Peter Bhat Harkins @pushcx@octodon.social

Chicago is dressed up as Christmas for Halloween.

Steam updated the library UI for the first time in 10ish years to add advertisements but not fix tiny fonts on hidpi displays. It already had two different ad notification systems, but I guess a third moves the numbers more than readability. :(

I assure you I already knew this, random web form.

I'm pretty used to computers screwing this up. The truly annoying thing was the TransUnion phone agent incorrectly instructing me in how my name is spelled. And, of course, I don't have the option to not deal with these libelous pricks.

This is basically my approach to programming. Prob ~1 book a month, ~3 talks/week, ~7 articles/day since 2001, then books only for the 10 prior years. No special aptitude, just lots of time and practice. https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-startling-convexity-of-expertise-5058e90a6c19

"It's OK, deep breath, remember your training."

Yay, my motorcycle started this year (last year was a bit of a project).

When you're so busy providing tools to spammers to the point that you have to pre-emptively ignore abuse reports (instead of, say, fixing the product), yeah, you're a spammer.

Nothing is funny to me like mixing high and low culture.

GitHub's shaming me in public

"It worked or it didn't, and it's one of the two, but you don't really care which, right?"

Never change, YouTube recommendations. (New incognito session for this.)

The Wikipedia table of contents is poetry.

Weird new failure mode I've been seeing on sites. Best guess is that some of that creepy track-every-mouse-movement adware js got blocked.

I updated fonts while Firefox was running and a bunch of sites are like this. I'm not restarting because it's pretty great.

Bottling my first batch of instant pot wine for its 30 days of aging, which is fermented using grapes harvested from the Kirkland region. Wine tasting (formal dress mandatory) at my place next month.

It's nominally about compilers, but think about this 250 words every time I think about projects. https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html

I've mostly replaced my use of find with fd. I just guessed at an option and got a great error message that instantly taught me correct usage. Really nice experience:

I am totally delighted to see someone built a thing I daydreamed about building for the exact same reasons: https://lobste.rs/s/lyweie