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cr0ybot, 20 days ago to random

Instead of getting work done, I spent all day backfilling case studies for web, app, and game projects on my website. Time well spent regardless.

cr0ybot, 2 months ago to Minecraft

I started working on a personal app project recently because it was timely, on top of 2 big ongoing freelance projects and full time job, and I burned out so fast my brain now refuses to do anything but #Minecraft.

I even resurrected my home server, which hasn't seen use in a decade.

cr0ybot, 3 months ago to random

"We fermented a miso, a traditional Japanese condiment, on the International Space Station over 30 days... we found that overall, the space miso is recognizable as a miso, suggesting fermentation in space is possible. We also found certain differences in the space miso: specifically the presence of Bacillus velezensis, a higher mutation rate of A. oryzae, higher attributions of ′roasted′ and ′nutty′ flavours, and the most different sensory impression."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.23.579929v1

cr0ybot, 6 months ago to webdev

PSA for front end web developers:

Visible scrollbars affect vw units and media queries!

100vw with a visible scrollbar will overflow!

Grid layouts with media queries might behave differently with a visible scrollbar!

#WebDev #frontend #CSS

cr0ybot, 6 months ago to Podcast

Currently obsessed with woe.begone podcast. Lots of seasons to binge.

If you liked ars paradoxica, give this one a listen. Any others I should listen to?

https://woebegonepod.com

#podcast #audiodrama #TimeTravel

tomfinley, 7 months ago to random

Considering renting YOURLS managed hosting by the year and I need WordNerds to either talk me into it (or talk me out of it). Also, bear in mind it needs positioning for use by 2 sites (personal and agency-professional) if you can even do that.

(Caveat: I’m a 43 y/o toddler dad trying to run a microagency and building block themes, so if you utter the words “Digital Ocean droplet” I’m apt to get a little salty.)

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to random

Today is my first day at Alpha Particle! I met the crew at #WCUS2023 and they helped me feel welcome as I was there alone. I'm looking forward to what we build together.

https://alphaparticle.com

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to wordpress

#WordPress devs working on Windows with #WSL: what's your setup look like? I'm running #LocalWP and using #VSCode, and it seems like it's best if the files I'm working with are in the WSL filesystem. I'm hoping that keeping a theme folder in WSL and synlinking to the Windows filesystem for LocalWP will work ok but it doesn't seem ideal.

benfry, 7 months ago to random

I have made the extremely difficult decision to resign from the Processing Foundation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and have not slept well for months.

Casey and I started the Foundation with Dan as a way to make the Processing project more sustainable. For years it had been just Casey and me, supporting thousands and thousands of users.

Back in 2017, I was diagnosed with cancer just weeks after my second child was born. I took a break from participating directly with the Board.

Last fall, with urging from Casey, who was planning to leave, I tried to return to an active role with the Board.

It was a strange experience; I was soon shocked to learn that the Foundation spent nearly $800,000 last year. $0 of that went to Processing 4.

This year, the proposed Foundation budget is around $1.2 million. But for Processing, there is budget for just two people: one developer, one community lead.

You know what that sounds like? The reason we started a Foundation in the first place. Two people is not enough for all of the Processing software projects that live at the processing.org domains, not just the original software, but also releases for Android, Python, Raspberry Pi, etc.

There have been two million downloads of even just the 4.0 releases, and there remains consistently about 100,000 unique users a month.

Two people is not enough to sustain the current community, but more importantly, not enough to move the project in new directions—more languages, platforms, devices; broadening the audience further.

We're very much back in the same place as when we started in 2001: coding is still too obtuse and oblique, and the only way to fix that is to reduce barriers that will make coding accessible to more people.

I have continued to work on the Processing software since resigning from the Foundation—since walking away only punishes our users—but it's really difficult. There's no future in this current structure.

From the outset, the project was always a 50-50 split between internal (software development) and external (the community, the documentation, examples, etc). The Foundation has lost all sense of balance.

It's a depressing outcome following the $10 million windfall of donations. It's just co-opting the work that I've done for 22 years: building the software and supporting the community; both in years past when it was an unknown project, or in more recent years when keeping things working wasn't always fun, but was still important for the community that relied on it.

The situation is especially difficult for me because it has been created by the people who most benefited from all that work I did, and from people I trusted as friends.

The Processing software and its community deserve better, and need a better home than the “Processing” Foundation.

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to random

Why do I feel so crummy advancing my career...

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to php

I really dig #PHP 8's match expression for a succinct, declarative approach to checking against various conditions and capturing the result.

Silly example:

$result = match (true) {
$foo <= 5 => 0,
$foo <= 10 => 1,
$foo <= 25 => 2,
$foo <= 50 => 3,
default => 4,
};

Does make me wish that I could use a ':' instead of '=>' though...

jake4480, 7 months ago to random

Firefox and probably other browsers will warn you about its security, but I assure you that https://endless.horse is completely safe

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to Laravel

Laravel's relationship count and sum methods are great, but don't use them for orderby statements.

#Laravel #MySQL

cr0ybot, 7 months ago to random

Some folks who love #fermentation get nervous about #koji because it's a mold.

Mold is a fungi.

Did you know that yeast are also fungi?

#KojiBuildsCommunity

eniko, 8 months ago to random

suddenly reminded of one of the wildest things i've ever witnessed: when ordering at a restaurant my brother would often simply lean back in his chair and casually request the "chef's choice" and i never once saw him unhappy with the results

jeffvandermeer, 8 months ago to random

Grackles in three acts...

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cr0ybot, 8 months ago to random

Tofu is cheese.