hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 04:58

Team-building competitive elimination exercise.

First round, I warn my opponent I have social anxiety in force and will play to lose.

“Me too.”

I won.

Which is to say, I successfully eliminated myself in the first round.

Offered “good game” condolences to my opponent, who took a couple more rounds to eliminate themselves.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 05:46

Doing a little pre-event-day-events tweaking of my Emacs config, as one does. Get org-roam dailies in org-agenda, ensure visual-line-mode is enabled.

org-roam hasn’t been my primary, but even with my chunky config Emacs uses roughly 1/3 the CPU of the most efficient Electron-based tool I have installed. That makes it an excellent choice for note capture while on battery.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 06:54

@mhoye I — you mean — maybe — I’m good?

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 06:59

Puttered too much on the laptop which let’s be honest that’s what I’d rather be doing than any large gathering.

Nearly missed breakfast.

Got to breakfast and the no doubt very expensive options had a Best Western continental breakfast feel. Missing breakfast? Very “wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it Bob” territory.

I enjoyed a couple pieces of fresh fruit though.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 07:00

@mhoye wild.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 11:04

Work event MC said to make sure we met somebody new during lunch.

So I went to the food truck down the street, got a burger, and hung out with the construction workers.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 11:12

@c0debabe no idea what I did, but thank you! I appreciate you too!

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 13:21

Subject: public bench

Aesthetic: quaint hostile architecture

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 13:40

They’ve got beer set out!

(sees nothing but Bud and Bud Light)

ah, no they don’t. My mistake.

i am such a cliche

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 14:05

Oh I missed that they also have Coors.

Still no beer though.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 14:56

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/113228624877427794

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 15:56

@IamMrsGeek @magni @mcgrew yeah I learned a lot of times it’s not AI, but super-strict filtering on ATS (applicant tracking service), and borderline fraudulent job postings that are there to tick the box on some internal metric.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 15:58

Vague-toot that it’s okay to be happy for a thing that excites other folks even if it moves you not at all.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 16:02

@laescude exactly! Like I’m thrilled for some folks, maybe even more honestly thrilled for them directly because I have no personal investment. I’m just happy to see their smiles.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 16:30

Tried three times to make my legs move in the same direction as my 750 — or so — coworkers and I just could not do it. That is too much people after a full day of too much people.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 16:46

“I moved to Tucson from Seattle in June and I have been absolutely miserable. Except for summer when there’s monsoon season: constant lightning storms, torrential rain, flash floods, it’s awesome! you’re in the desert and it’s hot but also muggy. Don’t like that. But everything is green and it’s gorgeous! Oh and you hear about the scorpions and rattlesnakes, but really look out for javelinas: North American peccaries. Look like pigs, fill same ecological role as pigs, but not pigs. They knock over your garbage and get mean if you startle them.”

#Tucson tourism department should hire me.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 16:46

And honestly I can’t infodump that much that fast about a place if I’m not enjoying it. #Tucson

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 17:06

Well okay maybe I can hang out for a minute.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 17:39

Every time I walk past someone walking the dog a low whisper rolls from my lips, like a hot breeze scraping across rocks.

“PUPPY”

@IamMrsGeek is a terrible influence

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 17:47

Yep I lasted exactly long enough to drink my drink and eat my prepaid food. Sort of talked to a couple people.

Then my system promptly sent me on my way.

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 18:38

@bitprophet Dragon’s Milk Stout from New Holland. Very tasty!

The place had a pretty big beer selection.. I just picked a random option from the stouts category.

https://www.bangersaustin.com/pages/untapped

hackers.town: 2024-09-30 Mon 18:40

@britown Thank you! My crabbiness is mostly play. I’ve enjoyed Tucson more and more as I get acclimatized.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 06:29

An actual eight-hours-in-a-row kind of workday planned for us.

Wonder if they packed fidget stims in the swag bag.

#ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 06:46

@c0debabe I usually do, but that’s one of the things I skipped in rushing out.

