hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 11:30

I suppose I could make building easier by using Creative mode, or having a plan, but this is more fun.

Minecraft #ATM9

hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 12:23

managed to remember why I was calling the pharmacy long enough to reach the end of the phone tree and leave my message

hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 12:51

And the pharmacy called back! With the information I needed, and the best time range to pick up my prescription!

Have I ended up in some parallel universe?

hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 15:12

You can tell who’s on a client that supports quoted boosts.

On the official Web client, all I see is your snark and a URL, which if I click will open said URL in a whole new tab.

(even on supporting clients, the quote preview may not come through say if you’re doing an outrage-boost of some account from an instance the ever-attentive hackers.town admin team has opted out of; a blessing in disguise really)

hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 15:45

I am never in the right mental space for “unexpected gathering of people” but now that I know this is a thing, hopefully there will be again next year and I can consider attending!

(but so far I’ve rarely been in the right mental space for “anticipated-well-in-advance gathering of people)

Tucson Comic-Con - Home

#Tucson

hackers.town: 2024-08-31 Sat 16:46

Yacht Rock as a genre is mostly “the soft rock selection of the songs my mom enjoyed as a young adult and also the pina colada song”

(BTW Real yacht rock would at least throw in The Immigrant Song every once in a while.)

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 06:01

An hour after the first actual paycheck since January and I restarted my Obsidian Sync subscription (single vault because that’s all I need and it’s $24 annual w/early bird discount). In case you want to know which PKM systems I trust enough to give them money.

(Kinopio’s the other one, with that annual plan going from early this year)

#PKM #ObsidianMD #KinopioClub

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 06:40

@jack @webology oh I know this pain.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 07:30

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/113051412449551799

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 08:18

@grmpyprogrammer some of you were. By head count, most.

By designated authority, not so much. But that wasn’t on y’all.

I’m reasonably sure that many are still trying dang hard.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 10:44

@lmorchard the verklempt is just part of the album listening experience.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 12:11

“ooh right there try not to touch it that’s where I have bursitis”

“come closer baby so I can hear you over the sound of my tinnitus”

(sax squeal)

Hot.

Lots of NSFW lyrics so this is for headphones or the home office maybe.

#NowPlaying

Middle Age Love (A Comedy Song by Riki Lindhome) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 12:29

@jamie Isn’t it though?

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 15:28

She kinda wanted me to go grocery shopping with her, help keep her on track, until she remembered I am 100% an enabler even when it isn’t payday.

So I guess I keep working instead.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 15:29

@flyingsaceur @lmorchard decided it’s time for a solidarity listen

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 15:30

@jack I go with the “you deserve this!” angle

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 15:38

@flyingsaceur @lmorchard I got the album the day it came out, and thought it was … okay. Better than I’d heard in a while, but not like his old epic concept albums.

Then he died. And I listened to it again. Realized what he’d done and what he’d hidden in plain sight.

Spent like six months going “you son of a bitch” every time I listened to Blackstar, which was a lot.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 16:06

@flyingsaceur @lmorchard that first listen it felt kind of like a grab bag. Good stuff, but not coherent. Later listens I realized oh heck this is a concept album and the concept being explored is “Bowie.”

(same as all his other albums, I realized belatedly)

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 17:45

@thegibson mine is driven by the unforgivable incorrectness of the situation.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 18:10

@munin a “worrisome change?”

the only change is more kids seeing the option to disown their parents before their parents disown them.

damn and all the assumptions from that writer are from those accustomed to authority, empathizing with the angle of “oh my kid’s just having a tantrum; they’ll get over it and see I’m right.” Darn few of my friends kicked on the street thought their parents would get over it eventually

oy

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 18:53

@ceejbot oh she presses a button all right

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 19:24

@btp I’m in the desert. Closest I’ll get to touching grass is grabbing a cactus, and no thank you.

hackers.town: 2024-08-30 Fri 20:38

@rafial and not being able to read the entries

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 05:41

@minego it never is

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 06:08

@calcifer “but also I am drinking coffee so STFU”

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 06:08

https://hackers.town/users/calcifer/statuses/113045453595383891

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 08:20

Out walking the dogs and I thought of an approach to deploying my site involving containers, cloud object storage, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.

or a shell account and a cron job but you know whatever

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 08:46

As your toolkit gets bigger and more complex, your problems magically transform into bigger and more complex puzzles that require those new tools.

