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c0dec0dec0de, 11 months ago to animals

I want to pat the raccoon!
🦝🦝🦝
#raccoon #animals

Another close-cropped picture of the raccoon on wooden steps, still holding a granola bar, but now with head back, chewing. (Still cute)

c0dec0dec0de, 9 months ago to random

Now, maybe you hate Sony. Maybe you hate Activision. There's plenty of good reason to hate both – they're run by creeps who do shitty things to gamers and to their employees. But if you think that Microsoft will be better once it eliminates its competition, then you have the attention span of a goldfish on Adderall.

• @pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/

c0dec0dec0de, 9 months ago to random

Evergreen XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1163

c0dec0dec0de, 11 months ago to random

I like cheap keyboards. I have an Insignia keyboard and it’s great for me.
It’s shallow enough that there’s no need for a wrist rest. The keys don’t have a lot of travel and it’s reasonably quiet (when I don’t slam the Return key with a flourish as I finish a line).
I tried two TKL keyboards after seeing the Nth post about how they save space and it makes sense to spend money on the primary input for my job and hobbies.
#keyboards #programmers

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to random

Reminiscing about the two computers of mine that literally caught fire - one twice!

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to Blog

I posted a web log thing!
It's niche and stupid. If you use JFrog Artifactory and a Red Hat-based Linux and want user-specific credentials for use with dnf, I know how to do that and you can too:

#dnf #artifactory #blog

https://0xc0dec0dec0de.github.io/2024/04/16/using-user-specific-credentials-with-dnf.html

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to random

My kingdom* for a damned wire coat hanger. How the hell am I supposed to McGuyver this stupid drain plug out around a 90° elbow and down 6-12 inches of pipe without a wire coat hanger?
*not really, I just why did we stop using wire coat hangers? Plastic ones suck and aren’t strong enough, but at least they aren’t properly being recycled anywhere in this county, so I guess everything’s great.

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

Finally listening to Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works and it is just wonderful. I wanted to squee when she described Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge as a "charismatic megastructure". It's just a great book.
Recommended to me (not personally) by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/

c0dec0dec0de, 1 year ago to random

rm -fr is pronounced “remove for real”
docker system prune -af is pronounced “docker system prune as fuck”

c0dec0dec0de, 30 days ago to random

Doing yard work with kiddo yesterday, he hopped into the wheelbarrow. So, obviously, it becomes a joke and not just a ride.
“Welcome to Wheelbarrow Airlines, where we have a better safety record than Boeing.”
#DadJoke #joke

c0dec0dec0de, 4 months ago to programming

Apropos of nothing at all, if someone tells you that you have to do something nonsensical to your code base at work because some other group/team/internal org requires it, speak directly to that other entity about it!
Don’t remove your unit tests or all links to documentation based on a game of Telephone.
#programming #advice

c0dec0dec0de, 7 months ago to animals

Dog: Dad! I gotta pee.
Me: It’s cold and rainy, can it wait?
Dog: I’m about to pop!
Me: Fine.
Dog: goes for a mile and a half walk without so much as sniffing the grass on the side of the road to pretend he’s looking for a good spot to pee
#DogsOfMastodon

c0dec0dec0de, 11 months ago to random

I talk relatively frequency about how the size of the configuration space influences the practical utility of a tool (not here, I guess, but in my actual life).
My frequent target is ClearCase. People have made cases for it being the best SCM system for certain use-cases, but specifying what you want to get can be a full-on document.
On the other hand, Git is relatively simple (yeah, I know). The configuration space is smaller.
#scm #git

c0dec0dec0de, 1 year ago to random

Just finished @MurHerself ‘s Station Eternity and loved it! Also, Mur’s on the Fediverse and I didn’t realize it.

c0dec0dec0de, 8 months ago to ADHD

#LazyWeb #ADHD
Is there some kind of near-field or whatever tag type thing I can attach to tools and have them scream if they’re not in range of a base station or something? Like put a base station in the tool area and have a mobile one on my person and if I leave behind the folding utility knife (because I’ve bought at least a dozen of them and can’t find them or had to discard them after they were ruined by the elements) the tool screams so I can’t help but go grab it?

c0dec0dec0de, 4 months ago to Cats

⚠️Hugs considered harmful⚠️
Local man endangers resident feline by removing him from the ground and brutally snuggling his little face. Reports indicate that the same man traumatized a resident canine by savagely putting his arms around the dog and calling him “A good, handsome boy.”
#cats #dogs

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to 13thFloor

This was linked by @pluralistic last week(?) and it’s a good read about the (messed up) morality of Ender’s Game. Finally read it today.
https://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website/creating-the-innocent-killer
#fiction #literature

c0dec0dec0de, 5 months ago to random

How the hell have I never just made an executable configure script and tiny Makefile in my CMake repos to make autotools fans more comfortable?

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to random

Tell me you didn't store the timestamp for a file without telling me...

c0dec0dec0de, 4 months ago to random

I’m always slightly disappointed when a very weird book has a - perfectly fine, pleasant voiced - particular voice actor narrating it. They’re immensely talented and literally award-winning, and I’ve no problem listening to them for hours on end. Yet, I kinda want someone who will be a bit more … emotive.

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to random

Might be absent for a bit. Deleting most of the apps on my phone in an attempt to reduce readily-available distractions.
This is going to suck.

c0dec0dec0de, 3 months ago to programming

Interviewer: So, tell us about your approach to problems with software distribution.
Candidate: hefts bolt-cutters and a sledge well, first off, I’m trying to solve the issue OF software distribution, not problems WITH it.
#programming #software #SoftwareEngineering

c0dec0dec0de, 2 months ago to ADHD

Extremely #ADHD feels in the back half of the first verse of Bad Seed Rising’s 30 (for which I have to mumble the ages because I’m well north of 30):
My world turns too slowly
It's like a blur and it's passing by
Come Monday, come Tuesday
(I don't know, I don't know)
It's my life and I'm losing

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

Alright, where on fedi is the nerd who uses a #YubiKey to unlock and start their car? (And do they have a sweet blog about their nerd-mobile?)

c0dec0dec0de, 1 month ago to random

I'm learning LaTeX, because it's more fun than actually looking for a job.