Along with a hairbrush.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 06:48

Breakfast provided was excellent. It’s a shame my body isn’t really ready for food in the first couple hours.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 08:00

@ddr I appreciate that! I woke up about three hours ago, reasonably well-rested. The green noise background helped.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 08:12

Obvious neurospicy point ahead.

Looking over my note plan for the next few days, which honestly is really quite good, I ponder my persistent default state of scattered and scrambling.

I then remind the ghost voices of authority figures past that “just get yourself better organized” is not the easy helpful suggestion they thought it was. Sure it gives me better odds of finding the nugget I need, but not in proportion to the work I do collecting these notes.

“Just get organized” or “just apply yourself more” is for #ADHD right up there with “just go for a walk” for depression, and almost as bad as “just go for a walk” for somebody wheelchair-bound.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 08:15

@c0debabe “a delight to have in class; if only they applied themselves more” is a triggering phrase for sure.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 08:31

@kusuriya @c0debabe right? RIGHT?!

motherf-

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 11:24

@hummingrain @hacks4pancakes I am a bear of the sort of brain that sees how numbers change, and this metric is based on games with achievements that you have opened to play (or stare at splash screen and go “nah.”)

That is actually how I reduced my achievement percentage.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 11:52

Okay we’ve done three hours of stuff. Can we be done with the three day event yet?

No?

Dang.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 15:24

You would think hotel conference room chairs might be more amenable to sitting for hours at a time.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 15:27

@c0debabe my butt concurs

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 15:35

Hotel staff calling me “sir” and I’m all “don’t call me ‘sir’ I w– ok no sorry. My mistake. As you were.”

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 15:39

generations, possibly centuries of military service in my family but all that reached me was a few NCO jokes and a fondness for 24 hour clocks.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 16:27

End of first day, dinner and social gathering. I ate two sliders, talked to two people, and my social drive dinged “empty; please refuel.” Loudly.

Also the check engine light but pretty sure that’s been on for a few years now.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 19:03

Went back into the social event to meet up with some of my teammates and although I’m glad I did my ears are very mad at me.

hackers.town: 2024-09-29 Sun 19:06

Apple Watch was like “it’s loud. It’s still loud. Jesus is Bouncy Dog there with you or something?”

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 05:36

travel prep; finding all the stuff I knew exactly where it was until I decided I needed it.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 07:39

As airports go, TUS is nice and quiet at the moment.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 07:41

I mean it’s still an airport. I’d still rather be home, with my person and the critters, than en route to a three day meeting.

But I’m focusing on the positive.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 14:53

We are in row 35 of this plane, neighbor. No need for us to jump up and form a line to exit just yet.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 15:40

@jtgrimes a good instinct. It did not apply for most of the whippersnappers.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 15:44

It’s been over a quarter century since I last worked in (food) service.

But drop me off in front of a big expensive hotel, and I gotta find myself a spot to get oriented.

And that spot is never the lobby. It’s the dingy bit out back where the employees have their smoke breaks.

“Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives”

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 17:23

@shadowspar roughly four years back followed by five front. And of course a few sandwich shops that were both.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 18:07

First actual meal in Texas, would feel weird to get anything but barbecue plate with sweet tea.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 18:36

Earlier today, registered for the work event.

“And here’s your lanyard.”

“Thank you!”

“Wear it at all times.”

💭 absolutely not. I’m already obviously a tourist. I’m not ready to let “corporate tourist” add to the vulnerability profile. Not a chance in hell.

“Of course!”

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 18:43

@technoid_ I know in the way back Seattle had some small issue with blue badges getting harrassed on the street.

Sometimes as a shakedown, but usually just because they worked at Amazon.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 19:08

@technoid_ oh we give Amazon our money, but that doesn’t mean we can’t mock them on the streets.

Not warehouse and delivery folks though. Just the blue badges.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 19:49

Watching Blade for the first time in a long time and I kinda forgot how badass it was.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:13

@hacks4pancakes A year ago I only had 22% achievements completed. But after a year of effort and 100% on a couple games, I reached

twenty percent

i need to stop getting new games

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:16

@jtgrimes I wouldn’t be surprised if I let nostalgia gloss over bits, but Blade has for sure held up better than most of the other works I enjoyed in the 90s.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:29

On Saturday at 11:30 at night, it occurs to me there may be a down side to the weekend work event happening in a town known for music and musical events.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:49

@nomad Texas has never been on my list of places to spend time in, and I prefer black tea to sweet, but I figured as long as I’m here what’s a good appropriately symbolic meal?

