hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 07:15

seems like industry news is pretty awkward regardless of your industry

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 09:00

Distracting myself with trivialities by sharing that the Journals plugin is off to a promising start for a multi-journal workflow.

https://github.com/srg-kostyrko/obsidian-journal

#ObsidianMD

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 09:15

No improvement from Jack since getting him home from the vet (he hasn’t been throwing up which is good, but he also hasn’t been eating, drinking, or moving around much, which is not good) so Mrs Geek is taking him in again for more fluids and next tier of examinations.

I’ve finally learned what “anxious” looks like from Jack’s brother Barry. He knocked my laptop off its stand twice trying to get drive-by skritches.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 11:48

I get loads of “PATRIOT! VOTE NOW AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY” junk mail and yeah that’s exactly what I’m doing.

Not by voting for their guy, that’s for sure.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 11:50

Stress levels: tinny with reverb

Mrs Geek just briefly doing that thing of looking for her phone while she was on hold (holding the phone next to her ear)

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 16:38

In Arizona when I got my driver’s license, they gave me the option of registering to vote. Part of that process was to declare party affiliation, apparently resolving who I could vote for in primaries?

I dunno. We didn’t have to declare affiliation in Washington state.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 17:00

Five minute phone tree before telling us their office is closed

i wouldn’t say I’m thrilled with my health care provider, no.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 17:12

A dang hairball? Okay, a giant hairball. A two inch hairball stuck in Jack’s gut. Mrs Geek called and got the update.

We’ll have a big bill and a recovering cat probably tomorrow.

First visit it had only been since breakfast. Requesting fluid check was because throwing up that many times in one day can’t be good for you.

Had to cross fingers and postpone escalation until we had some ideas about how to pay for it.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 20:34

We purchased approximately seven pounds of candy.

To effectively use it all on trick or treaters with the total number of visitors we had tonight, we should have given each child 1.4 pounds of candy.

If only we’d known that ahead of time.

hackers.town: 2024-10-31 Thu 22:28

Hm. I gave myself approximately an hour of time you could think of as chilling out. That’s probably not good.

Bedtime.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 06:31

The vet-provided cat food must be really unappetizing. Jack doesn’t want to eat it and Barry doesn’t want to steal it.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 08:04

Whole lot of big and little stressors right now, so wound up pretty tight. Taking the gamble that ADHD meds will cut down on mental background noise, but better not go full capacity on the caffeine.

(poor sleep + meds + stress + lots of coffee often make a bad combo for me)

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 08:53

rudely tapping drops of water onto the cat’s nose to ensure he drinks something

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 09:51

Feeling wobbly, cranky, and overwhelmed.

I should make myself breakfast.

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL ME

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 12:13

“With the latest update you can easily do recurring tasks in Notion!”

Your twenty minute howto video suggests “easily” may be a bit of a stretch.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 16:25

Periodically remind myself that I am still in the service industry, even if there is more typing (and fewer tips).

People will engage with pretty much the same intensity of emotion about their server rack as they will about their steak, and need to be handled with the same core skills.

Anyways gotta go make sure this steak’s done right, before the rest of the table is done with dinner.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 16:29

@cinebox sorry, state health regulations require we at least cook them to medium-well.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 16:30

@cinebox but I’ll go back to the kitchen and speak with IT, see what we can do.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 17:16

Thought I’d see how Logseq’s Big DB Rewrite is going and – fucking hell.

I mean, fu– I mean good on them for keeping up the work for this long but 5k unmerged commits smells like a lot of untested assumptions.

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 17:35

came on randomn and good lord they are all kinds of problematic but it’s a fun song to try juggling to

#NowPlaying

I Fink U Freeky by Die Antwoord

hackers.town: 2024-10-30 Wed 19:57

(sigh)

I’d hoped that fiddling with the power supply and motherboard a little more might magically fix my desktop.

Alas, it did not magically fix my desktop.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 07:12

Up almost 45 minutes before noticing that the shirt I chose to wear still had the tag from purchase.

Doing better than yesterday.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 08:30

misread a “ready to deploy production” as “ready to destroy production” and I’m all “yes finally wait awww”

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 09:14

forgive me for i have sinned

it has been (mumble mumble) since my last confession

…

i am kinda interested in the new mac mini

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 09:27

I trained myself out of fiddling around too much with Apple hardware, so a stable useful little box that I can install services on and know I won’t destroy? Very interesting to me.

(Pi? Small-form PC? I will habitually reinstall Linux on it every month and / or unplug it to relocate get stuck pondering the perfect placement and forget about it in six weeks)

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 13:19

Kitty Jack threw up today lots of times. Lost track somewhere around seven or eight. He’s also uninterested in food or water.

