@lordbowlich@hackers.town

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.

So we beat on, tooting against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

Computer science belongs under the humanities as applied metaphysics.

The smell of fedi meta portends my return.

3,700 miles on the rental car — and back to the desert.

Didn't quite get the container done this evening. Still need to fill the second half. I figure it's taking me about 20 hours -- about 2.5 hours each evening for 8 days to knock out one container. Thinking I'd do 3 in one weekend might have been a touch abitious...

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).

#gardening

Well that's thirty minutes I'm never getting back. Clearly they prefer I just go pirate the damn thing.

Wow. Giving money to CBS to watch Star Trek is proving to be way more of a hassle than just pirating the damn thing.

Somewhat amused that Mastodon's verification scheme is essentially just punting the responsiblity to ICANN.

I now has pants.

One step closer to trying to participate in civil society.

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.

#tatterPosting #gardening

Ten years into my career, and tonight is the first time that I actually needed an abstract factory.

Woo OOP.

Okay. I'm adding a bunch of filters tonight less I open my big mouth and invite a visit from the feds.

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.

#gardening

The sparrow is mad that I plugged up the hole into the attic.

Sorry sparrow. Go build your nest elsewhere.

People shouldn't schedule meetings during my nap time. Nap time is sacred. ​