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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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novelwriter, to random
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I've been working on the new Manuscript Build Tool for novelWriter for months now, and I finally finished the first iteration of it. A beta release of 2.1 will be out in not too long, so you can test it.

In the meantime, here's a video showing some of the features. 😊

(I don't demonstrate it here, but you can define as many build definitions as you want in the new tool.)

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A screencast demonstration the new manuscript build tool in novelWriter

masukomi,
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@novelwriter Very nice :D

masukomi, to random
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Gotta admit, kinda loving GitHub copilot for writing inline API docs.

masukomi, to random
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Do any of you read PDFs on your iPad?

If so, do you have a recommendation for something better than Apple Books?

I don't care about annotation or editing, or any of that, i just want to be able to find the book I'm looking for, switch to it, and navigate it.

Apple makes finding the PDF i want miserable. Ignores categories, prioritizes store ads over things in my library already.

just ... UGH.

masukomi, to random
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I wrote a blog post covering the steps i had to go through to convert Apple's "Add To Wallet" SVGs to PNGs and then get rid of the extra transparent pixels.

It was.... more complicated than expected.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2023/06/09/converting-apples-add-to-wallet-images/

Blog post is mostly there to show up in search engines and hopefully save people trouble in the future, and not "omg you should totally read this". ;)

masukomi, to random
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out of nowhere: the now stereotypical western gunfight faceoff music

me: ?!?!
math: walks into the room
me: ahh. my ancient rival. we meet again.

masukomi, to random
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I put it to you that this little command line helper script is one of the most useful little utilities i've ever written.

code here:
https://github.com/masukomi/masuconfigs/blob/master/bin/httpcat

requires imgcat executable that ships with Iterm2

masukomi, to random
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Saw this in someone's profile. Made me chuckle.

masukomi, to random
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it fills my little 🧡 with joy to know that I work for a company that actually gives back to the open source projects that we rely on. Doubly so because we're actually a fairly small company and adding 4 zeroes to a check to an open source project is not "easy" for us.

https://mainmatter.com/blog/2023/06/09/securing-the-ecosystems-investment-in-emberjs/

masukomi, to random
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having a discussion on slack. friendly seeming back and forth about test failure i introduced.

Couple minutes later, a DM from the CTO / (my manager): "Kay, i’ll ping you after lunch"

😱 terror.

Being i'm constantly in fear of allistic people on slack thinking i'm arguing or violating some invisible social rule they can't actually describe.

few seconds later...

"blah blah ... like you to take over CI build responsibility... blah blah "

😅

masukomi,
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@opsitive meh. I don't know if it'd go so far as "lack of empathy".

In a way this is like white people like me not ever being able to truly understand what it's like to be black in America. It doesn't matter how much it's described to me, I'll never know what it feels like to be pulled over for "driving while black".

Allistic folks, similarly, don't know what it's like to live in constant fear of people misinterpreting your words.

masukomi,
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@opsitive and he did go on to provide details (as i mentioned). This was a "we should talk about a possible future task" start of a discussion kind of thing.

He was thinking happy thoughts, and probably expected neutral to happy reception because there was nothing "bad" to be discussed.

masukomi,
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@AutisticDoctorStruggles I had a manager who would say "can i talk to you in my office?" with no additional details. it took me YEARS to get past the fear response when he did that.

in this case, he did add the details and only a few seconds later, but for those few seconds.... ;)

e_urq, to random
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God help me, I wrote about a Matt Walsh Twitter thread.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/attacks-on-adult-healthcare-commence-at-daily-wire

masukomi,
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@e_urq wait... women can get their boobs removed just because they don't like them, but men can't get their testes removed without it being "gender conforming" surgery ?

Is that right?

