(:Note) seed dataframe: 5,339 rows

(:Tag) seed dataframe: 51,005 rows

(:Note)-[:TAGGED]->(:Tag) seed dataframe: 1,993,432 rows

I think I may have found part of the problem.

I always use /x or as they say in Python re.VERBOSE and briefly forgot that # is a comment character, so my inline tag finder reported every word in every note as a tag.

But hey now I know that my Obsidian bucket has 1,993,432 words.

YouTube video title:

If Mitchell Hashimoto succeeds, Tmux & Zellij will disappear

well obviously Mitchell Hashimoto will fail. Sucks to be him.

Interviewer: What’s the first thing your coworkers would say to describe you?

(1/2 beat of me going down the list, no, no , absolutely not, no, aha!)

Me: “A delight to have in class.”

(wait I better add more in case he knows what that means)

Me: “Friendly, sociable, good at taking accountability, the person to go to if you want a complete solution –”

(don’t mention time blindness)

Me: “–uh yeah just a good person to work with.”

Random highlight from today’s job screen: “Oh, you’ve used htmx in production!”

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 12:29

At some point in the last decade I learned that if you only shave once or twice a year, you should do it in two passes: clipper cut, beard oil on the stubble, wait a bit, come back later for the rest.

Injuries notably less frequent with that approach.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 16:10

Bouncy Dog’s always giving side-eye. Most of that’s genetics, but some of it is attitude.

He wants my chili.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 16:55

Trying the Cypher queries with Neo4j and a different bunch of files this time.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 21:08

I played #VintageStory on the M1 MBP! I had to launch it from WezTerm, via

I got a fire and a grass bed and uh sort of a house.

also it crashed when I exited

But it started back up!

Welcome to Ozymandias Estates. Look on my cribs, ye mighty, and despair. (Yes I’m playing in chill mode. I’m just here to figure out how food and walls work)

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:06

USWDS applied the mandated edits to their repos.

I feel so awful for these folks. You don’t join the team specifying accessible and inclusive Web design for the government as a side gig.

And kinda mad at PR comments telling them in what manner they should have resisted. They already stalled at least a week compared to the other repos I was watching, and pressure was high.

https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3078

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:15

Dunno if it’s Neo4j, the Object-Graph-Mapper I opted myself into – neontology – or parsing 5k flat Markdown files instead of making trees and parsing 33,000 smaller nodes or what, but jeez this is way slower than Kuzu.

I mean a lot. Ten minutes vs seven seconds.

And I was feeling grumbly about seven seconds.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:28

Well it’s not the parsing. Targeting the 5k page Obsidian bucket instead of the 1.8k page Logseq graph added about a second. It’s that KuzuDB is way better than Neo4j at supporting and documenting bulk inserts (at least for non-Enterprise users)

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 09:00

I have cause to brush up on htmx and Cypher for a maybe job and I am very excited.

Should I shave?

I mean the only thing that could scream “grognard” louder than being an htmx enthusiast would be maybe get a Chainmail (1971) cover art tattoo, but still this is the tech world we’re talking about.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 09:30

talking neighborhood hazards with Mom

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 09:35

During yesterday’s LLM endeavors I first tried the project spec meeting interaction with local DeepSeek R1-7B. Went with the basic flow of “here’s what I’d like to do. Ask me some questions to help me refine my plan.”

It thought a lot and brought up many things that had not occurred to me in its response, but didn’t actually do the thing I asked it to.

And I’m thinking “it me.”

I am sorry, world. I should not have made my code and notes publicly available where bots could scrape it for AI training.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 10:23

“We noticed you did not respond to our shady-sounding email casually requesting what could be considered trade secrets, so we just thought we’d reach out one more time with three even shadier emails all at once” will probably remain a lingering regret about $gig[-1] being on my resume.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 10:44

I just got the absolutely worst idea and I cannot wait to implement it.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 13:34

I love how the update trailer is nearly always a literal brisk stroll through the newest features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75bfyy-XkQg

#NoMansSky #FediGames

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 16:57

Doing entertainingly useless things with Cypher in Kuzu

The pages I’ve linked to most in my Logseq graph. Some inaccuracies, since I haven’t included tag links, and “note” should be a property link.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 17:10

And a selection of pages linking to my Python note. Alas, no rand() for ordering in #KuzuDB yet.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 17:31

Tag urself I’m DUR’BAßl EXPRECTIONS

but there’s a pill for that so I’ll be okay

source of the insanity

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 21:14

A pint of ice cream is now fourteen ounces. And then they get mad that kids can’t math.

hackers.town: 2025-01-29 Wed 22:02

More lovely sky drama. Actually that one mountain looks wrapped cozy in a blanket.

