Hackers-Town

2021-08-26

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hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 08:45

Me: “We could use tags for these ad hoc classifications we keep coming up with.”

Coworker: “We could store a bitmap and use bit operations for potential boolean flags.”

Me: “… or we could use tags”

hackers.town: 2021-08-26 Thu 08:54

@nolan I’m way too unfocused to stick to any tech veganism, but I certainly see the appeal. There’s a strict “no Alexa” rule for this house, along with personally disabling any other helpful assistant tech mostly because it annoys me.

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2021-08-25

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hackers.town: 2021-08-25 Wed 07:10

Me from Seattle to my coworker in Ottawa with a flood of questions: “anyways it’s 7am here so you can keep typing but I’m gonna go finish waking up”

hackers.town: 2021-08-25 Wed 08:37

Had this one going through my head this morning so now the cats are learning about golden oldies.

#NowPlaying

Marilyn Manson — “I Don’t Like The Drugs But The Drugs Like Me”

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2021-08-23

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hackers.town: 2021-08-23 Mon 08:59

Spending the day on the 2015 MBP for work stuff (because they’ll let it on the VPN) and feeling an overwhelming urge to (have enough money to) get one of them fancy new M1 Minis.

This poor thing running tests sounds like me walking up a steep hill.

hackers.town: 2021-08-23 Mon 13:30

Was going to make a slide for my demo from my notes but instead Vimwiki2HTMLBrowse the notes. Good enough!

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2021-08-22

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hackers.town: 2021-08-22 Sun 00:03

I wrote a note

pared down to the base blog

#Ssg #Site #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/note/2021/08/pared-down-to-the-base-blog/

hackers.town: 2021-08-22 Sun 20:25

Hello unknown neighbor. Let me guess. You locked your pup in the backyard because it was barking too much while inside. Guess what? It’s still barking and now we all hate you.

hackers.town: 2021-08-22 Sun 20:27

Okay so “we all” is me and the two cats but that’s a plurality!

2021-08-21

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hackers.town: 2021-08-21 Sat 10:55

Knowing how to program computers doesn’t mean I can fix your computer.

But

Having made many terrible user interfaces I can often help you navigate someone else’s terrible UI.

related: helping spouse figure out a WordPress dashboard.

hackers.town: 2021-08-21 Sat 18:48

Loud Dog just tried to hump one of the cats, so at least she’s decided she likes them.

hackers.town: 2021-08-21 Sat 18:52

Then Loud Dog went over and started munching on the carpet and it looks like we need to have the talk about metaphors.

2021-08-18

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hackers.town: 2021-08-18 Wed 00:27

Drew the shape with symmetry tools in Ibis, adding color manually.

Screenshot of Ibis Paint zoomed in on section of radial symmetry pattern with orange and red colors
Screenshot of Ibis Paint zoomed in on section of radial symmetry pattern with orange and red colors

hackers.town: 2021-08-18 Wed 07:13

@gannet Yay!

It occasionally gets confusing when the same person starts different conversations in each place.

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2021-08-17

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hackers.town: 2021-08-17 Tue 07:09

you ever have a long rapid-fire email thread where you think “this could’ve been a teams / slack chat”

hackers.town: 2021-08-17 Tue 09:35

The critters are all distractingly hyper today.

hackers.town: 2021-08-17 Tue 19:38

A second way to improve code coverage is to remove the code that has no tests.

I forget what the first was. This is good enough.

hackers.town: 2021-08-17 Tue 19:42

@GeoffWozniak that’s what it was. Thank you!

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2021-08-16

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hackers.town: 2021-08-16 Mon 18:38

Get you a relationship where when one of you goes “Mah na mah na” the other immediately goes “do doo de do do”

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