One of the most fun StS runs I’ve had in a while (re-leveling back to A20 on iOS) - 3x Ragnarok and 3x Swivel + Snecko was hilarious.

@robdaemon My neighbors have a vacation home in Palm Springs, and it seems very nice.

@flavorjones One of the engineers I work with stepped down as the VP/director (I forget his exact title) and has also been much happier for the change.

Love seeing no/low-growth spaces form. https://wwinks.com/writing/heyjohn/

@xehsu

If Americans showed the same energy for civil disobedience about anything else that they do when it comes to setting off fireworks against the laws of city, state, courtesy, and self-preservation, we would have a three-day workweek, robust national healthcare, and a twenty-year plan for solar-powered luxury space communism.

Credit Card Skimming just got an upgrade:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-williams-9942125_pcidss-maninthemiddle-cardshimming-activity-7214899431077261312-k3T2

[...] It is a card shimmer one of my clients retrieved from their petrol pump. Installed in about 20 seconds, it is about 150 microns thick and is COMPLETELY UNDETECTABLE to all methods described in PCI DSS and every P2PE Instruction Manual (PIM) I have read. There is no RF to detect and it intercepts data during the only unencrypted transmission of P2PE. [...]

Focus on what you're using tools for, not how long you're using them. https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-worrying-about-screen-time?ref=jhpMastodon

@aral Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.

Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.

@postmodern I similarly configure bundler to always use .direnv/ruby and use layout ruby w/direnv so everything matches up nicely.

More Every Frame a Painting!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSlZKdApob0

@robdaemon @josephholsten Why one of my desires for a dev tooling language is for a semi-declarative data structure (along the lines of Python’s dataclass/attrs and Ruby’s Struct/Data) that also supports validation a la Pydantic/Zod.

@robdaemon @josephholsten Another weird benefit with Lua is that I can use Fennel instead as a wrapper around it.

@cadey I’m surprised no languages come to mind for this - all the ones I usually use are either too low level or too complicated probably. I feel like I’d want some sort of stripped down TypeScript, but with some form of builtin parsing with validation?

I am so glad to keep my configuration files under source control - seeing the random crap that’s been “helpfully” added in my colleague’s environments drives me up the wall.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/112724256052731385

I kind of hate both options for this poll, but it does make me realize that there’s not really a language I do like for this sort of thing. I do want something closer to a scripting language, relatively constrained in syntax, but still expressive enough to not have much boilerplate.

RE: https://pony.social/@cadey/112724634331455443

A nice story about one of the top GeoGuessr people exploring the world:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/magazine/trevor-rainbolt-geoguessr-google-maps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.zUNN.jXIx4MadUkh6&smid=url-share

@ludicity @nat Yeah, as with everything else in life, relative power in the relationship is an important thing to keep in mind.

@nat and @ludicity on lying to get jobs:

• https://www.simplermachines.com/dont-lie-in-interviews/
• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-complex-problem-of-lying-for-jobs/

Have to say that I fall on Nat’s side here, though as with a lot of tech advice, it’s not necessarily generalizable. In my last round of interviews, I very much enjoyed being contrary in expressing my dissenting opinions (like disagreeing that SOLID is a useful set of principles or having my default performance stance as “for loops go brrrr”). It is for sure good signal for me if interviewers are uncomfortable with this, since I wouldn’t be a good culture fit anyhow, but given my interviewing results, I think the interviewers thought it was desirable to see from a candidate anyway. (Though again, contextual - perhaps more expected or more leeway given for someone interviewing for a staff position.)

@robdaemon Hoping for the best for Crichton <3