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Hah nice! I made something a bit like this too: ssh paint.dn.ht It's using kitty/iTerm2/Ghostty image placement + pixel mouse reporting support for drawing. ..and for more fun: ssh…

Hi all! I've been experimenting with making silly little GUI apps for the terminal. Most TUIs just use text mode but I thought it'd be fun to use features from modern terminals lik…

Unrelated, but I highly recommend this short sci-fi-ish story by Robin Sloan :) https://www.robinsloan.com/stories/sleep-consultant/

Yeah, it's tricky because basically all solar arrays (rooftop and utility) all come online at more-or-less the same time so there's a huge influx of supply which drives the price d…

Yeah totally, nice to be able to put the AC/heater on "for free". I even got a negative power bill once! In my specific case, I barely use much power so home solar covers basically…

Yeah, it's been great to see the uptake of rooftop solar in Australia. One downside is that large scale solar projects aren't profitable any more. It kind of sucks for the investor…

Heya, fellow Aussie here. Have you ever tried contacting your local MP? I was cynical at first like you, thinking why bother. But when I tried it, turned out I was wrong and I actu…

I work at Influx ( https://influx.com ) which is human powered customer support. We've found that inevitably AIs have some error rate and customers want to escalate to a person. Ou…

Good to know.. if you defraud the Australian government and misuse tax payers money... the consequences are: partial refund.

Can you do a reverse pushup? i.e. start in a plank and lower yourself down? Doing it like that (especially if you can do it as slowly as possible) can help get you strong enough to…

Now that AI has ruined the emdash for punctuation enthusiasts like us... I've been thinking of switching to the double emdash (⸺) and worst case, fellow humans, there's always the …

I'm just catching up.. can someone please explain why this part is unreasonable? - WordPress code is open-source. - WP Engine is entitled to use the source code. I don't see how th…

Yeah nah, for me it's exactly that: plain html/js/css files. For simple things, I copy/paste.. not a big deal. If it's getting more complicated, I'll abort and upgrade to rails to …

Most people's expectations of what a "basic website" should do have gone way up over time. Even as a programmer, I've fallen into the static site generator trap a few times. It's a…

Yep, exactly! I don't ask this question because I want to know the answer. The questions I'm trying to answer are: - Are you intelligent? - Are you diligent and well prepared? - Ar…

I'm not sure if it's helpful, but if you want some perspective from someone that's interviewed a few hundred software engineering candidates.. I ask this question to every candidat…

Anecdotally.. - Working from home for long stretches.. feels more like "living at work" for me. Hybrid is good. Some boundaries in my life are healthy. - Most people hate their com…