Anything else is gonna be whatever work picks plus anything that looks good to me.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:51

@nomad @technoid_ I include buying from folks who run their services on AWS as giving them money.

But anyways, it’s irrelevant to my original point. I can always mock the pampered servants of late capitalism. Even if I need a mirror to do it.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 21:53

@nomad oh god yes. Not too tangential, talking to a friend over concerns about their partner, I mentioned “he seems like a nice guy – which, having been a nice guy at one point, I consider a warning flag right there.”

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 23:23

We’re at about 1:30 in the morning, and for those who know trying to get to sleep has been a very “Fremont Experience” kind of experience.

But I got some green noise to mix with the background beats. Let’s hope that does the trick.

hackers.town: 2024-09-28 Sat 23:30

@genehack yah, during dot-com era folks loved flashing their badges. Over time – well they kept wearing their badges, but started clustering in common spots closer to work where they were less likely to get mocked by the rest of the city.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 06:28

Coyote just sitting and chilling in a parking lot, watching with idle curiosity as Bouncy Dog barks at every passing car and jogger. I’m grateful BD hasn’t looked around or he’d lose his dang mind.

Meanwhile, Jumpy Dog: “that puppy smells funny. Can we go say hi?”

Hm no I don’t think we can.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 06:44

@c0debabe losing some proper icons this year.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 09:58

@farah Yes, according to people I don’t like.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 10:02

https://hackers.town/users/kusuriya/statuses/113210588278523476

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 10:17

Random navel-gazing as my brain warms up to work tasks.

Apparently I partition ideals / ethics.

The ones I value are aspirational. They require effort. They describe who I want to be.

Then I have reflexive behaviors that folks consider virtuous or idealistic. I don’t give those any weight, because of course that’s what I do. It’s who I already am. If I thought about them too much the whole thing would come crashing down. No thank you.

Sort of an internal Vimes / Carrot dichotomy, for the well-read.

Anyways, my brain unlocked how it’s gonna do this work thing. Bye.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 11:18

some kind of background noise in or near the house has me hearing maybe half this meeting?

Not that it’s a content-heavy meeting or anything.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 11:33

@billseitz @lmorchard messing about with a notepad clone in Java Swing in 1999 on a slightly busted 486DX, then implementing & actually being able to use same with Perl/Tk, is what got me committed to Perl for the next 15+ years.

Honestly that was it between me and Java until last year when I got into Minecraft.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 11:33

https://hackers.town/users/lmorchard/statuses/113210675021572769

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 11:43

Checking destination weather for travel prep. Peak estimated high of 95F, mostly in the 80s.

Current local high: 104F.

Actively pondering whether I should bring a hoodie.

or at least wear pants

maybe

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 13:13

sometimes i think my coping mechanisms are kinda weird

but they mostly work

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 13:54

I can say what I like about open offices, but must admit that their background noise is marginally less likely to include projectile vomiting.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 13:56

Lost track of my code flow there with “that CANNOT be good for them. Should I call someone?”

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 18:48

@samueldr @drwho Wayland is fine I guess as long as I don’t do anything interesting.

Mostly for me it’s that Wayland feels like Systemd for the desktop, and I just don’t want to try anything interesting with that.

When X11 + up-to-date tools no longer work with my devices, there’s a non-zero chance I just wipe my Linux partition.

hackers.town: 2024-09-27 Fri 20:27

In classic me fashion, today has been getting super-focused on a task right before I won’t really be able to do anything with it for a few days.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 06:22

Wait. How is it already Thursday.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 09:07

Always grateful to @IamMrsGeek for printable and unprintable reasons.

I suppose technically they’re printable depending on your device’s UTF-32 support.

