Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
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High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Say what you will about #Windows, but at least its basic text editor doesn't need a user manual.
Sometimes I think #Linux loving computer science folks only love the OS because it makes the screen scroll with gibberish which makes them feel like they're living in 80s hacker movies.
AWS is a nightmare. Why would any small business choose to use this ridiculous monstrosity?
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Libertarian journalist @cjciaramella absolutely wrecking far-right grifter #DaveSmith. You love to see it.
I can write a dynamic dialogue engine without breaking a sweat, and yet finding the motivation to write two sentences of dialogue to put in it is almost impossible. Why, brain, why?
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Warning to other non-sports people: Do not buy gifts for sports people from Fanatics. They will sell your data and you will get sports ads forever and they will never stop.
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Anyone know how to block/mute a group? I don't see an option for that anywhere.
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Okay, so, yeah, in the last year or so I too fell into the deep hole of mechanical keyboards (and just recently built my own... which I haven't quite got working yet...). But I've (mostly) stayed away from the deeper obsession with what keycaps to use. Until now. This is amazing.
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/11m25p4/im_getting_better_at_this/
This is despicable. Manchin and Rosen ought to be ashamed.
America is worse-off due to their poor judgement.
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This is *amazing*. Go get yourself some morning energy.
From: @restartproject
https://mastodon.green/@restartproject/109987640624481034
Most people struggle to get to inbox-zero.
For tech folk like me, we struggle to get to inboxes-zero.
Today, I got my email client down to handling only *6* email addresses!
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This International Women’s Day kinda feels like a slap in the face. Why? Because America has taken drastic steps back in women’s rights of late.
1) In 2022 women lost their fundamental right to control their own bodies with Dobbs and numerous states have since banned abortions and moved to ban common forms of birth control.
2) In the past few months we’ve seen outright legal attacks on the ability of trans-women to simply exist. Trans-women are women.
3) In 2022 the pay gap got worse for women.
Pathetic. #Minnesota #Wild players too scared to wear a rainbow. Is this what modern white heterosexual masculinity looks like? A bunch of grown men scared of a shirt?
https://www.outsports.com/2023/3/7/23629942/minnesota-wild-pride-jerseys-lgbt-gay-homophobia-nhl
I made the transition to #Mastodon the day Elon closed his deal. Looking back, the difference is surreal.
On Twitter, my feed was full of political trolls pushing my buttons and pissing me off and making me question my faith in humanity.
On Mastodon, I get to read opinions from many of the same people I respected over there... but also I get brief, random windows into subcommunities like #Mosstodon, which is a delightful group of nature weirdoes and scientists posting pictures of moss they see out in the wild. It's so wholesome and positive that it restores my faith in humanity.
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It’s very difficult and almost never economically viable to make technical systems resilient on their own. That’s why we focus so much on sociotechnical systems.
When Elon laid off most of the company, he destroyed the “socio” part of the sociotechnical system that kept it running. And unless I missed the Erlang rewrite, Twitter isn’t built for unattended five-nines reliability.
This “complete rewrite” is a fool’s errand. You can’t solve much of anything with code by itself.
I'm trying out a new #gamedev concept... Well, not really a new one, but new to me.
I'm trying to build a world entirely in code. Nominally a "text-based game", the idea is to take the Dwarf Fortress route of enabling development of a deep simulation by eschewing design and art concerns completely. In this case it's a space ship captaining RPG.
Even if it never goes anywhere, it's still a really fun and challenging exercise.
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Space Karen: "This disabled asshole! I have no respect! He's fired!"
Lawyers: "You now owe him $100 million."
Space Karen:
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Today I had to ask for a hearing to be delayed for 2 weeks because opposing counsel hadn't sent us some necessary files. For a split second I thought about being self-righteous about it before the judge, but of course I decided not to. That's not a good look.
And a good thing, too. Turns out opposing counsel DID send the files a month ago, & our office somehow missed it. Oops!
A good reminder not to be a jerk about opposing counsels' errors, lest you find out the errors are actually your own.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
