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Somehow our first ever family vacation with the kiddos ended up with a massive province wide power outage, no water, and then my grandmother went into palliative care so.... hmm...

Sean thinks it's because I'm cursed (thru no fault of my own, he insists)



Ug, I love writing software and software tools to support RPGs

I wish there was a way to support people in that action without money changing hands, and without weirdness





The boring things are what will save your bacon: password managers, physical security keys for 2FA, choosing to ignore SMS messages + random emails that seem a little off, verifying information out of band, building a security plan to protect important assets

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My toddler is in that toddler mood where you blink and he's draining the bottle of baby shampoo all over the a piece of wooden climbing equipment. If I'm not careful I might be tangled in a web of tape

This is not shade on my toddler btw, he's just very busy and that's good and fine



Up for review at day job:
18 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 476 deletions(-)

I've done better absolute line deltas before, but that ratio might be a personal best.



I have a list of actions to do and dumped them all in a file and am just repeatedly running `head -1 list ` and this feels like I'm either being smart or dumb

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`ls` every few min is "the clack tongs together every few min" of CLI work
in reply to sequethin

If you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going!


Today in easy to misuse interfaces: "Read the documentation and you'll get it subtly wrong in a way that causes an entirely different tool to dump core"


Figuring out how to not be helpful is one of the weirdest parts of being a lead.

I can't just help everyone immediately, I need to figure out how to help people by connecting them to the right people. I just want to do it!



Someone just asked me if I could do something "in code", and after confusion I found out that I they meant *VSCode*

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New stickers from @J T ! Now anybody familiar with my interests will be able to tell my computer apart from all the other Macbooks out there. #openbsd #aikido

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@J T



Oh no, I'm posting sad stories again.., I hope this isn't indicative of things to come


My birth story with Shæ, I was in a much better place and I wrote the story down and loved to tell people

My birth story with Ro, I was in a lot worse of a space, and I didn't want to remember every detail so I didn't write it down and hardly ever tell anyone

It kinda sucks that I won't have a stored memory for both of them because I wish it could be something celebratory in my mind for Ro too

I guess this is just how it goes... I wonder how many other people had similar experiences, if anyone ever did



Just a thought

If you're throwing a hot rooftop party in very warm temperatures for your business consider... serving non alcoholic drinks too... like water... to your employees



I had to learn how to do JOINs in mysql today

Can I never learn any more MySQL?


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silverwizard
I am exclusively running it on work machines - though I think I've tried it on my currently-stock macbook
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fuomag9
try with the flatpak version, works great (I hate zoom tho)


So apparently being on @silverwizard 's instance is a cheat code for any questions one has about Friendica. Thanks to the tip and doc pointer from @Tobias I should have proper alt text on this picture:


Breaking my own rules by wrapping a script whose args I always forget in a second script that handles the args for me.

I feel like this is gonna cause me *more* problems in the future



The same force within me that blows the world away with fireworks and makes music light up also creates the most vivid and terrifying images in my head that are so powerful it can keep me up at night and I don't know how to resolve that kind of dichotomy in my feelings towards it, this incredibly strong part of me 🙁


Oh...

I guess my Mac has decided to not read USB devices today

No, I didn't want to read my calendar, or contacts. Definitely didn't wanna use an external mouse.



I would not have predicted this would ever happen, but I've found a visual bell configuration that I actually like.
in reply to Dave

I apparently need to find where Friendica allows specifying alt text. Image description: A screen grab of the MacOS terminal bell config; all of "Audible bell", "Visual bell", and Visual Bell's subfield "Only when sound is muted" are checked.
in reply to Dave

Friendica is using BBCode for formatting of the postings @Dave for the ALT text of images, you can place the text in the middle of the [img][/img]-Tags. E.g.

[img=http://example.com/img/this_is_an_example.jpg]And this would be the ALT text for the image used on mouse over etc.[/img]

Have a look at your nodes BBCode documentation for more information about the implementation of the BBCode in Friendica, and things like the "abstracts" which other parts of the Fediverse use for CW.