Tucson

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 07:07

Yesterday established that the new administration is not only making policy edits to code repos, but deleting them when said edits gets too much attention.

Has a few somebodies with good Internet and more storage than one laptop ever taken a look at the directory of US Gov GitHub orgs and cloned local copies of their associated public domain repos? Could they?

Meanwhile you could always rescue a starfish like I did and grab from your favorites, maybe prioritizing those that have recent policy edits.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:21

They told me “information wants to be free.” I kinda liked that.

Then they started getting stock shares and decided it was just my information that wants to be free, for them. I didn’t like that.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:37

The latest Word update (the one with Copilot embedded in every aspect of UX) is now sufficiently broken on my MBP. Lots of little things and the big one being select with mouse stopped working.

“Sufficiently?”

Well sure. Perfect opportunity to pull “learn and apply JSON Resume” from my TOLEARN heap.

https://jsonresume.org

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:46

We now pause from our regularly scheduled programming to clean up the shards of glass from the vase that kitty Jack decided was no longer needed.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 09:26

My brain, playing two parts.

#ADHD: there! Cleaned up urgent glass disaster.

#Autism (I’m assuming): Maybe. You know how broken glass is.

ADHD: we should let the house know! But they’re sleeping. Tell them when we see them.

Au: We’ll forget. And by the time we see them downstairs they’ll be in vase blast radius. Make a note. Put it in the stairwell at eye level. Ensure the stair light is on.

ADHD: gosh a note will be hard to read. Let’s use the brush pen, maybe get a cute doodle in.

Au: ooh yes an art project! With a border of intricate embellished Celtic knotwork?

ADHD: That would take a month. No.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 11:51

Barry is like the anti-Clippy.

“it looks like you’re trying to get something done. Would you like me to help prevent that?”

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 12:03

I can be mildly annoyed, but both kitties (emotionally scarred I think from formative weeks being in a day-care / Montessori pre-school type house, surrounded by precocious excitable children) have very slowly but surely turned to lap enthusiasts.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 15:18

Doing a chat with a locally hosted LLM coding assistant, trying to build a spec and having it ask me questions to refine the idea. All good. Very helpful. Several rounds of refinement.

Then I asked it to write a spec from the exchange and it crashed.

I think I gave it too much context.

My ADHD infodump superpower remains undefeated.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 16:13

Oh jeez I figured out what has repelled me about LLM code chat for so long. Aside from the general LLM stuff that makes me itchy I mean.

I just had a two hour project spec meeting with my computer. With agenda, outcomes, and action items.

a fsking MEETING

Like

I am experiencing the same kind of mental fatigue after two hours interacting conversationally with this LLM that I do after a meeting with people. It’s the same work of masking and rephrasing so the neurotypicals don’t get confused.

I legitimately see the value in this when you’re not just using it as a hallucinatory search engine, but also I’m done with productivity until my brain warms back up.

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 18:25

The Tana outliner PKM is coming out of early access next week so I thought I’d check their pricing. $8 /month for Plus, $14 / month for pro (with workflows and AI). Free tier includes 20,000 blocks.

“Blocks” is where you’re gonna get in trouble. My Logseq graph with 1,145 pages? It has 21,354 blocks.

20,000 is a pretty generous trial, but it’s a trial. Expect to bust that ceiling and start paying money if you find Tana useful.

I’ve been broke enough months out of the last couple years that I’ll stick with local outliners (Logseq and Org mode mostly). They may be janky, but they’re FOSS and will continue to work even if I can’t manage a subscription.

https://tana.inc/pricing

#PKM #Tana #Logseq

hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 20:09

Playing with Hakyll because I mentioned somewhere that I’d be interested in Haskell, and an SSG is the shortest path I know to figuring out the useful bits of a language.

A little of this, a little of that, a drop of MVP.css, and I’ve managed to stuff my blog pages and style aesthetics into the stock Hakyll template.

No. We won’t be clicking into the posts themselves. Not tonight.

the fact that Hakyll uses Pandoc as its format handler is very very dangerous around someone like me

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 09:31

The brain really wants to write some Perl today. All right brain, have it your way.

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 14:20

Look I hope the AI bubble pops as much as anyone (maybe slightly less since the job market is crowded enough as it is) but we both know the VCs we love to loathe will do just fine if and when it does.

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 14:47

Third time I’ve seen this exact job listing from this exact company.

But hey at least I’ve already got a cover letter ready.

