I'm #allfeels all the time right now

Posting UI #experiment #goldfrog

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So I don't forget: Unacceptable by Helene Schouten https://medium.com/@scaryh/unacceptable-4cdca86ba0db #bookmark #racism #economics #america

Added a quick-an-dirty bookmarks feature, just base on any post tagged "bookmark" http://monkinetic.blog/tag/bookmark (yes, this means some false positives and negatives)

A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe Let's begin again

Swiping #Macos Spaces feels very #scifi on a curved monitor #swoosh

wanting to be able to post from my phone has me learning about css grid and flexbox, so there's that #css #webdevelopment

I've started messing around a bit with javascript-enhanced UIs for #goldfrog. Rather than use all of JQuery, I decided on a small subset of Jquery's functionality as implemented by Sprint.JS.

1. I only load the JS for me, since I'm logged in.
2. It's only used on the home page to power the new switchable post form, and
3. It powers a character-counter for the note UI.

Here's the new posting UI:

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I'm trying to implement some basic progressive enhancement - the forms work as is without javascript, but the switcher and the counter are niceties for me, the author.

Is RSS Dead? Newp. http://isrssdead.com/

allergies suck (tm)

Christian Clauss is working on moving pytatsd to Github actions for automated testing and builds https://github.com/sivy/pystatsd/pull/109 #python #statsd #opensource

Achievement Unlocked: used "chuffed" correctly with a native brit

while being a privileged beneficiary thereof, I can say that #capitalism is objectively terrible

From work chat: "ie, perl-ish. which is a bit like elv-ish. amazingly powerful, but say it wrong and you're a toad #perl

Wow, I've been a terrible #opensource maintainer... I need to re-familiarize myself with pystatsd https://github.com/sivy/pystatsd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc

#standingdesk update: it's been 2 hours. Legs aching, back on fire, sweat breaks out across my brow. Never has anyone striven for so much, so long. Rescue unlikely, expecting the sweet embrace of death. Tell my wife I loved her #drama

Trying a standing desk. Wonder how long I'll last in the morning.

“The world laughed at me, but I’ll show them!! Behold, the power of Bed Suspenders!!!!”

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Ran into a friend today at church and he asked me "hey I'm trying to learn Python, do you have any good sites or books to recommend? I'm kinda... bored."

Now some of us geeks can't imagine being bored learning something new, but I went through this when I first started learning Go. I had decided I wanted to learn a new programming language, and Rust was way too... Rust, so I picked Go and started building a small o-nothing web app. I got part way in an realized that I had no interest in what I was doing, and it (and some bits of Go that hadn't matured) was killing my fun. So I put it down.

Fast forward to this year. I was ready to pick up Go again, but this time I also knew that I wanted to start writing again, and that the friction in my blogging process was killing my joy there, too. So I decided to write my own blog software (see #goldfrog), and I was going to write it in Go.

Suddenly I was energized to learn, because I had all these feature ideas for the site, and I had to learn the #golang techniques for tasks I'd only one in #python before. Also, it got me into the golang newbies Slack, and connecting with a community - for me at least - helps.

So my advice to my friend was:

• Find a project you're passionate about, or at least really interested in
• Be willing to re-learn things you think you already know
• Find a #community!

Taking Back New Tabs https://serialized.net/2019/09/taking-back-new-tabs #bookmark we used to call this "home pages"