@Dave


Sponge Art


I love exploring art techniques with children, especially toddlers. It's probably my favourite activity to do right now..

Today we painted sponges and dabbed them on the page to create a stippling effect


Picture made from rainbow paint on a sponge dabbed on



As a dad my irony poisoning means I say things like, "There's an old saying, bear is driving, how can this be?"



I love how removing one line from a given JSON file can, but necessarily, render it invalid


Setting up a tablet for a 3 year old

I feel like he deserves to have access to technology (and he's alone and inside a lot due to pandemics)

And - holy shit - technology for kids is a horrorscape wasteland

in reply to silverwizard

I have been wondering about this (as a grandparent of a nearly-two.) I give nothing but clothes, books, and physical toys (wood blocks and - oddly - canvas bags to store toys in have been hits.)

The kid avoids triggering the higher-tech toys which make noises, but loves the blinking lights. Books, which give control of a consenting adult, are huge hits. And computers/tablets in video calls are popular too.

By far the favourite thing is a cell phone, the least-safe tech thing.

in reply to Irrelephant

Yeah, that's kinda the things. Grownups around my kids all have cellphones and use them. Both my wife and I use a phone as an extension of our brain, so it probably feels weird to my kid to not have one.

We are pretty good with books (have dozens), and avoid toys which make noise, but aren't sticklers about it. So far our best toy has been a 5ft geodesic dome in the backyard and a sandbox.

But we also got a jooki.com/ for Christmas for our 2 year old, and that's definitely well liked, but has kinda turned into a bedtime toy. Now that he's turning three though we're talking about tablets. I feel like before he was very close to three he could play Balloon Pop and other really minimal games on a phone, but not really engage with them. And I think he was mostly ok with this. As he gets closer to three, video is more exciting to him, and that worries me, I hate passive entertainment like TV, but with a recent bout of bad weather he was inside bored a lot.

LeapFrog makes a fairly major tablet, but I really distrust their privacy model as explained.
Amazon makes one too - but no.
There's a few other ruggedized kids tablets, but I dislike them.
Soon-to-be-three year old has also just begun to figure out the Nintendo Switch, but isn't super understanding.
VTech's Innotab seems to be at least better (assuming you avoid KidConnect which I cannot find usefully laid out privacy info about), though I might DNS blackhole a few domains just in case, and it's primary method of getting games is cartridges, which is a nice to have (no internet needed to install a game). So I'm giving him an Innotab Sunday - my review is only based on what I've read, not first hand experience.

All in all - I'm not an anti-screentime dad, I'm an anti-passive dad, I want my kid imagining and engaging as the first and foremost. And I see a tablet, well used, as a vehicle to do that. I also think that he's gonna need tech to exist in the world we have, so let's figure it out.

Definitely avoiding cellphones without maximal supervision, even though it is a pinephone, which is in theory safer.

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silverwizard
yeah, no youtube capabilities was a requirement!


Dear everybody: You're doing it wrong. Please stop.


Looks like @silverwizard 's DB crash means I need to re-run my posted tweet. (Is it still a tweet over here?)
in reply to Dave

I of course meant 'pinned'. Which appears to be represented here with a star and not a pin icon.


Ug - the last hour basically unfucked my day. Social Media is super important to me in the sense of "I like these people", and the fediverse is the place where I am actually happy.

And I was trying to setup some cloud inventory stuff for a few days - and that was gargage.

So now I got both fixed within an hour.

What a weird day.



Well.

that was DB surgery.

Uh...

oops

my whole VPS just fucked it's DB...

I think I'm back - let me know if I seem broken or if I unfollowed you please!



pip apparently has a feature called 2020-resolver

Damnit - get on that! Resolve 2020! I'm tired of all this pandemic shit.

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I’ve been using that feature since last summer, only I call it “therapy”

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