Notices by Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" for commit messages.

The more readers and the more purposes to which the logs are put, the more value in structure. I really like linking a work ticket when apt. Good URLs are marvelous context connectors.

@skinnylatte <3 Welcome to Seattle. I only made it to Fremont, north of the ship canal, but I finally got to visit Outsider Comics.

Rain is over where I am, but still pretty windy!

@skinnylatte My downtown Seattle workmates arranged a walk to Little Sheep hotpot a few years ago.

The Dolar Shop hotpot has a location close to the Bellevue transit center, in a high rise building which seems to cater to Chinese residents.

@skinnylatte Flixbus seems to have been a successful replacement for Bolt Bus in Seattle to/from Portland. I have done Seattle to Portland as a bus day trip a couple of times.

@skinnylatte Seattle has a reputation for being a big market for sunglasses and boats, but we're on our regularly scheduled moist gloom since the crisp cold clear days a little earlier. The sunglasses will come out if we get some sun, but it's not expected soon.

@skinnylatte If you can make it to the Wing Luke museum in Seattle, it's a community history museum in the Chinatown / International District. https://www.wingluke.org/

I enjoyed the permanent exhibits on Seattle's Asian American history and the temporary exhibits like the Auntie Sewing Society for COVID safety mutual aid.

Oh and if you like podcasts, "Ten Thousand Things", locally produced, is along the same theme as the Wing Luke. The episode titled "East Kong Yick Building" is about the founding of the Wing Luke museum. https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit ("The Blue Suit" was the original podcast title, because Shin Yu Pai titled each episode for a "thing" which the episode focused on)

@skinnylatte Yosemite was important to four generations of my family. I was looking forward to the Tuolumne Meadows campground reconstruction. Now. who knows?

@skinnylatte Part of my choice of Tucson for graduate school after 11 years in Seattle was shaped by "more sunlight!". Yet here I am again, because we couldn't afford a house in the SFBay.

@inthehands "if you give a measure a target", the "if you give a mouse a cookie" of quantitative management.

@inthehands Rufo was laughed out of Seattle but seems to have hit his stride as picker of the next phrase to label for fear and anger targeting.

@skinnylatte (takes notes) rye bread in Monterey...

I'm sure I'll make it back to the Aquarium one of these years. Maybe sooner!

@skinnylatte I'm a little bit allergic, so I would have the More Butter Blues at a place like that.

And more power to you for finding and sharing the good places! People should try things, and a café-bakery is an easy start.

@inthehands I have been so pleased that my revival of Tamsin's Weatherpixie project has now been online for months and months, rock steady except for a whoopsie when the National Weather Service switched to a new GoDaddy endorsed cert not in my original cert bag and suddenly all the reports were TV static.

@inthehands My pixel art avatar salutes MSP's rugged hardiness!

https://pixiereport.com/pixie?location=KMSP

alt text = "a cloudy day scene, with light snow, showing a standing figure dressed for cold in a blue coat with a Cascadia douglas fir flag, yellow mittens, black pants, yellow boots, a yellow knit hat, a long black-and-white scarf wrapped around mouth and nose, and a clear visor over a pale face."

(maybe too busy a day for media uploads)

@inthehands A packet of raw SVGs might be an interesting adjunct. Map outlines, scenes, maybe little animations?

But that's me who came up via the W3C SVG primer and rewrote Hunt The Wumpus in SVG. http://aristobit.com/svg/wumpus.svg

PaperJS is a reimplementation of a fancy vector design app in JS + HTML Canvas. My fan art picture frame app uses PaperJS.

And then there's Observable.

Inkscape should be fine. I had strange behavior on Win10 starting in the background and hooking too many file types.

@skinnylatte oh it's a grand scale grift, and if you're well positioned, you can make out like a bandit, tax-free.

It is a loophole that folks have driven megayachts through.

@inthehands <3 NSB

@inthehands I appreciate how your line of argument chimes with Fred Brooks' "No Silver Bullet", along the lines of essential complexity of the problem and the solution matching up, except the comparison here being the embedded understanding (hopefully) in code written specifically for the problem, versus the embedded unchecked assumptions in generated code.

Novel software libraries have a similar problem: easy to adopt, not necessarily easy to evaluate.

@inthehands oh ouch you just hit me in (current job) better than Excel and (previous job) automated response substituting when it should be augmenting human support agents.

@skinnylatte Microsoft OneNote is a moray eel colony, defends its turf and holds on tight to its pages in a set of tabs / tunnels.