I am totally delighted to see someone built a thing I daydreamed about building for the exact same reasons: https://lobste.rs/s/lyweie
Got stuck trying to learn to create a nix package, filed a doc bug. Fingers crossed. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259
I was not prepared for the Gloomhaven FAQ to get into therapeutic hard truths. I'm going to take a break for self-reflection.
I got my kids to switch over from using PICO-8 to TIC-80; woo. In the end it was the support seeing more columns of code at a time that did it.
With the older one I'm able to mostly just advise and point him at tutorials. With the younger I'm doing most of coding and leaving the maps/graphics to him, but that means I get to use #fennel.
Wasn't that a great couple years when popups were trivially blocked?
Little bit of a rant about Mottainai, a card game with stunningly deep and short gameplay whose theme undermines it: https://boardgamegeek.com/article/29380906#29380906
Yesterday I helped a friend unpack Gloomhaven (RyanH's YASS on BGG) and played two scenarios. Great core loop of actions + hand management, classic dungeon crawl setting.
a few days ago i changed the hostname on an Ubuntu system to the emoji 💅. just restarted systemd-networkd to see if it will try to get a DHCP lease.
it doesn't have addresses anymore. i ended up connecting via iKVM before realizing the system is accessible via IPv6 LL at least! here's how the console looks
"Premium mediocre" is not a clever insight, it means "lower/middle class with pretensions to upper class". It's a modern take on "nouveau riche" from the perspective of the petite bourgouise.
Some days I feel like aliasing 'gerp' to 'grep' is one of the most productive things I've ever done.
"My music is licensed to anyone without a lawyer."
A few minutes ago a colleague asked for Lobsters activity stats. I gisted the queries and answers: https://gist.github.com/pushcx/6e92c1dfb69285be958842cf27e4c891 I was floored by the last stat, 66% of users have been active in the last 30d.
@pushcx Five attempts to contact them got 1 error and 4 bot autoreplies. Partitioning and installing grub only took 4 tries.
@pushcx OK, bootstrapped a NixOS install and starting to learn to configure it. So far still easier than contacting DigitalOcean about their billing bugs.
Nix you have 1.25 GiB of RAM, get it together.
I know companies model support as a loss to be minimized, but it's especially frustrating in billing. @DigitalOcean has made it easier for me to move to a new host (and learn NisOS along the way) than contact support about a billing bug.
Reminder to job candidates not to give a current or expected salary number first... a dev I know just got himself a 50% raise at his new job.
@pushcx Today you'll be making a human-sized bookshelf... and your largest piece of lumber is 2' square particleboard... and you have no saw. Good luck, contestants!
You know those cooking contest shows where they give them random ingredients and they have to make a meal? I want one of those where handymen have to do home improvement projects with miscellaneous lumber and random tools.
Alternate hed: "Chicago Developer Salaries Likely to See 20-50% Rise Over Next Five Years" https://www.afr.com/real-estate/tech-behemoths-facebook-google-planning-big-chicago-office-expansions-20180607-h113h4
