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2025-01-18

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hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 00:24

@Wrewdison I probably should refuse them. Worst case I get the same outcome as when I do them.

Test anxiety is a chore.

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 10:44

Weird. The neighbor looks like a grown-ass adult – but the car with the “Daddy Trump” embossing, shelf-rattling speakers, and straight pipe exhaust suggest a toddler.

Maybe he’s borrowing it from his child.

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 15:42

@tangentnotes I know Obsidian treats it as a figure caption. That’s reasonable, though it does bump up against using it as descriptive alt text when publishing. Descriptive text and figure captions are only occasionally the same thing.

I use ![description](url "caption") in my own markdown.

Of course, publishing isn’t necessarily your primary focus, and ![caption](url) is easier to parse.

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 17:36

It’s good to know that when you’re feeling sad there’s a new OK Go video letting you know it’s okay to feel sad, while impressing you with technical feats.

#NowPlaying

OK Go “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill”

https://youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?si=gsdbyTFPGl5H3QE6

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 18:00

@rhosyn Absolutely same.

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 20:46

Okay yes I am starting to chafe at 25.5s to build a 1200 page site (roughly half being taxonomy pages) with Astro compared to .8s with Hugo.

hackers.town: 2025-01-18 Sat 22:24

I don’t have strong feelings about TikTok. I don’t have feelings about TikTok, really. It’s better and worse than its reputation.

But the fact that our government shut them out and their way back in was kissing Trump’s – uh – ring? Yeah, kissing the ring.

Anyways that’s fucked up.