Jason Rolaveric @rolaveric@chinwag.org
Web Dev with delusions of grandeur
Sydney, Australia; English; He/Him; pol alt: @rolaveric@todo.nl
Web dev blog: https://legacy-to-the-edge.com
Oh good - kiddo has gotten herself out of bed...
Kid in bed. Now have roughly 2.5h before my bedtime.
I've got a new OSS project I could work on (2 actually) or various games to play (PC, switch, and tabletop), but I'm just so tired...
Ah 1st of July - or as I like to call it "Fix all the financial years in unit tests that aren't generated dynamically" day.
I am also available as a marketing consultant.
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
"Is this poetry?" the robot asked.
The critic raised an eyebrow, but read the text. "I'm afraid this means nothing to me."
"Then it is not poetry?"
"Does it mean something to you?"
"Yes."
"Then it is poetry."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
« Huge! The @fairwork_gov_au is taking @foodora_hq to court for sham contracting and underpayments, saying the workers were 'misrepresented' as independent contractors when they were employees »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/EmilyHWoods/status/1006416176635760640
I am spitting distance from creating a "old white woman says" account.
Fun fact: In Mad Max, Fury Road, when Immortan Joe's War Boys launch themselves into battle and spray their teeth with "chrome", it's *actually* Wilton's edible Colour Mist spray glitter. For the record, it smells like cheap vodka. If all goes well, it'll make my chocolates all shiny and chrome.
WITNESS ME ⚔️ 😤
I have just been introduced to http://bugmenot.com/ and now I am a happy man.
Not only did I get to not give Oracle my details for access to an old version of Java to fix an issue (which... didn't fix the issue), I also got to tell Oracle to eat a bowl of dicks, via the username.
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Oh good, so the npm "I'm a teapot" issue is only affecting those stuck behind corporate proxies.
*stares daggers at the internal ops team*
... I fucking hate corporate HTTP proxies.
wtf is up with this design pattern on web apps where there are huge text fields for username and password on the home page and so you type in your username and password only to realize that the button below it says "Create an account!" and then you have to hunt for the tiny "ˢⁱᵍⁿ ⁱⁿ" button in the upper right-hand corner in order to actually sign in to your existing account?
npm returning 418 status codes.
Time to get away from the desk and get some coffee me thinks.
Breathe...
In.
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Out.
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In.
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Out.
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Do not flip a desk and start screaming.
Just breathe.
reminder of the original Protip
Hello World!
I notice myself becoming more and more of a grump at work, partly due to work load and general stress levels.
I *hate* that, so much.
I used to like helping people, teaching them new things.
Now my first instinct is "Urgh... Leave me alone! I have too much shit to do."
GDPR reminds us that #capitalism never cares about #morality, only legal compliance and that too only if the fines are high enough.
Like that time when a car company didn't recall cars with faulty brakes because the legal bills if people died and they got sued, would cost them way less than than the cost of recalling the cars.
How did we end up creating a system that treats people's lives as inferior to profits? Human evolution screwed up somewhere. We have to go back and fix it.
This dog is your best friend
