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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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masukomi, to transgender
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The problem with being an old‡ woman (re)starting their transition is that there are so many fucking beautiful young(ish) trans women posting selfies and I'm like "fuck. like ... that's not even 'goals' because there's no way in HELL i'll EVER look that good unless I can get a brain transplant. "

But also, god DAMN does it make me happy to see them getting to be beautiful and happy.

‡ old relatively speaking.

masukomi, to random
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@bardi 's Tusks app is nice, but it's still early days.

I tried making my thread in FediThready because i prefer the way it chooses to chunk up long posts - and lets me control that if i want to - as well as how it lets me review the full thread.

However, FediThready can't post & doing a long thread 1-by-1 with the Mastodon UI is... "sub-optimal"

SO I used FediThready to make & review the thread & Tusks to post it. It worked quite well.

https://thirdculture.app/tusks
https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi,
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Full disclosure: I discovered a bug in FediThready. I'm guessing there's something I didn't account for in the updated Regexp that finds split points. Might be related to all-caps words, but I'm not sure. I'll look into it Monday if i remember, but if you're an interested JS geek looking for a small Open Source task to help with... I'm happy to have external contributions https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready/issues/3

lauren, to random
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Keep in mind that any day, Elon could wake up and say "To Hell with Starlink. Shut it down!" And nobody could stop him.

masukomi,
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@lauren 🤔 you don't think there's something in the contract that gave them government funding that says "you gotta keep giving us access for N years?"

I mean, he's rich enough that the fine is irrelevant to him, and no-one who works there would stop him because he'd fire them so....

Is there any point in making a contract with a billionaire if there's no meaningful penalty that could be applied to prevent them from ignoring it once they have your money?

masukomi, to random
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@iamada Tooted a bit ago about troubles getting their developers to contribute to a changelog.

I used to be a release manager at one co. I know the pain well, and i have a LOT of thoughts on it.

The short answer is that as much as we wish they would update one with / for each PR they wont, and if you're talking about literally editing a CHANGELOG file then you DEFINITELY do NOT want them to try.
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masukomi,
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the naïve approach of "just add your changelog message to the bottom of the file" will end with yelling and / or tears because of the CONSTANT merge conflicts it'll generate. It's just not practically possible. Don't go there.

BUT there are multiple bigger problems with developers making changelog entries, even if you had a technically feasible mechanism.
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masukomi,
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First, they're thinking at the wrong level of abstraction. They rarely have the skill / experience to consider what they did in code, and reframe it in such a way that the person who needs to read the changelog has the right level of detail & terminology. You'll get a changelog, but the stakeholders and/or customers who would benefit from reading a good one will either find it gibberish OR statements about code that they understand but without the context to make it meaningful.
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masukomi,
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Second, in some cases there needs to be 1 changelog for internal stakeholders and a completely different changelog for customers. Again, each one needs a different level of abstraction because they are working from different contexts.
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masukomi,
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Third, tooling:
You NEVER want autogenerated chaneglogs (blog post why: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2016/06/30/why-you-cant-auto-generate-your-changelog/ )

If you decided to use ANY Of the tools that have been written (i even made one) that allow developers to record an entry for a changelog that is also somehow tied to the PR you will have a fucking mutiny over getting them to adopt it into their workflow.
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masukomi,
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AND even if your team is like the unique magical unicorn capable of understand the value of the task, you've still got the abstraction problem.

My best advice for addressing this problem is to (with their input) modify the template you're using for PR descriptions to have a heading that says something like "At a high level, describe what you did in 1 or 2 sentences" followed by whatever details are needed for the other geeks to understand & review the PR.

T
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masukomi,
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THEN you, the release manager, or anyone on the team who can put themselves in the reader's shoes... sits down, goes through all the PRs in the release, and rewrites all the geeky sentences into something that's more concise and conveys the right level of info for the reader.

Related: Blog post on creating great changelogs.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2016/07/03/keeping-a-great-changelog/
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masukomi, to random
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It turns out that there's enough solar activity to take a 2nd crack at the tonight.

However, we're covered in clouds, and would have to drive 8hours - not counting stops - in order to get to a potentially cloud-free area that's at a higher latitude.

