masukomi

limneticvillains, 5 months ago to random

Mastodon seems like the place to ask. So I'm a little indie musician guy. I'm slowly replacing Twitter with here, I've been using Bandcamp but am unhappy with large corporations buying and selling it - so I got a Faircamp (no sales yet but I haven't been pushing it!). What are alternatives to other large sites. Is Peertube a good YouTube alternative? What about email? If there's one thing I've noticed about Mastodon -I know there's a whole world of ultra computer nerds on here, and I salute you.

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“

Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.

These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.

Please spread this knowledge.

Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.

davidsirota, 4 months ago to random

🚨BREAKING: Just before the Alaska Airlines debacle, federal court documents alleged that employees at Boeing’s subcontractor warned corporate officials about safety problems and were told to falsify records. https://www.levernews.com/boeing-supplier-ignored-warnings-of-excessive-amount-of-defects-former-employees-allege/

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

What is the strangest thing you've ever purchased?

masukomi, 6 months ago to 3DPrinting

The sound of the 3D printer has been bothering wifey (and me). So I was like "let's enclose this puppy!", after pricing plexiglass and realizing "hoshit! that stuff ain't cheap" (nevermind figuring out all the other parts needed to hold it together + time to design + build + whatever) I decided to just do some research and buy one + some cheap butyl sound deadening mat + some cheap acoustic foam. Applied points from Amex and total cost was ~$100! less than the raw plexiglass!

#3DPrinting

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

was asked to look at something in a typescript repo and was immediately confronted with a reminder of how much i hate the nodeJS / NPM ecosystem.

a) don't tell me to run a command that's guaranteed not to work
b) don't use jargon in error messages.
c) make error output actionable.

I've been coding for > 30yrs and i have no fucking clue what an "engine" is, why mine is "unsupported", or WTF they're expecting me to do about it.

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

@dachary & I have multiple games we've held off on playing because they take 4+ hours to play, & take a non-trivial time to set up & tear down. We couldn't finish them in 1 sitting (because life), or leave them unattended lest the cat mess everything up.

But, we finally have a gaming table, and the floodgates have opened! We started with Spire's End Hildegard, & are setting up Stardew Valley (The Board Game) to play tomorrow.

I'm thrilled to be playing board games with her. :D

A picture of one of our checkpoints in Spire’s End - Hildegard. there are many cards on a play-mat and many colored plastic blocks and dice around it. There are also some red and blue glass beads and a dice tray.
a photograph of dachary punching out pieces for the Stardew Valley game which she’s setting up for tomorrow.

masukomi, 4 months ago to woodworking

#woodworking / #woodworkers Help?
What are these called and where can I buy them?

masukomi, 4 months ago to ADHD

Practical example of why #ADHD really is a disability.

Today it's extra strong. This morning within a ~10 minute period I...

• forgot I was in the middle of making tea, and started making cereal
• forgot I was making cereal
• retrieved wifey's breakfast burrito from toaster oven and attempted to put it in a bowl instead of a plate
• couldn't figure out which utensil was appropriate to give her to use with it. fork? Spoon? fork? Spoon? Big fork? No... spoon? Fork!

🧵1/?

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

I got comfy and he claimed my knees, and fallen asleep.

A close-up of his face with eyes closed

masukomi, 5 months ago to transgender

The Madrid region of Spain just revoked #transgender protections and some #LGBTQ ones.

Now we can be legally discriminated against and beaten.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spains-madrid-region-partially-revokes-trans-lgbtq-rights-laws-2023-12-22/

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

Once upon a time a teen-aged me found themselves sitting on a short wall in front of the Worcester auditorium waiting for the doors to open for the impending Metallica concert.

While sitting there a young entrepreneur was walking amoungst the early folks like us, with a sing-song voice saying “bag-a-weed?…bag-weed?”

This was ~1990 when this was, in no way legal.

That moment lives rent-free in my brain and regularly pops up saying “bag-a-weed?…bag-weed?”

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

Hoping your day winds down with a little bit of beauty too…

masukomi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Dear #Makers WE NEED YOU:

Did you know there's no such thing as a home saddle-stitching machine? Tons of videos about how to hand saddle stitch a booklet you've made (ex https://youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM), but NO consumer machines, only $3,000+ ones.

There are lots of indie projects like small RPGs that could be distributed as a folded zine, BUT can't be (from home) because they're too thick for a stapler and hand sewing doesn't scale.

#bookbinding

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

Yesterday Alaskan Airlines flight 1282 had an entire emergency exit wall unit fall out 6 minutes into the flight. No-one was hurt. Yes, much "omg" and "wtf" but i want you to consider an aspect people aren't talking about.

Because Alaskan Airlines has a "lower number of passengers" this particular emergency exit is optional, and so there was a façade to make it look like a normal window.

There are 2 MASSIVE W.T.Fs related to this:

🧵 1/2?

masukomi, 3 months ago to random

Well that's.... "interesting"

Note the domain i've gone to.

masukomi, 6 months ago to ruby

if anyone needs a senior dev with good #Ruby skills and an interest in UI/UX, let me know. An old coworker of mine is looking and I would hire her in a moment if I could.

#fedihired

Binder, 3 months ago to random

Man! Someone’s got messed up taste in films! (Me. These are mine.)

b0rk, 5 months ago to random

i'm trying to figure out what high-level abstraction git presents. I think it's something like this?

(yes, all of this is "wrong", but I feel like git's UI does a lot of work to try to provide this abstraction in an inconsistent and leaky way)

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

My 🧠 has become obsessed with a project I want to share with folks, but the starting point for that project has been a bit unclear. The past couple nights I've been trying to answer what I thought would be a fairly simple question: "How do you make a precision screw?"

Literally every answer I've found is ultimately "well, you connect your lathe's cutting blade to its precision screw and..." 🤦‍♀️

🧵 1/2

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

In my experience companies don't want a real expert. They don't want quality. They want a competent developer who'll say "yes" to whatever sales promised the customers. They definitely don't want someone who'll make them face uncomfortable realities like the value of QA people or planning for the future, or including other teams and taking into account their workloads.

masukomi, 4 months ago to random

I slept poorly, the dog woke me up to go out at 3AM, again at ~6AM, and then decided he couldn't wait the 20 minutes until 7:20 to get out of the bed, not that i'd actually been able to get back to sleep after 6 anyway. Siri repeatedly thwarted me, and people are being stupid on the internet.

1/2?