2025-01-14 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 07:42

@cwebber I mean it would have been nice if they looked at anything but the title but hey time is limited and we gotta get our dated pop culture references in, so I guess something had to go.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 07:51

Starbucks going back to requiring purchase to sit, reversing a policy that was only put in place after the 2018 arrest of two people of color, is just them looking at Meta etc and realizing 2025 is their chance to take the mask back off.

My 90s coffee shop time was helping run a small quiet spot that had a smoking section & didn’t fuss about loiterers & malingerers, as long as they were chill & stopped using our restrooms for drugs.

So yeah. Starbucks has never been the good guy in my head.

https://apnews.com/article/starbucks-customers-purchase-restroom-code-conduct-3876b0592418f30fc19a4e56848ed28b

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 08:15

Downgrading Dropbox is a four page parade of dark patterns.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 08:26

@zkat I’ve been using someone’s clunky and abandoned but basically good enough Markdown toolkit for resume prep.

Dreading the customization I really wanted to do, and Typst Universe shows that folks have already done resumes in Typst? Neat!

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 11:10

There are two features I like in Markdown: description lists and reference links. Sure would be nice if Logseq supported them.

For that matter, it would be nice if more Markdown-based note apps supported them directly. Some show reference links normally but get confused when you click them.

Inline links are heckin’ tedious to update.

#PKM

Bullet points of a draft blog post written in Logseq, with a link reference defined for a Pew Research article about link rot. The URL in the definition is formatted to stand out and is clickable, but the reference itself and the link using that reference are not.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 11:43

@vantablack “Jet City” was a cool name when the Space Needle was new and Boeing was basically the employer of note.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 14:29

@eleventy @eb This demo is a crime to logic and good taste.

I can’t wait to try it on my site.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 14:31

@eleventy @eb (no but really I have a tab open to quarto.org and three tabs talking about Org mode so I actually have been pondering good code eval approaches for my blog.)

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 14:44

@eb @eleventy good stuff. Thank you!

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 18:54

@maddiefuzz @IamMrsGeek Ooh thanks! It is not too distasteful for me at all! Last gig was a GPU hyperscaler.

What’s the shop / URL? Wanting to build context.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 19:03

zig zen is way less ambiguous than python -mthis, which is good but if you thought folks get their feathers twisted over “Pythonic,” I suspect you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 19:04

Also, I think every programming language should have some command line option to emit its developers’ driving philosophies.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 20:50

huggingface has a generative avatar builder

my input prompt is “javelina with glasses drinking coffee” and the generated image does indeed look a bit like an anthropomorphized hipster representative of the North American peccary species

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 21:23

@ramsey when CSS resets go too far.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 21:26

@ramsey The current face of my blog’s current iteration is styled with Tailwind (resume building) and it’s so annoying. Devised by and for people who hate that HTML is a document language instead of an application language.

hackers.town: 2025-01-14 Tue 21:28

@maddiefuzz @IamMrsGeek clicking (first glance oh heck yeah), reviewing, and will almost certainly be following up with the earlier handle.