just yet). Definitely wrote code slower, but better focus and quality. This isn’t a scientific test or anything, since I’m building off prototype code written with the assistant’s assistance.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:41

But the workflow concern there is “focus.”

Coding assistant will readily help you implement any terrible idea the second you start typing in one idea’s direction, then another idea’s direction, then – do you see the neurospicy hazard I’m pointing out here?

Even if all the other many ecological, economical, and sociological issues were somehow addressed, there’s the problem of if ADHD me leans too hard on a coding assistant I’ll paint myself into a corner in like two minutes.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 17:42

as opposed to my normal pace of twenty minutes

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 18:02

Coding assistant makes a great Yes Man.

I don’t need a Yes Man. I need a “WTF are you even thinking?” advisor.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 18:03

@maddiefuzz

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 20:38

@genehack that’s borderline what I got when you put one of those copilot thingies in my hand

“you dawg I heard you like parsers so let’s put a parser in your parser so you can parse while you parse.”

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 20:41

@genehack Oh that yeah that’s more what I need.

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 21:37

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/112494209827392361

hackers.town: 2024-05-23 Thu 21:37

@IamMrsGeek Beano for cars

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 08:53

I am no #Infosec afficianado, but did I read that right? The llama_cpp_python folks not using the safety features that already exist in jinja2?

The gap between the upper 50 and the lower 50 percentile on security is painful.

“We just don’t know how this break-in happened or how to prevent it happening again!”

Me: (closes and locks front door)

“WITCHCRAFT!”

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 10:36

When I look up recent material on unit and integration testing for #Javascript or #Typescript I mostly see a lot about Jest.

Folks who don’t like Jest, what do you use instead? Just trying to build a mental map of the landscape.

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 12:15

Packing up for the move and finally finding all those rolls of doggy bags I’d lost over the last three years.

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 16:44

We made very good progress in move prep today, and our bodies are done for a bit.

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 17:02

A lovely spring afternoon, the sun’s rays streaming in through the window, lighting up dazzling garden flowers outside and —

Me: “This is too much light. I’m gonna close the curtains.”

Yeah I’m gonna do great in the desert.

Though IIRC my instincts are even more appropriate to that environment.

hackers.town: 2024-05-22 Wed 20:37

Made my code easier to read and 20% faster.

No, nothing fancy. I was using a couple list comprehensions from the same list. Went with a single loop through the list instead.