tempest

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collective of angels, demons, and other entities who live in vr, collectively a polyace enby web witch // “I am what you think I am; I am what your treatment makes of me.”

profile picture (moon surrounded by a tiara of crystals and lightform) and header (obelisk on a barren landscape with a fading star in the distance) are by us, rendered in blender

we occasionally trim our follower list - it's nothing personal, feel free to follow again if you want (big number just gives us anxiety and that's how we attempt to manage it)

pronounsthey/it
ageyounger side of “millennial”
pluralset of six
websitehttps://tempest.dev/
tempest13h ago
"the novelization of angry birds"
tempest1d ago
erin 💫1d ago

there is no more powerful a move, than going back in time to tell your mom you're trans

tempest1d ago
skye (evil)1d ago
depressed programmers be like: hell. world
tempest1d ago
nerd teacher 🦇Mar 16

The people who constantly say things like "We need education" in response to problems of the world make me want to stab someone. Probably them.

My dude, look at the fucking people running the planet. How educated are they? Very. They have gone through a number of "prestigious" schools and programs. What the fuck are they doing?

Please, stop just going WE NEED EDUCATION to every problem. No, we don't. We know shit's wrong, and we're still not giving a shit. This is not an education problem.

tempest3d ago
Sammy Arson, flirting with the hard left :33d ago
birth date in systemd is the new and worse version of pronouns in bios
Show threadtempest3d ago
@elexia we got one of the 512 GB pixelbooks with about 90% original battery capacity for ~$200 USD on ebay — we've also seen them lower (depending on remaining battery health and screen/keyboard condition) but this is about typical for one that seems to have a decent chunk of life left
tempest4d ago

well if we weren't already known for being unreasonably fond of our unlocked linux pixelbook we probably will be

. . . we got another one because lightly used ones are pretty cheap right now and this one has a significantly less degraded battery (plus it's the higher storage model!)

anyways this is all to say if you or someone in your life has a chromebook lying around definitely look up their model and see if it's got trackpad+wifi support in linux, they can be lovely little machines with a bit of help (even if unlocking the firmware write protect is a bit of a pain — you've only gotta do that once)

tempest5d ago

it's been a pretty good night

did some cleaning, hooked up the switch again and played mario kart with the kids

it wasn't anything particularly special, but we have energy to do more than one thing in a day again, and that's worth celebrating on its own

tempestMar 15
kasdeyaMar 15

“The most merciful thing in the modern tech stack, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of top-level abstractions in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The reverse-engineers and security researchers, each straining in their own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of computation, and of our frightful dependence upon it, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

– H.P. Lovecraft after learning about CPU vulnerabilities

Show threadtempestMar 10

@jnkrtech if you have any familiarity with how react worked before hooks (class components with separate constructor, shouldComponentUpdate, and render functions) then the original reactconf talk where hooks were introduced is pretty helpful in showing how one conceptual frame maps into the other
(https://youtube.com/watch?v=dpw9EHDh2bM, the example we're thinking of starts at about 20m)

the main goal of the change was to make it easier to group related state, side effects, update logic, etc together; particularly in ways that can be wrapped up into a single unit (a "custom hook") and easily consumed from several components

internally this works by counting the number of times hooks are called from a component (and in what order), and so that react can track which state value corresponds to which internal hook field and do things like retrieve the state, compare effect sentinels to the previous value, etc

to our knowledge none of it relies on exceptions (except for Suspence but that's its own deal)

React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks

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