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masukomi

@masukomi@connectified.com

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans, and Geeky Programmer.

Queer friend of Camellia Sinensis.

If you want to hear my ramblings about Tabletop Role Playing Games check out my other account: https://dice.camp/@masukomi

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masukomi, to random
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TIL that (on mastodon) if you make a post "Followers only" it ALSO means your followers can't boost it.

This is awesome,

BUT there's more. IF You reply to someone who DOES NOT follow you AND you set the reply to "Followers only" THEY can't boost it either.

Of course, there's no getting around malicious screenshotting, but EVERY bit of control we give users over the way their content is shared is good.

tillybridges, to random
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pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

i love writing because it boils down to “here is a pretend person and the pretend things they’re doing, and i am going to make you have very real feelings about them”

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

masukomi,
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@tillybridges I love Solo Role Playing‡ for the same reason. It can get SO emotional.

Some groups at a table can do that, but very few have both the trust, and skill to let that flow.

‡ D&D(ish) things, but where you're the only player discovering the story & characters as you go.

masukomi, to Flowers
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Some of the flower buds, I photographed the other day have opened up. I like the way this picture came out. I think it would make a good desktop wallpaper. DM me an email addy if you want the full-rez version.

I believe this is some sort of fancy apple tree that is grown for beauty, not fruit

violetblue, to random
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Last night the goth kids downstairs came home very late and did drunk baking, accidentally set off smoke alarms, woke me up, I came out.

They just knocked on my door and apologized with this bowl of fresh, still-warm chocolate chip cookies 😊

masukomi,
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@violetblue awww. The world needs more goth kids. ;)

masukomi, to random
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Wifey has decided to do battle with mosquitoes and dandelions.

masukomi,
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@dachary i forgot it had lights until you mentioned it. There were just shiny bits on the front. ;)

masukomi, to transgender
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New milestone reached:
Our tractor's fuel hole is nearly chest high on @dachary so I - being taller - became the one who refills it.

1st I go to grab a 5 gallon can of fuel (~35lbs or ~16kg) and am like "oof!" being caught off guard by the weight. Then, I go to lift it to my chest height to hold it over the tank & I am struggling. I need to get a stool to Captain Morgan my leg on, so that I can rest the can on my raised thigh / knee and tip it in.
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masukomi,
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I miss-aim, pour some down the tractor's rear & onto the floor. 🤦‍♀️ Then I get the nozzle in, continue to struggle, and 2 more times end up getting some past the hole.

D's getting frustrated, but can't lift it because of her back.

Eventually she looks at me and says "I wonder if this is one of those hormone things."

I'm like "muscle loss? heh. yeah" At that point it was a pretty big understatement. ;)

So um. Yeah. milestone reached. 🎉 🤷‍♀️

I need to exercise more (or you know, ever).
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masukomi, to transgender
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The problem with being an old‡ woman (re)starting their transition is that there are so many fucking beautiful young(ish) trans women posting selfies and I'm like "fuck. like ... that's not even 'goals' because there's no way in HELL i'll EVER look that good unless I can get a brain transplant. "

But also, god DAMN does it make me happy to see them getting to be beautiful and happy.

‡ old relatively speaking.

masukomi, to random
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@bardi 's Tusks app is nice, but it's still early days.

I tried making my thread in FediThready because i prefer the way it chooses to chunk up long posts - and lets me control that if i want to - as well as how it lets me review the full thread.

However, FediThready can't post & doing a long thread 1-by-1 with the Mastodon UI is... "sub-optimal"

SO I used FediThready to make & review the thread & Tusks to post it. It worked quite well.

https://thirdculture.app/tusks
https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi,
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Full disclosure: I discovered a bug in FediThready. I'm guessing there's something I didn't account for in the updated Regexp that finds split points. Might be related to all-caps words, but I'm not sure. I'll look into it Monday if i remember, but if you're an interested JS geek looking for a small Open Source task to help with... I'm happy to have external contributions https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready/issues/3

lauren, to random
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Keep in mind that any day, Elon could wake up and say "To Hell with Starlink. Shut it down!" And nobody could stop him.

masukomi,
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@lauren 🤔 you don't think there's something in the contract that gave them government funding that says "you gotta keep giving us access for N years?"

