Hackers-Town

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hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 08:06

I can tell it’s first weekday of vacation because I’m all twitchy.

Well.

We’ll just have to work on that.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 08:31

@technoid_ This is 100% my expectation.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 09:11

Been so thorough in putting everything where the cats can’t get at them that I have no idea where anything is.

hackers.town: 2022-05-02 Mon 09:26

@Cordelya That’s the intent for sure. Another reason to take my laptop instead of the newer, shinier work laptop.

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hackers.town: 2022-05-01 Sun 00:37

another one of those things where “give myself half an hour” was actually three hours.

That’s kind of annoying.

hackers.town: 2022-05-01 Sun 09:36

The docs: Your MacBook Pro supports 1 (one) external monitor.

Me: sweet I’ll just hook up my 49" ultrawide and —

My Mac: No.

hackers.town: 2022-05-01 Sun 09:42

@yenzie Necromancer party games are distinctive.

hackers.town: 2022-05-01 Sun 09:54

@riveck Well, my 2015 MBP would start wheezing connected to two QHD monitors, so odds are that’s right out.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-30 Sat 08:00

Pop up in the friend’s slack after a month, drop some Mastodon links, wander off again.

hackers.town: 2022-04-30 Sat 08:25

Trying an experiment with cross-posting Markdown. Mainly, what does the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter write out on the other side these days?

Feeling nerdy, might delete later.

hackers.town: 2022-04-30 Sat 08:30

Well hm. It loses formatting and some information (the link being the main thing) but OTOH it doesn’t post raw HTML anymore, so maybe.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:34

Opened task manager out of curiosity. Gotta scroll too far for this to be a good screenshot, so:

VS Code: 288.5MBSublime Text: 184.7MB…GNU Emacs: 33.0MB

Emacs is a lightweight text editor.

hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:47

@nixfreak Sublime is also not based on Electron.

hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:48

I mean I know it’s not a fair comparison because each will vary by extensions loaded and work being done. Mostly I keep Emacs open for org-roam.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-28 Thu 07:20

I know puttering with the site probably shouldn’t be the point of my site’s existence —

but it kinda is

Learned enough JavaScript that Elder.js almost make sense, and it offers many delightful SEO complaints. Could keep me busy for a while!

https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs/

hackers.town: 2022-04-28 Thu 07:21

@Cordelya That’s exactly what I did.

Two years instead of two weeks but hey whatever right? We all need to sleep in sometimes.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-27 Wed 07:43

Work Slack has distinct emoji for thumbs up, plus one, and this. I use each of them with different intent but why explain when the important part is they all boil down to “yup.”

hackers.town: 2022-04-27 Wed 08:16

Kitty Barry keeps batting at small things on my desk that look fun to play with. I keep moving them aside so he can’t. Now my desk is clean.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-26 Tue 07:01

Getting sleep is better than not getting sleep.

I had my suspicions.

hackers.town: 2022-04-26 Tue 10:09

Jack and Jumpy Dog have figured out they can share the best lap.

Barry is unsure about the logistics.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-25 Mon 05:04

@thegibson oh no

hackers.town: 2022-04-25 Mon 07:39

Some of the Mastodon servers are melting and Twitter’s getting mentioned. Was there something specific or is it just spring?

hackers.town: 2022-04-25 Mon 07:40

@vortex_egg Ah yes. That would do it.

hackers.town: 2022-04-25 Mon 07:44

Ah, the musky one. Well, good time to grab my Twitter archive just in case.

hackers.town: 2022-04-25 Mon 08:28

Ordinarily Twitter turbulence means pushing my Mastodon account @randomgeek and sure that but also hey folks it’s getting easier to have your own site. Netlify, Github pages, Glitch, etc. Not for everyone but think about it.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-24 Sun 06:49

There are many big things I’ve apologized for in life, but one of the little things I’d like to apologize for today ‘cause I loved it as a kid is how long it took me to figure out Siamese Cat Song from Lady & The Tramp was just Yellow Peril For Kids.

hackers.town: 2022-04-24 Sun 09:10

This #Blog post from Piers Cawley mentions using Github Actions to do all the ox-hugo work remotely for a nice clean Hugo source repo.

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hackers.town: 2022-04-23 Sat 14:08

Well into a timed cleaning routine that I used about 12 years ago before I realized:

a) I was 12 years younger; and

b) the times I set for that routine were in a 1 bedroom apartment; this is a 4 bedroom house.

[resumes toweling off sweat and breathing heavy]

hackers.town: 2022-04-23 Sat 21:24

We watched and enjoyed Everything Everywhere All At Once.