zstix @zstix@fosstodon.org

Power went out last night and my raspberry pi got shut down...which meant my website went down too. That's a fun new problem I'm not use to!

Interviewing is both important and exhausting 😩

I've decided to finally switch over to neovim. There's been too many neat projects that aren't compatible with vim that I've been meaning to try (treesitter, telescope, etc).

I'm also not a fan of the "Keep me alive" plan for vim's future.

Sometimes I get frustrated when I have to remember which team prefers to communicate in email, slack, Jira comments, GitHub issues (the list goes on)...

So I made a helpful guide:

https://justuse.email

Spent the last few hours struggling with mbsync. I like the idea of having a local copy of my emails but I can't get the dang thing to authenticate.

I found this to be a fascinating concept:

https://noteflakes.com/articles/2021-09-02-how-i-write-code-pen-paper

Most of the time I spend "coding", I'm actually just thinking about the problem, a solution, and the next steps towards that solution. This is even more the case when working in a functional-style.

I might try this technique out to see what happens.

I just found a great way to reframe this. They're finding all of our bugs and weak points, which helps me make tickets and squash bugs. They're my outsourced QA team!

Someone in Russia (or someone with an exit node / VPN in Russia) really wants to break one of our websites today. Getting hammered by requests. Not a fun day to be on-call.

Pretty stoked about the CSS proposal for nesting styles: https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-css-nesting-1-20210831/

Still obsessed with this Battlesnake thing 🐍

I took a more functional & TDD approach to building one in #typescript. It's still not very smart, but it avoids walls, itself, and other snakes:

https://github.com/zstix/zss-ts-snake

Next up, searching for food!

Switching back to #vscode for the week. I try to stay up to date with the editors that my team uses so I can help them if they get stuck.

I was pleasantly surprised to see just how much of the UI I could turn off. That + #vim mode and this thing is actually kinda nice.

Have y'all seen #Battlesnake 🐍

https://play.battlesnake.com

You create a server that accepts HTTP requests to control a snake and the you BATTLE WITH IT!!

I just spent several hours making a (very dumb) snake in Python (cause what else would I code it in?)

I've almost entirety moved off Google for #foss alternatives, but I'm still struggling to find a solution to calendars. I share a few Google Google calendars with other people and I'm not sure if I can switch over without impacting them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Gmail doing more sketchy things: clicking on links in your emails. Seems like a bad "feature".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28240279

Last day of a 9 day break from work. Even though I love my job, the #sundaysads are real.

Just picked up my first #RasbperryPi today. Surprised it's taken me this long to get one.

My plan is to use it as a web server for a few apps I host (foundryvtt, funkwhale, website, Gemini capsule).

Pretty stoked.

I have a (slightly irrational) hatred for the terms "best practice" and "industry standard".

Perhaps it's just my anecdotal experience, but these terms are often used as a flimsy justification for something. Who is using technology X? What governing body recommends X? Give me the details, not this marketing crap.

Is #duckduckgo down for anyone else?

I had to resort to google (*gasp*) just now.