Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2024-11-23

Tags: hackers-town

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Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-11-23 Sat 07:52

Woke up pondering weird workflows for the shared hosting setup my site is on for the next few years and realized net/http/cgi is a thing that exists in Go.

hackers.town: 2024-11-23 Sat 10:54

Successfully building muscle memory for using WezTerm as my terminal multiplexer over the last few days, using C-space as my leader key and then setting up a keymap that looks a bit like my ancient tmux customizations.

hackers.town: 2024-11-23 Sat 16:14

Doing fiddly Ruby stuff for a Nanoc iteration of the site. My frustration persists that more than 80% of the answers to “how do you do X in Ruby?” are “use this Rails package.”

It’s a major contributor to falling out of love with Ruby over a decade ago. Not the language, but the widespread assumption of a monoculture.

Hanami, TTY Toolkit, dry-rb, Nanoc. There’s cool stuff out there!

Also I don’t like Rails.

hackers.town: 2024-11-23 Sat 19:14

No context, but:

Me: “Because Athena kicks ass and Eve was a scapegoat.”

Interesting and / or concerning when and how I choose to contribute to a conversation.

hackers.town: 2024-11-23 Sat 21:30

Web search for a thing I know used to work on my site, a very long time ago. Find a bug issue from a few years ago, linking to an old blog post, when the thing worked.

The blog post author?

(now let’s not always see the same hands)