Lord Bowlich @lordbowlich@hackers.town

Happy New Year!

Some asshole threw a dog and two puppies into the electric substation. She was trapped inside the fence on a 21 degree night. Fortunately was able to bend the fence up enough to get her out and home.

I just don't understand people.

FF is rapidly becoming a more comprehensive database of my passwords than Keypass. Particularly since they've implement a nice feature where I can just right click and have it generate a random password for me when signing up for a new service.

Yet, Firefox doesn't ship out of the box with a master password for all this sensitive data. Yes, I need to sign into the account itself but once signed in the entire database is open to anyone who has access to the machine unless I go in after the fact and set up a master password to fill in each time I sign into the Browser.

I debate turning this off and going back to Keypass having all my passwords or trusting in Firefox and essentially getting rid of Keypass.

Firefox is effectively my password manager these days.

I have a Keypass file, but what's in it that isn't already in the Firefox account? Wifi and system passwords? The latter are entirely in muscle memory.

2020: Year of the Linux Desktop?

Right? right?

I'm starting to realize, that I'm my own worst enemy with project management practices.

Like, I've spent the last year helping get all the "right" processes in place for the company to expand it's team. We have git flow, we have Jira, we have Kanban, we have stand ups, we have retrospectives, we have continuous integration. We have a front end and back end teams. We have project managers.

But god, do I ever find it grating having to do all this shit instead of just throwing random commits over the wall.

@ryen On any anyone doing #TechniColorRainbow, I found the talk to be a really great introduction to everything that the book goes into more detail on.

Thinking of doing a re-read with the group, maybe go audio this time.

https://video.hackers.town/videos/watch/443a0d08-6980-4911-badf-eb693360f698

Major cred to @ryen for getting this going. I was wondering how long it would take for the Cult of the Dead Cow panel to show up 😜

I've seen the talk, but I haven't seen the other ones. I've got some nice evening shows to watch now.

I should go start liberating more CC licensed talks from Youtube.

#NowReading on my reading list is Jack Vance's the Dying Earth. I picked up a battered copy of it at an antique store for $2. Vance is often referenced as a big influence on Gary Gygax and early Dungeons & Dragons. But I've never really seen his books in print.

One chapter in. The style seems very much like a modern take on some of the Irish, Welsh or Arthurian era writing -- e.g. things happen very fast, details largely up to your imagination. In a couple pages, the wizard infiltrates the prince's inner sanctum, steals the amulet, teleports back to his master. RR Martin would've take 700 pages to get that done.

Pilot pens seem to go from $20 and then immediately jump up to $160 and then range up to $1,000+ wow.

Any #FountainPen fans here who have a recommendation for a sub-$100 Pilot pen that works really well for a fan of extra-fine lines?

I'm putting my order in for restocking on ink and paper and am thinking I might spring for yet another pen and perhaps something other than my stockpile of Lamy's.

Sign into Zappos with my Amazon account. Order shoes.

Return later, sign into Zappos with my pre-Amazon merger account. See shoes are still in cart. Order them.

Now I has two pairs of shoes. 😂

I know there's things like expr, but that's a whole extra 3 characters I don't want to type.