mattly

mattly, 22 days ago to random

ugh, I’m shopping for a new macOS mail client, I need:

• multiple fastmail / imap / gmail accounts
• multiple aliases per account
• modifier-less keyboard commands
• must NOT use a third-party server for ANYTHING (rules out Spark)
• must have an option to disable remote images
• sort/view by sender & thread
• I have a very high bar for subscription fees; Edison/Canary/Newton don’t cut it

I’ve been doing email since 1994, my favorite clients have been Claris Em@iler, Mutt, Spark, & Sparrow

mattly, 4 months ago to random

maybe some bodies are better left buried

mattly, 6 months ago to random

It apparently went in my medical history that I “am not tech-savvy” apparently because I said I would prefer not to use mychart,

this is part of a legal record now

and it’s like, no, I’m very tech-savvy and that’s why I would prefer not to use mychart

mattly, 3 months ago to random

contemporary cyberpunk is using Reader View to get around some shitty javascript meant to prevent you from reading the page

mattly, 1 month ago to random

For the first time in many years, I feel like I’m both past the burnout I had accumulated and not in a situation where I’ll accumulate more

My burnouts have come from

• employer funding running out / parent co insolvency
• lack of recognition for doing the necessary thankless work that prevented something bad happening
• work going towards sociopolitical ends I oppose
• subpar compensation
• not getting to tackle the problems I was hired for
• not making time to work on things important to me

mattly, 11 months ago to random

Me, a year ago: clickops in AWS is both horrible to use and doesn’t align with my values. I know, I’ll use terraform!

Me, after spending an hour trying to deal with updating things because of version updates: Now I’ve got … let’s see… at least a dozen problems

mattly, 6 days ago to random

javascript people: does anyone have a date/time library they prefer for heavy lifting? I’ve gotten frustrated enough with Luxon (successor to Moment) to move on

I need to be able to do some heavy lifting with this, almost but not quite on the scale of what joda-time / java 8’s time library allows. I don’t need custom chronologies or calendars, but do need a library that doesn’t constantly patronize me by thinking it knows more about my use cases than I do

mattly, 5 hours ago to random

I can’t tell which feature of the new Sonos app I like more; the loss of key features I used to rely on like sleep timers, or the more prominent in-app ads

mattly, 7 months ago to random

clearing out some old email and stumbled across a goodbye from someone who passed away last year

...

holy shit people, email is not for important personal things like this, especially when they had my phone number

mattly, 27 days ago to random

has anyone ever recorded an audiobook before? Have any tips for someone considering doing it for the first time?

My kid loves audiobooks but one of their favorite books isn’t available that way, and they have a birthday coming up, so I’m considering making one for them

mattly, 8 months ago to random

I’ve been clawing my way out of burnout the last two years, figuring out what a sustainable career could look like for me

It’s no coincidence that this time has also coincided with finally getting an ADHD diagnosis & working to finally heal childhood traumas so ingrained they were invisible

As the main income earner for my family, I can’t just up & quit tech, even though I’d like to

I would LOVE to hear people’s similar stories & talk to people on similar paths, I think it would be helpful rn

mattly, 3 months ago to random

TIL that gains from selling stock bought under an Employee Stock Purchase Plan apparently count as “wages” and not “capital gains” because ESPP stock was … paid for with wages?

mattly, 8 months ago to random

having one of those years, one of those seasons, weeks, evenings, where you think, you know, it ain’t been easy, but it’s been worth it

and that’s a thing to celebrate

mattly, 4 months ago to random

ugh, we switched health insurers this year for access to a theoretical better network but I’ve already got a bad feeling about this

mattly, 4 months ago to random

if only edgeComputing / worker / “serverless” processes were reusable across cloud providers. Like there was some kind of interface that was common between them all as a gateway between the edge CDN server and other resources

What could we call such a thing?

Common Gateway Interface? nah, that would never work

mattly, 3 months ago to random

Has anyone using a Mac recently noticed that the cursor no longer changes to a pointer when hovering over links? Is this just me? Doesn’t work in any browser or app anymore… also not getting the cursor to change into a text insertion cursor anymore either

mattly, 1 year ago to random

Of COURSE I found a bug in protobuf json serialization

I am mister edge case

Leave it to me to try doing something obvious that apparently no one ever thought of before

mattly, 11 months ago to random

You can tell a form’s Date of Birth field was created by someone under thirty when it makes you scroll back through each year by an individual click

mattly, 1 month ago to ADHD

in personal late-diagnosis #ADHD comorbidity news, I've have a diagnosis for #Dysthymia, aka "Persistent Depressive Disorder”

> As dysthymia is a chronic disorder, those with the condition may experience symptoms for many years before it is diagnosed, if diagnosis occurs at all. As a result, they may believe that depression is a part of their character, so they may not even discuss their symptoms with doctors, family members or friends.

I think this is going to be as big as the ADHD diagnosis

mattly, 1 month ago to random

Got another amber alert, with a bit.ly link taking me to Xitter, two minutes on and this is all it shows

We should be doing better

mattly, 1 month ago to random

Google Docs has somehow or another disabled “Paste without Formatting” and this should be illegal

mattly, 29 days ago to random

scabulous
adj. proud of a certain scar on your body, which is like an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even if it hurts

– The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

mattly, 11 months ago to random

Our 4 month old kitten went into respiratory shock today after a few days of declining health; apparently the root cause is FIP which has a poor prognosis

The vet warned us that there are black market medications and all sorts of scammers who prey in on hope for a cure

When my partner searched for FIP on google the entire first page was such scams

Anyway, goodbye Luna, you are a sweet kitty. we wish we could have gotten to know you longer and we’re grateful for the time we had

mattly, 9 months ago to random

@MonaApp have you been hearing reports of people not getting full API data from their servers with your app in the past few days? I’m only seeing about 1/2 my timeline content and notifications, Ivory & the web interfaces seem to show everything

mattly, 11 months ago to random

bitten by the lack of a good “search my timeline from the last month or so” here, I mean, I get it, it’s a hard problem, but this is perhaps the only thing that could get me running my own instance or server software