bendingoutward @bendingoutward@mastodon.social

Howdy folks. Are either of the people following me looking for a new gig by any chance?

It is proven! I am dwalters on Keybase: https://keybase.io/dwalters/sigchain#67d68d59f500ae6230e0206a8bcb99d46b943c3ed0ae3f1d195776ede83d21700f

hey folks. it's been a while. here is a blog about a thing what launched today that I helped make. enjoy!

https://vernai.com/howdy-from-the-tech-team/

Pssst. Some buddies of mine have been working on some really interesting #AI and #NLP stuff.

I, for one, really want the machines to realize the irony of wiping our species from the planet, and every sign up helps them in that regard.

https://vern-soft-launch.kickoffpages.com/

when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. there is no middle ground.

my cat doesn't want her photo taken. so here's an incredibly happy veggie plate I just made.

Did y'all hear about the scandal? Ernie Kiebler moved himself up to a C-level role totally unapologetically.

Blatant shameless elf promotion.

Today in my house, at least, chili is the root of all evil.

@bendingoutward Ricky's now an old man, works at the five and dime. he did the crime and then he did the ti-i-ime.

Apropos of nothing,I often poke fun at Metallica for making a sequel to one of their hit songs, unforgiven ii, but I forget that there are honestly very good sequel songs out there. Particularly, chubby checker's Twist Again and blood for blood's Ain't Like You (Wasted Youth II).

What's more, I always wanted skid row to make a follow up to eighteen and life about Ricky's life after he makes parole.

I don't answer strange numbers unless they're from a very local npanxx. Today, I missed a call from a land line on the other side of the state. in trying to figure out who called me; didn't leave a message, I ended up at the website if a company with which I have no ties, and their LE certs expired Sunday.

So I enacted my devious plan: I called the number back, listened to the business greeting, and left a message with the simplest instructions I could think of to renew it.

#roguetechsupport

what a horrible night for a curse

So, I've been tasked with adding a feature to a project that started off via cargo culting a decade ago with little regard for comprehension.

I've totally isolated my code from the rest so as to avoid paying off the technical debt that I didn't directly incur, but every time that I think I'm done, a new bill collector comes around the corner to have a chat.

For those interested, I ended up using `spawn` to execute this bash script at the beginning of every request that I wanted to act like a monster: https://gist.github.com/ess/64c0294a03ef474f21bcb569119b316a

On the one hand, I'm in need of a new office chair, as the one that I've been using for the longest is now two separate entities.

On the other hand, my desk has never been cleaner.

On the one hand, I'm currently grilling in a thunderstorm. On the other, I'm itty bitty. There's all kinds of shit taller than me in the world.