I mean, he's rich enough that the fine is irrelevant to him, and no-one who works there would stop him because he'd fire them so....

Is there any point in making a contract with a billionaire if there's no meaningful penalty that could be applied to prevent them from ignoring it once they have your money?

masukomi, to random
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@iamada Tooted a bit ago about troubles getting their developers to contribute to a changelog.

I used to be a release manager at one co. I know the pain well, and i have a LOT of thoughts on it.

The short answer is that as much as we wish they would update one with / for each PR they wont, and if you're talking about literally editing a CHANGELOG file then you DEFINITELY do NOT want them to try.
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masukomi,
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the naïve approach of "just add your changelog message to the bottom of the file" will end with yelling and / or tears because of the CONSTANT merge conflicts it'll generate. It's just not practically possible. Don't go there.

BUT there are multiple bigger problems with developers making changelog entries, even if you had a technically feasible mechanism.
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masukomi,
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First, they're thinking at the wrong level of abstraction. They rarely have the skill / experience to consider what they did in code, and reframe it in such a way that the person who needs to read the changelog has the right level of detail & terminology. You'll get a changelog, but the stakeholders and/or customers who would benefit from reading a good one will either find it gibberish OR statements about code that they understand but without the context to make it meaningful.
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masukomi,
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Second, in some cases there needs to be 1 changelog for internal stakeholders and a completely different changelog for customers. Again, each one needs a different level of abstraction because they are working from different contexts.
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masukomi,
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Third, tooling:
You NEVER want autogenerated chaneglogs (blog post why: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2016/06/30/why-you-cant-auto-generate-your-changelog/ )

If you decided to use ANY Of the tools that have been written (i even made one) that allow developers to record an entry for a changelog that is also somehow tied to the PR you will have a fucking mutiny over getting them to adopt it into their workflow.
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masukomi,
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AND even if your team is like the unique magical unicorn capable of understand the value of the task, you've still got the abstraction problem.

My best advice for addressing this problem is to (with their input) modify the template you're using for PR descriptions to have a heading that says something like "At a high level, describe what you did in 1 or 2 sentences" followed by whatever details are needed for the other geeks to understand & review the PR.

T
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masukomi,
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THEN you, the release manager, or anyone on the team who can put themselves in the reader's shoes... sits down, goes through all the PRs in the release, and rewrites all the geeky sentences into something that's more concise and conveys the right level of info for the reader.

Related: Blog post on creating great changelogs.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2016/07/03/keeping-a-great-changelog/
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masukomi, to random
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It turns out that there's enough solar activity to take a 2nd crack at the tonight.

However, we're covered in clouds, and would have to drive 8hours - not counting stops - in order to get to a potentially cloud-free area that's at a higher latitude.

Unfortunately, I've been tired all day, desperately need a nap, and am the only one comfortable driving our ~12,000lb (5,400kg) 🚑 because it's effing wide & wifey hasn't practiced in it yet. But she's also pooped so. 🤷‍♀️

masukomi, (edited )
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Seeing the eclipse tonight might be possible if we could cross the Canadian border but our passports are expired. We'll be sending them in for renewal next week though so, SOON we shall be able to revisit Canada. 🇨🇦

We rarely went there, but I did appreciate having it as an option.

I accidentally clicked the poll thing & can't make it go away. So, uh... do you have a valid passport?

masukomi,
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@pencilears Alas, our HOME is dark enough to see the milky way‡ it's just that EVERYWHERE around us is clouds. We'd have to go even farther if we went south. ;)

‡ moving from the big city to a place where we can see the stars almost every night is.... emotionally life-changing.

masukomi,
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@pencilears I used to live on Whidbey Island so I'm VERY familiar. ;)

masukomi, to 3DPrinting
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Current status:

I don’t have the energy to disassemble this feeder today.

pencilears, to random
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We went out to kachess for some darkness tonight!

masukomi,
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@pencilears you lucky bitch‡

‡ furry pun intended ;)

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