Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

The reason I have an iPhone 8+ instead of holding out for an X: With this screen size and aspect ratio, I can read the cards in Race For The Galaxy for iOS without zooming in. Also in Ascension. Also Through The Ages.

So yeah it’s mostly because I want to play board games on my phone.

Also because it’s a much more comfortable size and aspect ratio for ebooks.

I am a nerd

@admin Notifications aren't working for me for some reason

...wait, the small handful of bitcoins I bought a while ago to buy "research chemicals" from "nootropics" vendors and left lying around are worth HOW FUCKING MUCH right now o..o

Yet another small, well-focused changelist that through code review is repurposed for a completely different purpose and I check it in after approval and only belatedly realize that I have now not solved the original problem I was trying to solve in the codebase

@green I am now imagining a little three-inch sparrow with a mating call that is this incredibly loud, deep, resonant HONK

It is much too cold today for getting out of bed

I have discovered that my otherwise-excellent new laptop backpack is not very rain-resistant. I discovered this two days ago when I got stuck at a bus stop with no shelter in the first heavy rain we've had for months (literally the first rain at all for months, and it was serious rain). The upshot to this is that my work laptop has water damage now. :|

At least my employer's attitude towards this is "eh, shit happens", but I still feel really self-conscious about having destroyed a laptop.

@luciferMysticus I try to make sure names of functions in code I write or perform a code review for describe exactly what is happening, under the theory that if a function does something weird, it should look weird

Anyway, the upshot to this is that deep in the infrastructure my employer is running on a daily basis, there is a function named ProcessOneMessageOrDont

@Roguecnidarian I write programs in Go when I need pretty much just a desktop calculator for more than a few operations in a row; no shame in using the tools you know

Prediction: with the return of GIF as an animation format, “animated SVG” will become a thing and in ten years will reimplement Flash, ongoing web browser security nightmare and all

@green Dashlane, which is not perfect but it's better than sticky notes in a wallet. I assume that everything on the Internet is terrible and will eventually be compromised so someday I will have to change all 379 passwords but frankly I'm screwed anyway because my data is already out due to Equifax, Anthem (twice), Target, PSN, T-Mobile, GameStop, Wells Fargo... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just spent the last 35 minutes trying to remember my iPhone backup encryption password because it turns out I have to know the existing password to start a new backup, and by some miracle I figured it out. Changing it and adding it to my password manager now, brb

There are crows jumping in puddles here. I think they're glad to have the rain back too.

@Thaminga 👌👁👄👁👍

Is there a mastodon instance that only allows emoji

Metroid: Samus Returns uses "aeion" as its psi-like "powers that require energy" mechanic and all I can think is "aeiou". Thanks, @neonNeptunian

@luciferMysticus I last looked at esparanto 15 years ago, so I probably have a negative amount of knowledge retained about it by now, so you're probably right

@luciferMysticus bepisojn