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Yazad 4d ago

A butterfly (maybe a fritillary) on a butterfly bush, San Jose, CA, June 2025.

#inaturalist #bloomscrolling #butterfly #flower #nature #wildlife #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you

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Yazad 6d ago

Update - the flower bloomed while the vines nervously hold on to memories of yesterday

Yazad Jun 8

A parent feeling their child is growing up too fast and not ready to let go. A teenager asserting independence and ready to boom. Someday they’ll look eye to eye and laugh about this day.

Morning Glory bud wrapped around by a vine it grew from. San Jose, June 2025

#morningglory #flowers #bloomscrolling #flower #inaturalist #SanJose #California #sfba #parenting #parents #love #children #ALT4you

Yazad Jun 3

A general #softwareengineering question, when using the word #embedded how do you distinguish between embedded as in #firmware vs #embedded as in in process like a programming language like #lua that is used in a game engine or a database like #sqllite or #duckdb that (can potentially) run in the host application. As in do you use different terms like #embeddedsystems or #EmbeddedSoftware to refer to one or the other? Or am I completely off base here?

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Yazad May 31

The feather was still on the leaf so I took a picture with a US nickel (5 cent) coin to show how small the hummingbird feather is. San Jose, CA, May 2025.

Yazad May 31

A hummingbird feather on a milkweed leaf (zoomed in), San Jose, CA, May 2025.

#inaturalist #nature #wildlife #hummingbird #milkweed #SanJose #sfba #California #ALT4you #birdsofmastodon #birds #milkweed

Yazad May 26

Monarch Butterfly, flying across the bright but cloudy skies of San Jose, CA, May 2025

#inaturalist #butterfly #butterflies #wildlife #nature #bloomscrolling #insects #monarch #SanJose #sfba #California #beautiful

Yazad Apr 27

Looking for recommendations for a basic #screenrecorder for #Ubuntu desktop. For now I just need the screen and the sound playing in the browser captured. I don’t need my face to show in a little circle, though that feature is appreciated.

@yazad3 @deviantollam It was called “Falling Off the Edge, and How to Help” — and I imagine it will be posted at some point, but I couldn’t tell you when, as the tired organizers need to rest now that the conference is over 🙂

Yazad Apr 19

On Friday which is typically a payday for weekly wages workers, there was some kind of outage that prevented #HomePay (from Care[dot]com) from paying out salaries to domestic workers like nannies, maids, babysitters, etc. They subsequently had a message on their website login screen, but for most of the day for many there was no clarity on when the funds would be dispersed to the workers. Customer care had long wait times due to this issue too. Since funds are typically collected on the Wednesday before, it was already gone from the families accounts who employed them. They eventually sent out communication indicating the delayed payroll would be paid out on Monday.

I’m surprised with such a major payroll platform having a payout outage and there was no news coverage I could find on the subject. I’m really interested in understanding what was the technical issues causing this problem. Also what banking service is HomePay using?

#payroll #finance #sre #outage