But the sign of maturity is checking “isn’t that just OLD_AND_BUSTED_THING?” and recognizing when it is.

The real maturity check is recognizing that sometimes it isn’t just OLD_AND_BUSTED_THING.

i mean this time it was but it isn’t always

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 10:36

A-F-R-O paying homage to Gift of Gab

#NowPlaying

A-F-R-O - Alphabetical Algorithm (Official Video) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 10:45

org-mode is a simple outliner for note taking and list management. It doesn’t impose any complex features on users. This is something users excel at by themselves.

ouch

and not just in org either

Boris Buliga - Task management with org-roam Vol. 1 Path to Roam

#OrgMode #PKM

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 11:48

Cat keeps being affectionate and rubbing his chin on the edge of the work laptop, disconnecting the magnetized power cable.

Good thing he’s cute.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 11:59

@mhoye the Finding Nemo / Bug’s Life crossover nobody knew we needed

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 14:35

@earthshine when was this?

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 14:44

@zkat nushell is wonderfully batteries-included, and works consistently enough for me on Linux, macOS, and Windows. I like it a lot.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 14:49

@zkat still not bold enough to use it as $SHELL for Linux and macOS, but I have a binding in tmux to open a nu session .

In Windows I just have Windows Terminal open Nushell by default, since it’s gonna be the only actually good shell in native Windows (for me).

I just love the open | from json | do stuff | to md flow for simple reports

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 14:54

@zkat I made it work at some point, around 0.66 I think. Honestly not a great idea, with my dev workflow’s POSIX assumptions and the rate of breaking changes in nu at that point.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 16:43

She’s watching Downton Abbey, which I haven’t watched since oh I don’t know — somebody nice died and I thought it terribly unfair. Anyways.

Is that Bernard?

Looked up who I thought it was and yep.

Thirty years now and David Haig is still Bernard the Groom from Four Weddings and a Funeral.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 17:51

I always worry that me being engaged and interested sounds a lot like me being nitpicky and crabby.

In the category of neurospicy I guess. Both the worry and the fact it’s based on precedent.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 18:07

(looks at org agenda, sees active item)

Oh right, standup meeting ended six and half hours ago

Another reminder that we do not use our task management tools for time tracking.

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 18:31

okay i read all our source code

understand it?

hang on now

nobody said anything about understanding it

hackers.town: 2024-08-29 Thu 21:11

you might say I have a gift for names

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 10:59

got simplified (for me) org setup working well enough to get that meeting on the day’s agenda

roughly two minutes before it starts

yay me!

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 11:43

@lowqualityfacts I know what it’s like. I feel pretty bad for Byron.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 11:46

@ireneista with my habit of reading part of a PDF, squirreling it away, losing it, downloading it again, reading another part of it, losing that, then finding them all one day

this could be a useful tool

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 11:57

@vees dangit this is your fault

The Terrible Secret Of Space - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 19:06

Okay my brain definitely feels like it’s getting back into the swing of work thinking. That’s good.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 19:23

@nomad I’ll take it whenever I can get it.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 20:11

@thomasfuchs now every language gets to be Perl.

(thinking back on how many people used Matt’s Script Archive as their primary learning resource for Perl and the godawful effort it took to clean all the logic, security, and plain old code structure issues in their code)

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 20:17

Installing Gnome so I can try PaperWM

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 20:26

okay what Linux-software packaging blockhead is putting #!/usr/bin/env python3 in your packaged desktop applications? First it was lollypop, now gnome-tweaks

I don’t trust system Python. You’d think the system would’ve learned by now not to trust mine.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 20:29

@cinebox yep exactly. It’s like “congrats gnome-tweaks, you have successfully failed to find Gnome library bindings in the venv for my static site generator”

(they specified python3 at least, but I was typing too fast to catch that)

