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harshad

@harshad@sharma.io

Tends to soil, plants and various animals on a small farm somewhere in the hills of Kodaikanal, India. Rides a 2008 Royal Enfield Thunderbird everywhere.

No ideologies, handful labels. Friend to life in all shapes and forms.

Expect photos, anecdotes and rants about living off-grid in middle of nowhere with occasional motorcycle rides.

He/him.

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masukomi, to random
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Geeks: coworker was arguing against putting some configuration stuff in environment variables. Their primary argument was that they didn't want it to "become a kitchen-sink"

I honestly can't think of a reason why that matters? who cares if you have 50 additional environment variables configuring various portions of your app?

Do you know why? Because I'm stumped.

side note: yes, there are good arguments for not putting specific types of things in there. That's not what I'm discussing.

harshad,
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@masukomi personally, I prefer a config file. It can encrypted with a password supplied through environment variables if required.

harshad, to random
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"Data storage is cheap"

— people who have never created photos, videos or field-recordings/audio.

iangriffin, to random
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Jesus. The new outlook for Mac forced me to "upgrade" to the new interface which is, to put it mildly, completely different to the old version. Spent a couple of minutes googling how to revert. Why the heck do software engineers do this?

harshad,
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@iangriffin sigh, people haven't learned after decades of these shenanigans and customers complaining.

// I remain happy with previous colleagues in design who understood that customers spend time to learn our tools and corporate rebranding or fresh ideas in design does not imply resetting their skills. They continue to use our tools because they're good at using them, upsetting that is dumping a big landfill in the "business moat" 🤷‍♂️

kwf, to random
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Maybe THIS $200 hand tool will finally make me feel complete while working on this project

harshad,
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@kwf it just MIGHT!!

// sigh glances at own collection of tools that in fact, didn't 🤣

harshad, to photography
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Yesterday's evening sky was dramatic.

harshad, to random
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Android app from a large company frequently asks how you would rate the said app. Takes you to play store to get your "feedback" on record if you vote thumbs up, does nothing if you're not happy 🤷‍♂️

harshad,
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@tanepiper bosses demand number go up 😅

harshad, to photography
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No luck photographing the lunar eclipse tonight. However, fireflies!

Also it started to drizzle as I compose this post, so no chance going outside after this.

Long-exposure and close up of branches of a small acacia tree, a firefly has walked over a branch leaving a blinking yellow-green light-trail behind.

harshad, to photography
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Scrolling through archive, a mobile photo from 2014.

harshad,
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A sunset around a construction site in Mumbai. 2013.

Edit: Checked dates again, this photo is 10 years old.

Sharing because the quality is fried-potato, but since I didn't care that I wasn't carrying a bigger/better camera and made the photo anyway, the memory remains :)

Pwnallthethings, to random
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Given how vast the cash-cows of Azure and AWS are ... it is astonishing to me how bad the user-interfaces for both actually are

harshad,
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@Pwnallthethings @tdp_org from a recent issue closed with Oracle today, "This is your final warning, pay up or…" sent screenshots of every screen where their system also grays out the button to pay and shows "no items" for pending payments. Someone manually reset stuff to finally make the system accept my payment.

fasterthanlime, (edited ) to random
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me: sets up new server, logs in for the first time
server: "There were 12 failed login attempts since the last successful login."

Update: today it's 2946 failed login attempts. Gonna move the SSH server to another port just because I can.

harshad,
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@fasterthanlime Have been using Tailscale / Wireguard for many months (years?) now; considering disabling direct SSH access from public internet completely. Have fallback for console access if/when VPN fails.

strypey, to random
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"When more than 15 percent of your words (except verbs and proper nouns) are three or more syllables, readers work with difficulty to understand your message. To reduce larger words, consider these tips: a) Use about instead of approximately; use rather than utilize; b) Convert nouns ending in –ion into verbs. Use “We considered ...” instead of “We took into consideration ...”; c) Replace endeavor with try, aggregate with total, and optimum with best."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about/submissions

harshad,
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@float13 @strypey I use a custom dictionary of top 10k English words (+ domain specific words) when writing documentation and code, along with reasoning that that's the average vocabulary of a non native English speaker. The word list and configuration is included in the repository.

The last team i worked with were unsure at first but feedback from users after my changes to the docs convinced them enough to adopt the configuration into their text/code editors.

Make it explicit; helps our case

harshad,
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@strypey @float13 here's the wordlist in a recent repo, haven't included the vscode config yet, I use cspell plugin with default dictionary to l set to "lorem ipsum" and custom workspace dict set to this file.

https://github.com/zycelium/zygote/blob/2e79559fba07b6cecb9f6df12c3e1d3135f70f09/dictionary.txt

Source for wordlist:

https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/master/google-10000-english-no-swears.txt

harshad, to random
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"Pinned posts? How about we pin you down, human?" — cats.

harshad,
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I must have left the cat-beacon on by mistake…

sundogplanets, to random
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Goooood morning.

Here's a cute goat, because I want to run a night sky poll with all of you that I run with my astro 101 class every semester (with incredibly depressing results).

Should be interesting to see how different or not the results are - loads of people I interact with here are astronomers, so will be a bit skewed and hopefully not as depressing...

harshad,
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@sundogplanets Too close to the equator to see auroras, haven't travelled North enough yet.

harshad,
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@sundogplanets That's exciting! ✨ I'll be ready with my camera!

(meanwhile, on clear nights, this is my view)

harshad, to photography
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Earlier in the day, the sky was feeling cute

ScribblingOn, to random

I just woke up to the news of an internet friend who passing way way too soon and it feels like I just bumped against a brick wall.

harshad,
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@ScribblingOn it's hard, sorry for your loss! i have no words that may comfort right now.

// Time heals, and the pain of the loss and having missed the opportunity to catch up fades very slowly. But, over time, we can channel it to catch up with people still around.

harshad, to random
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I'm already hearing people under 40 saying "the worst of climate change won't be my problem, I'll be dead before that happens" and it's disheartening.

Here i am doing what i can with what i have to hold on to biodiversity so that those who come after me might have a fighting chance. I'll likely live and die alone, but that doesn't free me from the what i owe to the next generation, whoever's kids they may be.

Sure my generation got shafted by "elders", that's no excuse to be like them.

harshad,
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@analogfusion sigh, yes. To me it's now clear that for humans to stand a chance, we need the whole web of life. There are no ifs and buts, our species' existence depends on rest of the ecosystem thriving.

harshad, to random
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harshad, to random
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Open link for a promising software project, get excited reading the introduction, notice that they only support docker for deployment, close tab

Strong "works on my machine" energy, almost guaranteed to be a pain to deploy anywhere else.

harshad, to random
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Snack time with my catfish and koi-carp

Vertical video from the edge of a pond with slightly-murky water, several dark-gray catfish and orange koi-carp fishes are coming to surface to gobble up the kibbles tossed into the pond.

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