Time for a 2022 #introduction post
I am a very remote software engineer and when not dirtbagging around the American west, I'm living and working from a cabin in the white mountains of Arizona at an elevation of 8,200 ft. Yes, it snows here.
I am here for the community and chatting about whatever is going down on local.
Recently getting into #gardening, but I also post about what I'm #nowReading (and would be glad to discuss anything that I'm reading), work venting, ocassional opinions on the state of #webDev. I keep a #digitalGarden and like to share my writing from it. I'm interested in topics of #solarPunk, #permacomputing, #zen, and panpsychism, but don't have much to say.
I get sucked into posting about #uspol way more than I like. I'm open to a wide range of viewpoints within reason, but know that my own position is rather far to the left and my views on property ownership fall very much into an #anarchist camp.
Looking forward to meeting many of you in person at this year's HOPE.
Today is starting out good. The door switch on the washing machine failed.
And there's no really good way to get at without disassembling a washer full of water and clothes. Or just cutting a hole in the side.
Welp.
I've now bypassed the switch.
And no one will look at that side of the washing machien anyway.
Container 1 is getting close to done. All six corners of the frame are level.
I installed chicken wire underneath as a gopher countermeasure and started mixing the soil for the container.
I need 32 cubic feet to fill each space. The dirt that I dug up is pretty heavy. The first six inches, where the gophers live, was well turned up. At about a foot it was so compacted it might as well be rock. So I’m mixing in roughly 8 cubic feet of manure, 8 cubic feet of coconut husk, and then 16 cubic feet of the original dirt (after sifting for rocks).
I could write a dissertation on how bad the Laravel documentation is. And yet I constantly hear it held up as a great example of framework documentation.
People are fucked up, man
And you can read William Cronon's controversial 1995 essay, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" here:
https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html
Well that's thirty minutes I'm never getting back. Clearly they prefer I just go pirate the damn thing.
This “people can’t keep working in their pajamas” shit is not only completely tone-deaf but insidiously offensive
The people who have multiple houses, private jets, no-limit company cards, yachts, and penthouse suites want is to believe that PAJAMAS are a decadent luxury that is simply beyond the pale
Fuuuuuuuck you
Well the winter potato project is now done. I gave them an extra six weeks and they were looking pretty sad by the end.
End result from nine fingerling potatoes is 1900g of tatters.
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Hello toot friends, I bring #antiLawn memes.
I'm hoping to radicalise you all against the boring monoculture lawn and turn you into biodiversity defenders.
Progress thus far… just one corner left to level on the first container. Then cover the bottom with wire and fill the box in.
Starting to think three of these is a bit too ambitious.
The rare woolly mountain hacker
Reluctant software engineer
One eye always on the road
With dreams of escape
to the dirt bag again