Could be relatively minor, but I was worried enough that @IamMrsGeek called nearby vet and got us a same-day appointment.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 13:48

“Chubon said she decided to shut down the form because … it became too time-consuming to sort through them to weed out duplicate requests”

Hang on this is 1999-era Web dev stuff. Are they using Google Forms to a spreadsheet or something?

1000s of Pima County voters told early-ballot requests denied after Recorder shuts vote-by-mail form

via @TucsonSentinel

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 14:51

She: You don’t know how to drive a stick shift?

Me: No! By the time I learned how to drive they were obsolete!

She: blasphemy

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 16:01

Vet provided fluids, anti-nausea meds, and a promise to check back in a couple of days. And then for the cat, they suggest –

anyways doing little steps per current budget but fluids and the medication seems to have brightened Jack up a bit.

@IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:01

Brain got used a lot today. Not for what I planned on using it for, but I must allow for recharge anyways.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:20

Them: “It’s – different.”

Me: “That’s a printable word for it.”

No context, provided to you as an additional option for calling out excessively softened verbiage.

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:23

course any time I think about “printable” words, brain immediately launches two separate tangents: Unicode character sets (“can I print this word?”) and Linux printer drivers (“can I print this word?”)

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 17:33

Canvasser (AFL-CIO, on behalf of Democrat party): “I’m here to –”

Me: “Already voted, by mail, for Harris.”

Canvasser: “Oh. Nice? Can I ask why you voted for Harris in this election?”

Me: “Basically, I like the idea of continuing to have elections.”

Canvasser: “yeah me too”

hackers.town: 2024-10-29 Tue 23:51

Fun with symmetry tools in Infinite Painter for a Halloween-ish bedtime #drawing

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 08:48

Internal alarm woke me up at 5am.

I am not pleased with internal alarm today.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 09:03

A thing worth mentioning about this internal alarm of mine: it doesn’t go “oh we are now sufficiently rested that we may as well get up.” No no. It goes “YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WAKE UP GET UP FIRE FLOOD BAD FRENCH FRIES GET OUT OF BED AND FIX IT ALL”

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 10:01

@socketwench That’s a great way to articulate it. I’ve fumbled around “no surprises” and more recently “no enshittification” as appealing aspects of “dead” and explicitly retro projects. But “frozen social context” just rolls off the tongue much better.

(“controlled” is more accurate but “frozen” sounds better and the Technically Correct folks get a chance to win a prize)

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 12:13

Bouncy Dog has insisted that meeting time is lap nap time.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 12:53

@zkat just declare tech bankruptcy and start a new company!

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 13:09

During lunch break, confirmed that Dwarf Fortress + DFHack will at least launch, generate a world, and let me start a game on my MBP M1 14" with Whiskey.app.

I’m not sure what to do with this information, so I share it here.

Anyways, lunch over.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 17:40

I understand the need to report on and share what a Musk or a Bezos has to say about how they run the institutions they’ve acquired, and I’m not shaming anyone for sharing.

but

When a billionaire speaks it’s gonna either be bullshit or it’s gonna be bullshit. All you’re really getting is whether today they’re serving old-fashioned, french vanilla, or vanilla bean.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 17:52

Apparently I need to eat food sometimes. Thank you for the assistance @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 18:34

@thegibson To be fair, most of his teachings were regurgitations plus a motivated-by-word-count writing ethos.

But yeah since I see him mentioned by name, I guess it really is re-regurgitation.

yum.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 21:32

@thegibson Also, you knew you were into existential pain years before you could articulate it as such.

hackers.town: 2024-10-28 Mon 22:13

@calcifer @cinebox With accounts in both (because hello yes I’ve got ADHD on line two), I’d hope the same, because they’re different enough approaches that it’d be crossing the streams.

And crossing the streams is bad.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 10:55

@tek with a family tree full of petty criminals and eccentric artists, at least I know I’m staying true to tradition.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 11:11

Fun with #ADHD questionnaires

“How often do you feel restless or fidgety?”

I don’t feel figety. See, I have a system. I just fidget.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 12:22

So apparently in #Factorio when you misalign your smelter feed by one tile, you don’t have to start a whole new game. You can just work around it and maybe fix it later.

Huh. #TIL

Wonder if I can use that anywhere else.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 16:12

@szbalint I’ve been pondering my next desktop device, and even the fact that I want one makes me something of an anomaly these days.

And honestly I’m not sure how much I’ll be focusing on Linux. Already didn’t care for Systemd, not particularly interested in Wayland.

There’s a mild ideological pull, but for functionality the next Mac Mini would likely check all the boxes and then some.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 17:07

She is powerless to resist my seductive zombie moves.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 19:48

Spent a couple days obsessing at my very bad Factorio playing until I reached one more of its many achievements.

There. Blue science.

Now the summary says 15/88.

