Notices by Jeff Forcier (bitprophet@social.coop)

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidnjoku/116116811059338871

Kinda surprised the “never use it” crowd is currently tops. Wonder how much of that is lag in getting the feature into clients?

This week in nostalgia for my teenage self: cultivating an instant ramen habit? I bet there’s like a few dozen options available this century, it’s not all Maruchan Ramen anymore.

@cwebber As much as I love to see folks building real, tangible software in LISP, I’m curious whether y’all have had discussions already about whether/when to expand Goblins etc into more widely used ecosystems like Python, Rust, JS etc?

Anyway, *trundles off to double check whether he set up a recurring Spritely donation already or had just been thinking about it…*

Almost every year this decade, a new, nontrivial segment of the population reveals itself to be completely and utterly alien.

Pandemic deniers.
Fascist voters.
Slop enthusiasts.
Etc.

I'm already having trouble hanging on & am terrified whether I'll have anyone to relate to, at all, by 2030.

@ntnsndr Congrats on tenure!

@neoluddite @BeAware I'm in this toot and I don't like it 😞

Wondering at what point Home Depot becomes "the jumbo Halloween decoration supplier that also does a bit of hardware store stuff on the side, for legacy reasons"

The decision of whether to dump savings into US federal I-Bonds is usually easy ("yes, obviously”). This year, though…? 😬

OTOH, if the gov't gets into such an incredible shambles that its friggin bonds stop being worth anything, I have a hard time believing that same pile of money would be any safer in a savings account or the stock market.

(Or worth anywhere near what it is in cash today, for that matter 😰 where's that wheelbarrow emoji?)

Maybe I'll 'invest' in upgrades to my house instead?

Same, Princess. Same. #NekoAtsume #NekoAtsume2

@tek ahh, coffee as bootstrap procedure, got it. Need your shitty boot loader to get to the half decent kernel

@tek I thought nobody who cared actually drank that stuff tho!

@tek BELLEH

@tek brunch is gay?

Jeff's #ConfigurationManagement SotW 2024:

Puppet: internal dsl, ruby, ruined by corpothieves.
Chef: external dsl, ruby, ruined by corpothieves.
Salt: yaml, python, ruined by…yea.
Ansible: yaml, python, corpotheft status unclear but I hate the way it uses yaml.
CFengine: technically still exists but was old even in the late ‘00s.
mgmt: external dsl, golang, “newish”, has neat ideas?
babushka (#TIL): internal dsl, ruby, oops died 2021.
"just go back to fabric": internal dsl, python, it me.

@baconandcoconut of a time machine? Or did you mean “next year”? 😂

@jonafato @baconandcoconut that’s the same as car model year, and related to magazine month, isn’t it

@tek so I misread this as “I helped make Tek Jr a thing” and was all “well, yes?”

@tek so wait, is this dentist extra good (maybe they're very free with the nitrous?) or is the family one around the corner extra bad despite the convenience? why haven't you switched? 😂

@tek what else could you have misread it as, anyhow?

@tek ohh it just doesn’t work! Got it. Awkward, good luck sussing it out!

Also I bookmarked Meshtastic in my radio networking obsidian note a while back and it’s entirely your fault!