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 20:49

Okay I can see why some folks like PaperWM. With the auto-layout, mouse friendliness, and choice of key binding mnemonics, it feels like — like —

my brain keeps saying “like if someone put CUA in a tiling window manager” which makes absolutely no sense

but it does kind of explain why I dislike it so much. Never did enjoy CUA.

excuse me while i go dust off my qtile config

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 21:01

@minego the ultrawide monitor makes me fussy about layout things that wouldn’t matter on a normal display, and reaching for key bindings that often don’t exist in defaults made for people with sane aspect ratios.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 21:05

@minego I mean. I know this can be tweaked, but it’s an odd first impression and has me wanting to be on a more familiar, already tweaked desktop.

hackers.town: 2024-08-28 Wed 21:14

@minego Gnome Shell continues to know what’s best for its users, and although PaperWM appears to be more configurable, the defaults sit comfortably in that mindset.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 09:08

“fifteen minute introduction to TOPIC”

Half an hour to watch, taking notes along the way. Another half hour to process those notes.

I might wait until later for the “TOPIC in one hour” video.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 09:22

odesli.co is starting to feel a little crusty these days. Anybody know about another music link aggregator resource?

my brain: “you could write—”

SHUT UP WE ARE ON THE CLOCK JUST LISTEN TO THE NICE MUSIC I STARTED FOR YOU

#NowPlaying

Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 09:28

@genehack @minego the local fauna (edit: also flora sorry first coffee) in Arizona is absolutely gorgeous, but I am still confused and honestly a tiny bit saddened by what they call “trees” around here.

Had similar issues in southern Idaho.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 09:37

@thegibson @genehack @minego this is open to interpretation.

Definitely not the trees I am familiar with, or the trees I grew up with.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 09:39

@thegibson @genehack @minego mind you it’s nice being able to actually see sunrise and sunset without a bunch of wood trying to get your attention

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 10:29

@Blort @rysiek oh now I’m sad all over again.

I was one of the 20 people that liked the WP8 interface and loved the early Nokia line of Windows Phones.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 10:31

@rysiek okay this is the one I was stalking through your feed for. Gonna need to talk to some friends about switching off Telegram.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 11:43

@bmac @thegibson @genehack @minego I’ve got mountains in view, so the agoraphobia doesn’t kick in. They aren’t the same kind as the Olympics and Cascades, but they’re neat.

The Arizona Sky Islands is just the coolest dang name for a collection of mountains.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 12:42

Barry-approved.

#NowPlaying

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 13:12

@jamie @paigerduty Yah. I’ve been waiting since roughly 2004 for other languages to catch up with some of the affordances in REBOL.

REBOL/Core User’s Guide : Appendix 1 : Values : Other Values : Time

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 13:16

@chuck Oreo has a peanut butter + chocolate cookie that is worth evaluating.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 14:00

@gizmomathboy yep, though I only ever got a milkshake if I craved something sweet with my big bag of hot Dick’s.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 14:26

@CoralineAda I definitely like the term “code hospitality”

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 14:28

No shirt. Cooling blanket wrapped around and tied-up like I’m a five year old cosplaying Superman.

If someone wants a meeting at this point, it’s gonna have to be cameras-off.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 15:01

taking entirely too many attempts to successfully type “CI”

it may be pausing time soon

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 15:03

@vees Oh how I miss the signal quality from when I lived in Seattle proper.

It’s better here on the outskirts of Tucson than it was in suburban south King County, but it’s still not city-downtown signal strength.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 15:22

@funnelfiasco o nho

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 15:38

The youngest helped by making frozen pizza, though they neglected to separate it from its cardboard tray before its twenty minutes in a 375F oven.

In completely unrelated news, I accidentally came across “Cohabitation Axiom No. 6” from Jerry van Amerongen’s comic The Neighborhood.

After looking across multiple search engines and archive.org

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 16:20

@rgegriff like

385 unique ways to kill a computer with a pencil?

because same really

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 16:23

@rgegriff pencils down!

