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hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 07:13
@derickr @ramsey That’s exactly what I’d recommend most folks do.
My personal site’s always been the target of whatever job search skill building has been on my mind. Wouldn’t stop that habit now even if I had any money to make a different decision.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 07:23
Gonna see if I can use Zen as my primary browser for a bit.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 07:41
@sleepyfox I would say it uses Firefox’s engine, but it’s more accurate at this point to call it a wrapper around Firefox.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 08:48
@ramsey @derickr oh there’s always the curiosity / masochism angle.
Honestly that’s a bigger factor for me than job searches.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 08:53
@ramsey @derickr for the job search relevance: I’ve mostly been backend dev for many years, but I was full stack when the stack was much smaller (LAMP really could describe the whole thing). I see more “fullstack” openings and since I love a unified approach, I’m filling in enough gaps to confidently describe myself as full stack again.
Even though the openings are describing a whole-ass team in one person.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 09:15
current status: spicing up my YouTube recommendations.
#NowPlaying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz04Tk1niro
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 09:30
Mom and I talking the job market
(not thoroughly accurate as there’s a thing I need to follow up on after I finish chatting with Mom – in an hour or two probably – but it describes the mood)
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 09:49
Oddly specific yet irritatingly vague question: has anyone tried doing an #ActivityPub framework for federated storefronts?
Like we have Mastodon :: Twitter and PixelFed :: Instagram analogues, has anybody worked on a Shopify equivalent?
(I know #Fediverse surface-level culture is hostile to capitalism, but was wondering just the same)
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 09:53
@Linux_in_a_Bit that’s definitely a solid starting point!
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 09:55
@banjofox2 agreed. And also frustrating how we take the loudest people looking for trouble and describe them as “the culture.”
Like I just did in my original post.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 10:33
There was more, involving her analogies between sex work and tech work, but the content warning got long enough to be its own post. The gist was her encouraging me to implement one of my project ideas.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 10:40
@joelle those are the times I wish the home office had a little privacy. When I’m bouncing and occasionally forgetting to breathe for a minute, and she’s unsure if I need assistance or am just in active hyperfocus.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 10:42
@farah Me too. She is a roller coaster to be around, but her core self is pretty awesome.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 11:13
Me, encouraging a friend who wants to learn Python but worries about the job market but still wants to learn but–
“when you learn a thing you should always be learning it for you. [Otherwise] Even if it gets you a job today, the job will go away and you’ll be stuck with this knowledge you don’t care about.”
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 15:52
plus a little about client-side redirects and why not
new post on Random Geekery:
Server-side redirects in Astro SSG Mode
https://randomgeekery.org/post/2025/01/server-side-redirects-in-astro-ssg-mode/
#Blog #Astro #Apache #SSG
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 16:16
I have written the blog post burning a hole in my brain. Now I must let that brain cool off before addressing the other tasks of the day.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 17:24
@theaardvark I’m doomed
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 19:40
https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/113835656485698096
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 20:03
got lazy with the home setup since my PC died, taking me down to one lone laptop. But right now I’m hooking the bits back up for my Pi4 so I at least have Linux somewhere.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 21:14
@genehack oh that hurts
right in the hip flexors
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 21:17
@cromedome Oh I appreciate it and may even covet the thinkpad a little, but I’m in no kind of pain or need. The laptop’s a 14" MBP Pro and it’s hooked up to a 49" curved monitor. I’m doing fine on tech for now.
(when budget allows I am of course buying some soon-to-be-Arch gaming desktop, but that’s a goal not a need)
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 23:32
Pretty sure I’ll be reverting from Tailwind back to CSS. I can see utility classes being great for Web apps, but when it comes to structured documents? I can’t read the markup, and I can’t find the microformats classes without text search now. That’s too noisy for me.
hackers.town: 2025-01-15 Wed 23:52
@ramsey @paulshryock I think you can use @apply to pull Tailwind classes into your own CSS classes, but the TW folks consider that shenanigans.
So it’s a dedicated function / partial / component for each visual element. Save some frustration by allowing a parameter for additional class names.
Save a little more brain by defining custom palette in TW config, and stick to those for color classes.
Me, I’ll be going back to Open Props, which does CSS variables instead of class names.