Parker Higgins @xor@mastodon.xyz

Very frustrating to encounter expensive things that feel like frivolous rich-people indulgences but on closer examination appear to be "worth it"

Getting things professionally framed is SO ridiculously expensive also genuinely SO much better than any DIY option I've found

I am making Ross: Dress for Fewer t-shirts and as of right now I feel like this is the silliest joke I've ever made

Can't tell you how long I spent searching out Linux networking internals to discover the problem was the cord pushes in further than I had thought

I think in part I have this sense that I know so little about how ~*actual*~ web sites are made now that I won't be able to do it. (The first part is true but the second is not; I still know html lol)

For like two years I've hemmed and hawed about building a tiny little web site for a project so I can get it off a paid service and I know it's going to be like, one weekend but I cannot bring myself to do it

good juxtapo

I have been working on a little project for a friend and I assumed it would cap out at 100 lines of code and so never bothered with a git repo or anything but the thing has just kept growing and growing

What's the biggest first commit you've ever done?

when the dmca notice hits

The story is a little complicated but last night I discovered my server had been locking up and crashing for hours and I was finally able to trace the issue back to a DMCA notice I'd gotten on Twitter

One thing that makes me feel spoiled as a programmer is when I write something and it starts taking a while and I realize I have not until that moment thought about whether it will take 60 seconds or 20 years

This will be the year I learn javascript

Wow the state-of-the-art for parsing HTML with the Python standard library is... pretty far back, huh

I kind of thing dependency management is such a mess that the == version requirement is a helpful nudge forcing the use of isolated virtual environments, but that seems suboptimal

I feel like I mostly see hard version equality in Python module requirements.txt files. Am I mistaken? Or is there a good reason that >= isn't more common?

If you take the "c" and "x" off the ends of "cardboard box", you're left with a perfectly repeating ardbo-ardbo