hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 00:04

I like how the bedtime #drawing is turning out. Tell you what, though. Pareidolia is a heck of a thing.

hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 11:26

Thinking back to when Mom would put on side one of an album, paint until it ended, take a break, check on stuff, flip the record, start painting again.

An album side was twenty minutes or so.

realizing now

that was pomodoro

(EDIT for those who might think my mom was just real up on all the big productivity strategies: these memories are from the late 1970s, Francesco Cirillo’s Pomodoro is late 1980s. But I think I know where he got “25 minutes” now. My mom. Sorry, no. LP records)

hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 12:56

@thegibson I mean it’s the direction they’ve been steering things since at least – I forget. When did they take away everyone’s favicons?

hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 12:58

@thegibson Thanks. Since at least 2022.

Also, considering how many instances have to defederate from mastodon dot social and how eager eugen is to federate with threads etc

Maybe we do want a name to distinguish from Eugen’s faves and the rest of the Fediverse.

hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 14:53

@IamMrsGeek udderly magical

hackers.town: 2024-11-30 Sat 17:54

@ceejbot function awaiting Promise<Joke>

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 00:11

Steady progress on the bedtime #drawing in #LineaSketch. I’ll likely be rebuilding muscle memory in the other sketch apps soon, but this one’s just got that nice sketchbook feel. Not too much, not too little.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 10:25

If you don’t know about Django Packages, you probably should. Even if you don’t use #Django. It has that “everybody should be stealing this” quality, for package search and classification.

About as core to my Django workflow as (Meta)CPAN was for my Perl workflow.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 10:35

alternate choice for Jimmy Buffet Thanksgiving line, from the same song:

“if I don’t die by Thursday, I’ll be roaring Friday night.”

#NowPlaying

My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink And I Don’t Love Jesus by Jimmy Buffett

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 11:00

I have said it before. I’ll say it again, I’m not proud.

I was like five when I first heard this song and aside from describing a lovely relationship, it helped me navigate the misdirection inherent in neurotypical communication without burning so much energy on masking.

“Clichés, good ways to say what you mean, mean what you say”

Might even have contributed to the “but you don’t seem #ADHD!” thrown at me by folks who don’t pay attention.

#NowPlaying

Jimmy Buffett – Clichés Lyrics Genius Lyrics

Cliches by Jimmy Buffett

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 11:13

@funnelfiasco it occurs to me I know someone who wants to get deeper into project management. It’s a different kind of PM, I think. The job descriptions get fuzzy.

Regardless, your book and the new one from @vmbrasseur would be helpful resources for contexts outside what the Coursera stuff covers.

(wanders off to do a budget check)

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 15:20

Gray sky without lightning. I didn’t know they had those in #Tucson.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 16:37

Got most of the fiddly bits hooking and grouping pages how I like them.

Year archives are way easier (for me) in Django than Hugo, that’s for sure.

Let the brain cool off, then at some point ponder images and other asset files.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 17:40

@WuMargaret that sounds like an excellent idea.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 17:45

I don’t participate in Black Friday shopping stuff. And sure I can pretend it’s some ethical stance but all it really is? I shop when I have resources to buy a thing and a thing I want to buy.

Right now there is neither, and the hundred email promotions didn’t change this.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 17:51

@m I’ve had some where I’m like “what’s going on here is that a tendon or something? How is my earlobe alone twitching?”

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 20:23

Maybe some Brubeck

#NowPlaying

Sachal Studios’ Take Five Official Video - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 21:03

@socketwench yeah that would’ve been better. This is what – the fourth in the original series? The impression I remember from those movies is a consistently sized batch of good ideas in each, getting overwhelmed by an ever pushier studio.

hackers.town: 2024-11-29 Fri 22:55

a minute ago it was almost nine o’clock and now it’s almost eleven

confusing

clearly the clock is wrong

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 06:49

Happy Quote Scene of The Crime Unquote Day to those who celebrate.

#NowPlaying

Alice’s Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 10:16

@IamMrsGeek when it’s obviously the dogs that are in charge of this house

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 10:34

Every once in a while I look up macOS compatibility for a favorite game via Whisky or Crossover. And more than half the time I see something like:

$game works like a charm! There’s no text rendered in any of the dialogs, control panels, or HUDs, but you can still interact with them.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 12:47

It’s a stick! It’s a bug! It’s Stickbug!

how tf did this turn out to be my banger toot for thanksgiving

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 15:29

“There’s a lot of fat on that side.”

…?

“The ham.”

Oh thank god. For a second there I thought she was saying I have a lopsided booty.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 16:00

Gathering around the table for Thanksgiving dinner

They: There’s a Jimmy Buffet line for this moment.

Me: “My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love Jesus?”

They: exactly

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:00

Described eggnog as “sweet buttermilk,” thus guaranteeing I’d be just about the only one drinking any.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:55

@m Absolutely.

