Important #emfcamp badge #tildagon fact: the screen is replaceable without soldering!!! If something happens to the screen during your travel, don’t throw away your badge thinking it’s broken - you can buy a replacement screen for ~£12. Let’s avoid e-waste!
In case anyone's unhappy about having to use GitHub to publish apps to the badge app store, fear not - to add an upstream source for your favourite place to store your tildagon apps, you can do so by implementing a RegistrySource. Just two functions that provide a list of apps and the specific app details. Here's the RegistrySource for GitHub: https://github.com/emfcamp/badge-2024-app-store/blob/main/packages/tildagon-app-directory-api/src/registries/sources/github.ts. Feel free to bother me for a code review if you add support for GitLab, SourceHut or whatever!
@hughrawlinson if you can make the previous episodes of the current series available to view for me, I will stay in my live-in vehicle and binge them all before said group viewing of the finale!
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DM: Here are a bunch of dangerous criminals who are going to be the villains of our story
Me: I roll diplomacy, I get 23, I befriend the dangerous criminals, and we all go to ask the big bad to please not
@joenash
Indeed. Strong (and heavy!) piece of thing. Used it for about 4 years at home, while in office I had a GMMK 1 TKL for about 3 years, now sold to a friend.
I've moved to ErgoDash to have simpler and more powerful configuration and to ease wrist and back pain: still difficult to get used to (started past summer), but nice as well. @hughrawlinson
In a society where people’s ability to pay for their basic needs were not tied to their income, employment probation periods might be reasonable. But hiring people only to fail them on probation, not for anything they did or didn’t do, but because you now think you need someone with a slightly different skill set, is inhumane. Certainly for the fired employee, also for the other employees on fixed term contracts or probation who now have ZERO idea if they will be employed next week.
I have it on good authority that @joenash's long suffering cheesemonger is distraught at the news that Joe has been utilizing the services of another cheesemonger behind his back.
I was on a team once where two particularly long tenured staff were very invested in the idea that we shouldn’t try to make anything better because this is as good as it gets and nowhere else does anything better. Couldn’t do database backups because we had to ship (shit) product no matter what, and spend time only on feature work. I think it was their way of clinging on like barnacles to somewhere that was comfortable for them. Anyway, they both got laid off this year after ~10 years each.
Of course their shithead VP, who once insisted that a salary adjustment of +3% over a period where inflation was higher was not a real terms pay cut (because the number went up), is still there. At an offsite once he introduced his strategy, which was “put ML on everything” (that was unusual in 2018) and could not answer my very basic question “to do what?”.
I still fairly often wake up at 3am with nightmares about this team.
Had a colleague who was reviewing my code this week look at a PR, and then just open their own PR to do the same thing the way they liked. Don’t do that!
Seeing my former colleagues uncritically post job ads on LinkedIn for the position I was laid off from earlier this year makes me feel like solidarity is dead (and like those colleagues are assholes) tbh.