josh's harp @joshsharp@mastodon.social

If you're posting stuff on here in between repairing a sock by sewing over a hole with needle and thread...

Yer darn tootin'

I've written my one blog post for the year! It's a thought experiment: could people run their own email/blog server off their home internet connection? (Answer: probably not worth it.) http://joshsharp.com.au/blog/thought-experiment-home-email-server.html

I'm at the point where I can't engage with any news about records being broken or new environmental events that show how fucked the climate is because it just stresses me out too much.

Yes, I know that's not productive.

I wonder how Charlie Brooker feels that Years and Years is eating Black Mirror's lunch.

(Seriously, Years and Years is some quite good "near-future things-going-badly" TV.)

Humour is so subjective. Los Espookys is so silly that I imagine a lot of people would find it terrible. But I've quite enjoyed it. ¡Bip Bip!

I read a blog post summarising Sapiens so I wouldn't have to read the book (it was a fairly long blog post) but ironically it has made me interested enough to want to read the whole thing

I gave Phoenix (the Elixir framework) another go today. I don't know much Elixir, and I tried to keep an open mind, because different to how I'm used to is not necessarily bad. But I gave up again. I just wanted to set some fields on my models to be not nullable. Eventually I found someone mention the syntax for it in an issue about something else, so I was able to do it, but I never found it in the docs. Guess I've been spoiled by Django's docs.

Been fiddling with making something game-like using rust and ggez. It's been fun, and surprisingly easy to get this far.

I finished reading A Little Life and I'm still angry at it for how cruel it was.

This is a really terrible attempt at a joke and I am sorry

Me: French people's reactions always seem ever-so-slightly delayed
French person: What !

Forever reading "tellonym.me" as "tell on me", the site for dobbers and narcs

Every night I go to bed and then spend another 2 hours fucking around on the internet

Today in spam, the shocking truth about ed: it is outdated, not a user-friendly editor at all, and most people don't bother to learn how to use it

Here's a picture of my dog though

It turns out I just do not have enough exciting content for two different social networks, and most of my friends went back to the other one. The network effect wins again.