2024-08-18 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 05:55

Good morning! Today’s #HelpfulHint

right foot goes in right shoe, left foot goes in left shoe

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 06:12

@WuMargaret thanks! I think it’s largely that we all go for consistent styles that emphasize the content, and avoid the gray-on-gray ant text consistently popular among “document-oriented” designs made by and for younger eyes I’m pretty sure

@perigrin @genehack

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 06:16

@WuMargaret @perigrin @genehack

me evaluating documentation-oriented Web designs

Zoolander school for ants meme; upper caption reads “What is this"and lower caption reads “a web site for ants?”

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 12:40

Barry appreciates the new desk setup. He’s not a lap cat, but he is a proximity kitty. He likes to be near his people.

#CatsOfMastodon

Black cat resting on the desk behind a computer monitor, looking at the camera with his chin on sturdy support provided by wrapped cables cables

Black cat curled up and napping comfortably in his spot behind the computer monitor

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 13:01

It hasn’t always been an easy spot for him to get at thanks to my clutter, but the desk — or the right in the middle of whatever I’m focused on — has been one of his favorite spots since day one. #CatsOfMastodon

Tiny black kitten curiously pops his head up from behind a desk

Two young cats stare at camera from underneath a monitor

Adolescent black act examining an open PC tower case from the inside

Black cat starts clearing items off of a desk from his vantage point behind the monitor

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 13:06

@_maleficentgirl had to come up with something! Neither he nor his brother are the lap cats we hoped we were getting, but they’ve got a lot of love for us.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 14:58

@thegibson relatedly, there is no good OS.

unfortunately, many eyes does not make all bugs shallow

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 15:17

ear started ringing like crazy

must be a storm coming in tonight

why can’t i have a psychic knee like other old people

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 15:19

@thegibson honestly I’ve gone to “whatever’s currently on my system is fine”

Which has been an Arch derivative called EndeavourOS. And KDE Which is fine.

Could’ve just as easily been Mint at this stage of things.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 15:55

@minego @thegibson the problem with my code is what happens when I let it out of my sight.

People always try to something novel with it, like “be productive” or some nonsense like that.

IT WASN’T MADE FOR THAT

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 16:16

Doing an unholy mish-mash of MVP.css and SiYuan CSS variables. It’s terrible. I’m quite proud of myself.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 16:21

@minego yo

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 16:23

@minego not at the moment. I usually rename my yo files once I’ve got a better idea what I’m writing.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 16:35

@thegibson there’s nothing more serious than a shitpost.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 19:58

Wondering if there even is a phone camera that can catch the full colors of a desert sunset. These clouds were more violet than orange.

#Tucson

Clouds over darkening horizon, undersides lit orange by setting sun

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 20:04

@GeoffWozniak there was an iOS app called Camera+ that could be set to capture a Pacific Northwest sunset admirably. I’ve lost track of this app over a couple budget tightenings. No idea whether it’s as good now as it was then, or how it would do in the desert.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 20:34

@deco doing RAW capture will come closest. I’ll have to putter around with that!

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 20:49

@deco iPhone 12 stock photo app. Pondering Camera+ or Halide as an alternative. Had good experience with Camera+ oh five or six years ago.

And yeah, the transfer & tweak workflow isn’t exactly conducive to microblogging. But it may be worth pondering anyways.

hackers.town: 2024-08-18 Sun 22:11

@jack @ubernostrum @bitprophet my projects explicitly have an audience of one.

Unfortunately he’s very hard to please.