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the thing about principles is that if you compromise on them in the name of convenience, you don’t have principles

okay so I set up the Flickr Random Images Generatr as a thing to enable shitposts on Portal of Evil, and kept it running for years after PoE went bye-bye, and it's been such a fucking hassle to keep going and the source of so many pointless legal threats, random weirdos contacting me not […]

I seriously doubt anyone was even using it anyway, aside from the occasional person who searches on "random Flickr image" and then proceeds to look up random slurs and tries to find porn

oh and the whole thing had been overrun with NFT garbage (as has Flickr itself) anyway

For folks with any mobility impairments I highly recommend requesting wheelchair service at the airport. Don't suffer and push through the slog of getting through security and the gate if you don't have to. I don't know about most airlines but Alaska's wheelchair service is free and super super […]

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anyway yeah having cleaned off the disgusting overcrusted food plate and turning up my air filter has gotten rid of the stench, or maybe I'm just used to the smell again and it always was here like the dude insists but I don't think that's actually true.

hmm no I'm still getting random whiffs when I go to different parts of my living room. maybe just pockets of stale air though?

itch.ioHalloween Sale 2026 by fluffyA bundle by fluffy, $50.00 for 29 games

My stuff is part of the itch.io Halloween sale, as usual. https://itch.io/s/211835/halloween-sale-2026

oh also some of my plants are dead and like, yeah ,maybe I didn't remember to ask him to do it specifically but shouldn't it be obvious? I didn't also hire a plant sitter

ok fiona wants more laptime so I guess that'll be my life for the rest of the day

anyway I'm fucking exhausted but I don't want to take a nap right now so I guess I'll finally install the new shop lights in my basement or something idk

I just wonder what the fuck he was doing with the 30 minutes per visit, two visits per day, for the past week

but also like. he didn't take in any mail, because apparently I never asked him to do it, but like, I'm pretty sure I did, and even if I didn't, isn't that just like. standard practice for someone housesitting for a week? it should be fucking obvious to do? fortunately I didn't have any […]

oh and I did actually ask him to bring in my trash bin from the street but it was still sitting on the curb when I got here, which was my first sign that something was amiss. not a big deal, but, y'know. lack of attention to basic details. I should have probably at least reminded him of that on […]

also I really should have taken pictures of the mess left because he claimed that it was just a little left-over food from last night's meal on the plate but there were definitely, like, three cans' worth of rotting cat food in a pile

I'm guessing this smell is the stench of rotting cat food and it'll just subside over the next couple days, I hope. It's only in the dining and living room and not in any other part of my house.

Every 'gig economy' pet sitter I've hired has turned out this way, so I guess next time I travel I should just get the neighbor kids to do it

anyway gotta figure out where this fucking Aroma is coming from. the sitter claims that my home smelled like this the whole time but it definitely didn't smell this way when I left. it's a very *familiar* smell but I can't quite place it.

If I can get a Lyft quickly then I’ll be home around 3. Nice.

anyway i got home at 3:10 and then immediately found that my house was *stinky* and the pet sitter didn't do things that should have been obvious to do, and in texting it seems that he didn't do things because I didn't specifically tell him to do them (even though one of them was a thing I […]

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Anyway I’m back on solid ground and my suitcase was one of the first to arrive at the baggage claim. Lucky me!

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plus side I'm at the airport waiting for my flight home minus side there's someone sitting nearby with some VERY LOUD perfume and it's triggering my asthma something fierce

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oh good a seat opened up 20 feet away and I took it, much better

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Four way meowing battle between me, my parents’ two cats, and my mom.

okay so for my trip home from Albuquerque I upgraded my seat to first class, which cost $190. As part of that, I get up to two free checked bags ($110), a meal ($20), and free premium drinks ($20), not to mention a MUCH better flight experience and the feeling of being pampered. I'd say it was a […]

love the irony of being unable to sleep due to pain, when the best thing for reducing my pain is sleep :|

in retrospect i should have taken a tizanidine last night

getting pretty tired of people reaching out with interest in me as a "consultant" and then finding out they just want me to be an interview proxy

ugh i can't sleep and i'm not even tired at all and i need to be up in like 8 hours

i have many rants in my head that i can't let go of, both more shit about this family gathering and shit about the state of the world and internet and software and everything else right now

everything feels like duct-tape fixes on top of deep systemic problems and i do not know where we go from here because of the irreducible complexity that prevents a proper fix for underlying issues while more issues are multiplying at an exponential rate and i feel like we're all trying our best […]

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I hate how much work it is to operate internet-facing services these days too but for fuck's sake people you need to learn what watchdogs, ulimits, and load balancers are _before_ you expose something publicly. if you want to help the open source community sign up to actually add features that […]

oh my fucking god php is such a fucking trainwreck in particular its date handling leaves QUITE A LOT to be desired I mean there's also the big security hoobajoob but that's not the bit that's frustrating me at the moment

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I don't even really use it anymore, it's a leftover from when webcomics were still ornery about not providing RSS feeds and I still set it as my homepage out of inertia and nostalgia

huh, turns out the waterfox default start page is pretty nice?

but gosh, so much of the php standard library is just a thin wrapper around the C standard library, with a little bit of jank-ass object conversion

this isn't even for a thing I care about per se, I was just surprised to learn that a thing I wrote like 20 years ago and occasionally glance at has been doing it based on gmtime this whole time, since I usually only look at it in the morning

out of desperation I asked Gemini and it gave answers which look correct but involve writing a LOT more code than should be necessary for this

okay to be fair the easy way I'd do this in Python would involve importing arrow but it'd still result in a nice simple oneliner

all I'm trying to do is get the numeric day of the week in the local timezone date("W") goes based on GMT or needs a UNIX timestamp in localtime localtime() returns a structured datetime array and I don't see any way to convert that into a UNIX timestamp I don't see any way to do date […]

searching stackoverflow only finds things that are either wildly incorrect or answering a completely different question (often a different question than what's being asked too)