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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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I have a digital poem in the new issue of *Taper*. It's called "One for Grundy" and was written/coded as I was struggling to make sense of my father's sudden passing in January. I turned to two beloved nursery rhymes from my childhood about the circle of life. The poem intermingles them, confuses them, rewrites them. Hit "More" to see other versions. And view source to see more from me about the poem. Like everything *Taper* publishes, there are strict constraints, in this case the code/poem could be no more than 2k in size.
How do you reduce a life into 2k? Poetry.
Link to poem: https://taper.badquar.to/10/one_for_grundy.html
Predictable conclusion of the NPM debacle: failed to load due to a circular dependency somewhere.
@souldessin I think I have a solution (checking this morning). This isn't as trivial as the Toasts we implemented recently because autocomplete needs to interact with data binding and with APIs, and support keystrokes and fuzzy matching. I am trying to avoid re-implementing all that.
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@rml `geiser-no-values`. I'm having big issues with Geiser, too.
I just want an autocomplete select on my site that will play nice with React. So I choose react-select. Over 3300 NPM dependencies downloaded and I feel sick.
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with @moaparty getting killed by Elon's API closure, it looks like cross-posting to Twitter is gone. and I don't really care much anymore. What good is Twitter Just full of p.people who want to broadcast and no one who I want to broadcast to. Good bye communities.
@freemo AH! That explains why I was emailed that I'd received a message from a mastodon.social user (which was a spam solicitation), and now I can't find it. Thanks for that!
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To make anyone of you go ballistic on how bad this currently looks, put it into context to what current-gen Qualcomm smartphones are doing:
https://www.theverge.com/22811740/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-1-always-on-camera-privacy-security-concerns
A phone that calls home on hardware level with always-on mic AND cameras and the ability to analyze that data using the inbuilt NPU (Neural Processing Unit)? Oh boy, do I feel safer now.
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#privacy #security #android #qualcomm #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
@BTowersCoding Ah! I've only been listening to him for a few years and had no idea of the AI roots of the show. I just knew he liked jiujitsu :)
At work we manage a "farm" of #WordPress sites. As they age or go derelict they become a maintenance liability, but may have valuable historical data. Some great #static WP examples here:
https://blog.hubspot.com/website/create-a-static-website-using-wordpress
I have been listening to #LexFridman and his run of #AI thought leaders. A big question hit me today that seems unaddressed: instead of focusing on how AI might wipe us out, why do I not hear any questions about whether AI can prevent us from wiping ourselves out? #GlobalWarming #WorldHunger #Poverty #Pollution
@LouisIngenthron @icedquinn my virtual number which was detected has the same area code as my primary number (which hasn't changed in at least a decade)
@rikylinux_ar I use #guix . Why is #Parabola? Are they in the same space?
@LouisIngenthron @icedquinn but there is no rhyme or reason, no way that virtual numbers identify themselves?
A great discussion going on here. Because of the location (#Clojure thread) there is a bias in the demographic, but good reasons are provided either way and no thoughtless "it's just better" answers. https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/12wmx51/why_do_you_use_clojure_instead_of_other_lisps/
@icedquinn wait -- so you're telling me it's basically static?
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