I can relax.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 19:53

@maddiefuzz I’ll get there. I just needed to get away from significant arbitrary numbers so I could maybe focus on the game.

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 20:28

A keyboard that may be sufficient for your Emacs config:

Hyper7 Round 4 keyboard review (Cherry MX New Nixie) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-10-27 Sun 23:25

Random-ass bedtime #drawing in Linea Sketch

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 06:17

@JoYo @mjd @thegibson my issue was more the span of 1999-2002 where every station seemingly flipped to playlists of mostly Limp Bizkit and bands that kinda sounded like them.

That was tiresome.

So I think of that more than the genre itself.

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 11:00

@JoYo @mjd @thegibson oh god.

I was a young adult in The Puget Sound region for grunge.

It wasn’t until 2005 or so that I could go “yeah Nirvana was good and heck I guess Pearljam is too.”

(but my heart still belongs to Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Gits, and Tad for bands associated with that sound)

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 11:48

My first election in a new state, so adding biographical and other information I can find about candidates to my notes. That way when someone screws up later I have a reference point.

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 14:55

Noted while out exploring with @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 15:00

🎶 see the frog and Pegasus🎶 on the ground they’re kinda sus🎶 frog and Pegasus 🎶 are those plants a Cytisus?

Uh anyways

@IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 15:06

Ah yes the five genders

@IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 15:14

I have voted. Which means I had to learn names.

Arizona is stuck with me now.

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 19:32

The older I get, the more I appreciate the original.

#NowPlaying

Kiss by Prince & The Revolution

hackers.town: 2024-10-26 Sat 19:38

@bamfic I preferred the Tom Jones + Art of Noise cover for the longest time, but gradually I understood how much of its appealing simplifications were because Jones just didn’t have the range.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 06:04

@seatek nah, just a lot of fried batter things make me queasy.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 07:32

@maddiefuzz @tek Can’t wait to find out whether any of my devices fail to acknowledge that we live in Arizona now.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 07:35

@tek @maddiefuzz Nah there’s just the one time vortex. As long as you stay away from, don’t look directly at, and don’t catch the attention of the time vortex, you’re UTC-7.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 08:24

Finished the cup of cold dregs, as is my way. (With good coffee even cold dregs are tasty)

Staring at the coffee pot as it starts brewing the good stuff.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 08:29

@tek always curious about the difference in experience for you. I’ve had so many bad experiences with meds in other contexts that I started on adderall xr, it kinda helps, I’m staying there.

And I’m glad the puns have already been addressed. Hard to beat this crowd. They’re always up and ready to go.

Penis.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 08:38

Conventional Commits and me wanting to tag everything as a fix.

Michaelangelo over here looking at every project as a block of marble that should look like a statue.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 10:21

@thegibson so I have been noticing.

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 11:25

Make a thing for A on B.

“It’s not working for me.”

debug debug debug

“Oh and I’m using X on Y.”

(sigh)

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 14:39

I can tell I am not at full brain today. Somebody asked me to clarify something and I basically just said the same thing but slower, enunciating more carefully, and a little louder.

but it seemed to do the trick so :blobshrug:

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 14:44

random point of pride for today: good to know I can still be counted on to twist a tool’s affordances into new, fun, non-Euclidean workflows

hackers.town: 2024-10-25 Fri 23:19

Getting the low-hanging new achievements before everybody else starts their new game. For a day or two it looks really really good. Only 3.4% have the “used solar power” achievement!

#Factorio #FediGames

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 08:52

BRB the cats have decided our election notes are their new playground. Specifically, Barry’s.

okay anyways interesting podcast episode.

If your ears are tired: the show held a mock election at San Quentin, along with interview-based polling. When totals were tallied (mock victor: Harris), results correlated with demographics of population at large.

If your ears aren’t tired:

Episode 111 Election! — Ear Hustle

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 09:39

Holy crap collaborative editing is like dumping a bag of shiny trinkets in front of a crow for me.

like

It’s cool to see but I forgot what I was doing.

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 10:14

If only I could talk as easily with people I don’t know as with people I’ve basically known a couple decades wait hang on it doesn’t sound as much like a weird personal quirk when I say it like that.

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 16:48

“What is it about onion rings you don’t like?”

Me: “the onions”

not too fond of the rings either tbh

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 17:43

A fun but fruitless tangent, darn it all.

Far as I’m concerned I still owe a little clock time, so back to it.

After dinner.

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 19:02

Companies selling these query languages that are “just like SQL” feeling a lot like those friends in my 20s that tried to tell me I looked “just like Ewan McGregor.”

Course, that was during Trainspotting, and the analogy holds up because at best these are SQL if it was skinny, sick-looking, and doing its best impression of a hardcore drug addict.