FOREVER

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 17:43

@A_bee Same. It was very hard not to share more. Internet Archive is an awesome resource, but I still think I want to find the physical books again.

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 20:29

@IamMrsGeek I’m pretty sure there’s some karmic rebalancing going on here for my noisy D&D etc sessions

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 20:33

the kind of stuff that would have me laughing out loud for five minutes straight

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 20:35

@IamMrsGeek like, what do you do that’s loud enough that the fates decide you need to pay?

Well, there’s always [REDACTED]

hackers.town: 2024-08-27 Tue 22:02

@cordelya I haven’t even stayed with a game long enough to spend more than a total of a couple minutes in the nether, and I have this problem.

Died 800m from home.

“well guess it’s time for a new game”

might as well be playing hardcore because my brain is

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 07:05

@chuck this would be me and kubernetes which is why i was smart enough to not be a linux podcast personality

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 08:03

All the folks with reactive dogs getting a good eye from waving friendly at each other across a distance of three blocks.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 08:43

I once described Brent Amaker and the Rodeo as “sentimental goth shit-kicker country” and I’ve rarely been prouder of a summary.

#NowPlaying

Doomed by Brent Amaker & The Rodeo

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 09:11

Good lord I need to tune the notifications that go to my Apple Watch.

The base experience is nice, other than battery life.

But jeez with the watch telling me about every SMS and Slack notification I keep getting derailed. I’ve kept my phone in silent mode for over a decade and face down during work hours for a reason.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 09:21

@vmbrasseur I’ll probably go with a similar path. Turn everything off, then pick and choose what gets through.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 09:44

Realizing that the paradoxical good news is that I’m noticing distractions because my brain’s properly engaging on work stuff, and getting cranky about unexpected stimulus (as opposed to expected ones like stuff in this side of the monitor and messages from favorite people of whom honestly there’s one so it’s not like there’s a flood of that)

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 11:22

reminded how much WFH can be pretty much the same as open office as I wait for somebody to finish preparing their lunch so I can maybe concentrate again

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 12:32

@earthshine misread that as “prion” thereby adding another layer of incomprehensibility

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 13:46

@munin I feel like it’s not quite there but my brain immediately blurted “Carol Burnett” because she has sufficient charisma to remain beloved at full volume

but it’s not a flat-out assumption like with Blessed. Must ponder.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 14:11

Mostly working in a virtual desktop. The trackpad is less helpful there. But only slightly.

so naturally i am eyeballing a new trackball because what i really need is a new pointer device

sorry i misread

what i really do not need

whatever

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 14:14

mostly I just want a new trackball. I don’t need one for any reason. The one I have works fine.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 14:29

@sarajw NO I DID NOT BUT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS THANK YOU SO MUCH

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 14:48

@sarajw YES

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 15:03

@IamMrsGeek look I’m not gonna be the one to kink shame. You can test me all you want.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 15:09

@vees I’m not sure if I still have my dictionary, but I’ve got at least one thesaurus. That was always how I untangled word meaning.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 16:39

Bouncy Dog likes the new chair too.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 16:47

spent excessive time ensuring there were no sensitive pixels in the already-blurry work laptop screen

doing my due diligence though

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 16:50

@WuMargaret a little, yeah!

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 17:36

@b0rk I’m curious what terminals it doesn’t happen in!

I’ve had it in Konsole, GNOME Terminal, Alacritty, xterm, rxvt, and I think kitty.

My typing gets clumsy sometimes.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 17:44

@b0rk curoius if it’s something specific to following specific terminal emulation guidelines. Terminal.app and iTerm2 are macOS, and kitty (were these tests on macOS, Linux, or other?) has a habit of decisions that sound a lot like “ok but the rules are stupid so no we won’t do that.”

Oh and I don’t think I’ve seen it in Windows Terminal, and I know I’ve hit it clumsy enough to bounce off my current tab, so it’s not that my typing’s any better.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 17:49

@b0rk ohhh and that might be why I don’t recall it happening recently. I’ve been spending more time in Nushell.

Learn something new every day, whether you like it or not!

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 19:37

I found the chocking hazard sized dongle that the cats misplaced a few days ago!

