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@command_tab@hachyderm.io

Sr. Software Engineer at Pixar · Building web and native apps with #Python, #Nuxt, #VueJS, #SwiftUI, #Kubernetes, and #Terraform · Mac nerd since the PowerPC 603 · Interested in #Infosec · #N64 homebrew enthusiast

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command_tab, to Cats
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Does one of your have asthma and require an inhaler? If so, and you live in the US, where do you buy your medications from? Ours does, and I order from Canada because I've heard it's cheaper. But they ship from manufacturers across the world, making it take 20+ days for orders to arrive. If there was a domestic supplier that was reasonably-ish priced, I'd like to switch. TY🙏🏻

command_tab, to random
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Tesla making a lot of stupid decisions 🤨 Consumers want lower cost EVs and they pivot to… robotaxis instead of a low cost Model 2? The industry is moving towards NACS and they gut their Supercharger team? Seems like a leadership change would be beneficial.

colindean, to Pittsburgh
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Am I seemingly the ~only person on the Internet who wants a smoke detector with a black casing?

I can only find them from boutique, wired, high-end brands. Nest stopped making the Protect in black years ago, apparently. Owl sells them but my house doesn't have a wired smoke detector system; they're not required in .

command_tab,
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@colindean Careful disassembly and Rit dye, maybe

collin, to random
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We really fucked up with starting lettered generation naming at X. Poor planning.

command_tab,
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@collin Just wrap around after Z. Gen A here we come!

command_tab, to random
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Throwback to 2006 when I got Doom running on a Montana lottery machine, albeit cropped. Didn’t have time to get more involved since this was a small diversion from work 😛

pixel, to retrocomputing
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I’m surprised there’s no repository of pre setup VM with clean Operating Systems installations.

command_tab,
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@pixel This site is nice: https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems They’re not preinstalled, since VM apps and their file formats vary over time, but it’s a decent collection of disk images. Also, I have a large collection myself if you’re looking for something specific.

command_tab, to random
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Thinking about volunteering to be a poll worker, but I have only vague ideas about what exactly the responsibilities would be. Anyone done it before?

collin, to random
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Look at this fucking content creator 😂

command_tab,
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@collin “What’s up guys…”

command_tab, to random
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Booked a Vision Pro demo for this coming week. I gotta see this thing in person to really understand it.

simon, (edited ) to random
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GitHub have macOS ARM runners now! https://github.blog/changelog/2024-01-30-github-actions-introducing-the-new-m1-macos-runner-available-to-open-source/

If you want to run Python on them you should know that they have builds for 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 (and 3.13 alpha) but not for 3.8 or 3.9

Figured that out using Datasette Lite:

https://lite.datasette.io/?install=datasette-copyable&json=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actions/python-versions/main/versions-manifest.json#/data?sql=select+version%2C+json_extract(value%2C%20%22%24.arch%22)%20as%20arch%2C%20json_extract(value%2C%20%22%24.filename%22)%20as%20filename%0Afrom%20%22versions-manifest%22%2C%20json_each(files)%0Awhere%20arch%20%3D%20%22arm64%22

Detailed notes here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/pull/615

command_tab,
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@simon this is accurate — Python 3.10 was the first version to ship with Apple Silicon support

command_tab, to random
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was a 75MHz Performa 5200CD all-in-one running System 7. I very quickly figured out how to use it, how to break it, how to fix it, and how to upgrade it. It wasn’t a model from the best of times for Apple, but it nonetheless launched my hobby and career in technology. I am extremely fortunate to have parents who supported my interest in technology at every turn — they got me books, magazines, electronic components, old stuff to disassemble, and Macs when they could afford them.

drahardja, to random
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The FaceTime ads were some of the most human of tech ads. It really showed how technology got out of the way of humanity. https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/111792353417015546

command_tab,
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@drahardja Reminds me of one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. It was like right out of the commercials.

marioguzman, to macos
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Sheets!

Sheets in Mac OS X had such a lovely animation presentation.

They'd come out from a "slit" between the titlebar and the toolbar. You can even see the slit. It was so neat.

And of course the "Slit" would go away when the sheet would retract as you'd dismiss it.

