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.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Was roughhousing with my dog this morning and after a brief accident, I now look like a video game character who just defeated a wyvern.
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My husband and I don’t fight very often, but one thing we do fight about is how he calls aluminum foil "tin foil" and he's like "IT'S THE SAME THING!" and I’m like "bruh, they are completely different metals, so please go consult the periodic table I've hung over our bed."
Why does every news organization insist on reporting things like this that aren't news?
Maybe that's why they're bleeding money.
Wow, that new Musk lawsuit is absurdly frivolous and thin-skinned. At several points, it even gives up the game by admitting that what Media Matters reported was true by trying to hedge it with "extremely rare".
Looking forward to actual lawyers tearing it apart in the coming days.
I wonder what percentage of White Castle's business in 2023 is still driven by stoners watching Harold and Kumar...
Why is every single business in America constantly changing the menu options on their automated voice system?
Do any #DotNet folks know why we still can't create static indexers for classes in C#?
It's gonna be nuts when these guys get hit by ransomware.
Introducing the EU Digital Identity Wallet. This revolutionary tool brings effortless access to private and public services, allowing you to open b...
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Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.
If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
I'd like to nominate this as 2023's most useless toot.
NBC poll finds Biden behind Trump for the first time in a hypothetical general-election matchup, although the deficit is well within the poll's mar...
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The “no one wants to work anymore” mantra is so tiresome. We need to start countering it with “no one wants to pay anymore.”
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SCOTUS declines an emergency request to reinstate Florida's law making it illegal to admit children to drag shows. Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissented. https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/griffin-v-hm-florida-orl/
Was listening to the radio on my way home today and there's a famous country song that played with the opening lyrics: "I feel no shame; I'm proud of where I came."
I feel like anyone who can confidently say that probably needs to visit a few museums.
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ME: I wish I had the perfect body
GENIE: It is done
ME: *looking myself over* But nothing's changed
GENIE: correct
ME: wow you're a wholesome genie!
GENIE: I'm a hallucination take your meds.
So many people are freaked out about the idea of #AI #CustomerService, but the reality is that the AI will probably have more latitude to deviate from the script than the humans ever did.
Louis Ingenthron
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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.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