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 19:18

because of brain tangents

#NowPlaying

Second Toughest In the Infants (Remastered) by Underworld

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 20:06

restraint takes so much energy

“I KNOW! PERFECT! I CAN USE– wait no they’ll have a heart attack and we’re running out of places to hide the bodies”

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 21:36

Sometimes I wish I didn’t learn everything sideways, but such is life with this particular brain wiring.

Finally getting comfortable with Docker and even a little Kubernetes, because Tilt is fun.

https://tilt.dev/

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 23:08

Got what I might call “a short-term solution” for a Starlark limitation (why didn’t they just use Python)

It worked?

holy crap

hackers.town: 2024-10-24 Thu 23:44

brb updating my resume

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 06:52

Uh

Good morning?

Everyone?

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 07:44

Was talking about Real Genius with a Gen-Z household member last night. This morning looking for a clip to share with them (girl’s gotta have her standards? maybe) and found this, which other old nerds may enjoy.

Real Genius (1985) Roger Ebert’s Hilarious College Comedy Review 🤓💥 80smovies collegelife - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 08:11

@jenniferplusplus I am a fan of collecting all the languages, but that’s because I am basically a crow at heart. Ooh this is shiny! So’s this! And that!

I absolutely do not think everybody needs to be like me. It’s impractical and possibly unhealthy.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 08:37

Kids out at nearby school having fun but being loud enough that Bouncy Dog’s looking at me like “should I go take care of it?”

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 09:12

https://hackers.town/users/Rob_T_Firefly/statuses/113357615992069831

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 09:14

@Rob_T_Firefly I enjoyed that.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 10:44

sweet jesus

With the quantity and density of infodump once I get rolling, at least I know I like my job.

Even if I do feel terrible for anybody within earshot.

Even the cat’s like “are you done yet?”

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 10:45

To be fair, “are you done yet” is the cat’s normal mode when people are talking.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 13:09

@grmpyprogrammer I’m 5'6" and I cramp up between the seats waiting and the seats flying.

I don’t even want to imagine.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 13:39

Thought I’d injured myself grievously but it’s just Cheeto dust, “Flamin’ Hot” variety.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 16:48

@thegibson @lilithsaintcrow sorta like how Boehner quickly transitioned from flag-waving house leader to tut-tutting his disappointment in the new Republicans from the sidelines over a brandy snifter.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 17:52

Too much carnage for pics already but @IamMrsGeek has once again cooked an amazing meal.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 19:25

Telling the youths about how I started voting in 2000, for Nader, got blamed for destroying American democracy (even though I still don’t have a seat on the Supreme Court), but as a consequence I paid real close attention up and down ballot ever since.

hackers.town: 2024-10-23 Wed 22:32

“The best errors are the ones where fixing it is more effort than dealing with it. Welcome to the world of enterprise software.”

Can You Get to the END OF THE WORLD in Factorio - YouTube

#Factorio

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 08:33

A few hours every few months makes for a slow learning curve. This morning I tried inserter filters for the first time and was like “oh yes this is much easier.”

#Factorio #FediGames

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 10:25

Seems unfortunate that even though hearing in one ear is both significantly impaired and overwhelmed by tinnitus these days, the other ear is still hyper-sensitive to little noises like cats grooming.

I’m fortunate that most of my life complaints are small annoyances, but good lord there are a lot of them sometimes.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 10:25

misophonia + tinnitus != crazy delicious

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 11:36

I don’t always drop a link to Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names in PR comments – anymore – but I’m pretty enthusiastic about it when I see the opportunity.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 15:17

I haven’t watched Real Genius in years.

considering that the bulk of my career has involved one variety of venture-funded tech startup or another

it is probably for the best

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 15:20

Heck. Silicon Valley was Dilbert: caricature that adds nothing to the conversation, and maybe even distracts from it.

Real Genius was caricature that did some weird-ass ninja flip and made you think about the why and the wherefore and the “who’s paying for it” of your gig.

But also popcorn.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 15:58

“Like a Dragon, formerly known as Twitter”

Congrats to Accented Cinema for making me pause and back up to make sure I heard that right less than 15 seconds into the video.

Yakuza Cinema and Like a Dragon Video Essay - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 17:20

@tek Glad family was there. The one blessing.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 17:29

I know I took my ADHD meds today but I honest to goodness cannot tell.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 18:10

Doing jumping jacks to get some blood pumping and the pups have no idea what’s going on but looks like fun and now we’re all doing jumping jacks.

Except the cats.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 18:25

@WuMargaret a direct quote.

hackers.town: 2024-10-22 Tue 19:19

yah, brain is slightly cooked today. Just poured myself a nice tall glass of water to the brim, and immediately dropped it on the floor.

But hey at least that patch is mopped now. And at least I had the foresight to use a plastic glass.