Random Geek @randomgeek@hackers.town

using org mode to configure taskwarrior feels very much on brand for me

Spring's here: birds sing, pandemic rages. Time to update the #introduction.

• stock model white cis male 40-something #FOSS-friendly geek in Seattle WA USA
• married to @IamMrsGeek
• usually writing code (API backends) for work
• Non-code hobbies include #drawing and #knitting
• #blog at https://randomgeekery.org/
• My brand is random, and so are my toots.

disclaimers:

• not great about CWs, especially for food / beverage / eye contact pics
• public toots and replies-to-self forward to Twitter unless tagged #nobirb

I swear these shots are the two seconds right before a truly epic fight scene between us and the quarantine zombie horde.

Anyways we're married now.

Look out zombies.

I may be going a little fast and loose what with being the only dev on the project, but thank goodness I still have enough sense to keep the work in branches.

New update for No Man's Sky and I want to play it but I also want to go to bed in less than an hour, which is not guaranteed if I start now.

Not odd: I got a test failure.

Odd: from a test that's been passing for months.

Odder: a test which should have been failing for a couple weeks at least.

Ah well. Computers. And worse yet, programmers.

But this video talking about Obsidian 0.9.0 reminds me I don't want to completely give up on tags.

https://youtu.be/058Tvff2Fso

Okay now that I'm using links where my brain thinks a tag should go? Obsidian is super useful.

Achievement unlocked:

Used the phrase "combinatorial explosion" in response to a feature request.

I just sneezed my beard sideways.

omg omg omg omg it worked my code did the thing omg

oh dang

it's tomorrow now

let's try not to do that again

Incidentally, Python+Django is very nice but I know for a fact the tests and probably several other bits would be much faster in Perl+(not catalyst please god).

Something I think about while waiting for pytest to finish this last run.

They didn't ask for specific content or format.

[insert half-hearted evil laugh]

I'll just drop a summary view in RST.

I don't mind that IDE-type editors try to help. I appreciate it. I'm getting impatient with how often they're wrong though.

(Some Python LSP thing in VS Code keeps inserting "from conftest import " — I'll figure out how to turn off but meanwhile Vim leaves me alone)

Is there a class-based email approach in Django?

Well of course there is.

Surprised that's not core, TBH.

https://django-emailtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cbe.html

Brain crossed wires for a second there mixing a post about Oregon wildfires with another about open source participation and handed me "Nine die in Open Source wildfires."

Might be time to close the social media tabs for a bit.

Bedtime was a few hours ago so I think I'll go sleep for a bit.

got the teeny tiny fiddly wiggly thing fixed and it only took six hours but I forgot what it was blocking.

I hate wearing headphones, but I hate all the other noises more.

SEATTLE WEATHER UPDATE

YOU CAN SEE THE SUN AGAIN

THE SKY IS BLUE

THE CLOUDS ARE WHITE

THE AIR IS AIR

IT'S BEAUTIFUL

ok that's good enough i'm going back inside

Well hey would you look at that I got [redacted] working.

I'll have my formal apology to ops ready for after they see I got [redacted] working without asking them first.