puppy

(our home was built in 1960, and has had multiple remodels -- some pretty significant. but there's very little documentation for the house aside from the times it got sold. learning its history from scraps of records, building details, and word-of-mouth has been an absolutely delightful experience.)

Like, it is *wild* how much information relative temperature differences can tell you. I straight-up just take the FLIR and go around the house with it every couple months because I *always* learn something about the house.

My girlfriend (@kayila.bsky.social‬) and I have a FLIR TG165-X and it can do SO much.

I've used it for confirming a PC's fans are set up right, finding parts of walls/ceilings with bad insulation, finding where a rat was hiding, identifying failing electronic components, spotting loose connections.

me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰

also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):

Apparently December 29th is my 10-year(!) anniversary of helping maintain RubyGems.

Absolutely wild.

I dunno, I just did `apt search clang | less` 'cause I run Debian on my desktop and was like 90% sure I had something newer. 😅

I still can't believe I forgot to sign in to @archive.org before I uploaded all of my music back in 2021.

I don't know that it really matters because it's all uploaded in the highest quality I had, but I still feel silly every time I see "Uploaded by Unknown" on those pages. 🙃

Ellen Dash Boston(ish)-based musician with too much time and not enough of an attention span. Also known as "puppy."

It's #BandcampFriday! If you want to support me by buying my music, now's a good time: duckinator.bandcamp.com

If you can't spare the cash, don't worry, it's available for free on @archive.org as well! 💜 archive.org/details/@duc...

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

apt install clang-19

(it's in the official Debian repos: packages.debian.org/bookworm/cla... )

what the fuck, i was offering $100/piece for articles on inatri back in 2015. out of pocket.

authors retained copyright + could republish elsewhere after 7 days, because $100/piece was *not a livable rate in 2015*.

$30/piece a decade later is an absolute disgrace.

You ever read something and it's just like,

Those are some real "I use words to align the margins, not to convey meaning"-ass sentences.

You ever read something and it's just like,

Those are some real "I use words to align the margins, not to convey meaning"-ass sentences.

Heat Retreat pits you on a race against climate change in search of safe refuge, Oregon Trail style. Manage your resources and barter, scavenge, hunt or steal along the way to survive.

#pitchyagame #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

store.steampowered.com/app/3375550/...

I've been lurking in James' Discord and watching the progress of this for like half a year now -- I am *very much* looking forward to when it releases.

A 7 inch long camera lens, attached to a 1.5 inch long adapter, attached to a 1.25 inch thick camera.

After ~12 years, I finally got an adapter for the $8 telephoto lens.

5.5 inch long pen and 8 inch long plushie for scale.

Looking for #programming work starting May 1st. Need $15k+/mo.

Experience:

- Rust (4yr)
- C (>15yr)
- Python (>10yr)
- Ruby (>15yr)

Familiarity with:
- POSIX standard
- build/release tools
- continuous integration/release

Resume: pup-e.com/resume.pdf

#rustlang #python #lookingforwork

To be fully transparent: For the first like 2-3 days it was pretty rough, tbh. There were a few times where I sat down to play a video game then immediately got so stressed I had to get up and do something else for a while, before trying again.

I had this problem at one point and I basically got past it by making sure to sit down at my desktop to do things I enjoyed at least 2-3 times a day, even if they were brief.

That stressful feeling still sometimes creeps up on me, but I broke the association enough that it's only *occasionally*.

Frankly, the $15k/mo only really covers the recurring stuff, not the debt. But nowhere I've talked to can offer more than that, so it seems pointless to even ask.

I'm currently supporting a 6-person household *and* we have a $38k debt that has to be paid by August or we'll be forced to sell our house. Which is the only stable housing most of us have ever had.

We really need to pay that debt off, somehow.

#lookingforwork

Looking for #programming work starting May 1st. Need $15k+/mo.

Experience:

- Rust (4yr)
- C (>15yr)
- Python (>10yr)
- Ruby (>15yr)

Familiarity with:
- POSIX standard
- build/release tools
- continuous integration/release

Resume: pup-e.com/resume.pdf

#rustlang #python #lookingforwork

There's been some recent work on improving reproducible builds for RubyGems, too! Debian's `reprotest` can even reproducibly build RubyGems itself now. Ruby Central's OSS Changelog for March will include information about it. 🙂

Basically: My problem with Home Assistant is it's easier to break it than to undo bad changes.

In practice, this means it stays in a very bare-bones state. And even then, it still just fucking breaks with an update, because I need had to drag in HACS for very basic functionality.

Is there something like Home Assistant which takes a more "configuration as code" approach to things?

I'd love to be able to install the software, clone a repo into the config directory, and be good to go.

I'm okay with config being harder if the end product is reproducible.

Yes and no: It's not an uncommon rate for fast-moving tech jobs *if* you have 15 years of relevant experience and are working freelance (so no long-term stability).

I'm also really pushing for the most income I can, bc I'm supporting a 6-person household and we're in a pretty rough spot right now.

thanks for the tip, looks promising!

I appreciate you offering, but I think I'll pass on that in particular. (Working for a company that works for the government, as a trans person, feels like a bad life choice right now.)

hey, sorry for the slow response -- i'm out in the Boston area and would be looking for remote work anyway, unfortunately!

GitHub - duckinator/chttpd: toy http server in C toy http server in C. Contribute to duckinator/chttpd development by creating an account on GitHub.

I finally tried that little single-threaded web server I made[1] on my new desktop. I managed 55,000 requests per second, which is just... absurd?!

Especially since most of my optimizations are just leaning on Linux kernel features and minimizing memory allocations.

[1]: github.com/duckinator/c...