Tech-head living in Austin, TX. My homepage is drhayes.io.
You can find me @drhayes@social.lol!
Just received the Hobonichi Techo 2024 cousin notebook in the mail! It was packaged beautifully and has some unexpected heft.
Now all that's left is to stick it on my shelf and never use it the rest of the year.
1 month agoCuz this is thriller, thriller night... there ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl...
2 months agoI got a links automation working on my personal site:
Now when I save something in Pinboard it will syndicate to my site on a cron job. I'll have to write that up as a blog post before too long.
2 months agoChecking out . I've played around with the the absolute tiniest bit as well. The limitations are interesting and daunting.
3 months agoTinkering with my personal site instead of doing actual work. But my personal site is more fun!
3 months agoListening to @marthawells@wandering.shop talk Murderbot on NPR at .
4 months agoCaptivated by .
I love the creativity and math intersection on display here!
4 months agoChecking out .
Inspiration? Critique? A sigh tinged with JavaScript-fatigued weariness? Por que no los tres?
4 months agoThinking about getting as gifts for people I know. But I'm secretly hoping they'll get one for me.
4 months agoI love Charlie Stross so much: by @cstross@wandering.shop .
4 months agoBrowsing . Really cool collection of DOM manipulations with basic JavaScript, no libraries required.
The web and browsers are so powerful, we barely need anything to do such great things.
4 months agoShout out to all my #adhd pals buried under a haystack of needles.
5 months agoHave you read ?
I'm feeling a lot of this right now -- why are we doing all this again? Developer experience is important, yes, but it's subordinate to user experience. Shipping a bunch of JS to the client as a prerequisite for the app to work as the default case seems like a poor decision.
5 months agoReading about .
What a useful general-purpose math function that I haven't seen before!
6 months agoListening to .
If you don't know the series and love all things Cthulian do yourself a favor and start with season 1, episode 1!
6 months agoDigging in to Godot's documentation, trying to make a simple space arcade game. Having fun!
6 months agoInvestigating . Lots of cool utility functions in here.
I'm very lucky that I like reading documentation.
6 months agoBrowsing .
A kit to build a Z80? Holy shmokes that's awesome. I don't know if I have a burning need for one myself, but I'm so so glad this exists in the world.
Hat tip to @lmorchard@mozilla.social for the link.
6 months agoToday's WTF: .
6 months agoUsing instead of the native Dropbox app on Linux, very happy with it.
6 months agoAt Death Cab and Postal Service show. Weird that they've never played together before, their singers sound very similar!
Maybe it's a Clark Kent/Superman thing.
6 months agoWatching . It is seriously good, 11 hours long, and starts as though you're a complete beginner to programming and gamedev without being too pandering.
If you're trying to get familiar with Godot because of the Unity fiasco and you like learning from videos, this seems like a great place to start!
godot #gamedev
6 months agoReading .
@b0rk@jvns.ca always does such a great job breaking down complex concepts into their simple parts, then laying them out nicely and explaining them.
6 months agoReading .
I like that Maggie isn't a total enthusiast nor does she completely disapprove; she explores a bunch of options while calling out the limitations well.
6 months agoWatching "Blue Thunder". It's been ages!
6 months agoChecking out . These look kinda pretty!
6 months agoCheck out ! These are seriously pretty little notecards, geez.
My self-control over my office supply addiction is wearing thin.
6 months agoThinking about buying some to make a travel keyboard for when I go in to the office.
7 months ago.
7 months agoAh, cool, my GPG key expired today. Gonna go run the expire
command to renew it, which is hilarious.
Browsing .
Found while digging around in the nvim-cmp Makefile. Neat!
7 months agoTrying not to fall asleep as I put the boy to bed.
7 months agoChecking out the unofficial omg.lol Telegram bot, .
7 months agoBrowsing .
7 months agoTrying to figure out why I'm not getting a webmention on, ironically, my post about webmentions.
7 months agoJumped into a pool with my phone in my pocket over the weekend. What a gigantic pain in the ass.
7 months agoHanging out with friends wrapping up our years-long Masks campaign. The end is nigh.
7 months agoTrying to get in-reply-to working on my site and respond to posts on my own 11ty site...
7 months agoI think "Synchronicity II" is my favorite track by The Police.
7 months agoRecovering from being sick, feeling better, trying not to push it today.
7 months agoThe episode "Trials of the Darksaber" in the series "Star Wars Rebels" is so, so good.
7 months agoSeriously enjoying "Star Wars Rebels". Wanted something to watch while I'm sick and not disappointed.
7 months agoThink I'm getting sick, listening to "Point of Departure" to soothe myself.
7 months agoFixing up the layout of my personal site using techniques I learned from and having a blast.
7 months agoFirst kid sickness of the school year on day number eight. Sniffles and sore throat. He's got that thing where he's all flat. Y'know that thing? Where normally they're all bouncy but when they're sick they're like pancaked?
8 months agoHaving a hard time getting my brain going this morning. Seems like I can only display a light interest in Internet minutiae right now.
8 months agoI just fell in love with a new monospace font! Berkeley Mono, so good.
8 months agoWorking late on publishing a list of my principles to my personal site.
8 months agoTrying to get my local TiddlyWiki to paste some stuff back to my omg.lol pastebin and fighting CORS errors.
8 months agoJust rewatched "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse". So, so good.
8 months agoI got my status.lol widget working on my site!
8 months agoThinking about how best to incorporate into my personal site, generated by 11ty.
8 months agoLaughing at .
8 months ago... and then sleep feels impossible.
8 months agoWriting XSLT past midnight, it's like it's the first dot com boom again...
8 months agoListening to the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Whoosh, it's good.
8 months agoStill obsessing about and thinking about making an app that uses it.
8 months agoThinking about sleep...
8 months agoWriting my morning pages. The only journaling practice I've stuck with longer than a month.
8 months agoImporting my reading from bookwyrm.social to books.theunseen.city. Such evocative domain names!
8 months agoIs it weird that I'm in love with a logging library?
11 months agoTWELVE YEARS DUNGEON!!!111ONE
11 months agoWoke up fuzzy-headed from sleep and a weird dream about a candy store with a membership fee.
11 months agoBrowsing .
11 months agoI'm at the stage where I hate my site redesign and no longer know what looks good anymore. Do I even know CSS or have I forgotten everything? What even is semantic markup?
1 year agoVery glad that my cat isn't as sick as I thought he was.
1 year agoMerry Christmas!
1 year agoSad desk lunch of a veggie bean-and-cheese burrito.
1 year agoReading omg.lol docs...
1 year ago