brennen @brennen@mastodon.social

this is delightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K49QKVR0p0

(superorganism tiny desk.)

...i guess this is also one way that talking to retrocomputing people is kind of grim.

one way that talking to retrocomputing enthusiasts is pretty cool is that it makes you think hard about the longterm survivability / adaptability of the current generation of hardware & software.

we could do so much better.

git needs a lot more d in its dvcs is i guess what i'm saying.

further thoughts while i'm at it:

this thing does a pretty good job of "OH HEY IT LOOKS LIKE GITHUB", as a friend immediately put it. which is mostly ok - github is mostly a reasonable interface - but then i'm like: why replicate stuff like stars? and should anyone really need to create an account on my tiny random server to send a pull request? why don't we just have a universal, host-agnostic protocol for that?

this could be applied to approx 3/4 of my posts.

we should probably have a standard content warning, analogous to things like "uspol", for nerd bullshit that nobody needs to see.

so i decided to take gitea for a bit of a spin. setup was reasonably easy, as these things go (maybe an hour and change including fiddling with a new digitalocean VM, adding subdomain, letsencrypt, adding a postgres install & user, etc.) though it's still more overhead than you could reasonably subject most people to.

here's an example repo:

https://code.p1k3.com/brennen/bpb-kit

i'm really not sure whether i'm going to go with this.

if a programmer assures you that something is trivial, run.

a request for everyone who designs a system where people click links in e-mail to take some action (unsubscribe from a thing, reset a password, confirm an appointment...):

plz make your thing at the other end of those links work without javascript. the 12 or so of us who run noscript and the like deeply appreciate being able to ask that you stop spamming us or whatever it is without doing the "do i trust this site to serve me arbitrary code?" dance.

thanks.

i tried to eat some grape-nuts this morning for breakfast.

while they don't (i assume) literally offer the sensation of eating a bowl of small rocks, they're close enough that i can only assume their target audience is people who enjoy the _idea_ of eating a bowl of small rocks.

pretty good mileage on that refried beans toot.

gonna have to workshop something about salsa.

refried beans are just hot hummus.

(please discuss.)

there is a guy in this taco place with a beard the size of, i don't know, let's use roughly a 12-pound cat as a baseline. his beard is like 1.25 12-pound cats in volume.