Alternative platforms -

Web: https://syn.as
Github: https://github.com/synmux
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/syn.horse
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/synmux
Threads: https://threads.com/@synmux
Facebook: https://facebook.com/synmux

IM: Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram. Ask for my number.

Just a heads up; Github and Instagram/Threads/Facebook username is now synmux.

I'll be rolling the same out to other services as I think of them. If you can't find synmux, check syndotas.

FRIENDS: I'm no longer the owner of dave.io - I've sold it. For a fairly considerable sum. Completely out of nowhere.

I've migrated to syn.as for email (syn@).

When I get round to it, will maintain two sites - syn.as for normies, and syn.horse for my lovely queer nerd shitpost wizard pals.

one of my favourite terms is "delta". A delta is a set of changes against a baseline. If you write "jam" and then change it to "blue jam", the delta is "blue ".

It's one of those words which saves a WHOLE bunch of other words. And good lord do I love me an opportunity to be concise.

So today I learned a thing the painful way. Join me in my pain.

• You want to pull a remote git update.
• It won't apply.
• You stash your changes then pull.
• You pop your stash.
• Wild CONFLICT appears!
• You fix the conflict.
• You add the fixed file.
• Wait. Git has held onto the stash. What?
• Maybe it just needs to be applied fully now the conflict is resolved.
• You git stash pop.

And at that point, it destroys all of your work from the last four hours. Oh, and the stash is gone. Oh, and it's not in the reflog either. Fuck you.

I will say this. It is a very good job I have my backups set up. If I'm really really lucky, I've only lost half an hour.

Fucking git.

I post this every so often when it does something that makes me happy (which is quite a lot).

I absolutely adore Pulumi as an alternative to Terraform or other IaC products.

You build your IaC using a proper language; TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, and if you want to be fully declarative for some reason, YAML.

You can use all the logic of that language in building your IaC, instead of having to be 100% declarative and hacking logic in.

It's superb.

NIN YEAR ZERO is an absolute ride because it was an album about the world becoming the worst it seemed it could possibly get.

And then listening now, it's just like... oh, my sweet summer child.

There's a nasty correlation between being fat and doing remote work. You have to hide it.

Because when a skinny or normal shaped person hasn't completed a ticket, it's because there are dependencies that need to be fulfilled.

But when a fat person hasn't completed a ticket, it's because they're lazy.

It lives in the lizard brain. Unless thin people fight it, it will find its way out.

Please fight it.

Not even joking, this made me spit out my drink laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wSyyTIzSuxE

If ever you wonder if me and mine function through gallows humour, consider my friend who is currently "on a grippy sock holiday".

That is, they've been sectioned.