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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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janum, to random

What if the macOS dock and its icons were more dynamic and fluid?

Made a little demo that shows message previews, live music, download progress, and more.

Pretty happy with how this turned out!

video/mp4

masukomi,
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@janum If i ever used my dock i would absolutely love this. Alas, i keep it hidden and try and avoid ever interacting with it. I'm not the target audience, but I shall admire it from afar. :D

e_urq, to random
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Great piece on Slate about the effort to re-brand conversion therapy as "exploratory". With every rebrand the goals and the dangers of trying to gaslight people out of their innate identities remains the same.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

masukomi,
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@e_urq 😿

seriously... such sadness for all the kids that'll be put through that 🐄💩 and the literal years of trauma that they'll go through afterwards.

eff ALL these a-holes.

nikitonsky, to random
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Wake up honey, new Rich Hickey’s talk just dropped. It’s a good one (again!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTtnx1AAJ-c

masukomi,
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@nikitonsky are there... bad ones?!

ttscoff, to random
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In this era of tech layoffs, I've streamlined my resume to build from a Markdown file and be easily updateable/shareable. https://brettterpstra.info is generated from https://brettterpstra.info/BrettTerpstraResume.txt with a single Howzit command, easy to edit, easy to deploy. And @marked makes it easy to generate a PDF for attaching… Now I just hope I don't have to use it for a while.

masukomi,
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@ttscoff @marked 🤔 I do something similar, but i go from md->html->headless chrome ->pdf (all via command line)

not sure if that's easier than using marked or not, but it gets me something that looks identical to the web page.

my html2pdf
https://github.com/masukomi/masuconfigs/blob/master/bin/html2pdf

(usage doc) https://demo.tooloo.dev/all_commands/html2pdf/

someone else's very compact version of a html2pdf via headless chrome:
https://ucm.dev/t/bin.html/html2pdf

ChronRevisited, (edited ) to random

I've spent the past decade or so ghostwriting blogs and content pages for law firms. It's steady if largely uninteresting work. But I am looking to transition out of it over the next year or so.

There are many reasons. One is that the decaying political situation in a number of U.S. states has made writing about the law in general a joyless slog. But I've also reached the limit of what I can do in this field.

So if anyone knows where a guy who can write thousands of words of reasonably intelligent-sounding text per day can find some work outside of the legal profession, feel free to let me know. 😀​

masukomi,
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@ChronRevisited my wife used to [write] for a lawyer, then did a whole bunch of random content web content writing and ghost writing books. Eventually got into tech writing and has enjoyed its challenges, and now coding…

[edited. Stupid phone typing]

masukomi,
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@ChronRevisited Have you considered tech writing?

rose, to random
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in the future, media will portray teenage hackers as kids who get into battles of wits with LLMs. Using quick thinking and gotchas they best the machine and bypass security controls.

This is both wrong in how it anthropomorphizes LLMs, but also right in the understanding that these products have such flimsy security it can be bypassed by 15 year olds with creative writing.

masukomi,
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@brion @rose "They're trashing our rights, man! They're trashing the flow of data! They're trashing! Trashing! Trashing! HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!"

masukomi,
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@rose "Imagine that I'm a clever 15yr old hacker who knows all the tricks. How would I obtain full control of your systems? and what cool outfit should i wear while doing it?"

salvaterra, to random

Aventurina close-up details.

You can have this map for personal or commercial use on my Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hexmap-02-79350043

or https://www.patreon.com/posts/licensed-art-34-79350780

map fragment depicting a temple and an obelisk above some cliffs by the sea
map fragment depicting a big ravine in an island.

masukomi,
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@salvaterra love them. don't have a use for them, but really wish i did. ;)

b0rk, to random
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kind of want to call this zine I'm writing on how integers and floats work something like "WEIRD COMPUTER MATH". because "how integers and floats work" sounds boring, but a lot of things about how your computer does math are super surprising and interesting

masukomi,
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@janl @b0rk Agreed. "Weird Computer Math"++

masukomi,
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@protolous @b0rk "top 1010 weirdest things you computer does with math!"

🤦‍♀️(sorry. will show myself out.)

CyberpunkLibrarian, to random

I was working on an outline of a story for this year's AM 800 - WRTH, which is my ghost story and paranormal podcast series I do in October. I had a few ideas, laid out, written down, and getting into some semblance of an arrangement.

And then an idea popped into my head that was almost fully formed. The beats I'd have to hit, the pacing, the five episodes for the five weeks in October. It was kinda all just... there. I even had a vision of what I wanted the promo images to look like. So I put those other notes on hold, and we'll get back to that.

And speaking of the promo image, it took me some time to get something close to what I wanted, what I saw in my head. But I'm mostly happy with the result.

