Ayo @ayo@niu.moe

The dust in my appartment is piling up again. That's an early indication that I will vacuum this place somewhere in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

I'm too lazy for household chores, and it doesn't bother me.

#amreading Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, and for some reason everything I've been involved with for the past week has been a failure in one way or another.

To the point that a random stranger commented on the appropriateness of the book tiitle during some confusion about reserved seatings in a train that has been delayed.

Canadian: So you live in the Netherlands?
Me: Yes
Canadian: Do you have a bicycle?
Me: Yes
Canadian: Do you travel to work on your bicycle?
Me: Yes. In fact, I don't even have a car.
Canadian: *giggles*

I'm glad to be conforming to the stereotype.

Bonjour, Paris! I wanted to be adventurous and walked 4km from the train station to the hotel. Paris is such a chaos and the spotty GPS signal didn't help, but openstreetmap and some old school map reading worked quite fine. Glad I didn't go by car though, way too messy here.

Ah right. I had forgotten that #vndb was blocked at the Wi-Fi of the #Thalys. That's the downside of running a porn site, I suppose. This is going to be a long trip.

Using an older Chromebook makes you realize just how heavy the web has become. Why does DuckDuckGo need 1 MiB of Javascript?

This is odd. Someone created an entry about me on the Urban Dictionary, 8 years ago. I've no clue who wrote it.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yoran

Running a torrent client in a VM with an NFS mount to the host is... slow.

Minor gripe about functional DSLs for HTML: Please allow the type of "a piece of HTML" to contain any number of nodes. I've yet to see a function that cares whether it is being given exactly one node or any other number. #Haskell's Lucid does this right, but in #Elm I frequently have rewrite functions to accept a List of nodes, or insert additional containing nodes into the DOM.

I seriously need to stop chewing on random stuff when I'm programming. Nothing is safe when I'm concentrating. 🙄

Ah yes, it's that time again. Redownloading and compiling half of Stackage because I wanted to make a one-line change to an older #Haskell project, and I had cleaned my .stack folder some time ago. 😅

Hmm, I appreciate the new PGP verification in #Gentoo, but the keyserver selection or timeout handling can be improved.

"Refreshing keys from keyserver ..." can take a loooong time.

Cool. I made a typo in my DNS configuration, and that ended up making it into a paper.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07604.pdf
(Search for "issuewold")

Colleage failed an exam last week
He just got an email saying he can download his certificate. The certificate has a big fat FAILED printed on it. 😂

Me, trying to support #Peertube's fundraiser:
Log in with Facebook? Eww gross. Ah, email works, too. `pwgen -A0 5`, next. Oh, more input fields. More pwgen. Next. Can I pay now? Ah crap, "Fill out your contact details to receive your rewards!". Fuck those rewards, let me pay already! 💢

I'll try this again when I have more patience.

There's this enormous project involving tens of millions of euros to design, build and maintain a large IT system. In none of the phases is there a software developer involved, everyone expects that hugely complicated and expensive software will just work and interact just fine. Sounds like a bad nightmare for the people who have to operate the stuff.

I now have 75k of #Elm code, excluding dependencies. It compiles and minifies to 155k of Javascript, which compresses down to 39k. That's really not bad at all.

Muscle memory is especially strong when tired. Was typing "That feature is not used much anime... aniway... anyway".

There's no *yawn* emoji, so this will have to do 😪

And I have more potential use cases for the same schema:
4. Automatic generation of HTML5 validation attributes (to keep that synchronized)
5. Code generation for Elm types and JSON codecs.

But I'll first have to see if those are worth it; One can take DRY a few steps too far.