I wrote something for one of my most favourite writing projects. Like all my writing lately, it’s not the cheeriest piece. But it does have a better end. https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2023/wicked-step-mother

I was talking to some folks who had to talk me off the idea of a hiring blacklist. It's not like there's been a complete wall: warm referrals still make it. But cold applications? I might as well have a name on some nginx bad bot list with the turn around time for rejections. And I wasn't the only one (similarly aged folks with more contracting backgrounds, different ethnic and national backgrounds) feeling it. It doesn't shake off the sharpness of the lack of income nor the numbness of feeling more than incapable of taking care of oneself. Like I'm more scared than I expected of catching COVID or having some life event that I can't even begin to afford. If employment is so tied to one's ability to take care of themselves, how are we not all living in a feudal state? The social net is of different sizes - if it exists where you live - Florida's unemployment services (aka reemployment support, their words) do more to drill and shame than to support and direct.

Whoever came up with the idea to add "-cli" on the end of command line tools needs to die in a fire. "huggingface-cli" is the worst command name I've ever seen.

Oh this is why people were talking about morality and tech, lol https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/hashicorp_openbao_fork/ Tbh lol, y'all might not like this, but it doesn't fucking matter. If the fork's not community-run, it's nothing more than a "revenue measuring" contest between two tech CEOs over adoption (because big adopters acquire a lot and accelerate adoption - look at the virus of VS Code despite the vacuum of desktop alternatives people don't have to mention in their dotfiles). The Linux Foundation has (more or less) transformed into the perfect example of Commercial Open Source (open for you, plenty of funds for me but not non-corporate maintainers hahaha sike) extension of Microsoft (personal viewpoint) so even them taking in Terraform will be icky. But then again, it's not like we got coops fabricating chips so it's the best we fucking got.

People who’ve been through the end of a marriage and feel comfortable sharing, publicly or privately, what helped you? Did life just feel like a relentless firehose of shit for a while after? Really needing an injection of hope right now.

The official #GameAwards stream on YouTube, including the pre-show, is 3 hours and 37 minutes long. The trailers total ONE HOUR AND FORTY-FIVE MINUTES. The award acceptance speeches meanwhile, including the few in the pre-show, total just TWELVE MINUTES. Fuck that.

Attached: 1 image In case you didn’t know, this is how you wait for popcorn to pop, and any other way is wrong.

GUAC aggregates software security metadata into a high fidelity graph database. - GitHub - guacsec/guac: GUAC aggregates software security metadata into a high fidelity graph database.

I’m now AFK for the next month! 🎉 I’m planning to do some much needed resting and eating my weight in yummy Christmas food.

After this codeforward conference and govai which was running at the same time, I got a better sense of the wild amount of fomo and hype and llms being pushed on teams without having real agency, and I get the anti-llms reaction by developers a bit more. Also realized, through my new found lenses, how political software development is in companies (which I traumatizingly didn’t realize before), and damn am I glad to not be in this rat race. #llms 1/

To learn python, I might write a bot to post “The UK Government is a fascist government” once a day.

Wrote a new little tool to help determine the minimum OPA version needed to evaluate any provided Rego files. Published today as #mcov. I know *I* will use it extensively, but if it's helpful to anyone else, all the better. On that and some other projects I'm involved in my new "December hacks" blog. https://www.eknert.com/blog/december-hacks

My dating preferences

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Measuring work linearly in hours makes no sense. I get progressively more useless the more hours I work. Those last hours are just really expensive theater that actually hurts people. Makes no sense.

Autism: I must eat breakfast at 9am ADHD: oops forgot Autism: that’s okay, we usually have our first meal of the day at lunch, 12pm on the dot ADHD: I see your “12pm” and raise you “17.56pm” Autism: I fucking hate you

Attached: 1 image it's time for the annual festive Slack profile pic, so I've gone as hard as usual this year

Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code. - GitHub - cweill/gotests: Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.

This time I do know who needs to hear this: Explicitly put your compensation range in the job description/listing. It saves everyone a lot of time. Oh, you're willing to go above that for the 'right' candidate? Then just say that too.

My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term “data lake” a while back and has taken to calling his datasets a “data swamp.” Feels like a …

repost this if trans people are safe shoplifting from hobby lobby in front of you

Okay assessment done I am fucking EXHAUSTED!!!! He says I get no autism points for my emotive facial expressions and gesticulation (I’m the human emoji after all) but whilst not giving me a definitive diagnosis and I have to wait a week he says there are several areas that speak to an ADS diagnosis Probably the fact I spent the entire two and a half hours staring outside the window whilst waxing lyrical about “I don’t know” or when asked to define specific emotions or “happiness is a lack of sadness I guess?” and “no I find most people irritating” and “I don’t really feel anything at all” when asked to talk about family stuff And I’m going to send him my report from my private assessor :) So fingers crossed I get declared autism Started to shut down at the end so glad that’s over