Notices by a very weeny construct 💀 (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website), page 4

apropos of nothing it's nice to see my fellow computer touchers out here calling themselves "programmers" like i do even though that is Not Done irl (because a "programmer" makes less money than a "software developer")

wow i have successfully hoarded enough glass spaghetti sauce jars and lids that now i'm totally comfortable saying "no, we have enough, let's just recycle this one"

can you imagine how much of my house is absolutely crammed full of empty spaghetti sauce jars omg

working on some frontend website design stuff for the employer with lots of text and photography, checking things look right on the employer-issued retina macbook and going back to my hardware for linux, is beginning to make me envy high-dpi displays. a little.

i think as soon as i get onto wayland so i can have a desktop span a mix of low and high dpi monitors it will be time to upgrade one of 'em

ah, here's one definite benefit of high dpi displays

when google meet [contrary to any user request or preference] slightly shrinks the shared screen full of code,

[interstitial rant about how shitty fucking google goes out of their way for some reason to make it impossible to have a 1-to-1 full-resolution view]

... it's all fuzzy blur on my normal 1080p monitor but on this laptop's 227 ppi screen it remains readable (with squinting)

haven't given a shit about reddit in 10 years (and didn't enjoy it all that much in the five years prior to that)

but remembered i still had a couple accounts there waiting around for the day i had enough spoons to figure out how to export my own posts and comments for archival before deletion

checked into it this morning. turns out most of those comments have already gone missing somehow?

oh well. deleted for good this time, yay 🎉

i'm in a mood, i want to ride this wave all the way to deleting my linkedin account

i hate linkedin, i hate performative professionalism, i hate that they hold my account hostage by threatening to delete the nice things i said about other people on there if i go

but

will a future employer go "where is your linkedin" like "what's this gap on your resume"

the coin is spinning on the table but starting to feel like it's gonna land on "delete" this time heh heh heh

just deal with it, future me

@technomancy median size for my team is 2 for the past 4 years, i've basically gone feral as a programmer

the tiny bit of assembly programming i've done was in x86 and mips at uni

it was a fun challenge and interesting to have all abstraction removed like no room for any magic here

but mostly, it felt like a chore

manually managing the stack and registers when you know that pretty much all higher-level languages were invented to save the programmer from this tedium, and c compilers these days outperform the best handwritten assembly, ugh 😩

1/2

but i still haven't really got into deep into uxntal or forth, and i suspect i won't really internalize why people love those languages so much until i actually experience making something with them

2/2

remember that time i was like "i don't really get the appeal of forth"

then somebody was like "i really like clojure's threading macros (->)

and @technomancy was like "well, newbies overuse that thing"

and i was like hell no that thing is awesome i want a language where it is on all the time by default so you don't even have to write it

and @catgirl_so was like "yeah that's forth"

and i was like 🤯 holy shit ur right 🤯

so i love forth now (haven't written anything in any stack language yet)

since it's the last week off elementary school, programming club got moved up from friday to today

brain is now utterly convinced it is friday and the weekend has begun

@technomancy holy how strong is your comfort level with other humans that you can receive a bidet as a gift

"nice to see you again, the place looks great, i brought this bottle of wine and, this, well, wait till you unwrap it, i saw it at the store and i thought of you, you could definitely use it" 😬

@technomancy oof yeah totally fair. accessibility is still a sore spot and if that's the reaction you get i can see why you're unenthusiastic about the idea

just curious, what missing features are most egregious for you? i've certainly got my own punchlist i'm working through

@technomancy i mean... this bit is barely broken. anybody who doesn't need to swap button 3 for 8 on their mouse probably doesn't notice it, and it's only broken for the button-release, not the button-press, so it's not like nobody bothered to implement the feature

and my experience with pulseaudio and pipewire and systemd and wayland and printers and many other things that linux nerds go rabid about has been, if not positive, then at least continually improving 🤷

last time i tried wayland, there was too much jank and i had to retreat back to deprecated ol' xorg

tried it again today because of this toot: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110354752073927669

... and things are working quite well! glmark2-wayland is using my gpu on a portrait-mode 2nd screen in sway, and is super smooth

time to make a checklist of the things i need to work in order for me to abandon xorg forever! the time is nigh!

compiz was a whizzy thing that enticed a lot of new people to try on linux back the mid '00s

linux was already my primary desktop by then but i never managed to get compiz working with my hardware. didn't even have smooth 2d desktop transitions. i wanted my tiling wm and switching desktops has always been a smash cut

so i'm pretty tickled that https://wayfire.org exists and works on my machine. finally i can spin my desktops on a cube and burn down my windows

gradually getting https://swaywm.org configured but i think i've already been snagged by a (known, reported) bug around mouse button mapping

i need my weird ass button map before i can go full wayland

hmm, maybe i can fix it, and submit a patch?

if not, i heard there's a way to manipulate the button-map using udev rules, but haven't tracked down details

think i'll try on a few more compositors first

hearing many reports of xmpp + omemo behaving poorly for people and its tragic because

1. it's working great and reliably for me and my partner these days
2. seems like it must be just a small configuration issue or miscommunication but i don't know exactly what it is so i can't help
3. even with those issues it's great and easy and useful in so many other ways
4. it helped me escape from using the excruciatingly shitty google chat

til: https://headscale.net/

headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

woah, one of the two maintainers is even a tailscale dev! how did they pull that off in this capitalist hellscape?

here's a blog post that mentions why you might want to use it instead of tailscale
https://mornie.org/blog/using-headscale-for-your-home-networks/

(for me, tailscale is great, and too convenient, so i'll stick with it, but i'm relieved that this exists)

tyvm @eriol!

for as long as they've been able to, the kids don't say "come here" or "follow me" to each other. they just bark "come!" like you would command to a dog 😬

(and i always feel real weird about it and try to teach them to use nicer language)

idk if its a generational thing or a California thing but i'm recently pretty sure it's not just my weird kids, i just heard some other kids at the playground doing the same