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Todd Sundsted
toddsundsted@epiktistes.comBetter dead than bored.
toddsundsted@epiktistes.comBetter dead than bored.
| Introduction | https://epiktistes.com/introduction |
|---|---|
| GitHub | https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec |
| Pronouns | he/him |
| 🌎 | Sector 001 |
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 20, 2022
since the beginning of the month there are 959 posts in my timeline. of those, 516 were posted and 476 were shared/boosted. the overlap is due to the fact that some posts are from people i follow, and ktistec sees both the activitypub create and a later announce.
so overall, about half of what i see is original content from the people i follow and about half is things they share, which is pretty much what i saw on twitter way back in the day.
Don Quixote is hundreds of years old, but the story of a man who becomes so immersed in media that he can no longer distiguish fantasy from reality, and is aided by people who indulge the fantasy while saving him from himself, seems so very modern.
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 18, 2022
people stop talking about twitter, elon and the rest of it. starve them of the attention they crave, and turn your thoughts and energy toward peace and a better world. rubbernecking this train wreck is just holding you back.
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 18, 2022
(i should probably just add support for mastodon style polls to ktistec...)
i have an informal poll for ktistec users. should we require (and use features from) the most recent versions of sqlite? how recent is too recent? if you're running ktistec, i'd love your point of view.
some background... sqlite is the most significant dependency in ktistec. to minimize problems for potential users, i intentionally stuck to features found in "older" versions of sqlite. as i write this, the current version of sqlite is 3.40.0. ktistec only depends on 3.11.0, which was released in 2016. that's very conservative.
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 17, 2022
chatgpt might be the most useful search tool out there. it just needs links in the output.
my question was "what open source alternatives are there to jmeter". at least with chatgpt all of the results are, or were, legitimate open source projects.
google's results are, as expected, full of seo-optimized websites looking for clicks. google is essentially useless for any search that might have commercial potential (to be fair, it has been for years).
i always hold out a little hope for duck duck go, but it's really a list of the same seo-optimized sites (although, you know, stack overflow and quora are down there near the end).
what's the tl;dr? i don't know. i think i'm going continue to try to start my searches with chatgpt and then use duck duck go or google to look up the websites. i wonder if i could automate that...
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 10, 2022
can we get chatgpt with fact check plz...
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 9, 2022
it looks like sqlite only recently replaced (insecure) rc4 with chacha20 for random number generation...
I wish I could reach the correct audience to suggest to that, if you are going to work full time remote, especially for a mostly remote company for the first time, it is absolutely crucial that you learn how people communicate and actively participate in it. Not just how work information is disseminated. Join your “random” and hobby Teams or Slack channels. Meet people not on your direct team. Join a social group if your company sponsors one you find interesting. It indeed takes effort as an introvert - but while working remote you are not building relationships organically like in an office, at all. Those work relationships are important to getting stuff done in business, being noticed when opportunities come up, emotionally feeling part of a team and mission, and staying mentally healthy. We spend a big chunk of our lives working!
Over the last 5 years of working and managing a team FT remote, this social interactivity is one of the top indicators I’ve observed of whether someone will succeed and be balanced and happy, long term - or whether they will burn out and be left behind. The people who often vanish the fastest never chatted except when prompted to do so for business, never turned their camera on, nor set a profile image.
I’m not telling you to step way outside your comfort zone. I’m not saying there aren’t situations where it’s necessary to turn off the camera. I’m not saying you’ll automatically fail if you never socialize. I’m just giving you some advice based on hard life lessons of watching people thrive versus be unhappy.
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 5, 2022
Todd Sundsted posted Dec 4, 2022
Today's release of code fixes things that have been annoying me for a while:
- Commits c01e797 to b21a97a ensure that bulk assignment raises an error when the type of an argument value does not match that of the corresponding property being assigned to. In the past, attempts were silently ignored. As you'd expect, adding the check and raising the error was easy—cleaning up all the places I'd carelessly passed in
niland other garbage was not. Lesson learned? We'll see... - While I'm in there, commits 1ac498e to 3d45ece ensure that bulk assignment raises an error when attempting to assign a property defined only by a
getter(which is, effectively, a read-only property). Previously, this code wouldn't even compile, thereby unintentionally coupling database persistence and bulk assignability. - Finally, commits 5c2ec70 to 99dca65 clean up a few small defects in presentation: wide blocks of code no longer blow out the width of the parent container, image attachments present at ratios closer to what Mastodon uses (the presumption being that's what people optimize for if they optimize for anything) (this should also fix issue #53), and figure captions get a little breathing room. I'm no good at CSS, so this kind of thing takes me forever.