Peter Lyons (he)

@focusaurus@recurse.social
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Pragmatism on tap.

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I was abducted by aliens. They made me wash my hands, clean my room, and eat my vegetables.

Turns out I was on the mothership.

Casually set up an additional linux gui login session to try wayland & niri. So far so good. Long way to go to get it dialed like my awesomewm x11 setup though.

What do you call an app version that has been released and has a problem requiring force upgrade?

versiona non grata

https://peterlyons.com/problog/2025/06/versiona-non-grata/

versiona non grata | Peter Lyons

Staff Engineer, Back End

The existence of antipatterns suggests the existence of an antipattern language and, we can consequently infer, a Gang Of Negative Four.

Random tip for file sharing on the same network. This #python command runs an http server listing the contents of the directory where you ran this command:

python3 -m http.server

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `contrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.

https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?

WebKit
you can't spell mcdonalds without monads
Not a fan of euphemisms: They are adding insult to injury and feel dishonest.
• “rent adjustment” (vs. “rent increase”)
• “We care about your privacy” (vs. just not writing that)
When you start wishing audiobooks came with close captions that is the time to go out and stare at the sky for a bit.
The world now has one fewer visible popcorn ceiling.