Professional Crisis Organizer @beadsland@mastodon.social
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Intersectional writerly programmer—manhattan makerspace denizen—seeks to build radical new infrastructures—not more code.❄Ace enby (3rd) 4w5 WP❄They.
Making is all about screwing up.
It's about having the confidence to screw up in increasingly creative ways.
It's the art of getting it wrong with such flair and panache that you can't help but be entertained by your own ineptitude.
It's the ability to foil so many of your own plans that you are left with no option but to stumble into a solution that works.
A solution, that when found, leaves you awestruck by what you have accomplished.
And it is in pursuit of that awe that the Maker makes.
Imposter syndrome is the belief that because you are capable of the virtue of doubt, you're somehow less prepared for the challenges of life than the many hubristic arseholes who lack the sense to recognize any consequences of their own poor judgment.
The world doesn't need more overconfidence. It needs more folk comfortable with doubt, of themselves, of their practices and institutions. Questioning our ability or preparedness to do a thing is not the same as being unable to do that thing.
On a related note: @djsundog
#introduction redux
#NYC #Manhattan #hackerspace member. Grand project to design a concurrent PL with eventually consistent data structures as first-class citizens—for #queer #feminism #reasons. Also, #3dprinting.
Philosophically, think #GraceHopper meets #JaneJacobs meets #AnnemarieMol.
Teetotal, ternary #enby. Antithesis of foodie. Wondering what a social life might be.🤔 #INFJ / 4w5.
Currently writing a #Torg＋#nWoD #RPG splatbook ⅋ planning on some #DIY / #smarthome thingies.
Or sumfin.
Can you find the poor design issue in this modal dialog?
Not sure how to feel about the BBC's choice of repeating repeatedly the identifying clips between epsiodes...
I think I've managed to start procrastinating on every project of mine simultaneously
The terrible mysteries of the mists on the moors on twitch.
Here, have some FooCoin Barkens.
adding a new NPM module to a project
tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source
Life hack: Put a flake of flint, a toothpick, and a feather (the ingredients for an arrow) in a bottle with an inverted paper cone at the opening. This is a good trap for if you have lots of irritating time flies around the house. Because not too many people appreciate how much time flies like an arrow.
#puns
@beadsland @sanspoint @KitRedgrave
7. on retrospect, the car is actually mauve and I might be colorblind.
The funny thing is, I'm not much of a fan of emacs either.
I don't have a dog in the holy war.
@beadsland sure, learning how some woodwork tool works isn't useful if I wouldn't be doing woodwork.
I don't plow fields.
Learning to use a tractor mounted plow will not make me more efficient at plowing fields.
Because I don't plow fields.
You can't perform tasks more efficiently if you don't perform those tasks.
Saying everyone should use vi is like saying everyone should learn sleight of hand.
Sure, sleight of hand, done proficiently, is pretty damned impressive.
Yet mastery of legerdemain is not necessary to perform everyday manual tasks. Being able to perform tricks might make you great fun at parties, but they're only tricks.
I might not be able to convincingly pull a coin from your ear, but I get by in the world perfectly well without such conjuration.
vi is a religion
The problems I want to solve tend not to be problems others want to solve. Indeed, the more popular a problem is, the less likely it is that I've any interest in it.
There are so many unpopular problems to hold my interest! So many interesting problems that no one else cares about. Too many for me to ever attend to them all.
Why then would I spend time learning how to use tools designed to solve problems I'm not trying to solve? I'm too busy designing tools for the problems I do want to solve.
To wit, I've zero interest in learning how to use any tool for the mere reason that said tool is somehow "better" than other tools.
I learn how to use any given tool only insofar as that tool is the most direct option to solve an interesting problem. Then I go on to solve some other interesting problem—using other tools as appropriate.
The most direct option for any given problem is rarely the "best" tool in any generic sense. Rather, it is almost always the tool that gets in my way the least.
On the question of vi:
I don't care if it does a bunch of things (I don't need to do) better than a tool that doesn't do those things at all.
I don't need to do those things. I don't care to do those things. Therefore, I have no interest in using it.
Telling me that the extra overhead of a tool that does those things I don't need to do is worth it because it will let me do those things I don't want to do... this argument is a non-starter.
JFC
After today's ChromeOS update, all the symlinks in my crouton home directory are disabled.
Morning folks.
If something isn't working for you, try something else. Don't let the amount of time invested keep you shackled to a poor situation if it is bringing you unhappiness.
It's ok to change course of you discover an idea you had isn't working. You'll be the better for it.
