Random Geek @randomgeek@hackers.town

#introduction time! Just gonna adjust the one I've used elsewhere.

* more or less stock model white cis male 40-something FOSS-friendly geek in Seattle WA USA

* New to hackers.town, but been on using Mastodon for a bit. Like a lot of folks I mainly visit when other social networks annoy more than usual

* Non-code hobbies include #drawing, #knitting, and #crochet

* There is no intended theme, brand, or purpose to my toots. Just what's on my brain that moment. Maybe #coffee, or the occasional #selfcare note. If you want consistency, I'm a bad choice to follow.

My first thought on seeing this meme was Harley Poe, but I'm sure everyone has their favorite association for such a scene.

Probably should've started tmux before `perlbrew install 5.28.2` in this session.

Several tasks done, a bit more coffee before the rest that I set as due today.

Reminder that Linuxbrew got folded into Homebrew and works in WSL. More or less. Futzing required with chown during install.

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

Working in WSL but may want to edit project files with Windows apps.

So: GitHub Desktop for repo management and make a link in WSL:

$ ln -s $(wslpath -u 'C:/Users/brian/Documents/GitHub') GitHub

Have now added tasks for the half dozen things I want to do that are slightly easier under Windows, and another half dozen things I want to be able to do wherever.

woohoo! Got Taskwarrior in WSL syncing to the task server! Course, had to tell WSL to stop asking Windows where servers were first. (wsl.conf: [network] generateHosts: false)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/automatically-configuring-wsl/

This is most definitely a night for quiet background music.

Focus Flow https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZZbwlv3Vmtr?si=8xr2MhOATNeC-zkFht_BZg #NowPlaying

Puttering a bit on the Windows partition, particularly WSL - to get Taskwarrior working on all my desktops.

Reminding myself to install the snap of Krita, since there are many releases between it (4.1.7) and the one in distro repos (4.0.1) & one may've dealt with the "hey let's crash your entire desktop session" issue.

Loved my shading and blending here, then realized I did the wrong layer. Alas.

For the historical #drawing record: Note 9, Infinite Painter; shade: "waxy pencil"; blend: "mostly water"

Just discovered a fun pastime of video chat while drawing, with web cams pointed at each other's work surface.

I drew a manual symmetry sunflower burst thing.

Krita (and some other apps) show brush size in pixels. My brain doesn't get pixels.

Made a conversion table to help map pixels to pens.

Been a bit distracted for drawing the last couple days. That and being too intent on doing specific sketch projects or none at all.

Must remember to let myself doodle.