manicexpressive - Network

My ISP offers terrible email service but free @q.com addresses for it, so kind of a toss up.

My ISP offers terrible email service but free @q.com addresses for it, so kind of a toss up.

Really enjoying podman for docker images and deno for node apps and generally wondering if every tool I use should be replaced by an...

Really enjoying podman for docker images and deno for node apps and generally wondering if every tool I use should be replaced by an external team addressing it's problems.

*except Deschutes County, which helpfully publishes their historical data in nice tables accessible through this handy index:...

*except Deschutes County, which helpfully publishes their historical data in nice tables accessible through this handy index: https://webapps.deschutes.org/Elections/Home/HistoricElections

I'm sure there is a reason that most counties in Oregon publish their election results inside PDFs instead of on a webpage.

I'm sure there is a reason that most counties in Oregon publish their election results inside PDFs instead of on a webpage.

♻️ turned the sleeves of a jacket into patches and then sewed one of those patches on the resulting...

♻️ turned the sleeves of a jacket into patches and then sewed one of those patches on the resulting vest
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If ORESTAR goes down and I don't post about it, it's like it didn't happen (for several hours today in the middle of the day).

If ORESTAR goes down and I don't post about it, it's like it didn't happen (for several hours today in the middle of the day).

arts / crafts

arts / crafts

Thinking about how important web browsers are and how few of them we have.

Thinking about how important web browsers are and how few of them we have.

I’m as surprised as you are that I went from zero interest in Typescript to wanting to use Typescript for every project just because Deno...

I’m as surprised as you are that I went from zero interest in Typescript to wanting to use Typescript for every project just because Deno handles all the details.

Computers: they’ll mostly do what you tell them to do, except when they don’t.

Computers: they’ll mostly do what you tell them to do, except when they don’t.

I'm watching a script that'll need to run a few more days to finish it's work and marveling at the resilience of my relatively...

I'm watching a script that'll need to run a few more days to finish it's work and marveling at the resilience of my relatively bullshit code.

@Jaredigital "lonely" is a very good descriptor that I hadn't landed on yet.

@Jaredigital "lonely" is a very good descriptor that I hadn't landed on yet.

Really appreciated this piece form @Jaredigital on the cost of convictions: https://www.jaredigital.com/weblogue/the-cost-of-convictions

Really appreciated this piece form @Jaredigital on the cost of convictions: https://www.jaredigital.com/weblogue/the-cost-of-convictions

Cold emailing journalists and politicians, trying to feel something.

Cold emailing journalists and politicians, trying to feel something.

Trying to decide if I wanted to mount my whiteboard to the wall, thus delaying the whiteboard session I need to have and further the project...

Trying to decide if I wanted to mount my whiteboard to the wall, thus delaying the whiteboard session I need to have and further the project the white board session will help with, and I ran out of time for any of it.

Gonna offer a discount for any hiring process requiring fewer than three emails before someone sends me a check or access to some code to...

Gonna offer a discount for any hiring process requiring fewer than three emails before someone sends me a check or access to some code to work on.

I was very excited about signing some contract work but the amount of email required is truly terrible.

I was very excited about signing some contract work but the amount of email required is truly terrible.

It felt like the automated version of landing on an old Stackoverflow explanation of something that needed to be updated. It's bananas...

It felt like the automated version of landing on an old Stackoverflow explanation of something that needed to be updated. It's bananas to me that people invite these things into their text editors.

I reinstalled the operating system on this ThinkPad and didn't have google's AI stuff disabled so I misread the AI summary as just a...

I reinstalled the operating system on this ThinkPad and didn't have google's AI stuff disabled so I misread the AI summary as just a an actual quote from a web page and copied and pasted code from it into my demo.

Code didn't work at all so I went back and the description claimed the API I was using didn't exist.

Followed the first link which was to the API's documentation and copied and pasted the example from that page, which worked as expected.

Just had to reboot this ThinkPad into the BIOS to turn on some sort of off by default security feature so that I could run the Android...

Just had to reboot this ThinkPad into the BIOS to turn on some sort of off by default security feature so that I could run the Android emulator, and it's only Wednesday.