#FediHired

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 19:11

what with the new administration setting policies and those policies being applied to public codebases, and a non-zero chance repos will be altered or deleted?

Now is as good a time as any to fork and / or clone your favorite repos from your favorite US government organizations.

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/113901553753747592

the link from @cstanhope is a 404 now for me. Maybe GH’s broken, maybe NASA’s Transform-to-Open-Science repo has been deleted or made private.

but oh hey I happened to have cloned that repo and have the changes handy.

EDIT: cloned main branch viewable at https://github.com/brianwisti/Transform-to-Open-Science (h/t @drwho for the gentlest of nudges)

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 19:40

I appreciate that my brain tries to keep me balanced.

Any time I’m feeling pleased with myself for having done something clever, my brain is there with “ah yes you did do the clever thing, very good. Don’t forget you also somehow cut your finger on a plastic cake cover today.”

So considerate.

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 21:09

Jumpy Dog loves ice. Any time you’re prepping a glass of ice water, she’s there. Waiting on her cut. I usually give her a piece of ice.

And Bouncy Dog right behind her, “I want some! Please! Pretty please! Can I have can I have can I – ew why did you give me cold hard water”

hackers.town: 2025-01-27 Mon 23:48

Trying out a GregTech-style modpack. Not quite as educational as Vintage Story, but definitely has more going on than your basic modded survival mode.

Never been so proud to figure out clay and campfires in Minecraft.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/neogreg

Minecraft #NeoGreg

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 06:27

“Devin would spend days pursuing impossible solutions rather than recognizing fundamental blockers.”

Damn, I really have been replaced by AI.

The First AI Software Engineer Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It’s Asked to Do

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 07:22

@llewelly @futurebird @david_chisnall I gave up on sentence diagrams (as taught in elementary school) after trying to diagram a sentence out of a Charles Dickens book. But up to that point I loved them.

And now I’m all into knowledge graphs. Funny world.

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 12:57

Snuggle hugs with Mrs Geek

She: nggh! Grrrngh!

If I’d been paying attention I’d have noticed she was seductively overpowering me and maybe would’ve known to be cooperative.

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 15:33

I keep pondering setup of a YouTube channel or somesuch because I am after all an unemployed middle-aged white male and I believe that is when one is ceremonially called to vlog.

Except I already know if I did it I’d do it the same way I do everything else: all topics, one stream, code sketch play minecraft badly ragequit minecraft maybe talk to the dogs about the sunrise, stuff like that.

Having different channels for everything sounds reasonable and also sounds like something I would never be able to sustain.

Heck I’m not even sure about one channel.

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 17:08

Bouncy Dog: I AM PATIENT SO VERY PATIENT YOU SHOULD REWARD ME FOR MY PATIENCE BY FEEDING ME IMMEDIATELY

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 19:37

The mental block remains sufficient that I learned maybe three new LLM terms, got bored, and got a decent start on natural language processing in Python instead.

which has been in my TOLEARN heap since ~2004.

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 20:15

As of the January 2025 update, Capacities does offline-first now. It also shows unlinked page mentions for paid users on desktop – given their approach to feature rollout, I wouldn’t be surprised if mentions became general access and all-device later.

But anyways yeah. Offline use and page mentions, this thing’s getting properly useful for my workflow.

https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-45

#Capacities #PKM

hackers.town: 2025-01-26 Sun 23:24

So that was kind of a rough spot.

Minecraft

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 09:10

I may or may not join Pixelfed. I am in no rush, as I’ve already fallen for the “just like $big_thing except (qualifiers that don't matter because what they really want is to be $big_thing_2)” enough times.

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 12:12

Never saw this⭐️ before. Hope it’s good.

⭐️: in the theater

I’m old enough to have been too broke to see it first run. Post-birthday gift from Mrs Geek

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 13:23

Saw another preview for the #Minecraft movie and honestly I’m interested. To the best of my knowledge only Jack Black has the energy and charm to make me take the premise – not “seriously” exactly but at some sort of face value.

No he doesn’t look like Steve. I bet somebody asked him to shave. Like, asked him real hard. But somebody who looks like Steve is not enough to make me watch a movie.

(Peak Robin Williams would also been a good “Steve” choice, alas)

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 13:30

@Scmbradley okay real talk?

It looks like a terrible idea. But it also looks like everybody knows it’s a terrible idea, and they’re gonna get shit no matter how the movie turns out, so they are just going to have fun with it anyways.

A billion dollar B movie.

That could still be fun.

I think if I see it in the theater there will be enough good bits to make me not regret my choices.

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 16:41

Got tired of Astro building the 600-page site in 30 seconds, went to my Go + Hugo thing that exports all 1800 pages from my Logseq graph then builds a site from that all in six seconds from export start to build finish.

