@mikesusz social feed.

@irafcummings but the beauty of mastadon is, the ecosystem is wide open for an instance to offer you features like a customizable, transparent algorithmic timeline. and charge some $ for it if it’s useful. and you can choose to use that instance/feature or not.

one of my goals for 2023 is to have a website live on every domain name i own.

(so watch this space for a firesale on domain names in december)

@jeffbyrnes for me, yes. but for the user who doesn’t have their dev tools open, they click the button and nothing happens.

today i upgraded a server through 3 Ubuntu LTS releases

@hbuchel "Where did you learn TypeScript?" "Lint University."

so if you qualify for free shipping, you can't use Apple Pay on this site. brilliant.

if i wrote a book about the history of materials used to fill cat boxes, would it be considered litterature?

it’s been a heck of a week, but my friday friends are here to ensure that i take a nap on the couch.

snowstorm day means i burned 500 calories shoveling the driveway then took a nap on the couch with the dogs.

@estelle that’s very cool. on IRC that’s how we used to correct ourselves if we typo’d, but the s/ would just remain to be user-parsed

Oh look I'm logged into Mastodon from my browser and I don't have to worry about this site having creepy tracking scripts and following me around the web.

i took long enough to finally upgrade my site to the release version of astro 1.0, that astro 2.0 is already out. so rebuilding in that. hope to get it published before 3.0 arrives.

@sarajw oh wow i could eat a full stack right now. so hungry.

we think wookies are cool and all, but it’s not like we’re

@kitt oh, you’ve met my
kids?

@kitt what’s even better is when i get “fatal: a branch named ‘list’ already exists” 😂

@sarajw yeah… 27 years later and i still get that feeling. a lot of it for me, is around having approached this industry from the design side, and focusing on the UI/UX layer at the DOM, and generally feeling like i’ve had the rug pulled out from under me as CompSci has taken over. I’ve scrambled to up my javascript (and now typescript!) skills to remain relevant. it’s exhausting.

git branch list
…
*sigh*
git branch
git branch -d list

@sarajw thank you for sharing these moments. i know we all feel them and sometimes i know i get really unkind with myself about it. good for me and others (especially new folks) to hear we’re not alone

the fish tank cabinet. my wife wants to set up a large tank again. a bit ago i picked up a free 8’ tall plywood kitchen cabinet (it was broken on a job site and i fixed it up) i cut it down to size and reinforced it with an inner frame of 1x4 and more plywood. topped with 3/4” plywood that i will be applying tile to this week.

this was a heck of a weekend. while taking a victory lap for making huge progress on my fish tank cabinet project, i went downstairs to find water all over my basement floor — my boiler was leaking.

@film_girl we didn’t disturb-e-ya

@fox @beep i stole the idea from the dog breeding world https://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breeds/cocker-spaniel-a-s-c-o-b

@beep @fox using AMBOC (Any Modern Browser Other than Chrome) roots out a lot of them, and using an ad blocker finds the rest who don’t hedge against their click tracking ad scripts being blocked

git commit -m “fix(component): this is tragically inelegant, but…”

i liked my replacement blue paracord laces on my black sneakers so much that i did the same to my brand new black oxfords

so the industry has spent a decade turning web development into computer science and now y’all are mad about it? interesting. does that mean i can write real CSS again, or are you still terrified of that?

at my weather station KNHRINDG5 we bottomed out this morning at -19.1F. with a 28mph sustained wind, the wind chill was -51F. #NHwx

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNHRINDG5/graph/2023-02-4/2023-02-4/daily

@marcamos sea smoke! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_smoke?wprov=sfti1

saturday. dogs & caturday.

Mt. Washington right now. -45f with 100+ mph wind. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.27049000000005&lon=-71.30345999999997#.Y9258y9Om-q

@beep @chriscoyier yep. https://sqd.co/_/

@ds@toot.site and it got across… (the ocean and) two+ states before anyone noticed it? oof.

“why does this app have a dingey?” seeing a notification dot. which i will now forever call a dingey (ding-E)

@jeffbyrnes

@akahn split with two inputs at the same time. overall monitor is 3440x1440, can do ‘picture in a picture (PIP)’ or ‘picture by picture (PBP)’ modes. PBP will split and display 1720x1440 left/right from different inputs.

what amazes me the most about this setup is that the iPad is a _real computer_ it’s just that Apple doesn’t give you fine-grained control over things. example: the USB audio in/out on the dock, when i plug into the dock it switches the audio output over to that automatically (most of the time) but there’s no System Settings option to choose these things.

@akahn i considered a KVM but i find the switch is dissonant and i like seeing two computers at once; i have a 35” widescreen that is split between two inputs, work laptop on left and personal PC or Mac on the right. i like looking up code questions/docs on my own machine (to save history and bookmarks). the right keyboard is wired to PC but can bluetooth to Mac and iPad. for a mic - i have a Rode PodMic on a boom, XLR into that m-audio mobile pre to the left of the tiny mixer

finally got an audio setup at my desk that i’m super happy with. a set of Klipsch heritage 2.0 speakers + subwoofer, and every device on my desk feeds into it via an analog mixer, so i can hear sounds from all my devices at the same time — work laptop, personal PC, personal mac mini, and iPad! music comes from the iPad (spotify/youtube/Music app) and a macro keyboard for play/pause/prev/next. the iPad is connected to a dock that provides usb and audio and even ethernet.

only my good friends are allowed to use my rapper name

i also need to determine if i’m going to swear on Mastadon. 14 years on that other platform, 34,000 PG-rated messages.

anyway, i guess that's it. i finally posted in Mastadon. hi.

i may switch to another instance. i may just post more here and say the-heck-with-it. or frankly i may lurk again.

i need to figure out where and what i can contribute that is relevant, useful, or interesting. and if i don't meet any of those criteria, i won't.

basically i have to figure out where a silly (hopefully) funny dad guy who is adjacent to making websites shares the quips and takes and snippets that bounce around in my head like Pong. and where and to whom that feels appropriate.

i suppose i'm not sharing whatever i can contribute until i understand where it's appropriate and relevant.

the details of my current job would bore you all to tears, and there's not a lot of relevance to front-end development here.

the other aspects of my life that i can share might be valuable for other topics, or for humor and human connection. but i feel ingenuous posting about anything other than front-end from front-end.social.

i am not a front end thought leader. i am not even technically a front end practitioner. i am a cog in a machine that meets enterprise KPIs.

everything i have loved about my job and this industry seems the purview of 'others' now.

and while, i hope that my viewpoint is still relevant, the fact that i've been making 'homepages' since before a lot of y'all were born, really doesn't help the larger conversation much.

so.

i'm starting to understand why i haven't posted on Mastadon yet.

there were multiple barriers. the 1st: the collapse of twitter's moral compass led me to consider why i use social media & what i hope to learn, hope to consume, hope to contribute.

the 2nd was the mechanism. for me, twitter has been tweetbot. full stop. now, ivory is here.

but the 3rd part is the toughest. audience expectation. i joined an instance that, i'm quite humbled to be a part of. i do not feel like i belong here.