2023-11-07

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 10:49

Well using the same tools as everyone else was a nice novelty, but I gotta get work done now. Time to grab the dot files.

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 10:59

Ohhhh “SALT life” right right gotcha

I misunderstood.

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 14:53

over here showing how to use VS Code even though Vim’s my default because ADHD means I know a tiny bit about just about anything.

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 20:17

Stray thought.

I’m starting to understand more clearly that part of a senior dev’s moral and ethical obligation is to speak up about overcomplications, dangerous assumptions, narrow thinking, and overwork. Basically to use our own history as a cautionary tale.

Our role in this very excitable industry is encouraging our teammates to stop and breathe for a sec. Nothing to do with knowing the code. It’s about knowing the pain points and the hazards.

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 21:23

Meanwhile I nearly fried my hard drive trying to install Arch tonight. Apparently some of the pacman mirrors aren’t working right?

Anyways I’ll keep building material for my “cautionary tale” angle.

hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 22:19

#Chillquarium Day 4: This Time It’s Running on Linux

with Proton Experimental, and it’s not exactly a major strain on the system, but even so.

Making four cents per second, which adds up quick to $4K per day.