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masukomi

@masukomi@connectified.com

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans, and Geeky Programmer.

Queer friend of Camellia Sinensis.

If you want to hear my ramblings about Tabletop Role Playing Games check out my other account: https://dice.camp/@masukomi

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bardi, to SwiftUI
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Why am I made to jump through excess hoops to simply set the caret position to the very beginning of text in a TextEditor 😭

masukomi,
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@bardi I'm constantly amazed by the never-ending stream of WTFs I hear from devs related to MVP level stuff apple left out of APIs and decisions that make NO effing sense for anyone actually trying to use it.

Over 15 years writing Rails apps and I honestly don't think I've EVER encountered that problem in their framework. Differing opinions, sure, but never just "wtf?!"

Didn't realize how good I had it 'til I started listening to people using Apple frameworks / languages.

danirabbit, to random
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Holy shit 💀 I’m glad the StarLite pre order was so successful! Can’t wait to get my hands on it

masukomi, (edited )
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@danirabbit
🤔it occurs to me that the best way to get good support for a linux hardware thing is to guarantee the team members behind your favorite distro each gets one sent to them.

Similarly if you want to buy hardware with good support from it you should get whatever those team members are loving.

masukomi, to accessibility
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Minor Update re the tool I've been working on for a friend for whom Apple's palm rejection absolutely refuses to work.

We've prototyped the cover + hole shape over the trackpad & it got a 👍. Now I've gone back and added 4mm thick leather wrist wrests & there's an internal cable run for charging the trackpad.

the lighter colored "wood" in the picture is a magnetically attached plate that we can swap out if he / anyone else needs a different hole shape.

masukomi,
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A friend of ours just finished setting up a really nice new CNC for woodworking. The plan is for me to model & prototype things with my 3D printer and then once all is 👍 he'll cut one out of wood.

alas, it's too big for my printer so I'll have to cut it into pieces & re-assemble to test.

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In case it's not obvious from the photo, the top hole is where the keyboard goes and there's a rectangular hole below the triangular cutout where a trackpad would go.

bagder, to random
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The thing about me being a BDFL for is that it has the D in there. I have the means and ability to push for just about anything I like. I say that I truly try to be a benevolent dictator, but then I presume quite a few dictators would say so.

Next week I will tell you all about how I view this dictatorship and how it is not quite like a dictatorship of a country since in our case, everyone could just leave if I misbehave.

masukomi,
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@bagder fists plus circle is wayyy too close to goatse

soft, to random
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scraping the seeds off everything bagels to grow new bagels

masukomi,
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@soft it’s important to keep the seeds together until it’s time to plant. Otherwise you end up with like, a bunch of sesame bagel plants and those are fine, but…

Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

masukomi,
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@Jaqspur Love this so much.

masukomi, to random
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I am covered in floof

masukomi, to random
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After talking about how wonderful it is to write on the Remarkable 2, grey proceeds to talk about how you have to approach working with e-ink tablets.

ultimately, he suggest that you have to treat them like paper. I mostly agree with that.

however, I’ve mostly switched back to paper notebooks because I can flip through them and easily go back-and-forth between my table of contents and the referenced pages looking for that thing I wrote

video/mp4

masukomi, to transgender
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#Transgender folks:
Do ANY of you have experience with gender stuff via Dartmoth Hitchcock hospitals in #NewHampshire or know someone who has?

Because they literally refuse to give me ANY information that isn't on their web site without a referral. Like not even "we require 2 letters"

Obviously I'm not going to ask for a referral to a place that refuses to answer ANY questions and whom I may not even meet the basic requirements of.

masukomi,
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on top of literally being the most frustrating & maddening conversation with a hospital employee I've ever had, it took a LOT to get past the executive disfunction pushing me to not deal AND no-one wants to talk about gender surgery with a complete stranger in a society that makes you feel like 💩 for daring to exist.

masukomi, to transgender
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Well 💩
I just learned that Peru 🇵🇪 signed a law last month that classifies people as mentally ill, despite lots of societal support for them.

