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niclake

@niclake@mastodon.social

🌎 Iowa resident.
🔨 Full stack engineer working with #Ruby #Rails #React #Swift #Python
🎮 Bulbasaur stan
🎸 Lapsed musician
📚 Bibliophile
⌨️ Keyboard enthusiast
🪵 Beginner woodworker
👨‍👩‍👧🐈 Partner of B, father of V, cat dad of 2.

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Really tempted to give @eleventy a shot, but I've not actually looked at hosting stuff in ages (thanks, GitHub Pages). Any recs for good, affordable hosting platforms for a small site like mine?

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Help me try and recall an old game.

  • it was on the Mac sometime back in the 90s (the Escape Velocity era)
  • top down view, with rooms you moved between (it loaded instantly, no slide/wipe/fade)
  • you were in some sort of ship, but the settings were indoors, not in space
  • I don’t remember if the ship had weapon systems or not; all I remember was a scenario where I kept bouncing off of some walls and zooming through multiple rooms

Anyone? This has bugged me for years.

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@robb Silly ? - what do you use for your footnotes on your page?

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As I return to Mastodon, I realize that I have no idea who is here, or who I should be following. Any recommendations for people y'all think I need to pay attention to?

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A person who can never shut up about using timers to increase their productivity is called a Pomodorko.

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I couldn't figure out what to write today, so here's a list of thoughts. https://niclake.me/35/

niclake, to ai
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I'd been writing a post for #weblogpomo2024 talking about some of the more comical fuck-ups all of these #ai and #llm have been spewing. And now I'm fucking furious.

Note: content warning for depression, self-harm, and suicide

https://niclake.me/ai

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A lot of people ask me why I wear hats all the time. To answer, I have to go all the way back to high school. https://niclake.me/put-a-lid-on-it

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Hi hello. Come meet my cats. https://niclake.me/fur-babies/

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What did you want to be when you grew up? https://niclake.me/when-i-grow-up/

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Would someone please @ me real quick? Need to test something.

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With an Apple Event coming up on Tuesday, I thought about my experience using Apple products, and a (definitely non-exhaustive) wishlist of things I wish they would do. https://niclake.me/an-apple-wish-list/

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Do y'all have any old handles or screennames floating around in the ether? For today's , I look back on my main screennames over the years, and admit something I've never told anyone. https://niclake.me/whats-in-a-name/

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CSS people: is there a way that I can say "on page load, choose 2 colors from this list of 8” WITHOUT using JavaScript?

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I took down uses.tech sorry sorry so sorry

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Forgot to hit publish on my post from yesterday - whoops! Here's what I've been up to in May. https://niclake.me/now-for-may-2024/

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If anyone has never played Axiom Verge before, I have a Steam key for it from a bundle I purchased. Let me know if you'd like it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/332200/Axiom_Verge/

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@ivory Weird Mac bug I can reproduce 100% of the time:

  • Ivory is set to half a screen, touching top/bottom/right side; this screen sits above my main screen in a stacked layout
  • Receive notification & click
  • Whatever the notification is pops up & takes up full window (profile from follow, toot from, well, a toot, etc.)
  • Close that window
  • The main window will reposition itself ~5% lower from the top, pushing in to the screen below
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For the first day of I wrote about the one missing/broken software feature that’s driven me nuts for years. https://niclake.me/one-software-feature/

niclake, (edited ) to random
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What should I blog about today?

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Somewhat serious question: how do I convince my jobby job to let me take paid leave/sabbatical for 3-4 months to do an independent study on something not directly related to my current role?

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sigh fiiiiiiiiiine

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“This industry used to sell solutions. Now it sells nothing, disguised as possibility.” 🎉🎉🎉
https://pdx.social/@louie/112505491869995645

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<places soapbox>
<climbs up>
<clears throat>

I would rather read your blog post with no header image than something you generated using some sort of AI.

<fin>

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