@WuMargaret Thank you! Was just talking with @IamMrsGeek about how people seem to like this one, so I will make it available on Threadless later today.
hackers.town: 2025-01-12 Sun 08:32
The kind of morning where I got a lot of ideas floating around about what I’d like to get done today. Enough of them that I went “you’re gonna do maybe half of these at best. Better list them out so you don’t forget them later.”
Somebody saying they want me to advise their client on the “AI Data center infrastructure market” based on my LinkedIn profile (with three whole months of nearly relevant experience). Compensated, of course.
I got bad vibes and ignored it. I figured either vanilla-grade hustle or someone trying to get me to violate an NDA.
The bad vibes have not gone away with their half dozen followup emails, or the other nearly identical query + follow-up chains. I think 20+ emails over the last couple weeks?
@mwl@kusuriya@pamela the Facebook training data shining through
hackers.town: 2025-01-08 Wed 08:03
Bulking up on my core algorithm studies and looking up examples online and that means Web search and dang but the novice learner is so screwed with all the AI slop and plain old garbage out there.
Through years of practice I can usually sniff out a dumpster within two paragraphs. Somebody who doesn’t know what they’re looking for has way more work ahead of them.
I got httpd VirtualHost working yay me but actually no I think for my next trick I’m gonna need a Tiltfile.
hackers.town: 2025-01-07 Tue 13:44
Okay linkcheck aimed at a Docker container running httpd (because that’s what my host uses) doing a fine job catching broken links, including site-local image links, which my tests hadn’t gotten to yet.
symmetrical mandala-style line drawing with beige coloring
hackers.town: 2025-01-05 Sun 10:16
@tithonium well hell
hackers.town: 2025-01-05 Sun 12:16
No stomach for Google Analytics, no budget for the cheap paid options with free tiers that aren’t quite what I need, still fortifying for httpd log parsing to discard the bots, but I want some kind of idea who’s going where on my site.
There’s a whole lot of non-code stuff in scraping, and the sleep call accounts for one of them at least (not hammering a server). Nice touch.
hackers.town: 2025-01-04 Sat 08:12
@denis I think you’re right about Webby. I know Jekyll wasn’t first with YAML frontmatter, but they sure as heck popularized it.
And yah, makes most of these validation techniques easy enough to generalize. Much of the code in my post was originally Python for the Hugo iteration.
