Andy @andysomniac@mastodon.notasquirrel.dev

MAYBE Forbes should just take a break for a bit...

I'm still looking for a job. Anybody need a programmer in the San Francisco Bay area? I'm a python programmer with experience in C/C++/Java/JS, I've done a bunch of CI/CD/SRE in the recent years, lots of tooling and back end web dev, and I've got a good deal of amateur experience doing reverse engineering and embedded development.
(I've done devops work but I'm trying to move away from that because too often it turns into just "ops", and I am a programmer.)

PSA:

You should NOT be in a leadership role if you’re unable, for whatever reason, to tell folx the truth

If layoffs are on the horizon due to a change in strategy, resources, etc, LEADERS are able to articulate this; engage in authentic conversations

It’s cowardice to drop such news on employees and shows that you’ve NEVER valued welcoming and psychological safety AND erodes the trust of those “left behind”

@ariadne the lockheed martin pride socks STAY ON during sex

My friends at web agency Level Level repeated their ecommerce accessibility study from last year, checking how accessible the top 15 Dutch ecommerce sites are. They used a pragmatic, process-based approach to score the sites (eg “can I order”, “can I log in”, “can I pay” etc)
In almost half of them, you can only purchase stuff if you are able to use a mouse. https://level-level.com/accessibility-in-e-commerce-there-is-still-much-to-be-done/

are there any guides to nix that start from the bottom up (for example starting with this bash script https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh) and then working up the layers of abstraction) instead of from the top down?

all of the guides I've seen start by describing the nix programming language or other abstractions, and I'd love to see a guide that starts with concepts I already understand like compiler flags, linker flags, Makefiles, environment variables, and bash scripts

finally. i’ve found the woman of my dreams

I feel like most of the google results I have been getting for weeks all look like they’ve been generated by AI. It’s so frustrating. The entire quality of information on the internet, such that it was before, is rapidly being lost.

Like, if I’m googling for the thing, it means I don’t know enough about it to confidently tell generated garbage from actual information.

Just today I was looking up how many carbs were in something and the TOP results definitely read like AI. Contradictions, rambling sentences, etc. There’s just a giant, growing shitpile of generated utter garbage that’s being churned out for ad views.

I genuinely worry for the future of the internet.

My partner's streaming a hard techno set on Twitch using two Elektron Rytms, first time they've done anything like this, please come watch! https://www.twitch.tv/kingajanicka?sr=a

If developers are going to “announce” their side projects they should at least be honest.

“Announcing thimbleFart, I ignored all of the research I did in thirty minutes about this and built a thing over a weekend. Not because I have any intent of supporting this half baked idea but I had a domain name laying around and wanted to feel special”

all marketing training is basically focused on bullshit like finding out what time of day your audience is online rather than actually making a good post that people want to read, and it's entirely because they can sell you a product to spit out a chart saying people use instagram at precisely 6.34pm on a wednesday but a good post requires a good Poster

Was just at the chemist, collecting my meds, and the people in front of me were paying a fortune on multiple prescriptions.

It's chronically underadvertised that this is not necessary. So I thought I'd throw in a reminder here in case anyone needs it.

If you pay for more than twelve prescriptions per year, a Prescription Prepayment Certificate WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. And it's a flat rate, so the same whether you get 13 scripts a year or 130. I save upwards of £200.

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs/nhs-prescription-prepayment-certificate-ppc

#health #NHS #CostOfLiving

Seriously, fuck #OpenAI and their ilk and the people putting “#AI” garbage generators like #ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion out into the world.

I don’t care how funny it is as a toy to play around with or how convenient it may be in some applications. The harm far outweighs the usefulness and this entire type of technology deserves to be smashed to pieces.

It’s the capitalist paradigm of industrialized resource extraction applied to human creativity. It’s perverse.