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ayo, 4 days ago to random

How I found dog this morning.

ayo, 7 days ago to random

I don't need 10 emails to tell me that my package will arrive today, thanks.

ayo, 10 days ago to random

Can't we all just... stop using computers for everything?

ayo, 23 days ago to random

Alright, I'm convinced. I'll start all my Perl code with "use v5.36;" from now on. :blobcatjustright:

ayo, 24 days ago to random

Which of the 56 updated packages this week is causing my system to hang on shutdown?

ayo, 25 days ago to random

And apparently VNDB is now blocked in Turkey. :blobcattilt:

ayo, 25 days ago to random

One hour of putting something live gets more feedback than two weeks of public beta.

ayo, 29 days ago to random

Of course, if you make something faster the bots will just be crawling faster as well.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

One more minor feature to rewrite and then Manned.org will be... not-quite-100%-Javascript-free. :blobcatjustright:

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Gardening protip: don't bury your dog's dung at a place you're likely to dig up soon.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Once again, attempting to do some UI work.

First line I write: "sub somefunc {".

Immediately followed by wondering in what version of Perl they stabilized subroutine signatures and going down the rabit hole of figuring out if it makes sense to fix VNDB's code to consistently use that feature now.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Aggressive and dumb bots have found my cgit instance... again. Perhaps I should switch to stagit sometime, but then I'd lose the ability to link to older revisions of files. :blobcatsad2:

ayo, 1 month ago to random

This week's weather in a nutshell: rain when I'm walking the dog, blindingly bright sun when I'm trying to read something on the screen.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Almost rm -rf'ed VNDB, thinking I was on the beta server.

I'm genuinely surprised it's never gone properly wrong so far.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

It'll be faster for me to teach someone front-end web dev and have them do all the work I don't want to do, than me staring at the screen for hours and making no progress. :blobcatnotlikethis:

ayo, 1 month ago to random

I hate gardening.

I probably killed off a few plants in an attempt to relocate them. Let's see how dead they are next year. :blobshrug:

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Manned.org now also indexes man pages from NetBSD.

I managed to go back to NetBSD 1.3, released back in 1998.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

Dear VNDB,

Please stay small.

Sincerely,

Manned.org's 20-minute database import.

ayo, 1 month ago to random

The one thing I will never tire of doing, whether it's in real life or in games: petting dogs.

ayo, 2 months ago to random

I ended up breaking stuff. It was very therapeutic.
https://g.blicky.net/vndb.git/commit/?id=fdf7d94af519b9b65a1b3feb5a9ff17c56343ee0

ayo, 2 months ago to random

I like that my ISP can be silly and participate in April Fools, but the timing's a bit off and the joke not particularly funny. :blobshrug:

https://freedom.nl/nieuwsartikel/freedom-blokkeert-facebook-instagram-en-whatsapp

Though I suppose it doesn't have to be funny to be successful as a marketing campaign.

ayo, 2 months ago to random

I was checking if GNU make has a shorter builtin flag to do -jnproc, instead the man page mentions:

> If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously.

Uuuh, that might be a little excessive. :blobcatscared:

ayo, 2 months ago to random

I regularly break stuff on VNDB just to give the impression I'm still working on the site.

ayo, 2 months ago to random

The thing I like about VNDB's API: it's delightfully simple to extend.

The thing I don't like about VNDB's API: it's so delightfully simple to extend that I now spend 80% of my time on documentation.

ayo, 2 months ago to random

The dark arts of taming C libraries for use with seccomp.