But I’m not going to figure out the Compose key chords for them.

anyways yeah just my turn for the intermittent announcement that I love @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 09:12

A youth on the save icon:

“I always thought it was a book with a bookmark in it.”

And damn if that isn’t a much better, more persistently meaningful, metaphor for document save than a floppy disk.

#QT @nerdybutcute via @mjj

https://social.horrorhub.club/@nerdybutcute/113202623138490442

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 09:30

Tried out the Whiteboard feature for Logseq. Didn’t like it. But brain insists on capturing and processing most of its thoughts in Logseq, so I’m going to keep trying for those projects and concepts that benefit from visual processing.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 10:58

I’m aware of how much privilege I get thanks the whole “straight enough white enough dude enough” but every once in a while I still chafe against the sharp edges of privileges that don’t apply, like “financially secure enough.” Assumptions made in a conversational context are just “nope must be nice I guess?”

No details because honestly it’s evergreen.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 11:54

“Oppositional Defiance Disorder” which I called “Authority Defiance Disorder” when trying to recall the name off the top of my head, which I then also called “whatever they tag it when you can’t help telling authorities they’re full of shit” which might also tell you roughly how I feel about behaviors diagnosed as disorders from the vantage point of the status quo.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 12:16

Notion turned the Mac startup screen into Clippy.

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 12:18

next question I have for myself: is an animated icon in the corner of my workspace less distracting than an “Ask AI” prompt in the corner of my workspace, or more distracting?

Given it’s five minutes since I opened that page and I forgot to read its contents, I’m gonna go with “more.”

hackers.town: 2024-09-26 Thu 18:00

TFW you accidentally solve a code puzzle by setting application-wide log level to DEBUG.

“Oh here’s the problem being logged in this dependent library.”

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 08:33

Trying to at least steer it towards Org mode. Taskwarrior is more challenging now that the big sync hosts have shut down and 3.0 has made self-hosted sync more confusing.

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 08:41

@rhosyn Freecinc and inthe.AM

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 10:15

@chuck long post so Mastodon Web client only showed first line and that with some fading out at the bottom.

Long story short I saw “Over here doing B&D”, clicked in, saw Kubernetes, and it all still fit by the time I hit “wildly empowering, and kind of irresponsible”

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 10:28

Obsidian not yet showing which canvases a page has been embedded in has been kind of a showstopper for using the feature.

Which is a shame, because other than being almost completely detached from the vault, Obsidian Canvas is kinda nifty.

Unless there’s a setting / plugin I’m missing?

#ObsidianMD

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 12:38

Wearing the t-shirt that says “IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU’RE TOO CLOSE TO ME” and presenting everyone in Zoom with a Zen Koan.

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 14:57

Explaining koans to @IamMrsGeek with the classic.

“If a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound?”

She: “Shouldn’t that be ‘if a tree falls in a forest and there’s nobody to hear it, does it make a sound?’”

Me: “Yeah. God that would be weird. Just walking along and—”

She: “—ow! Why does my head hurt?”

Me: “Surprised I didn’t heard that. I guess he got the quote right after all!”

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 15:37

Look there’s reasons I don’t tag my profile as infosec, cybersex (edit: that’s a typo but I’m leaving it), or a/s/l or what was I saying

right

I don’t call myself infosec because there’s too much I don’t care to know. Also, infosec people mostly seem miserable.

so I can’t verify the actual security of some of these policies

but every time I reach for the damn finger scanner button so I can SSO so I can do an SSH thing I feel like I’m taking my shoes off at the airport.

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 15:49

@rubenerd Yep that’s gotta be disorienting! Flip it for moving from a temperate region (pacific northwest US) to desert (Sonoran Desert, in Arizona)

I’m used to enough variation that you get bored after three days of the same weather.

Now it’s hot. Also dry. Every day. Except during monsoon season, when it was hot and also wet probably around sunset every day for a couple months.

So aside from the humidity aspect this is what you’re used to? So confusingly consistent.

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 17:37

somebody tells me they met Zack Snyder’s dad at their workplace and of course my immediate question was “was there blinding lens flare behind him as he entered? explosions?”