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 19:42

anyways back to reading the illustrated childrens guide to kubernetes

The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 19:45

@kroyio It’s a kid’s story. Watership Down can wait until they get hired.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 21:32

a small corner of my reading / viewing list

the notes will spread out as I get more of them

#KinopIoClub

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 21:44

@jack they cleaned it up quite a bit for the kids.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 21:59

@jack a couple years in and I’ve worked many of those impulses out.

Proximity can provide a subtly different contextual meaning than links, and both are useful.

Directional links all through get overwhelming. so I rarely use them now.

Links are arbitrary colors by default in Kinopio, but you can narrow the options and define a meaning for them. I do that.

There’s more logical grouping one can do, like labeled groups. I’ll probably incorporate those here as things gel.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:00

@jack and the numb is a genuine issue. Concept maps are great for the person or group who created them, and get progressively less useful the farther you get from the author(s).

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:03

@jack an actual “thinking through a problem” space:

https://kinopio.club/logseq-toolkit-design-sketch-rA5qiWd_ebzHTEqjbx6vC

a more whimsical bio space

https://kinopio.club/bio-random-geek-byqEEH8wCzvDs1mV5xk2w

(on desktop, space and click-drag to move around)

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:17

@jack Brains are indeed wild! So most of the time my notes involve an outliner like Logseq. When I’m in more of a prose mode, Markdown or a rich text format like what SiYuan provides will do the trick. And sometimes none of that will do and I need to just dump small thoughts on a board and understand them by arranging them.

Brains are wild. ADHD brains are feral.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:29

@jack we do not speak of the ten thousand special purpose notebooks

but anyways yeah I’m familiar. I’ve got my own walls that there’s just no climbing or walking around.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:48

@jack Incidentally that anxiety about messing it up is why I use Kinopio rather than one of the more structured whiteboard concept map tools like Heptabase or Miro. You can make something real nice and organized in those. Which means you can really get it wrong.

Since the intentional limits of Kinopio mean you can never get it just-so, I can relax and not worry about screwing it up. Not worry as much anyways.

hackers.town: 2024-08-26 Mon 22:48

@thegibson -dent

(I know but I had to)

hackers.town: 2024-08-25 Sun 15:59

Things are stable enough on the Dendron + Hugo workflow for my public brain that I’ve incorporated the aliases for historical redirects (cool URLs never change, though the thing they point at might) and adding (what will be) new site pages.

Plan is to publish after payday, going back to a paid host plan. Also it gives me time to fiddle with RSS.

hackers.town: 2024-08-24 Sat 05:04

@AutisticManager except my brain seamlessly pastes Man Man to that

🎵 And if you gotta smash some plates to relaxI say do it d-d-d-d-d-do itAnd if you gotta crash your car in a lake to feel saneI say do it, just do it 🎵

hackers.town: 2024-08-24 Sat 10:26

Me: I hate people. Social battery zero. Personal space starts at about 10 yards.

Also me: chats for five minutes with every canvasser that knocks on the door

hackers.town: 2024-08-24 Sat 11:33

That was very thoughtful of @IamMrsGeek

She got me a fidget sitter.

hackers.town: 2024-08-24 Sat 19:49

Talking DREDD (2012, the good Judge Dredd movie not the awful one with Stallone) with someone and they mention how Slo-Mo, the drug that profoundly stretches out your perception of time, is intriguing.

They: “But they do show the worst-case scenario, getting thrown out of a window—”

Me: “That’s not a worst-case scenario. Worst-case scenario is you take slo-mo and then there’s an all-hands meeting.”

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 08:23

Saw an ant struggling to carry a flower petal that was clearly a two-ant job.

I know y’all are strong, but even ants have limits. Get a buddy.

I refuse to see how any of this might apply to my own life.

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 08:55

Using a grid as my default background for Kinopio makes it easy to cluster the random links I’m dropping to process later.

#KinopioClub

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 10:35

Very excited that in a week I’ll be able to afford gas for my car — which has been “EEEEE” and therefore unmoving for at least a week — and may be even get it drivable without anxiety — when a prius check engine light comes on, that’s all you get to see on the dash panel until it’s sorted.

