Darnell Otterson

I started to connect the wires for my custom backlighting on my office display shelf, but just snapped on the connectors and plugged it in, and... nothing.

Turns out the data line wire was thin enough to pierce and make a connection, but the current lines were not.
I feel a bit silly.

I need to take a react app, create a debian package, and install it into a private repo. Then, create a second pipeline to retrieve it from the repo and install the files into blob storage.

I do not control the make process nor the debian structure.

No endpoint was created.

How is your day?

The whole mood.

Today I realized that YOLO is just the latest iteration for the case of the fuckits.

This has been destroying my soul as of late and definitely helped me not want to be around ppl again. I am not your sounding board for your latest hottake on race theory, Chad.

Just got locked out of a financial account because they still use personal questions; I have no idea what I said. After resetting, I was reminded that almost all of their questions are experiences I do not have, so I have to pick really innocuous things I will never remember.

Great security...😪

Going forward, I am going to ask every potential employer what the name of their trunk is in their repositories, and they answer master or they don't know, I am gonna walk.

There is so much you can tell about leadership at a company that hasn't made this simple change.

I do so love mandatory in-office days so I can put on headphones and try to drown out my coworker's random conversations. I do not care to eavesdrop on them, and I am incapable of tuning it out.

Finally getting out of my latest funk, so I built a lego set and wired in 3 levels of Neopixels and an ESP8266 with WLED for automated colorful fun.
(Ignore the incomplete wired shelf)

People enjoy it because it reflects their interests. When used for entertainment or slice of Life, it is very effective. If you go looking for trash, you will find trash. Most people do not go there for the dark side, and it isn't forced on them. It is still there because some ppl want it.

Honestly, I don't think most people realize the significance of the TikTok ban. Reminds me of the Partiot Act. Trade a little more of our rights for security.

The sad part about this is that a person like Musk is definitely possible this go around...

Also, there is watch it because it looks amazing and watch because the characters/actors are amazing... Madame Web was too off of a story to watch in a theater, but the characters are fun enough to own the Blu-ray. Can't say the same for Morbius or Kraven. The characters did not save them.

It's sad because there was a day in the IT world when it meant more effective methods of changing archaic methods for more modern. But like all things IT, money got involved, and people who had no idea what they were talking about wanted a paycheck.

Best way to beat a system is to exploit its weaknesses.

Crane machine tried to cheat me, so I took it's display plushy.

Autistic dysphasia is definitely the number one issue I have with being technically inclined and working with highly knowledgeable people. How do you explain that you will randomly use the wrong words, forget to grammar, or in a stressful situation struggle to just get a thought out.

I had to search list comprehension inpython today because I kept typing in [x from x in xes] and couldn't figure out why it didn't work.

ADO Hacks Same step, different info: If you create a variable list (this can be done at runtime or statically defined) E.g.: variables: – name: recursive_variable value: Value1, Value2, Value3 (Notice …

Decided to restart my wordpress with a simple ADO hack I ran into that helped with Templating steps.
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Sun rising over the horizon, cresting distant hills in the Namb desert.

Here is to the last sunrise over the Namib desert I got to see.