Darryl Pogue @dpogue@mastodon.social
Software Developer and Web Fanatic. Hiker, local history lover, and transit fan. VA7DPO 🏳️🌈
Joined Dec 2016
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why is it called teen angst when it never stops
TIL I can reach UBC's VE7RHS repeater on both VHF and UHF from Port Moody, despite not being able to reach much of anything else
I'm an amateur radio operator, and I have opinions about Stranger Things season 3. In this essay, I will examine... 1/176
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HTML spec is optimistic as ever.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#message-port-post-message-steps
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RT @edoublea@twitter.com
Here's a fun treat for all the Myst/D'ni/Uru fans out there... The original pre-Uru, pre-Mudpie "DIRT/Descent" demo, in all its fully-playable glory! Don't ask us for support, just cross your fingers and hope it works. PS: This thing is 19 YEARS OLD! https://tinyurl.com/DIRT-Descent
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vim: copying text is called yanking
emacs: pasting text is called yanking
everyone else: nothing is called yanking oh my god
Released an update to Seymour (my Apache Cordova build tool) today, so you can use it to update your config.xml values using envvars without running the build steps. Might make it more useful for Ionic users.
Looks hazy today
From millions of pollen spores
Ruining my life
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Canada politics; Queer safety in school
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First lesson: if I'm in the crosswalk and you nearly hit me, you were definitely in the wrong. Always.
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The internet used to be a city: it had its weird bohemian districts, its flea markets, its high-rises and back alleys. Now it's just a shopping mall, and I miss my old city so much
You: "Hey Darryl, can you import these Trello-alike tasks into our new OpenProject installation?"
Me: "Probably... it has an API"
Me later, reading:
OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine.
Me: 😱
2018 has been a bit of a rollercoaster, and easily the least rewarding year for me. Feeling pretty disappointed and frustrated with how things turned out.
Trying to be hopeful for what's to come, but it's hard and nothing feels certain anymore 😔
Happy day off due to societal and governmental codification of the dominant religion's major observances :)
Wednesday. 16:30. Somehow I'm the only person still in the office 🤷♂️
Software Developer and Web Fanatic. Hiker, local history lover, and transit fan. VA7DPO 🏳️🌈
Joined Dec 2016
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