The often reminded me of a page coming out from a printer (much faster of course). I miss the playfulness of Mac. :(

command_tab,
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@marioguzman Sheets were great because their attachment added context — which window needed the modal interruption. They should bring them back.

command_tab, to random
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Trying out the Logitech Lift for Mac vertical mouse to hopefully stave off RSI issues: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/lift-vertical-ergonomic-mouse-mac.910-006471.html I’m not entirely used to it yet, but that will just take time. One consideration that stands out to me is the clever battery door design: It's held on by magnets, and a simple press tilts it and releases it. Changing the battery takes like 8 seconds. It also blessedly runs on one AA battery, so there's no permanent internal rechargeable one to eventually die on you.

vga256, (edited ) to filmmaking
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a little culture story from the 2000s...

sometimes i get tired of the narrative that social media arrived in the late 00's, killing the old world wide web, and driving content-driven static sites out of existence. it's an easily regurgitatable story, but it's not what really happened.

i can't remember how i stumbled across it, but in 2010 i first came across the web documentary series California Is A Place. each five-minute episode focused on a tiny subculture of californian life, usually near the poverty line, and drew out the humanity of everyday people doing everyday things.

the presentation was flawless, both in terms of web design and cinematography. it was the first time i had seen someone take a DSLR (in this case, i suspect a Canon 5D mark II and 50mm f/1.4) and document everyday life like it was shot on a $100k film camera. everything was shot wide open, sometimes in slow motion, with a shallow depth of field that gave each face a vivid yet dream-like quality.

within a few years, everyone was shooting pretty youtube vids on DSLRs, when the practice became affordable and tutorialized. but i never forgot about Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari's documentaries that got there first.

the first doc i watched was Cannonball - about a group of skaters that cleaned out abandoned swimming pools during the real estate collapse of 2008. i think about that documentary every few months, and how much of an impression it left on me. it changed what i thought what filmmaking could be, and drew me back into photography after a ten year hiatus.

magical things did happen during the social media era - technologies changed, new filmmaking techniques and styles emerged - we just weren't paying attention while it was all happening in the background.

http://californiaisaplace.com/cali/cannonball/#cannonball

command_tab,
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@vga256 Oh yeah, I remember these! They’re so well shot and edited!

collin, to random
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I need to be able to support custom user domains in the way sites like Fireside, BuzzSprout, Micro.blog etc do in my Rails app. I’d prefer to use Heroku, but I’ll do something else if it’s not going to be possible.

What do I need to know here?

command_tab,
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@collin I would think just about any app or hosting provider can do this; Users set up a CNAME pointing their desired host name at your app’s hostname, and your app inspects each HTTP request’s Host header to see which blog (or whatever) to respond with.

command_tab,
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@collin Hmm, yeah, I hadn’t considered TLS. There’s Let’s Encrypt, but if you went that route, I’m unsure whether you’d need to request exactly one cert for every hosted blog, or if you can/should batch many together. It might be enlightening to look at a certificate for, say, a WordPress.com site (which works similarly) and check out its certificate’s CN and SNI fields. (Or maybe there’s another solution entirely.)

command_tab, to random
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On this date 3 years ago: my kids watching the attack on the capitol incited by the president.

command_tab, to random
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Maybe it’s because I don’t use GitHub all day every day, but GitLab is a really great piece of software. I don’t feel like I’m missing out on feature parity.

command_tab, to random
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An aging but still fascinating (and probably still relevant) talk about how the networked multiplayer gameplay of Halo Reach worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47zZrqjgLc

command_tab, to random
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I don't trust ChatGPT as far as I can throw it, and I can't see ever using Copilot or the like, but boy, having a thing to just bounce occasional programming questions off of can sure help nudge my problem-solving in directions I hadn't yet considered. And those directions can lead to an answer. Sometimes it's even just helpful as a "rubber duck” stand-in to force me to explain my own thinking to the point where the problem becomes self-evident.

danderson, to random
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Me, an idiot: I'll just convert this one-many relation into many-many through a join table, it'll be fine.

Business logic layer: explodes in a shower of complexity

command_tab,
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@danderson Not sure if using Python, but SQLAlchemy has association_proxy to help “hide” the existence of the mapping table.

command_tab,
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@danderson Oh man, mapping tables with additional important columns are, in fact, full of suck. On one hand, the normalization accurately captures the data, but on the other hand, <confused math lady gif>

command_tab, to random
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Was changing the wiper blades on my wife’s car and accidentally bumped the bladeless arm and caused the metal hook to slap the windshield. Crack! There’s a $700 ‘oops’ I won’t make again.

command_tab, to random
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Just days away now from saying “yes” to installing solar equipment — planning for enough panels and battery to power today’s needs plus enabling future needs like EV charging ☀️

command_tab,
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Contract signed and deposit made! Solar panels won’t go up for several months, but it’s happening ☀️ Went with SolarCraft, a local Marin company who has been doing this since ‘84.

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