I’d rather be a spherical cow than a non-Euclidean narwhal.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:59

@m Not going back, man. Hyperdimensionality sounds cool until you realize time blindness means you can now lose your keys ana the couch and the couch kata your wallet.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 20:59

Puttering through a Django iteration of my blog. Assuming I don’t blow myself up in the process, it’ll build a static site with Django Distill.

We don’t do these things because we can. We don’t do these things because we must.

We do these things because squirrel.

Adding skeletal model and non-admin views to the Django app took a couple hours, mostly remembering what goes where.

Less than five minutes for a command to rebuild the database article and category tables from site files content and frontmatter – I do that kind of thing a lot.

Then another half hour or so fiddling with admin settings.

Yeah that was a fun start.

Processing command takes 1.8s for a full load (685 pages into empty tables), and there’s still loading assets then writing it back out to a site. At least I’ve already covered generating HTML from page content and stashing it in the DB.

A few complaints from Asciidoc3. Makes sense. The .adoc pages were written for Asciidoctor. But hey at least I didn’t need to launch an external process.

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 08:32

Allowed myself one new game. Drova, because an ARPG I can play on macOS is uncommon.

Barely past the tutorial, but promising. Pixel art made with lots of love. Something that feels like an actual RPG behind the pixels.

You can pet the dog. You can pause the game. Therefore I can keep playing.

#FediGames

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 09:29

On Drova’s mood, it should be noted that the opening line of the opening cinematic is “Life is rough.”

Also, if you pet the dog it will steal your lunch.

10/10

#FediGames

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

Switching to the quiet keyboard while I chat with mom, as the typing gets fast and furious

Fast & The Furious XII: Chatting With Mom

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 09:42

Mom saying we’d get so many projects going if we lived in the same town. Me, knowing we both have #ADHD:

“We’d launch a thousand ships. Whether any of those ships actually made it to port, well that’s not my department.”

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 09:56

it could be convincingly argued that I got into personal knowledge management to track family conversations

it would be incorrect, but very convincing

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 09:57

@amydentata misread that last as “hide the riot” and it still parsed correctly

The revolution will not be livestreamed, and all that.

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 10:32

A very good brainstorming session with Mom. We came up with ideas that’ll mostly be pizza money, but that’s more than I got coming in today.

hackers.town: 2024-11-27 Wed 14:23

Refreshing the Django-adjacent neurons and remembering how much I enjoyed working with this framework compared to others.

More of a brain-fit thing than any innate quality, though its batteries-included approach satisfies nicely for prototyping.

hackers.town: 2024-11-26 Tue 11:08

We set up a pleasant little coffee nook on the front porch.

It’s nice being outside. Without the dogs.

Dogs: “WE CAN HEAR YOU”

hackers.town: 2024-11-26 Tue 11:22

@amsomniac social media is an art form best summarized as flash mob improvisational dissociation

hackers.town: 2024-11-26 Tue 12:10

Me here, summarizing the Kendrick Lamar / Drake beef for @IamMrsGeek over pancakes like an excited tween.

hackers.town: 2024-11-26 Tue 18:50

We’ve been watching The 100. Well mostly she has. I don’t have binge endurance. But I’ve been enjoying it too.

Except for the attack of the solitary carnivorous hyper-aggressive giant gorilla causing some issues for the ol’ suspension of disbelief.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 09:23

@rgegriff it failed for everybody else but they all lacked the shining light of our truth.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 09:36

Brain wiring’s extra-sensitive today so I’m wearing the fancy noise filter ear buds.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 09:40

@chuck misread as “faking the opportunity to enforce the separation of my assets vs work assets” and yeah I do that all the time.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 09:45

Setting up AeroSpace on macOS and I get why i3 got most of the mindshare for approaches to tiling window manager – components are just shell scripts! – but I wish it was awesomewm. I enjoy configuring via Lua so much more.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 10:47

@ceejbot Yep, habit of a lifetime there for me too. A few years back I spent good money on noise-canceling headphones. They made my particular problem worse, because my ears could tell they were canceling noise by adding other noise. Just good vanilla headphones as earmuffs does the trick for better for me.

Wasn’t until working in a WeWork space that I really understood how much of the problem was misophonia.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 11:11

Everybody wants a piece of @IamMrsGeek

Except Barry of course.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 12:05

Always when I’m stuck in the bathroom that’s when the dogs gotta go DEFCON 1 about some imminent threat like a neighbor dog or a squirrel

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 12:14

@m It is!

Through the magic of odd Facebook groups, that ink was the first thing I saw of @IamMrsGeek

I mean of course I fell in love

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 15:26

Progress! Tiling window manager screenshots are eye candy for diabetics, but still it’s neat to have something working on macOS.

hackers.town: 2024-11-25 Mon 23:30

Started fiddling with a code idea in Pascal. It’s definitely time for bed.

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 10:44

Excellent view of Mount Nipple

(checks notes)

Thimble Peak

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 12:03

packing up work-issued gear from $gig[-1] and trying to remember which of these MacBook dongle hubs is theirs. I’ve got like five.

