kentbrew

kentbrew, 17 hours ago to random

Feeling unreasonably cheesed-off that early-access Hades II only runs on Windows. I know, sooo very entitled.... #firstworldproblems

kentbrew, 6 days ago to ai

Starting to get sick of this stuff, Brave. I should not be trying to figure how to turn this off, because it should never have turned on without asking me first. #enshittification #ai

kentbrew, 16 days ago to Bloomscrolling

I'll have an extra-large bucket of tiny yellow monkey-face orchids, please! #bloomscrolling #kauai

kentbrew, 19 days ago to Eurovision

Great little moment from Bambie Thug to Nemo, right there. #CrownTheWitch #Eurovision

kentbrew, 19 days ago to Eurovision

#Eurovision is also the Olympics for stagehands. https://www.wsj.com/video/50-seconds-of-madness-behind-the-scenes-at-eurovision-2024/1A6C3665-4864-4630-94B0-F7282D342083

kentbrew, 20 days ago to Kauai

Aurora visible in Kaua'i County, HI-- oh, wait, no, it's a hibiscus flower. Sorry, carry on with your skywatching! #aurora #kauai #bloomscrolling

kentbrew, 27 days ago to woodworking

Work in progress: a set of three olive utensils. This is all very hard scrap wood that's been hanging around for a year so there are definitely power tools involved. Last step is my favorite: a very close rubdown with cabinet scrapers, which leave a super-smooth tool-finished piece that can be oiled without any sanding at all because the scraper cuts the fibers instead of tearing them. #woodworking #carving #spoons #wip

kentbrew, 27 days ago to random

In case you're wondering why people are saying Google search results are worse than before, here's exhibit A: some random machine translation of "Aloha 'Oe."

kentbrew, 27 days ago to Software

This guy gets it: "There’s also this oily smell of AI and machine learning in the tech atmosphere, where I no longer feel relevant and I seem to have stopped caring about new tech when I noticed that 8 in 10 articles are about some new LLM or image generation model. I guess I like the smell of wood better." https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woodworking-escape-from-software-absurdity/ #carving #software

kentbrew, 1 month ago to random

Chris Quinn's Plain Dealer editorial is required reading. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

kentbrew, 2 months ago to random

Great to see that Kevin Bacon is still awesome. #drag #dragisanart https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinbacon/video/7225761333927611691

kentbrew, 2 months ago to random

Now slowly grinding through Login Hell on a new Roku Express. X streaming services times Y different login UIs times Z different hard-to-guess passwords equals SO MUCH SWEARING.

Why can't I just go to a big login portal on my laptop and do them all at once? How has the state of this art not advanced one tiny bit since we were building login for PS3 at Netflix in 2009?

kentbrew, 3 months ago to random

Careful, now: Turbify (formerly Verizon, formerly Yahoo Small Business, formerly Yahoo! Domains) will sneakily add a $25/year "web hosting" subscription to all those old domains you're not really paying attention to any longer, and until you actually get through to phone support you will get an error when you click Change Plan to remove it.

kentbrew, 3 months ago to random

I hate to say I told you so, but....

kentbrew, 3 months ago to Futurology

When the grass gets twelve feet tall, you call in professionals with 1500-pound machines that look like something out of Robot Wars. #robot #farming #kauai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHzZuDgwDk

kentbrew, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Kauai

Hogged out an avocado-shaped bowl from a big avo trunk. Scorp, hook knife, bowl adze, no power tools. Not pictured: a chunk of ironwood I sometimes use to whack home the adze. Datapoint: the inside of a green avocado tree smells just like avocados! #carving #wip #kauai

kentbrew, 3 months ago to webdev

"React is the automatic target for a lot of newbies. They jump straight into webdev, learn some HTML/CSS and eventually work their way towards React for employability. This dilutes the talent pool and with it comes pros and cons. You spend so much more time sifting through junk candidates, but at least you have candidates." #webdev #nerdery

https://md.jtmn.dev/blog/%F0%9F%92%BB+Programming/PR-007+-+Why+you+don't+need+React

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

Meanwhile back on the birdshite: the query "Taylor Swift" has been denylisted. "Adolf Hitler" is fine as pie, though.... #uspol

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

For a long time I was the only front-end developer in the house who ran Windows, because 95% of the browsing population ran Windows.

#MyFirstMac was a 2009 Macbook, because you absolutely positively could not get a Windows laptop without Vista onboard. Bought it right after leaving Netflix; ran Windows on it through Parallels for a couple of years until Pinterest, which was an all-Mac shop.

That Macbook was a near-perfect machine. And you could open it up and fix it when it broke.

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

Messing around with QR codes again; here are some empty version 4 error level M examples I posted on the birdshite some time back. No mask, then masks 1 through 8. #nerd #qrcode

kentbrew, 4 months ago to Kauai

Whale watching season is looking good. Just had a really great ride with Captain Jane on Kaua'i Zodiac Tours; this guy was about 200 yards away and he came aaaaall the way out of the water for us. Heard whale song and had a bunch of spinner dolphins right beside the boat, which is a big rubber zodiac, so you are right there on the water. Strongly recommended! #kauai #whalewatching #adventure

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.

“This is a form of implicit collusion,” she said. “Firms do not even need to talk to one another to know that a cost shock is a great time to raise prices. But when costs fall, price-setting firms do not have any incentive to decrease prices.”

If no firms launch a price war, Weber added, then companies “hold the line” on prices and widen margins. She pointed to food processors as an example.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

kentbrew, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to diy

I will miss YouTube terribly when its inevitable enshittification renders it useless. Today YouTube helped me fixed the window regulator on our Fiat 500e, which nobody on Kaua'i would touch for under $500. Cost to me: $28.

https://youtu.be/Cne7FG7IDB0 shows how to fix the part with the $18 repair kit.

https://youtu.be/ZTyt92RAazM shows how to get the part out and put it back in.

https://youtu.be/-p-nNwjcQDc shows how to replace the $9 clip that causes the part to break in the first place. #diy #fixit

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

Table for 105 at the Kona Salt Farm, courtesy Outstanding In The Field.

kentbrew, 4 months ago to webdev

Alex Cabal talks about keeping Standard Ebooks on the Classic Web:

"But while the company hosting our VPS is technically a cloud service—admittedly, our desire to be self-sufficient ends just before owning bare metal in a rented rack—we don’t rely on any other 3rd-party cloud service like AWS or Azure.

Part of the reason is because just glancing at the dizzying list of AWS acronyms and initialisms makes me light-headed and woozy."

#classicweb #webdev

https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech