2024-02-22

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 09:39

Daystar found me

(hisses)

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 11:09

There’s the whole late capitalism aspect of generative AI, but also? I feel it’s some kind of apocalypse indicator that tech money has given up on clean structures, quality code, useful documentation, accessibility, etc.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 11:10

You can’t fix your tech debt, but we can make it so much easier to add to it that you won’t mind.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 13:17

Somebody asks what time zone and my brain starts from UTC offset, then tries to remember the name.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 13:41

I’ll care about Bluesky’s protocol when somebody pays me.

Or when I get bored maybe.

Look consistency is not my thing, okay?

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 14:00

Getting phone screen action again, which is more than I had for a few weeks there.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 14:03

LinkedIn wants me to know that someone at Amazon made a popular post.

“One of the perks of my job is early access to—”

aww yeah the remainders closet. I remember that. Got a head start on some great reading. Literally the only thing I miss from contracting at Amazon in the aughts.

“—some of our coolest new features”

What?! Who cares about features? Everyone’s got features.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 15:31

Coming in to help her figure out a new Confluence automation thing because who else would you bring in but someone with a blood oath against the tool you’re trying to tame.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 15:32

No but I’m having fun. It’s a new feature so documentation is closer to useful than Atlassian’s usual 3,000 word essay on how this button fits with Agile Development.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:17

#Valheim has set my survival game baseline expectation: can a tree kill you? No? Next game please.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:18

It’s not a real tree puncher if the trees can’t punch back.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:22

headlines i had to read twice to parse correctly

Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 18:21

Its topic and angle choices were such that I always thought of Vice as a good site for when I wanted to be depressed, but I will miss it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 20:27

If nothing else, this little experiment running #Windowmaker makes my monitor actually feel like 5120x1440 is a lot of pixels, which — you know — it should.