Tech-head living in Austin, TX. My homepage is drhayes.io.
You can find me @drhayes@social.lol!

Thinking about getting as gifts for people I know. But I'm secretly hoping they'll get one for me.
1 day ago
I love Charlie Stross so much: by @cstross@wandering.shop .
1 day ago
Browsing . 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.
3 days ago
Shout out to all my #adhd pals buried under a haystack of needles.
3 weeks ago
Have 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.
3 weeks ago
Reading about .
What a useful general-purpose math function that I haven't seen before!
1 month ago
Listening to .
If you don't know the series and love all things Cthulian do yourself a favor and start with season 1, episode 1!
1 month ago
Digging in to Godot's documentation, trying to make a simple space arcade game. Having fun!
1 month agoInvestigating . Lots of cool utility functions in here.
I'm very lucky that I like reading documentation.
1 month ago
Browsing .
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.
1 month ago
Today's WTF: .
1 month ago
Using instead of the native Dropbox app on Linux, very happy with it.
1 month ago
At 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.
1 month 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
2 months ago
Reading .
@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.
2 months ago
Reading .
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.
2 months ago
Watching "Blue Thunder". It's been ages!
2 months ago
Checking out . These look kinda pretty!
2 months ago
Check out ! These are seriously pretty little notecards, geez.
My self-control over my office supply addiction is wearing thin.
2 months ago
Thinking about buying some to make a travel keyboard for when I go in to the office.
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Ah, 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!
2 months ago
Trying not to fall asleep as I put the boy to bed.
2 months ago
Checking out the unofficial omg.lol Telegram bot, .
2 months ago
Browsing .
2 months ago
Trying to figure out why I'm not getting a webmention on, ironically, my post about webmentions.
2 months ago
Jumped into a pool with my phone in my pocket over the weekend. What a gigantic pain in the ass.
2 months ago
Hanging out with friends wrapping up our years-long Masks campaign. The end is nigh.
2 months ago
Trying to get in-reply-to working on my site and respond to posts on my own 11ty site...
2 months ago
I think "Synchronicity II" is my favorite track by The Police.
2 months ago
Recovering from being sick, feeling better, trying not to push it today.
2 months ago
The episode "Trials of the Darksaber" in the series "Star Wars Rebels" is so, so good.
3 months ago
Seriously enjoying "Star Wars Rebels". Wanted something to watch while I'm sick and not disappointed.
3 months ago
Think I'm getting sick, listening to "Point of Departure" to soothe myself.
3 months ago
Fixing up the layout of my personal site using techniques I learned from and having a blast.
3 months ago
First 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?
3 months ago
Having a hard time getting my brain going this morning. Seems like I can only display a light interest in Internet minutiae right now.
3 months ago
I just fell in love with a new monospace font! Berkeley Mono, so good.
3 months ago
Working late on publishing a list of my principles to my personal site.
3 months ago
Trying to get my local TiddlyWiki to paste some stuff back to my omg.lol pastebin and fighting CORS errors.
3 months ago
Just rewatched "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse". So, so good.
3 months ago
I got my status.lol widget working on my site!
3 months ago
Thinking about how best to incorporate into my personal site, generated by 11ty.
3 months ago
Laughing at .
3 months ago
... and then sleep feels impossible.
3 months ago
Writing XSLT past midnight, it's like it's the first dot com boom again...
3 months ago
Listening to the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Whoosh, it's good.
3 months ago
Still obsessing about and thinking about making an app that uses it.
3 months ago
Thinking about sleep...
3 months ago
Writing my morning pages. The only journaling practice I've stuck with longer than a month.
3 months ago
Importing my reading from bookwyrm.social to books.theunseen.city. Such evocative domain names!
3 months ago
Is it weird that I'm in love with a logging library?
6 months ago
TWELVE YEARS DUNGEON!!!111ONE
7 months ago
Woke up fuzzy-headed from sleep and a weird dream about a candy store with a membership fee.
7 months ago
Browsing .
7 months ago
I'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?
7 months ago
Very glad that my cat isn't as sick as I thought he was.
8 months ago
Merry Christmas!
11 months ago
Sad desk lunch of a veggie bean-and-cheese burrito.
1 year ago
Reading omg.lol docs...
1 year ago