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harshad

@harshad@sharma.io

Tends to soil, plants and various animals on a small farm somewhere in the hills of Kodaikanal, India. Rides a 2008 Royal Enfield Thunderbird everywhere.

No ideologies, handful labels. Friend to life in all shapes and forms.

Expect photos, anecdotes and rants about living off-grid in middle of nowhere with occasional motorcycle rides.

He/him.

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harshad, to random
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Saw a new (to me) flower. iNaturalist's automatic detection wasn't able to help either.

brunoph, to random
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Seeing the "no card" warning on the camera's HUD is the photographer's equivalent of seeing the "check engine" light in the car's dashboard.

harshad,
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@brunoph 💯

// At least i can reach into my pocket and take the spare card from my wallet. A spare engine seems much harder to carry around 😅

harshad, to random
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Driving through rains and clouds today.

harshad, to photography
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Woken up at 04:00 by my dogs barking at something… likely a deer on the hill.

Noticed the night is clear, so set up the camera to shoot a timelapse of the home galaxy, as one normally does 😅

Now we wait.

harshad,
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The Milky Way, as seen from on 25 May 2023, 4:39 AM.

harshad,
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Got ~4 seconds of time-lapse.

10 second exposures + 3 second delayed shutter to avoid mirror-slap.

Time-lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy moving across the frame and daylight fading everything to white towards the end.

harshad,
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@tecoholic Not entirely sure what those are.

harshad,
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@tecoholic I'm doing the same :-P someone more experienced might have a clue.

harshad,
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@tecoholic https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/110426833092161723

harshad, to photography
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From the perspective of "You are the Universe, awake and conscious"… every photo you take is a selfie 🤷🏽‍♂️

harshad,
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harshad, to animals
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Afternoon nap.

harshad, to random
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Cool breeze makes me forget the scorching hot sun is out as well. Must drink more water!

Have a slight headache hinting at impending dehydration X-)

harshad,
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I'll have to set up and keep my audio recorder on for some time to capture this, but after a loud crack of thunder the peafowl perched in trees around the valley start cawing as well.

And as expected, the weather turned overcast an hour ago and it has already rained heavily once for 20 minutes. Round two incoming!

harshad,
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50+ shades of green!

Br3nda, to random

A week ago, someone posted a photo claiming to be a baby peafowl (also known as a peacock).

Having grown up with peacocks and peahens on the farm, I knew it wasn't anything like what I remembered. -- so I quickly opened a tab to find an actual photo to reply with.

AAAAAND... the google image results were full of similar AI generated not-actually-a-baby-peafowl photos.

the fantastical imaginary version of a baby peacock has pushed out the real photos.

spot the real thing among the results

harshad,
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@Br3nda though it appeared rather cute, I too have seen young peafowl and knew it was a fake, but the number of times it got boosted has me worried.

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Geeks: coworker was arguing against putting some configuration stuff in environment variables. Their primary argument was that they didn't want it to "become a kitchen-sink"

I honestly can't think of a reason why that matters? who cares if you have 50 additional environment variables configuring various portions of your app?

Do you know why? Because I'm stumped.

side note: yes, there are good arguments for not putting specific types of things in there. That's not what I'm discussing.

harshad,
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@masukomi personally, I prefer a config file. It can encrypted with a password supplied through environment variables if required.

harshad,
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@masukomi yes, the only argument against env-vars for configuring everything would be that env-vars can be supplied via various methods - especially in SaaS; all of which may not be obvious when debugging.

harshad, to random
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"Data storage is cheap"

— people who have never created photos, videos or field-recordings/audio.

iangriffin, to random
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Jesus. The new outlook for Mac forced me to "upgrade" to the new interface which is, to put it mildly, completely different to the old version. Spent a couple of minutes googling how to revert. Why the heck do software engineers do this?

harshad,
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@iangriffin sigh, people haven't learned after decades of these shenanigans and customers complaining.

// I remain happy with previous colleagues in design who understood that customers spend time to learn our tools and corporate rebranding or fresh ideas in design does not imply resetting their skills. They continue to use our tools because they're good at using them, upsetting that is dumping a big landfill in the "business moat" 🤷‍♂️

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Maybe THIS $200 hand tool will finally make me feel complete while working on this project

harshad,
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@kwf it just MIGHT!!

// sigh glances at own collection of tools that in fact, didn't 🤣

harshad, to photography
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Yesterday's evening sky was dramatic.

harshad, to random
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Android app from a large company frequently asks how you would rate the said app. Takes you to play store to get your "feedback" on record if you vote thumbs up, does nothing if you're not happy 🤷‍♂️

harshad,
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@tanepiper bosses demand number go up 😅

harshad, to photography
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No luck photographing the lunar eclipse tonight. However, fireflies!

Also it started to drizzle as I compose this post, so no chance going outside after this.

Long-exposure and close up of branches of a small acacia tree, a firefly has walked over a branch leaving a blinking yellow-green light-trail behind.

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