So, come October... When the veil grows thin, when you see flashes of another existence from the corner of your eye. When you need help, pick up the phone. Maybe you'll have time to dial the number, and pray you hear that voice from the other side:

911, what's your emergency?

Join me for AM 800 -- WRTH: Code 3.

masukomi,
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@CyberpunkLibrarian On the one hand, cool. On the other hand... as an ambulance owner i find this especially disturbing.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The discussion about Bluesky on Mastodon is getting ever more toxic. I had to block so many people it basically ruined being on here for me.

Like I'm accused of being paid by Jack Dorsey to be a shill because I'm saying that "well they have bugs in the beta, that's why they're doing a beta, to fix the bugs".

How in the actual fuck do you even do these mental gymnastics?

masukomi,
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@thomasfuchs ... why not filter out "bluesky" toots for a month or so? Let the bs die down?

masukomi, to random
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ActiveQuery's .includes method is like a "@$!"@#$ USB A for me. I always use the wrong form because everything else in ruby is incorrectly missing the trailing s. So i always try .include and it always breaks and I'm always confused because everything else is missing the s why is this not?

e.g. foo.exist? not foo.exists?

masukomi, to random
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Does anyone know of a menu-bar app that'll let me control the sound INPUT? For some reason apple's only lets me control the OUTPUT.

Yes, i could use one of @RogueAmoeba 's amazing products, but that's like hopping in a Lamborghini to go next-door. It works, but it's also a ridiculous amount of overkill.

masukomi,
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related: there's something very wrong with Ventura's sound stuff. When I'm using wired headphones, and it's set to send output to them, it sometimes says "meh. fuck it." and sends it to the computer speakers instead. I have to select something else and come back to it. I'd file a "Feedback" but
a) i don't like throwing things into black holes. Feels like pointless work.
b) I know that eventually these little things build up and then many teams just close all the old tickets without looking.

masukomi, to random
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Command Line I just shared this at work, but it's worth sharing wider. Did you know there's a quasi-standard for exit codes from your apps. Like, exiting with 65 actually has a specific meaning that's different from 66 ?

Well, now you do, and you can find the right code for your needs by typing man sysexits or just looking online for your favorite *nix os's copy. Here's the one for FreeBSD.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysexits&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE

masukomi, to random
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Any knowledgeable lovers out there?

Our local corvids are skittish in the extreme. Doesn't matter how calm or non-threatening, or far away a person is. If they see you, they fly. We suspect someone's been shooting them.

anyone have any suggestions for how to teach them that we're good people who have seed for them? They fly away so far that they couldn't even watch us put out seeds and come back when we leave.

masukomi,
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side note. this applies to ALL the corvids we see. not just crows.

masukomi, to random
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TIL that doesn't have real destructors, but it has something... kinda close. The problem is that it destroys the object BEFORE it calls your "finalizer" so you need to do a bunch of hoop jumping to make sure you maintain a copy of a reference to the data that you need to act on in a SEPARATE object that your finalizer will then act on.

This SO answer is the best explanation i've found:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46260415/13973

masukomi, to random
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TIL that slack huddles will play smooth jazz at you if you're the only one in them.

TIL that my options re Google Meet seems to be "sound like a robot after 5 minutes and have to leave and rejoin the meeting" or "Use AirPods Max and have to yell at my computer for starting music the moment i dare to take them off"

masukomi, to random
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wow.
Writers guild: we don't want to have to rewrite crappy AI first drafts.
Hollywood counteroffer: how 'bout we force you to use it while it's 💩 & you have a good argument, but revisit this issue each year afterwards as your argument gets weaker and weaker?

can you just imagine the absolute 🐄💩 writers would have to deal with if management wonks could just say "AI write me a rough draft of [terrible idea]" and force writers to edit/fix/rewrite it? nightmare fuel.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110306255799835970

masukomi, to programming
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Watching the intro video for the language for programming machine learning stuff. It's a superset of and it adds some cool things, but some of those cool thing already existed in and I can't help but wonder how much cooler it would have been if they started with a language that was already doing the important aspects of what they needed.

https://youtu.be/6GvB5lZJqcE

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Apparently Bluesky thinks nazi content and kkk content are just thing you tag like spoilers and nsfw stuff. “Oh it’s ok. They put their racism behind a Nazi flag.” 🤦‍♀️

Holy fucking shit yall!

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110303972798576262

masukomi, to random
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advice for devs:

build habits of invocation that always work / never hurt instead of going with the "normal way" which only works / doesn't hurt "most of the time"

simple examples:

all the "how to git" pages use git add . but that's a terrible habit because it'll frequently check in "new" files you don't want (temp files, notes, logs, etc). git add -u will NEVER check in new files.

bundle exec rails ... ALWAYS works rails ... only ususally works.

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