Willy Lee @advicepig@octodon.social
enby, they/them/theirs, bikes, cats, Minneapolis
Ordered jeweled letters to make a pronoun necklace. One letter was secretly out of stock. Looking forward to my THE necklace.
TFW you remember how femme the stars of teh 80s were https://octodon.social/media/zHqSqEaCZSy6GLSfxoM
Having lots of proprietary stuff isn't a selling point for me.
Natural language API, you know because getting shit wrong is better than having users learn how to ask.
In a meeting with Hitachi and I gotta say, I get kinda nervous when they talk about IoT intelligence. #wrongHitachiProduct
Erasure coding sounds like something else.
Don't mind me, I was just anonymously mentioned on NPR this morning...
"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Did it ever occur to you that 90% of useful stuff on the web for solving our problems started with someone asking for help?
I bought a Roku just to have the NBC Sports App for the Olympics. Joined YouTube TV for the month to get access.
Some people's tone makes me want to reply with "first off, I'm not stupid, but..."
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This guy at work thinks anytime something doesn't work in his code, that is must be a bug in the library or infra. I wonder what it's like to have such ego.
The daily life drama of "out for delivery" and the work day ticking down...
Tempted to start a slack channel at work for #wokeAF where I hold court on why that well meaning thing was problematic.
If Van Halen doesn't get you ready for anything, are you even really alive?
No actually, it's useless pockets.
Or maybe it's the patriachy