Unfortunately, I've been tired all day, desperately need a nap, and am the only one comfortable driving our ~12,000lb (5,400kg) 🚑 because it's effing wide & wifey hasn't practiced in it yet. But she's also pooped so. 🤷‍♀️

masukomi, (edited )
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Seeing the eclipse tonight might be possible if we could cross the Canadian border but our passports are expired. We'll be sending them in for renewal next week though so, SOON we shall be able to revisit Canada. 🇨🇦

We rarely went there, but I did appreciate having it as an option.

I accidentally clicked the poll thing & can't make it go away. So, uh... do you have a valid passport?

masukomi,
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@pencilears Alas, our HOME is dark enough to see the milky way‡ it's just that EVERYWHERE around us is clouds. We'd have to go even farther if we went south. ;)

‡ moving from the big city to a place where we can see the stars almost every night is.... emotionally life-changing.

masukomi,
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@pencilears I used to live on Whidbey Island so I'm VERY familiar. ;)

masukomi, to 3DPrinting
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Current status:

I don’t have the energy to disassemble this feeder today.

pencilears, to random
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We went out to kachess for some darkness tonight!

masukomi,
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@pencilears you lucky bitch‡

‡ furry pun intended ;)

masukomi, to random
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My phone saw some truly amazing things.

I mostly saw what looked like light pollution on the wrong side of the clouds. Occasionally we could see a brighter streak reaching up. @dachary was able to make out fainter things with more colors, but only tempting hints.

These were all long exposures on a jib with iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The same silhouette of trees and clouds, but all the colors in between are fading as if the saturation has been dropped and a green haze lays over things
A dramatically different photo. The bottom match is a silhouette of trees above that is an incredibly bright section very pale, green, almost white stripes, heading up at a slight angle to the right before being occluded by clouds a little higher there is a break in the clouds and you can see that it has transitioned to a beautiful violet.

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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When my eyeballs look at the Night Sky right now, but they see is barely indistinguishable from moonlight on the clouds. However, what my camera sees is something else entirely

masukomi, to random
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Current status:
Carefully monitoring New England’s cloud cover in case we need to hop in the 🚙 (nearby) or 🚑 (overnight) in order to see the Aurora .

Currently in a gap in the clouds but it’s 4 hours until peak….

masukomi, to transgender
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Some positive news in the land of Bureaucracy.

Changing the gender on your license in Vermont is just a matter of filling out the form!

That seemed too easy so I kept digging and found a queer & trans support place and they're like "nope. No proof needed"

🤯 I… I… I could just go full "F"⁉️

a screenshot from a VT Pride center document saying: Changing Gender Marker at the DMV: Vermont DMV allows the choice of M, F, or X as a gender marker, which you can self-select; you no longer need to present a letter from a physician or any other documentation to change your gender with the DMV.

masukomi,
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HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT! YOU CAN JUST CHANGE YOUR GENDER ON THE US PASSPORT WITHOUT "PROOF" TOO!!! HOLY SHIT!

I CAN BE "F" ON ALL THE DOCUMENTS!!!!

AND THE Social Security Administration ⁉️

😭 😂

masukomi,
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for context re the complete freak-out.

This was definitely NOT the case the last time I went down this rabbit hole. There was no "X" option in ANY state, and the ONLY way to change M to F or vice-versa was to have gone through Gender Reassignment Surgery (then it was Sex Reassignment Surgery) and have a doctor's letter attesting to this fact.

I know we're falling into a fascist hell state, but holy shit… I wanna cry this is so amazing.

masukomi,
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OMG. IT GETS BETTER!
My Birth Certificiate is from a state that allows you to just fill out a form and “If NOT using a court order, self-attest to change the sex listed on the birth
certificate, “To match the sex specified on my birth certificate to reflect my gender
identity, and not for any fraudulent purposes.” “

I can do ALLLLLLLLL the records!

alas, I know a pre-op trans person in MA and they DO require surgery to change their Birth Certificates, but - oddly - not their liceneses.

masukomi,
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@bumpus I just need to renew my passport which is pretty easy apparently. So, 🎉

And yes, i went down this rabbit hole specifically because of November & the potential killing of all gender affirming things & the possible need to exit the country quickly. (uuugh)

Also, love that you helped your kid get an X. ❤️

masukomi, (edited )
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THis day is going for Bonus Points! Zenni Optical fixed whatever it was that prevented me from using their virtual try on thing for glasses!!!

Look, "Secret Movie Star" glasses!

OMG. You can rotate your head to see them from an angle‼️

(i forgot to smile :sad: )

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