Rural Remote Software Developer. Blogger of Random Things. Amateur Philosopher. Woolly Mountain Man.
Okay.
I've been on mastodon.social for a little over a year this point. Seen a lot of waves of newcomers and a lot of changes in the culture over that time.
Been feeling like things are a little too crowded on the local and not quite my niche anymore.
So I'm finally going to go do it and move to a different instance. Going over to hackers.town
See you all over there.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/01/npm_layoff_staff/
This is going around I noticed on slack this morning.
There's a cynical part of me that wants to run away from any company that seems too interested in trying to appear that they are something other than they are.
Openly heartless capitalists are a hell of a lot easier to deal with in a work cultural than someone who is passive aggressively in denial about it.
YouTuber Lindsay Ellis Has Been Nominated for a Hugo Award for Her Acclaimed "Hobbit Duology"
That was a really good series of videos, deserved
Half way through the Rust book.
Usually when I pick up a new language book, I read it deeply. Two or three passes on each chapter. Mark up things with notes. Type up all the example code.
I'm not actually sure I get much out of it.
This time. I'm just reading as fast as I can. Get down the general concepts and where I can look them up in the book later on when I'm struggling with them.
Trying, before I lose interest, to get to where I can jump into a real project.
Just once I'd like to actually get the car the rental agent promised me instead of a Nissan.
They always tell me it'll be a Toyota. Then when I get there all they ever have are Nissan.
"what comes after open source"
In a previous post, I discussed the history of open source, and ended with this claim: Today’s developers have never learned about this history, or don’t care about it, or actively think it’s irrelevant. … For the same reasons that “open source”... | Steve Klabnik | “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” - Emma Goldman
How do people go for years typing on a laptop keyboard. I've been using my laptop keyboard for two months and my wrists are starting to kill me.
Going to need to go dig my mechanical keyboard out of storage just so I can hook it into the laptop.
I have gone through all the toots from last night and boosted the ones I liked.
My work is done for today. Now I can go outside and play.
I wish.
“Counties with more trees and shrubs spend less on Medicare, study finds”
🌴🌲🌳
“the study adds to a growing body of evidence linking green space – in particular, forested areas – to better health outcomes for those living nearby.”
“[…] counties with the lowest socioeconomic status appeared to benefit the most […] low-income communities are getting the biggest bang for their buck because they probably have the most to gain.”
Medicare costs tend to be lower in counties with more forests and shrublands than in counties dominated by other types of land cover. The relationship persists even when accounting for economic, geographic or other factors that might independently influence health care costs, researchers report.
Eugen Rochko
solar-powered artificial scarcity
endless bummer