That was fun.

anyways back to learning javascript and react

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 16:45

I’ve got an idea cooking in my brain where I touch up my Logseq-exporting code to better handle all property links, then instead of transforming to Hugo content I transform it to Org files.

But that’s gotta go near the bottom of the idea heap. Too many other things need doing.

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 17:40

We later tried one where I did a normal human smile.

Approximately.

@IamMrsGeek must love me very much.

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 17:46

@WuMargaret @IamMrsGeek I made her cry

(with laughter)

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 19:13

She got to see a whole bunch of javelinas doing their evening snacking on neighborhood gardens and garbage!

Bouncy Dog made sure we stayed safe by being extremely loud and annoying.

hackers.town: 2025-01-25 Sat 20:49

A friend asked what sort of responsibilities the IT training would prepare @IamMrsGeek for.

Me: “Ops, infrastructure, internal support. And telling people to stop clicking that link.”

Friend: “What link?”

Me and @IamMrsGeek in unison: “ANY LINK”

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.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 08:05

I was going to celebrate my 53rd birthday by hyperventilating and worrying about employment but apparently @IamMrsGeek is going to love and celebrate me instead.

Always hard to accommodate a sudden change of plans.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 08:10

@banjofox2 @IamMrsGeek let’s be fair

it’s a nice counter to doomscrolling

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 08:50

@tek That’s becoming more common unfortunately. Last few times I stayed at a hotel, I had to leave my room. They made me put pants on and everything!

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 09:03

@wordshaper @cwebber I did the whole IQ evaluation thing multiple times as a kid (moving to different states and each school district not knowing what to do with me). Got significantly different scores every time.

As an adult, shared that with an IQ enthusiast later and immediately “that’s impossible. That cannot happen. Your IQ is a fixed number,” and hey welcome to my brain.

But other than it’s a stupid useless classist racist metric, those anecdotes are why I don’t give IQ any credit.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 09:33

@genehack Thank you very much!

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 09:35

#DwarfFortress adventure mode!

I wish I didn’t have to deal with an intermediate layer like Whisky on macOS. Makes it harder to impulsively / compulsively fire up the game, which is pretty much the only way I play.

But I’ll take that 15-second hit on my patience for this.

Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode - Out Now - Official Release Trailer - YouTube

#FediGames

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 09:51

@boris not really. I’ve veered from the recommendation of a separate bottle (and associated Steam install) for each game, and sticking to graphically simple games like Let’s Build a Zoo and Dwarf Fortress in my one bottle.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 10:00

@boris It works well enough on my aging 14" M1 MBP w/32GB RAM! I’ve made a point of keeping it to a minimum, but the games I’ve chosen run at native speed.

I hear good things about folks who’ve been bolder with game choices and figured out the fiddling, even on older machines.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 10:26

@nat I struggle all the time with the value judgments buried in what I was taught: it’s fine and even good to give “no judgment” when I can but somehow never okay for me to ask? With that outlook, what am I really saying about people who do ask?

It’s a thing I’ve recognized and made incremental progress on since I was a tot but it’s still my biggest struggle.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 10:41

Also a very big update to Stardeus, with revamped space travel, grabbing ships from Steam Workshop, and enough balancing / quality of life changes that it looks like a new game.

Stardeus - Stardeus “Hyperspace” Major Update - Steam News

#Stardeus #FediGames

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 11:01

@Scmbradley it feels like each of the last several updates involved a major reworking of important mechanics. Definitely worth poking at it again.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 11:32

We got a nice coffee cup for family a while back, sent it off last month, and got an action pic back this morning and I couldn’t help noticing the nearby can of lighter fluid with cigarette ash right h*ckin’ next to it and

well

this is consistent risk evaluation for that family member

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 13:52

any job listing says “skill with $niche_language or excitement to learn” I will fscking apply and then go look up $niche_language I do not even care because I am always in that category.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 14:00

Though whenever they used “skill with $x or excitement to learn” over the last couple decades, the number of languages I have had to look up and find out what language they were talking about has been exactly zero.

Skill? Not yet, at least not with $x. Enthusiastic curiosity? Every day.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 14:55

The job application form said “upload anything” so I gave them one of my drawings.

Look they said poetry was an option and when your response rate is already near zero, why TF not.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 15:03

@ireneista The folks I’ve know who worked at Microsoft (since back in the 90s, when I was serving coffee and they were customer phone support) have pretty much never mirrored the folks who run Microsoft.

