Mastodawn

Dave Brady

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I think weird thoughts and I tell weird jokes. I write for humans in several programming languages and occasionally English.

Dave Brady Jun 30, 2023

I think jumping spiders are amazing. They're the cats of the spider world, and they will interact with you if you know how to communicate with them.

They hunt by eyesight. Today a Platycryptus undatus teleported onto my monitor, and she tried to catch a mouse.

Dave Brady Jun 7, 2023

I can always tell when I had time to want a script or program but not time to write it. I leave myself little notes like this. Forgetting I wrote them and running into them later is a joy.

Dave Brady May 3, 2023

AI. How it's going:

Dave Brady Feb 9, 2023

What is it about financial institution websites that make them the literal actual worst?

Dave Brady Jan 13, 2023

I just dropped the financial_transactions table in the wrong database. Yes, THAT wrong database. The worst wrong database.

So... how's YOUR day going?

(Don't panic, I just synced the table INTO the wrong database, and it had to be removed. 😜)

But yeah, being in data services means I get to have these conversations now:

Dave Brady Nov 18, 2022

Okay, open a terminal and install chafa. Now go download a bunch of pretty bird photos. Name them all birb-*. Now type ls ~/Pictures/birb-* | chafa `ruby -ne 'puts $stdin.each_line.to_a.sample'`. Now put that in your .bash_profile and you'll see what I get every time I open a new terminal. Have a random beautiful thing. Yes that's all just ASCII art (chafa is amazing). You're welcome. ❤️