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hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 11:01
Household member applied for a job, had one interview, and got hired.
Very happy for them and granted it’s a crappy job but at the same time dang I miss that I want that.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 11:02
Well at least I’m applying all over and studying up on my gaps for the good stuff — I’ve gotten promising leads but can’t even pretend to be qualified for some of them.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 11:37
@banjofox2 I do my best to shy away from the listings that read like a collection of buzzwords and / or what they need to replace the team of ten they laid off last month.
The postings where it’s clear what they’re looking for, those give me hope and a more solid idea what to study up on.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 13:10
@mcc @aparrish I’m such a lost cause I have been known to remap directional keys to hjkl in computer games.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 16:47
Job listing mentions #htmx and were it possible to be elbowing people out of my way to apply, I would be.
So just imagine me doing that please.
Thank you.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 17:11
@mc It depends on what you need. It’s great for a jQuery-style pinch of interactivity approach where you just need want to update this widget here with some server data.
It’s not the sort of thing you want to power an SPA with, but it doesn’t try to be.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 17:14
@mc I’m sure it does more than the last time I got to use it in anger (2021-ish), but the core developer’s maintained a strong focus on scope and purpose.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 18:30
@flyingsaceur I mean yeah of course
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 - YouTube
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 18:49
Now that’s a thumbnail.
There’s ten minutes of details, but technically the answer is right there.
Yeah I’ll click.
How to Stop Restarting in Minecraft - YouTube
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 18:49
@flyingsaceur watching the clip I shared and going “damn the pipes on that kid!”
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 19:11
@lordbowlich the underlying philosophy is why I jumped to apply more than anything else. Somebody picks htmx, they’re doing it because they have a particular view of how a Web app should be structured – one that I can probably appreciate.
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 22:52
I was grumbling a little while back about bad font rendering in Chromium-based browsers and Electron apps.
Looked it up again tonight, and for the browsers it’s chrome://flags -> Accelerated 2D Canvas -> Disabled.
Probably have to set a flag or setting in every Electron app, knowing computers. In VS Code at least, it was > Preferences > Configure Runtime Arguments > "disable-hardware-acceleration": true
I remember learning this before, but apparently the Chrome flag can toggle back if Mercury’s in retrograde or something.
(still not as nice as Zen or Safari, but at least my eyes don’t hurt)
hackers.town: 2025-01-24 Fri 23:24
Learning to my consternation that “we use React” is about as meaningful as “we use Perl,” with me interrogating to find out what versions, variations, packages, and practices their flavor looks like.
But dang.
At least I liked Perl.