juno @juno@octodon.social
Programmer by trade. BP-II gifted. Progressive, feminist, scientist.
Crossed paths with a cougar on my morning walk today. Wonder if she's tooting about it on cougar octodon ...
That feeling when you learn your favorite childhood author was also a misogynistic asshole.
That loss of control when you start buying mp3s off amazon.
You can run your own firefox sync server. Cool! Wait, what's this? You gotta proxy through mozilla account services to use it? WTF.
Julius Caesar had no fear of spiders. Often picked them up off the ground and played with them. His soldiers considered it a superpower.
Freaked out at the sight of a wasp, though.
#writing Created a character over the past six months that I've completely fallen for ... talk about unrequited love 😞
#programming Your language sucks.
This is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. With the exception of 3-4 foreground stars every object you see in this image is a galaxy.
cron job explosion on a live server is a most embarrassing thing
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."
-- Strunk and White
#writing
TIL Virtualbox VM saves state if you just close the damn thing. No need to shutdown/restart every time.
Evening-guy, ever the poet, loves my work. "Brilliant!" he cries. "Perfect!" he says. And I sleep with a smile on my face.
In comes morning-guy. Morning-guy is a pragmatist. "Hot garbage," he grumbles. "Imposter," he declares.
Sigh.
Perl is like horseradish ... hurts like hell but you're strangely drawn to it.
KDE is a thing again? Time to throw in another ram stick and give it a shot I suppose.
Good code comments don’t mean “explain everything happening in the code”. It means:
- summarize the intent of an upcoming code block
- clarify the meaning of confusing code
- clarify the meaning of counter-intuitive code
If you put too many comments, it becomes hard to tell an important comment from an unimportant one.
The Ark Encounter: Wood, plus animal noises
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/06/16/the-ark-encounter-wood-plus-animal-noises/
You've got my money, @aigkenham!