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 17:59

#AbioticFactor, a game in which I have pooped in the first 30 seconds.

Look. The outhouse was right there. I’m sure it was a long trip.

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 19:08

@IamMrsGeek agreed and edited!

hackers.town: 2024-09-25 Wed 21:02

@IamMrsGeek aww

(hikes shorts)

I didn’t know you could see my crack from up ther

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 09:49

a day when the au and the adhd are locked in mortal combat

hoping it ends with them making amends and then a big bollywood musical number

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 11:00

Trying to stay tuned into the meeting while @IamMrsGeek is over there in my peripheral vision on an exercise machine.

It’s

uh

distractingly jiggly

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 11:49

#PKM suggestion: if your notes take or start from a journal form, and you like to log highlights of the meeting, and you have a daily recurring meeting?

Don’t bother tagging it or even linking to a dedicated “Our recurring meeting”. End of the year you’ll have a couple hundred hits on that tag or that page, and unless your knowledge goal includes “how many times did we have that meeting” you’re not getting anything useful out of two hundred hits.

Just jot it down in your day and let search be magic later if needed. Fold highlights into a weekly summary if that’s how you roll.

This message brought to you by flashback to notes from a gig with some 500 items tagged “meeting.”

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 12:13

@IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 12:20

@jmac asking for clarification: was he doing “my hand is a phone” or “hang loose”

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 12:21

@jmac thank you!

You of all people I should know to be precise in their emoji usage.

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 15:49

Well that’s a little vague.

#YouTubeRecommentations

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 15:52

@WuMargaret That is indeed Barry! He’s almost social these days!

Almost.

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 16:03

@WuMargaret I’m afraid to click in and find out.

But probably, yeah.

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 16:15

@crowbriarhexe @WuMargaret when all the normal paths of self-transformation fail it’s time for magick

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 17:47

I’m used to periodic snap-back to familiarity from my brain as I explore new tools and learn new domains, but the “task management” neurons just snapped all the way back to Taskwarrior.

Interesting.

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 18:31

Bouncy Dog shouting violence at every pup in sight while Jumpy Dog whines “ignore him he’s just a cranky marshmallow let’s play!”

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 18:35

@genehack part of why my weekend project has been processing JSON-Schema to Markdown for local notes. Even site search on the docs site for the library in question tends toward frustration.

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 21:05

@tankgrrl EndeavourOS (Arch-based) with NVidia RTX 3060 Ti on X11 (system gets fritzy with Wayland pretty much only with games now, but that’s enough to hold me back)

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 21:44

oh heck

Skimming the Steam wishlist and looking at updates. A recent update for Abiotic Factor includes misophonia-related settings to adjust the volume on sounds that trigger angry lizard brain.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/427410/Abiotic_Factor/

hackers.town: 2024-09-24 Tue 21:57

@leberschnitzel @tankgrrl I don’t recall for sure. I tend to play a lot of the same games, so one or more of Valheim, Planet Crafter, No Man’s Sky. The 2D games did fine. Oh but modded Minecraft was not having a good time.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 06:59

@thegibson my parsing of this matches my current opinion about Monday.

I may feel better after caffeine.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 07:20

A long time ago I wrote a text templating library in Ruby (v1.6). All it had was variables, looping, branching, and drilling into an object. A dozen method aliases for the verbs my brain kept reaching for when using it, but no other meta-programming because I felt that was overkill. I wanted it focused and friendly.

I wrote tests. I shared it.

A while later somebody out there shared a note that my already-forgotten (thank you pre-diagnosis ADHD) Ruby 1.6 library beat a bunch of templating libraries, including C-based, in a benchmark. This shocked me. I couldn’t and still can’t recognize or tell you the best optimization algorithms.

Speed wasn’t a goal. Clarity was.

I still think about that when folks talk about virtues of various language features that are there for authors of code instead of their users. DSLs, meta-programming, heck even types. All very nice and often useful, but less important than staying focused.