So, yeah.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 17:58

Knowing how quiet the cats’ normal vocalizations are, and how any meow of theirs we can hear is basically them shouting, and then how loud they get when meal prep is happening, I sometimes wonder how their dinner time demands sound to them.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 18:20

Currently: trying to figure out if the code I haven’t touched in eight months was already broken when I got bored, or if something new happened in a dependency or in the files I’m processing.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 21:10

@dandean I caught that tone when he talked about AI.

Unlike say Simon Willison, who is downright enthusiastic about LLMs but readily points out both technical shortcomings and the broader issues of their training data and power requirements, this guy spent way more time (when I was still paying attention to him) on the tone and how mean people are being about AI. A very whataboutism kind of feel.

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

@webology Those would be interesting conversations to have, I’m sure.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 21:21

@webology honestly I’m still trying to understand the utility of the domain myself, but I haven’t buried myself in it or anything. I know there’s more than what I see. My particular pattern-matching brain mostly zooms in on the bits that don’t work right.

But it’s here and it’s here to stay in one form or another, so I’ll get the hang of it.

hackers.town: 2025-01-23 Thu 21:30

@webology All right, thanks! There’s some things I want to parse, so I have a use case. I’ll check out PydanticAI.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 06:24

@socketwench I’d have to look up how much Shadow DOM specifically is in use out there, but server-side rendering complicated the equation of who’s using what.

JSX and MDX are definitely in the category of custom tags, though. I’m using Astro components as a mostly-static templating language in MDX files, because scoped CSS is a delight.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 08:42

@socketwench good news there’s also a couple tables for the residents with imposter syndrome.

Join me as I sing the song!

We Are Not Going to Make It by The Presidents of the United States of America 👁️

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 08:43

@socketwench anyways you belong at least as much as everyone else (including me I remind myself gently) 👁️

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 09:12

Mom showing me a “passive income” site and I’m not sure about the site itself but I heckin’ love the header font they use (though they have some things to learn about contrast). Alas, proprietary paid. Which I would have no problem with if not for the whole “no money” thing.

The site: Junk Journal Sales Secrets Jessa Bellman Coaching

The font: Creative Vintage Font Webfont & Desktop MyFonts

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 10:12

Mom and I talking about the compulsion to diagnose unacceptable behavior. She gets the prize for this line:

“Any bad behavior is labeled sociopath. Mental disorder. I wanna go back to the days where an asshole is just an asshole.”

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 10:15

@ceejbot This is one of my trivial but emotionally significant frustrations with being unemployed these last several months. My PC died a few months back and the next one is probably gonna be way more expensive thanks to tariff talk.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 11:07

Some video quickly mentioning Baldur’s Gate and my brain registered “Ballmer’s Gate” and uh

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 13:21

@getajobmike Hanami is quite nice to play with, and goodness I would love the opportunity to use it in anger sometime.

🤔 I’ve got a few project ideas and they aren’t hooked to a specific language or framework yet. Maybe I’ll go do that.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 13:35

She’s doing an online assessment and reading some of the more interesting questions out loud.

She: “true or false: People can put files inside of folders but not folders inside of files”

Me: Hm. Hmm. Hmmm.

She: “which of these search results is an ad?”

Me: is “probably all of them” an option? Because probably all of them oh but that’s not what they’re looking for

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 13:38

@wez while dodging chairs maybe?

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 14:37

@bertkoor Right! Or just a tar file!

Or proper heinous, store a list of folder inodes as a text file.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 14:38

@bertkoor but yeah my first thought was a zip file, and my second thought involved databases.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 16:16

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/113874286743272941

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 16:17

@thegibson @IamMrsGeek they are early enough in their cooking journey that my first thought at this news was “better crack the window open.”

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 16:41

@IamMrsGeek @thegibson “the lovemaking lasagna wait no making the lasagna of love is teaching me patience and :blobglare: " (angry pause)

Way better entertainment than we’d ever get from cable.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 16:53

A post-mortem on some excellent detective work by @mmastrac and others. Educational and the kind of fun you can only get by watching someone else put out a fire. Their fire, not yours.

C stdlib isn’t threadsafe and even safe Rust didn’t save us | EdgeDB Blog

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 18:14

We saged the house to rid it of psychic disturbances and now the youngest says she can’t breathe and she’s ✌️allergic✌️

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 19:29

@earthshine a masterpiece.

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 19:29

https://hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/113875300656968289

hackers.town: 2025-01-22 Wed 19:30

@earthshine Specifically, I think Tucker & Dale vs Evil played with horror movie tropes in a more endearing and enduring fashion than the Scream franchise or Cabin in the Woods