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I appreciate that they tell me exactly when my ballot will be mailed and to what address a month early so I can do something about it if I like ;)

♪ Now is the month of maying, with micro-critters playing, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la fa-la-la-la-la-la-la
♪ Gazing at friends with awe, admiring their paws, fa-la-la-la-la fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Given the usual temperamental/affinity associations I’m very much connected to air, fire, and somewhat water. Not earth.

So I just decided to interpret slipping and falling in the mud three times at the seasonal ritual to be earth nobly condescending to ensure I commune with it even if I’m not generally able to do so on my own.

Iron Man just blocked Squirrel Girl on social media for nagging him about how to send email to Asgard.

Similar to the way that Google managed to suck up most XMPP users then up and killed GTalk as part of their “How can we make everyone hate Google Plus and alienate its target audience as much as possible?” strategy.

Supply chain risk has me thinking of shifting away from the Arch User Repository for most stuff.

If a project is hosted on github, you can stick http://github.com/user/repo/releases.atom in your feed reader to see updates.

@RayuDW@meow.social Also I keep seeing the subject line and mentally reinterpreting it as “Day of the International Hyena” You know, so big no nation can contain the beast.

@RayuDW@meow.social Well, that sounds fun, if you don’t mind a lot of gekkering and pouncing and hugging once I discover the truth.

@RayuDW@meow.social Oh, well. If /you/ want Galactic Uppies, too, sometime /I/ can get very, very big from time to time. :)

@monstercollie@blimps.xyz Yeah, I love his whole Wipe series and his approach to media criticism generally. He’s got the “Angry but sincere” vibe.

@monstercollie@blimps.xyz It is very hard when manic /not/ to suddenly break out into the chorus of Don’t Stop Me Now.

@RayuDW@meow.social There’s a silly idea I always like in that context where, like, you can’t exactly get off the planet on your own without a rocket ship, so the giant critter can pet you and tease you, looking down from above, and, you can ask for Orbital Uppies to get scooped up off the ground and lifted up among the stars so you can reach up and scritch them or curl up in their paw or stuff like that. Giant cosmic friend scoops you up off your planet for pets and cuddles and showing off the wonders of the universe ;)

@RayuDW@meow.social Oh gosh. I love benevolent terramacro ;) ♪ I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I’d like to hold it in my arms and keep it company ♪ but literal.

@chirpbirb@meow.social Oh heck yes. As someone who varies radically between “Heck yeah, I’m happy working on this for sixteen hours straight!” and /not/, I’m on average pretty good if you accept the variability.

Amusing that my mother stops complaining that I’m in a False, Satanic church the moment I mention they have me getting out of the house and square-dancing.

I am sorry, but if you go on about the “death drive” you have no expectation that anyone will take you seriously. Freud is pseudoscientific nonsense and it’s not okay.

@d_rift I’d personally rather use Bugzilla than Jira just for reasons of UX, though I know that’s not a common position.

Even apart from codegen, I expect a danger where people end up asking their LLM programming questions rather than other programmers.

A more experienced programmer can provide better guidance (“Why do you want to do that?”, “Actually that’s a footgun and instead you could…”, “Our environment is weird, so…”)

And asking and answering questions is part of development. They say you don’t understand something you can’t explain, so what happens when nobody is expected to /explain anything to others/?

There! I waited until after the siren stopped and it was only a severe thunderstorm warning instead of a tornado warning to go run around in it.

PSA: If you run Arch and use tree-sitter in emacs and your font-lock mode isn’t working, the fix is in extra-testing.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/emacs/-/work_items/13

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Honestly if someone said to me “Make it feel lighter.” my first instinct would be “Reduce the latency and total page size.”

Why, hello there, little friend, I am positively delighted to meet you!

I believe @AlefGP@meow.social did a wonderful job of capturing my approach of excited, hyperfocused attention.