TyChi 🙃 @tychi@fosstodon.org

For all the hate the federated timeline gets, it's probably the most human. When you're there at the top, someone somewhere is reaching out to anyone anywhere and for a moment, that's you.

You might not understand them and you might not know what they're going through, but you hear them.

For a moment-- across space --you're united with a stranger in time. That's simply unfathomable.

Spread love.

Eyyy, so to introduce myself.

I'm a minimalist and I like keeping simple things simple.

Been doing web dev for over ten years and I try to avoid dependencies whenever possible. Vanilla CSS with some JavaScript that's lean is better than any framework.

Code itself is technical debt. Less code is less debt.

Hobbies include laying on my couch thinking I should be more productive, writing long winded essays, staring at my always growing pile of books, and trying to find fellow humans online.

Just posted this to Facebook and I'm done.

https://musings.tychi.me/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish

Don't worry fosstofriends, you're still stuck with me.

when you can't get the e2e tests to run locally, just push it up and let the pre-merge checks run it for you and it'll be ready in an hour...

I look at the dog everyday and get jealous of her lifestyle.

Is anyone else finding lately that search engines just don't have what you're looking for?

#1 Reason to switch to sourcehut from OctoCat

If you don't commit to a repo for 6 months, no one will open an issue that says:

"is this project dead"

Dropping it in case anyone needs it:

When you hit a page with invalid certs, but you're just developing locally, just type

thisisunsafe

and it'll let you through.

I love the BandCamp business model. I listened to an album so much and "was totally going to buy it" but hadn't prioritized it.

The UI is like friendly nudge, that album is blocked, it's time to buy.

Like sure, maybe that's "annoying" to some people, but I'm using BandCamp to try and support artists and if I'm leeching too much, it's probably a good indicator I'm going to be happy with the purchase.

** BANDCAMP LINKS **

PLZ drop what's been helping you unwind

Poking around old drives. College assignment 2009, fake proposal for a travel agency website targeted at millionaires.

"Although they are millionaires they will probably have old computers running IE6 for their web browsing. (Hey, they had to save money to become millionaires somehow.)"

What directory structure does everyone use when cloning source code? Like, do you put it in your home directory or somewhere else

Ephemeral code is bad

Setting up mbsync and exceeded my quota trying to download my gmail inbox 💁‍♂️

Gray scale-- besides the phone and mask

Trying git send-email for the first time.

Anyone else experience sent items not appearing in your sent folder? They send still, just curious if I'm missing something.

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Links I used:
[1] https://git-send-email.io
[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/HowToUseGitSendEmail/

I bet anyone that turned down in 2019 is currently thinking, "for what?"

The secret to dealing with life or death software is to never write software that demands to be life or death.