Notices by emily, emitter of spooky noise (emily@sparkly.uni.horse), page 3

I joined an active discord and now my matrix bridge is like "hi would you like to join these 30 channels?" and I know if I decline it'll just ask me again next time someone talks there

still marginally better than using actual discord

disapproving face: split keyboard for ergonomics
approving face: split keyboard for typing around cat

shockingly, modeling things in CAD is often easier than wild-ass guessing at lengths

"it's not a hacksaw, it's a surprise remix saw"

today in the ongoing "wait, C. S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll aren't the same person?" saga that is my brain: I finally look up who Baba Yaga is, upon realizing that that is not the same person as Yogi Berra

normal mechanical keyboard enthusiasts: I have 36 keys and a bunch of layer switching

me:

the house-panther has decreed that I may not leave the bed

@malcircuit $previous_job did a debugging interview (several variants based on language preference, https://github.com/remind101/humanparser was the most common one).

$current_job's interview includes an ~hour long pair programming session adding a trivial feature to their real codebase (an existing thing someone already did for real, but removed on a branch, so it didn't feel like free work).

These were the best interview experiences I've had and I've almost never seen anything like them elsewhere. The closest most people get is "make a todo list app".

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oh no

@hannah partner and I are considering what we want our forever home to look like, and I am so conflicted between "must be exactly one story because I hate stairs now and I'll hate them even more when we're old" and "I want a witch tower"

the existence of power rangers implies there are also water wizards, sewer barbarians, and natural gas clerics

fun fact: I never watched power rangers as a kid, and had only the vaguest idea of what it was, based on only ever having seen the power ranger suits

I only learned recently that they're allowed to take the suits off, I thought it was a halo/daft punk sort of thing where they just lived in them

I am a dummy who just cancelled a perfectly good 3d print job because I couldn't see the first layer on the print bed

the first layer of thin transparent plastic

@mhoye (including the OS, lest someone upload a toolchain that works perfectly on one specific build of Windows XP and is useless elsewhere)

My new dial indicator came with a certificate of quality that is literally written in comic sans

Confused the fuck out of some consulting company today because they cold-emailed me at work asking if I'd talk to their clients about stuff. They clearly meant one of the other two Emilies at the same company, but I am emily@company.tld and so people email me a lot when they don't feel like looking up the right email address for the Emily in question and just take a wild guess.

So I stubbornly fill out their form to join their Network(tm), then fill out the other form for the specific client they want me to talk to, mostly with "I am not exposed enough to this side of the business to give useful information" pasted into every text box. Then at the *end* of this form they ask if I want to decline it, so I finally do.

Less than a minute later they called me, wondering why none of what I entered matches my LinkedIn account.

At this point I finally informed them that I don't have a LinkedIn account.

I hoped they learned a valuable lesson today. If not, I would be happy to charge them the $400/hour they offered me to read to them the entirety of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.

@artemist conveyor belts need power

met a snake friend today

(at least part of it is because of the mental image of a rich person waking up with a hangover and then panicing because they drank all their Investment Wine last night)

phones: currently not looking good.

Ubuntu Touch does not support VoLTE, which makes it basically unusable in the US.

PostmarketOS doesn't have a single phone in their compatibility page with fully working camera support.

Purism looks promising from their website but probably moderately janky in practice. I noped away from it when I saw people talking on forums about how to make the phone wake up from sleep on incoming calls.