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2024-07-19

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hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 05:52

@rgegriff @maddiefuzz no thank you, I’ll stick with the day-old hell. I can get a whole bag for a dollar!

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 05:53

@vees things are looking up!

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 08:09

Catching up on the Crowdstrike issue and oof let those who have never deployed a dev branch to production on Friday cast the first — you know what don’t. Some mission-critical folks all over are having a Very Bad Day.

Here have a sunrise instead.

Clouds lit from below by a sun still hiding behind mountains

More clouds lit from below, with cacti in the foreground

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 08:18

I get the urge to be smug, but —

I mean

this is every developer’s

or at least this developer’s

worst nightmare:

a deploy fuckup that could have a body count.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 08:20

@Greg We are spoiled for beautiful twilight hours in Tucson.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:11

@farah Morning!

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:16

@thegibson suddenly feeling the urge to see this

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:16

Looks like a boost-heavy morning. Shifting to phanpy.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:36

@cstross but the important question: what did the shirt say?

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:39

@thegibson can’t air-gap what isn’t breathing

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 09:51

That exact tape? I don’t remember which tracks, but: Dead Milkmen, Devo, Residents, Tom Waits, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Primus, Prodigy, Steve Miller, closed with Residents again

#QT @selzero

https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/112812358860733985

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 10:01

@thegibson it can be inferred.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 15:13

@alex Agreed on the overabundance of golden path blogging and documentation.

I’ve occasionally described my blogging approach as “confessional coding.” If something really trips me up, I’ll make a point of calling out both the symptoms and the fix.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 16:41

Our printer did not survive the move.

Considering my opinion of HP printers these days, I have mixed feelings at best.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 16:45

@grmpyprogrammer I will keep that in mind!

This was the first time we maybe needed a printer since before we moved, so it’s not the most urgent concern.

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 18:51

hrm

Always fun getting a jump scare from one’s selected classless CSS dependency that gives you such reasonable defaults.

MVP.css sees an <em> inside the text of a link, it makes it look like a button.

A reasonable default.

Except right now. Ah well, time to fiddle a bit more with the CSS

A link to an Arch Linux issue ticket, where a ticket number in the middle of the link text has very significant padding and a border

hackers.town: 2024-07-19 Fri 22:22

I’ve got simple tag links working, which for the public brain will mostly help me show off my tagging system for bookmarks.

(I lean hard on Logseq namespaces for tagging — a sort of “is-a” classification of link types, usually with another tag pointing at a relevant topic page)

Page title “Media” with subpages listed for blog posts, books, music, videos, and more