Not enough to make it fully legal, though. That’ll have to be a couple paychecks down the line.

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 10:39

Love what you’re doing over there, brain. Real cool. Will come in handy later.

Thing is I kinda need you over here. For the next few hours at least.

kthx

#ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 12:15

Not about me, I just gotta blurt:

somebody puts in their two week notice, the smart HR team ships the equipment return box that day, and sends a “thank you for your service, you must be tired, take the next couple weeks off” email.

That’s how it’s been done nearly every place I’ve seen, so it’s a little jarring when I don’t see it.

‘cause if they’re leaving and the reason is anything but “retired; bought a goat farm; moved to Ukiah” then you don’t have much to keep them from spreading that discomfort now that they’re a short-timer

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 13:32

Reevaluating the placement of my laptop for touch id ergonomics

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 14:57

if complicated authentication was the same as security

well i dunno what

always feels like putting a deadbolt on a screen door

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 15:29

look at me getting a thing in a full week before I need it and more than a month before it’s no longer possible to submit it

hackers.town: 2024-08-23 Fri 19:02

Drama sunset

#Tucson

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 07:19

@platypus I have not yet been able to find a citation or news piece, but I recall Washington State having issues with police warrants reactivating after September 9th (9999). It wasn’t as big an issue as it could’ve been, because they were already working on it, but a few were missed.

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 08:50

Already bookmarked these for my own nefarious purposes later, but here’s a couple frameworks for similarly minded “no framework” #CSS folks.

frontaid.natural-selection: no style, just a blank with most of the CSS selectors you’d want to keep in mind for your own design

Open Props: sub-atomic styles: a grab-bag kinda like Tailwind, except everything’s in the form of CSS variables and some useful selector scopes for them

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 10:13

I do not care for “move fast and break things.” No my friends I much prefer to move slow and — oops

um

never mind

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 10:26

Brain dump from last night’s puttering

Heavily pondered going all-in on Org mode and I still may do that, but decided my Dendron vault has all the public notes and has fewer opinions about Markdown than Obsidian. So I can use shortcodes and whatever Markdown funkiness I can get away with in Hugo render hooks.

So Dendron’s not really serving as PKM but more like a CMS.

Anyways, brain wasn’t letting me focus on other stuff until I typed this. Thank you.

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 10:32

@munin appreciate the reminder!

Checked my Zoom profile settings, saw a slot for pronouns and selected the option to “always share in meetings and webinars”

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 10:54

looking at a dashboard with many cards with lots of words in tiny text and getting a sensory flashback to — Rolemaster?

Interesting move, brain.

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 11:41

wondering why Kate is responsible for so much infrastructure and services because they keep talking about Kate’s clusters and Kate’s orchestration and —

wait

ohhhhh

k8s

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 11:49

@cinebox @munin can’t a screenshot because that’s the work machine, but for me it was:

Get to your profile page

(in app: profile icon -> MY NAME -> My profile)

“Edit” next to your name, then in form: “Pronouns” text field, “How would you like to share your pronouns?” select

Save

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 13:20

@socketwench So we better treat her right!

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 13:34

At least I recognized and spoke up when my social battery tapped out (main clue being that my brain started paying much closer attention to the thunder outside than the conversation in my headset) but oof I need to figure out how to get more capacity in there. Maybe fix the capacity warning.

It’s all “I’m good I’m good I’m good I’m done.”

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 13:56

food is good generally

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 15:48

@minego absolutely!

sorry

a8y!

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 18:05

@genehack something about snuggles IIRC

hackers.town: 2024-08-22 Thu 21:09

Talking with my mom about weather systems, she jokes about how we’re old people doing small talk about the weather, and I kinda go off:

“I was just thinking about how much I’ve always enjoyed weather talk and thought it was unfair how folks maligned weather as small talk. It’s a tiny slice of a snapshot of a system so huge it dwarfs our imaginations, and that is the paper-thin layer protecting us from the rest of the universe. Small talk my ass.”

She’s not wrong. But still.