An ironic lesson to be coming from this brain.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 07:39

oh I fib a little about optimization. I recognized that rebuilding a template a thousand times in Ruby would hurt, so I had an option to cache intermediate state. Kept it optional because I didn’t know if my simplistic solution would break on edge cases. My one test for that was “a few cached runs are faster than a few default runs, yes? Good.”

And to be clear, it won that benchmark with the cache enabled.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 09:38

Not actually the point of the article but deep shuddery sigh of acknowledgment at:

“Something about being an avid promoter of note-taking systems seems to distract them from clear, analytical reading.

“And they seem to by and large have shit taste in books. Their examples tend to contain too many Jordan Petersen and Malcolm Gladwell books.”

from @baldur

The promise and distraction of productivity and note-taking systems – Baldur Bjarnason

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 09:47

@baldur I feel all this. Got really into the technical details of PKM for a bit, until I noticed a) so much dogma about whose techniques to emulate fastidiously; b) the productivity cult aspect drained notes of actual useful context; c) jumping so hard on the latest tool or technique feels a lot like poorly managed ADHD; and d) they really do have shit taste in books.

I still get into the details, but more as an enthusiast of shiny things than a dedicated researcher of knowledge management. Know your limits etc etc

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 09:48

WHERE DID I PUT MY HEADSET

oh right next to my hand

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 13:33

infodumping on the poor manager-type person

the neurospicy is muy picante today

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 13:53

This morning I got basic links between files working.

Probably didn’t need to process all 6,100 schema files in that folder.

At least I had the foresight to put output files in a sandbox folder rather than drop them in my main note repo.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 14:02

@wez Sometime this year people started recognizing WezTerm in my screenshots and calling it out by name.

You’ve hit the big time!

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 14:07

@wez yeah that would be even better

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 16:12

She made loco moco. Clearly @IamMrsGeek loves me very much.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 16:39

@earthshine @thegibson or glue

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 17:38

@nomad @earthshine @thegibson no that’s opposite expectations, which would still be relevant to expectations, and is thus an invalid response

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 18:54

Bouncy Dog startled something in the post-sunset bushes and made it run off, which I why I try not to get too punitive with him when he’s all barky bark.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 22:11

Did you ever have the feeling

You was being

Watched?

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 22:50

@seatek that’s why we sleep with the bedroom door closed.

hackers.town: 2024-09-23 Mon 22:54

@spinningthoughts I don’t think I’ll try replicating this exact process in Logseq. A subset maybe, but even Obsidian took several minutes to index all that.

hackers.town: 2024-09-22 Sun 15:29

That was an enjoyable nap.

hackers.town: 2024-09-22 Sun 16:58

The hummingbirds panic when I pull down the feeder to clean and refresh contents.

Always very happy to see it go back up though.

hackers.town: 2024-09-22 Sun 18:43

Moving to Arizona means I get to see the pop up shops selling embarrassing Trump regalia on the side of the road.

A younger and more energetically caustic me would’ve considered grabbing some for adversarial art projects.

hackers.town: 2024-09-22 Sun 19:10

Nearing the end of my post-1.0 #PlanetCrafter run, still trying to think of how I’d describe the game.

Right now I’m thinking “survival walking simulator with gardening”

hackers.town: 2024-09-22 Sun 21:59

@pjf so cool!

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 06:43

Told Bouncy Dog that Mister Flibble was very cross. He had no idea what I was talking about.

Kids these days.

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 09:36

You know what day it is. You know the law.

#NowPlaying

Earth, Wind & Fire ~ September 1978 Disco Purrfection Version - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 15:45

Amazon email: “we found something you might like”

Yes, the three computers I was looking at on your site the other day. Very clever of you to guess I might like those.

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 16:29

My code is reading structured data files and generating Pandoc abstract syntax tree JSON from what it sees.

I feel like somehow I have upped my text processing pathology by intentionally using Pandoc JSON as an intermediate format

feels good

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 22:05

And then I had to let #Nushell drive the #Pandoc batch processing because of course I did.

(tell pandoc to process every JSON file in the cache folder to a corresponding Org file in the out folder)

hackers.town: 2024-09-21 Sat 23:33

Saturday night wind-down

#NowPlaying

This Too by Joy Jones