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 12:17

TBH I’m not even sure they sent a dongle hub. But I’ve a vague recollection and as mentioned I’ve got five of these things.

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 12:40

@Researchbuzz and how many callbacks are on each page, or in each repo summary?

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 13:42

@ceejbot describing mandatory code review as a “feel-bad” program contributing to the ethos of “misery gets results” is a perspective that’s never occurred to me. I can see it though, as administered in oh roughly 100% of the places I’ve worked.

I didn’t expect there to be any surprises in this talk, but that was a surprise.

Gotta go let my brain chew for a bit.

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 20:44

@ceejbot I’ve been digging into Go, and am comfortable enough with it that I can compare and contrast now. Will likely start digging deeper into Rust in the very near future.

(my C++ knowing predates Boost, so I can’t really compare and contrast effectively there)

hackers.town: 2024-11-24 Sun 22:01

Air fryer’s like an indoor leaf blower. Trying not to be crabby, and unfortunately not doing a good job.

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)

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 06:33

Congratulations on everyone who made it to Friday, and condolences to those who didn’t.

#NowPlaying

T’ain’t No Sin Tom Waits & William S. Burroughs - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 07:03

@denis I hope you enjoy! Black Rider was one of my favorites for a long time, though it was a little polarizing in my circle of Tom Waits fans.

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 07:23

@benbrown I knew you looked familiar.

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 08:58

@deafferret One interesting change for me from the Tucson move: I am starting to understand the concept of winter shorts.

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 10:21

@mekkaokereke I remember listening to you and others about Elon Musk pre-2016, and being surprised at how few were listening.

I mean enough were that my peers let out a collective sigh of disappointment at Grimes in 2018, but still. I hate that we’re here today. More should’ve listened.

hackers.town: 2024-11-22 Fri 16:55

Neighbor: what’s your dog barking at?

Bouncy Dog:

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 10:55

@farah restarting a game any time I miss more than a month is a seriously frustrating habit I have.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 11:39

Today’s wish is for folks – and by folks I mean me – to stop using Web search for programming language docs when I can get that info via CLI.

Perl: perldoc

Python: pydoc

Go: go doc

Pydoc and godoc let you drill down to a specific package / class / function, showing docs for whatever granularity you’re at.

Any language doc browsers I’m missing? Specifically thinking

ships in default language tooling

query from and render to terminal

browse and search the language’s standard library (in the terminal)

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 14:11

@philsplace Dash is good. I’ve used it plenty. I’m thinking of CLI-specific stuff though. Minimize context switching for my ADHD brain.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 14:42

Ah it’s nice and mild out. Warm but not enough to skip the long sleeve shirt. A pleasant autumn day.

Wonder what the temperature is?

82F

Six months in #Tucson and my sense of scale is totally shot.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 14:54

@wez I’m far too accustomed to shoes and socks to skip them, but inside? What’s already a shoes-off household becomes socks-off too.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 14:59

@wez It’s not impossible. During peak summer I often opted for sandals only, until my feet started getting cranky with me.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 14:59

@wez (multiple trips outside daily thanks to two dogs and no yard)

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:46

@genehack I’d even withhold the “ships in default language tooling” considering the ecosystem culture.

oh hey there’s deno doc

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:50

@genehack I hear they’ve improved Node.js compatibility.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:51

@genehack Last time I directly poked at Deno, using Node modules was just a flat “no.”

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:52

@genehack @KayJanes at three you’ve warmed up but haven’t started to flame out yet.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:55

Nothing like writing a script to automate a task I’d partially accomplished manually to remind me how complex that manual task was.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 17:55

@genehack @KayJanes now you’ve got it!

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 19:39

Pups and I got uncomfortably close to a big all chonk no chill javelina tonight.

Bouncy Dog scared him off. I helped a little by stomping, making noise, and waving the flashlight in its face, but it was mostly Bouncy Dog.

I think I learned javelina for “to hell with these guys” as it casually changed direction away from us.

Now home. Bouncy Dog is basically glued to @IamMrsGeek and her lap.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 20:34

@m Is there a man invocation for header file docs? Like, after a bit of fiddling I found that random() comes from stdlib.h, part of the standard C library libc.

Is there man ?? stdlib.h or man ?? libc?

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 20:38

@m This is probably where I’d pull out Dash or a similar tool, if discovery through documentation was my goal.

With go doc and pydoc I often start my browsing at the package level, derived from the ancient muscle memory of perldoc Package::Name.

I’ve made some serendipitous discoveries with that approach though, so I prefer tooling to support it.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 21:03

@trs Agreed on the Perl spoiling. I look at Pydoc as a lightweight docs browser. Just enough to keep me going on packages, classes, and functions.

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 21:59

@tek “reparented?”

I had a whole lot of snark here that was unnecessarily cruel even to that dickwad.

We’ll just go with “bit late for that here”

hackers.town: 2024-11-21 Thu 22:14

@tek I’m just not gonna make reparenting jokes to someone whose dad got shot in the head. There’s plenty of other material to work with.