Meg

megmac@social.treehouse.systems

I like video games, programming languages, and hacking things up with old video game hardware. I also post a lot about TV I'm watching, and sometimes books I'm reading too.Used to stream on twitch (as megmactv) but don't really anymore.Anything I say here is 1000% my own opinion and probably no one, including any employers I have or have had in the past, agree with me.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NoUnroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoUnroll</a>

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Post #4184314
Something that I'm realizing as I bike a lot more this year is that I think I pretty much value good bike *crossings* over a lot of bike *lanes*. I feel like these get conflated into one project a lot, but honestly intersections scare me more than side by side traffic.
Post #4117131
Lmao matchbox car movie. Mattel really learned all the wrong lessons from The Barbie Movie. Like, impressively so.
Post #4078833
Gonna go to a local trans-people swim night put on by pflag tomorrow night. I miss swimming regularly, and Swimming While Trans is just like.. this whole complicated thing. So this should be nice.
Post #4062589
Hey people who know Montreal, if you were gonna stay in Montreal with your partner for a fall weekend, and you'd mostly be intending to get around by transit, where in the city (that there are hotels) do you think would be a good place to stay? Assume we're mostly interested in foodie kinds of things, as well as like.. Nice places to walk around outside. We'd consider renting bikes too. Not so much outright full on tourist traps. Boosts welcome! #montreal
Post #4020355
My central computing conspiracy theory is that "general computing for normal people" was largely a solved problem by the 90s, through things like Excel, visual basic (and HyperCard before it), Flash, and comprehensible html (along with web design tools that were deeply flawed but extremely usable like Front Page and Dreamweaver), and the industry has spent every year since ripping us farther and farther away from it by forcing effective software development to happen only in enterprise...
Post #3865911
https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/ The physical guide (my preferred way to browse) doesn't come out until the 29th, but Edmonton Fringe show listings are up on the website now! If you go to some shows I might be the one scanning your ticket! :) #yegfringe #yeg
Post #3862286
The only thing worse than bad, unvetted, ai subtitles is bad, unvetted, ai subtitles that have been burned into the video itself.
Post #3747000
Ahhh there's the classic 5 minute prairie evening thunderstorm I know and love....
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Post #1325534
Kind of funny to be watching a movie set in Red Deer and get taken out of it for a minute because they get takeout from a Chinese restaurant and you can see that the sign on the outside is The Lingnan.
Post #938394
I think one of the most hilarious things about the American psyche, such as anything like that exists, is the inexplicable belief in a &quot;timeline for war&quot;. Like killing people is a thing you can do on a neat little schedule, where the other side just does exactly what you predict they&#39;ll do, which is for some reason always &quot;give up and surrender&quot; or &quot;go so crazy that they can&#39;t effectively fight back.&quot; The media inevitably d...