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anticdent

anticdent@hachyderm.io

<p>Vanity has no antecedent. Make stuff. Write things. Share them. Get less dumb. aka Chris Dent. They.</p><p>I used to be in the software development field but I gave it up. I now do some combination of climbing things, making stuff in clay, swanning about, and being frequently disappointed.</p>

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  • Post #3299054

    I&amp;#39;ve written a bit of code recently, for some web pages that have a bit of interaction. Some Python. Some Go. I&amp;#39;ve not enjoyed it. ♩I&amp;#39;ve lost that lovin&amp;#39; feelin&amp;#39; ♩

  • Post #3299053

    I’ve been watching Half Man on the BBC. It has not been pleasant. It’s very well made. Hits hard in many hidden places.

  • Post #3299050

    OH: &amp;quot;insufficient feedback is the bane of our existence&amp;quot; One of the truer truisms that ever did true.

  • Post #3299049

    In absolutely no surprise to anyone who has tried it: it is not getting any easier to run your own mail server and actually send and receive the right mail.

  • Post #3299048

    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@FND/116539986549315253 I&amp;#39;ve been working on a website for the clay stuff I&amp;#39;ve been making (to be revealed soon when I have taken the right photos). In version one it was just HTML and CSS. If you wanted to contact me you&amp;#39;d have to use email (by golly!). In version two I relented and added a very simple form. It seems to work well enough. It&amp;#39;s not going to drive massive engagement nor make me rich. It&amp;#39;s not supposed to. Nor will...

  • Post #3299047

    Working on software that is just-for-me really enforces just how soul-sucking working on enterprise software was for me. If making software is so freakin&amp;#39; easy that an optimistic linear algebra box can do it, surely every enterprise ought to be making their own custom-to-them (as in &amp;quot;just-for-me&amp;quot;) software.

  • Post #3299046

    I’ve had an unfortunate OS upgrade experience today. Not one I was surprised by, but still disappointing. Some Perl code I wrote in 2001 continues to work well through many upgrades with very few changes. Meanwhile Python code I wrote in 2014 has required major massaging over the years to keep alive and today I don’t have energy to do another round of endless fiddling so I’m going to let it sit, broken, at least for a bit. Perl and Python aren’t really the main characters in this story, in ca...