Guess we can cross Peru off of the countries USians can flee to in November (if the cheeto gets reelected).

masukomi,
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@angiebaby don’t count out Mexico. Last time I checked (a while ago), it didn’t require much to get a Mexican passport and 1st world poor income is generally “comfortable” in much of Mexico and Central America. Being able to make money working remotely is important though. Otherwise you end up being 3rd world Poor which is not great.

masukomi, to random
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Ordered a box of 12 cheap lipsticks because i’ve given up trying to guess what colors don’t look crappy.

Just opened it.

🤦‍♀️

masukomi, to random
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@james was commenting about accessibility on various OSs.

I had a LOT of discussions with Apple's accessibility folks when I worked there. I have nothing but respect for them and their skills.

BUT at the end of the day I'm not sure how much it matters because

  • they can recommend whatever they want, but no-one has to listen
  • I saw no evidence of people writing internal tools ever asking them for advice (or following it if they did)

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masukomi,
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  • there's zero push internally to actually address accessibility issues
  • trivial but important accessibility bugs in major tools like Siri sit untouched for years.

Ex. Literally every public facing app apple makes passes through the Accessibility team. They're REALLY good at what they do. And yet, has modern apple EVER released an app that didn't have glaring accessibility issues?

My personal take is that Apple (the co, not the people) really only cares about disabled people as a…
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masukomi,
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… tool for making disability porn & promoting things that make them look more socially caring than other companies.

Accessibility features get lip service, but are never a requirement of release & anything that didn't get done in the 1.0 is pushed to the back burner and rarely touched. The more work it requires the less likely they are to actually do it, because they've got too many other things that their bosses are demanding. The bosses aren't demanding accessibility as a priority.
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masukomi,
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That's better than nothing, but it's still 🐄💩.

If they truly cared about disabled folks, then addressing our needs would actually be a priority OUTSIDE of the ads.

But maybe I'm wrong. I'd love love LOVE to see evidence to the contrary.
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masukomi, to random
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The shitty thing about trying to improve for users is that because that's not my lived experience I can't make it more than "usable" without asking them for free labor.

I'm trying to help them, not give more work to people who already have a hard enough time dealing with the everyday abelist 🐄💩 my fellow software geeks force on them by not even considering them.

masukomi, to ai
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will revolutionize everything!

courtcan, to StarTrek
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I didn't know any better 20+ years ago. Forgive me, I was young and foolish.

But John de Lancie as Q is incredibly attractive,and I really don't know how I feel about that.



John de Lancie as Q in the early 2020s. Silver hair, silver goatee, same intense and mocking stare, dressed in black. Total silver fox and even more attractive than 30 years ago. Some things truly do get better with age. 🔥🔥🔥

masukomi,
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@courtcan seconded. Wouldn't go near that first guy. 2nd guy ... well i wouldn't go near most guys BUT i can appreciate that yeah, so much better looking now. ;)

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Question for

Has "dafuq!?" / “dafuck!?” worked its way into the common vernacular enough at this point for it to NOT be cultural appropriation when my white ass uses it?

Because… that's a damn good word. It beautifully expresses SO MUCH of my lived experience.

masukomi, to transgender
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Just stumbled across someone here whose name is "Egg Embry" and my 🏳️‍⚧️ ass read that as

"egg‡ enby" as in, a trans person who hasn't come out and is also non-binary.

🤦‍♀️

‡ eggs are either folks who are trans who haven't realized it yet, or just haven't left the safety of acting cis.

masukomi, to random
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I can't get excited about this Kickstarter update at all, because it 100% feels like

We got sick of sitting around for years while Backerkit took all the money we left on the table.

So, we copied all their stuff.

the thing about better surveys is just fucking insulting, because that's been a major problem for creators for years & they just KEPT ignoring it despite it being pretty damn easy to fix.

masukomi,
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the kickstarter "here's our new 💩" announcement video was still open in my browser and I hadn't finished it, so i tried and I'm just getting more upset the more I watch.

SO MANY THINGS are just like "🖕 fuck you. you've been refusing to give creators that FOR YEARS and then you're like 'look how great we are'. No. Fuck you. You made creators deal with TERRIBLE tools FOR YEARS and have the gaul to not even acknowledge that your 🐄💩 is why they turned to BackerKit?"

masukomi, to random
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🤦‍♀️ why does the idea of telling someone you have an invisible disability like autism feel equivalent to telling a family member you're queer⁉️

WTF is wrong with our society⁉️

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