Is this just more of the women are property and their bodies don't matter but men are... holy temples of perfection that must not be disturbed 🐄💩 ?

masukomi,
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@e_urq Yes and no. A loved one had to get rid of her female reproductive bits and the drs were like "yes, those are a problem and causing you significant pain every single day, but are you really REALLY... REALLY sure you don't want to have a baby?" 🤦‍♀️ So, yes getting rid of ovaries (and tying tubes) is REALLY hard to get approval for ("think of the future babies!!!")

HOWEVER... unreversable vasectomy? No problem!

Nothing about this feels fair.

mcc, to random
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Considering buying a USB foot pedal for Purposes. It turns out the pedal represents itself to the OS as a keyboard, and by default it types the letter "B", but there is an application that can be used to customize its exact behavior and this includes potentially typing entire sentences. Here is the example the Amazon reseller gives of how you might use this feature

masukomi,
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@mcc 🤔how many times a day do they type that that they thought "hey, I know, I'll create a new hardware device, with 1 button and the dedicated purpose of typing this sentence to my partner!"

masukomi,
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@rasterweb @mcc @apgarcia @2xlnetworks

Why you gotta be like that Pete? All nice and "hey, i can help you achieve your weird custom device dreams." I got too many ideas! Too many projects! I don't need your tempting me into exploring more!

😉

/me proceeds to bookmark pete's profile for future idea stuff... ;)

Thanks Pete. :D

masukomi, to random
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DIE TIME ZONES DIE

apple wallet notifications are 4 hrs 30 minutes too early

why? Pretty sure the problem is IST vs IST (Irish Standard Time vs India Standard Time)

"but kay" i hear you say. "That's 4hrs 30mins not 5!." Yes, but IRISH Standard time is UTC+1 so INDIA Standard time is 4hrs 30mins ahead of IRISH.

fuck all this noize.

masukomi,
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 e.start_time.to_s  
=> "Sat Sep 10 19:30:00 IST 2022"

IST !!!!

rose, to random
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🐱 📰
👔

I need to get an electronic repair heat gun

masukomi,
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@rose 🤔my bet is no. unless it's cheap adhesive.

bigzaphod, to random
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I do wish Apple would show off a Vision Pro running in a dirty messy real house filled with chaotic piles of indeterminate composition and shape, things hanging on walls at various angles, and random tripping hazards like toys, dogs, and toddlers.

masukomi,
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@bimgzaphod @dachary

With Vision Pro, cleaning your house can be an Exciting AR game! 🤔 actually... it could be. That'd.... that might actually be kinda awesome.

related: House cleaning services are surprisingly cheap and something probably every dev should get (when not in a pandemic). I miss ours.

masukomi, to random
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we have a customer facing report that uses day/month/year timestamps!!!!

WHo? Why?!

monsters!
;)

masukomi,
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@matt realized I had to completely misread what you said. I’m going to have to disagree with you about more logical. You have to wait until the end of the statement before you find out if the beginning of the statement is relevant. The day number is meaningless without the context of the month. the month is meaningless without the context of the year.

masukomi,
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@matt If we start with the year, then I know that everything that follows it is either completely irrelevant or potentially relevant.

each subsequent piece of information helps me to rapidly abandon because of irrelevance or know that I am on the right track.

With Day/Month/year I have to just maintain it more and more useless state until I get to the end when I can then test it against a year and find out if there was any point in maintaining that state

masukomi, to random
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#ruby geeks: this is a long-shot but does anyone have a copy of the pdf-helpers gem from gems.rubyreports.org (now defunct) ?

I'm trolling through wayback machine archives at this point, crossing my fingers trying to find source or something. We're using ruport reports which relies on that for a feature i need for a ticket. I'm not finding it anywhere.

jsit, to random
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Raccoons

Still from wwdc, live voicemail transcription. Nico coming from the basement is. It's a family of raccoons. A mom and babies. They're super friendly and so cute, but they kinda stink. After I feed them I'm going to give them a bath in your bathtub

masukomi,
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@jsit I enjoyed that too, and I wondered (given the example it was presented in) if they were considering this "something important" that you needed to take or something ignorable.

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