Peter Bhat Harkins @pushcx@octodon.social

Has anyone seen a pattern of gmail bot account names that looks like [first name][first name][6 or 7 digits]@gmail.com?

These slides on software developer compensation is accurate: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ne7ccUdOWewD4rFDQjjnQEJDgsmgFID/view As is this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21967243 Chicagoans: if you're OK with remote, this is significantly better than local.

After ~7y using CtrlP in vim, I moved to fzf + rg. I bound same keystrokes so it's been a seamless experience except for, no joke, the distraction of how much faster fzf is.

The logical conclusion of the "calendar didn't start at 0" claim that today doesn't start a new decade is that we should also give back the 10 days lost when switching from Julian to Gregorian calendars and start the decade on Dec 22, 2020. (Orrrrrr maybe it's pedantic nonsense.)

@CobaltVelvet Maybe a bug, or something about a new instance? I've followed @wesleyac but even after a day, I see no tweets on their profile (do see their one direct reply).

One of the nicest things about the last 20 years has been the lack of a standard term for them so I haven't had to read any thinkpieces about what it means to live in the nineties etc etc

@wesleyac Dumb Masto q: is there some kind of follower approval or instance-level blocking between us? I want to reply to your registrar toots but I only see them when I view your profile on interlace.space, not when I see it through my masto interface. Super weird!

If you're into murder mysteries (or at least don't roll your eyes at them), Knives Out is *excellent*, one of the best movies I've seen in years. Great everything: dialogue, sets, cast, pacing. Really fun.

On mumble I'm listening in as alynpost and @355E3B work on the ansible playbook for Lobsters. Working remotely, I forgot how nice it is to overheard fellow professionals puzzling through some work.

Tomorrow is #CodeAndCoffee Andersonville, 7 AM until we wander off (lunchish). Weekly time to work on your side project or studies with friendly chats. https://push.cx/code-and-coffee

Weird way to start the day. A guy I banned from Lobsters two years ago for calling for race war (against Kansas, it was not the most coherent racism) shot two cops: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/11/20/man-named-simba-lion-suspected-in-shootout-with-2-monroe-officers-police-say/

Because stubborn, I want to take another swing at packaging a Rails app in Nix again this weekend. Does anyone have advice or maybe even a worked example? (The ones I've found are incomplete/outdated.)

wtb github, but issues are in the repo for offline editing and I can directly edit PRs to my repo before merging

Really feeling the changing of the seasons. Every day my macos work laptop goes into dark mode a minute or two earlier.

Hi, Dallas - I'm around for a couple days, if anyone would like to grab a bite. Maybe #codeandcoffee tomorrow morning at Ascension Coffee in the Design District?

Next step is 'git blame' to see how we introduced this recently. Right?

Nope. This code is untouched since 2012-06-16. It really never worked.

It just took 7.5 *years* for a website to delete a cookie rather than set one. That's 60k submitted stories before 1 removed a cookie!

The exception came from deep in the common page-fetching code. In set_cookie:

if val.to_s == ""
@cookies[host][name] ? @cookies[host][name].delete : nil
else
@cookies[host][name] = val
end

Sites delete cookies by "setting" them to empty string, so the logic's right, but there's an obvious confusion in how to delete from a Ruby hash, should be .delete(:name). This indeed never worked.

Lobsters fetches web pages for a couple reasons:
* to prefill the title field on new links as a convenience
* to cache story text for the search engine
* to check for rel=canonical links
* to auth github/twitter/keybase accounts
* to send webmentions back to blogs

Interesting Lobsters exception in my inbox this morning: ArgumentError in `delete': wrong number of arguments.

What? We never get clever with *args, so how did this code ever work? Funny story about the rest of the web, actually...

Over on Barnacles, the site for bootstrappers: I closed signups, opened the invite queue, and caught up on 2.5y of code from Lobsters: https://barnacl.es/s/rvjtqz/signups_closed_invite_request_open