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Author of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" and all-around opinion haver. Always looking for my next tornado. I get too invested in sports. [bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@funnelfiasco on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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DOGE has gone too far in its war against weather.

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The downside of wanting to lie in bed and pout on the day you wash the sheets is having to put the clean sheets on first.

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I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said “Mr Gorbachev, how much of east Germany’s minerals are you willing to give us?”

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Added a `--whismy` flag to the project I'm working on. Seems like a good thing to do.

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Remember, kids: if your boss says "run an SSH server on this bed we're selling", the only correct reply is "no." https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed

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Why are mornings?

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It's been a long week and it's still only Tuesday, but I wrote a neat little project that I'm proud of and I'm excited to show it to my colleagues in our Friday demo meeting. Not *everything* sucks. And maybe if I have some time to round it out, I'll share it with the rest of the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Making sure my children do their damn school work is a full-time job in itself.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

On the downside, I've written 90 words in this blog post in almost two hours. On the upside, I think I diagnosed a bug in the product.

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RIP Cauldron. You were a useful tool. https://bitergia.com/saying-goodbye-to-cauldron-io-a-look-back-and-a-look-forward/

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When I worked at McDonald's, I'd often sing to keep myself entertained. One day, a fellow teen interrupted me to say "no religious songs." Friends, I was singing Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line".

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"Your code has been rated at 2.50/10" Yeah, that sounds about right, pylint.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Re-learning the sunk cost fallacy in this phone support queue.

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I'm just a simple device that converts caffeine and anxiety into words.

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Y'all. Let me tell you about the dream I had last night. I was taking a trip to Chicago with @cary-elwes.bsky.social and Ron Weasley (the character, not Rupert Grunt) and we stopped in a generic north-central Indiana town (Peru? Wabash? Logansport? They're all the same to me!) to get snacks, (1/?)

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If asked to choose between Mike Braun and Dolly Parton, I'm going to pick Dolly every time. https://www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton-calls-out-indiana-gov-over-plan-to-dump-her-imagination-library/

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In other sartorial news, I just learned my go-to shoe repair place is closing. I've had my regular pair of shoes for almost two decades in part because of my ability to get them repaired locally.

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Me: ooh! Charles Tyrwhitt has new colors available for linen shirts! Charles Tyrwhitt's website: Hey, how about some maintenance?

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Forget about S.M.A.R.T. goals; focus on V.O.L.U.M.E. — Vague, Open-ended, Lofty, Unmeasurable, Minimal, Ephemeral

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Diet Pepsi: famously un-processed (from the local newspaper's article about the passing of Indiana's oldest resident)

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Weather station update: checked the battery and it showed about 2.6V. So I put in one that read 3.3V. Signal quality immediately returned to 100% but plummeted a few minutes later. I suspect there's a short or something? Guess I'll see what the folks at Davis Instruments have to say.

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It's entirely possible that I'm overdoing being a domestic god this weekend. There is no way that I will come to regret this.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Also: my supply of post-Thanksgiving turkey stock has run out. Guess I'm adding "make vegetable stock" to tomorrow's todo list.

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Braved the elements to check that the weather station's battery terminals were clean and that the battery was we'll-seated. Good on both accounts, but the signal is only good when the sun is out. So either Energizer gave me a bum battery or there's something else going on.

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I did not get the chance to go work on my weather station today so I guess I'll do that tomorrow in snow and 30+ mph wind gusts. I probably deserve that for something. If some TLC doesn't improve things, I'll have to figure out a way to relocate my console.

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From the school that brought you Joe Krabbenhoft, Wisconsin's Kamari McGee blows kisses to the crowd after being ejected for throwing a groin punch. Goon University. #Purdue #NCAAMensBasketball

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Well replacing the battery got my weather station back to life, but the signal has gone to hell suddenly. The siting hasn't changed in almost 3 years, so I'm not sure why it's unhappy now. When it's daylight, I'll go check to make sure the battery is not loose, etc.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I would sure love to know where Past Ben put the earbuds case this morning.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

At some point soon, I need to sit down and hack on my #weewx template changes so that they're more polished and also don't get obliterated by an upgrade. 😬

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Pitchers and catchers report today! Spring is finally here! (He says as the freezing rain approaches) #Orioles #MLB #INwx

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Left-handed people have always existed and will always exist. We are happier, healthier, more capable when we just use our dominant hand (or hands) to write, and do complex tasks. It's possible to try to force everyone to use the same hand this leads to frustration, can hinder education. It is […]

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

Does ACAB include Sting?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Oh yeah. February TSRAGS. #INwx

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My main contribution to company culture has been the "if you don't have a demo, give an anecdote" rule in our weekly demo meeting. Today, a colleague said "I don't have an anecdote, so I'll do a demo".

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Just a reminder, especially in this wild time we live in. DO NOT INSTALL WORK MDM ON YOUR PERSONAL DEVICE. If your work requires Microsoft Intune or similar MDM, to get email/teams/slack. don't accept it. It opens your device up for them to access private data and disable/delete your phone […]

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Surprise of the day (so far): Spotify doesn't have the lyrics for Outkast's "Roses".

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not saying that I have a lot going on. I'm just saying that scrolling my todo list is the most common reason Firefox crashes.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I see the traditional post-#FOSDEM traffic bump to https://duckalignment.academy is alive and well. 3x as high as the average Monday in January.

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What color would look good on me? From: @bri_seven https://queer.party/@bri_seven/113936680098930379

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