Darryl Pogue @dpogue@mastodon.social
Software Developer and Web Fanatic. Hiker, local history lover, and transit fan. VA7DPO 🏳️🌈 He/him
If missing the bus and needing to wait 28.5 minutes in the rain were an Olympic sport, the consistency with which I find myself in this situation would be worth something.
Nietzsche: "And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Mastodon: "Scream into the abyss, have it scream back at you, and make friends."
@nolan What would be the easiest/best way to regenerate html5workertest.com with latest browser data? I tried running `npm test` in a local clone and it was complaining about CouchDB env vars 😕
Today I pushed a feature to an app at work to allow the user to change the colour scheme, making use of CSS variables.
This is like the triumphant victory of an idea that I first threw around back in 2011, and it makes me so happy to see it working 🤩
You can invent all the tooling you want, but at the end of the day nothing will ever compete with the ease of just using `sed` to replace lines of the build scripts.
Cordova, I love you, but I have never seen a tool that so consistently manages to be broken in such inconsistent ways 😫
Comparing IDEs:
Xcode 9.3 beta is 10.73GB
MacVim is 36.6MB 
Today I learned that there has relatively recently been an addition to the virtual terminal escape sequences to allow for hyperlinking: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
These sequences date back to the VT100 terminal, and I love that they are still the foundation of a lot of terminal stuff today ❤️
Ran into a super weird bug with MSEdge and ES Modules tonight, that fails without any errors and without giving you any way in the devtools to debug the problem modules.
On the bright side, they have an issue tracker, so I can at least report it: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/15382174/
But I've finally mostly got the effect I want 😍 https://mastodon.social/media/n3CtIcz6Boq2jD1Ug-4
I was planning to use my week off to update stuff to Rails 5.2 and play around with WebWorkers, Web Components, and PWA stuff... and now I'm repeatedly launching a game from 2004 to see how specular texture lighting works >.>
You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you don’t even have a name for.
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired.
In your ruined shirt, on the last day, while the bruise won’t heal, and the stain stays put, the red light streaming in from everywhere at once. Your broken ribs, the back of your head, your hand to mouth or hand to now, right now, like you mean it, like it’s splitting you in two. Now look at the lights, the lights.
tfw the abyss stares back from the uncanny eyes of the doppelgänger of a high school crush, seated across from you on the bus 😳
tfw your Jenkinsfile does
bash 'npm install'
bash '(cd node_modules; patch -p1 < ../fix_broken_modules.patch)'
If you're the sort of person who is into unconventional "advent" calendars and poetry, you might enjoy this account that is posting the 24 parts of my favourite poem: https://queer.party/@youarejeff/99097985428459442
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It feels like 5 pm and it's not even 9 am yet 😩 🌧
@alahmnat Speaking of Myst Ages and whether they make sense, I have a rough backstory written for an Age I'm working on and was wondering if you'd be willing to skim over it and point out any glaring canon/logical issues.
