Dave W Smith

Proud Dad moment: I sent my daughter a mini-PC with a fresh Linux install. Two days later, she'd installed Proxmox, Home Assistant, Zigbee, and is now controlling house lighting. (And TIL I learned that some Ikea bulbs will turn on unadvertised Zigbee support if you power-cycle them 12 times.)

@timbray@cosocial.ca It might help to distinguish between text and image. I see little of the former, and alot of the latter.

@brohrer@recsys.social I was thinking LinkedIn, but either works

@miguelgrinberg@mstdn.social Same. Tending towards https://linuxmint.com/ on the recommendation of a friend who has sound technical judgement.

@jmeowmeow I had some delicious cheese and herb stuffed,grilled Anaheims once, and am still looking for the right kind of soft cheese to replicate it.

@jerry Thanks for this

We have a whiteboard that's old enough that WIndex only moves the smudges around. Found a new (to me) cleaning method that uses toothpaste, isopropyl alcohol, and WD-40. And it works! Note the advice on using unscented toothpaste. I didn't, and a room here now smells MINTY FRESH! https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to-restore-an-old-whiteboard/

World of Wonders: Water Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hsN9VIgEY

Re-sorted a bunch of cables to consign half to e-waste. Now have ziplock bags with labels "USB A", "USB micro", "USB mini", and "USB WTF?!?" That last bag scares me. In boxes here somewhere there are probably oddball devices that need one of those cables that's USB on one end and something decidedly not USB on the other. A sure way to discover which is to throw those cables away.

A good, "we used to know this, then forgot it, and are now re-inventing it but with different [ed: adversarial] incentives" presentation on alerts and notifications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ira28fgSF7M

"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers." Oof https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

Hi to all of the fellow Dave's in the comments (which are worth reading, because this is a commonly misdiagnosed problem by management) https://www.reddit.com/r/managers/comments/1wpywgd/you_inherit_a_dave_what_do_you_do_with_him/

@davidism@mas.to Allowing for null distinguishes between not knowing a thing and knowing that it's nothing. What to display in the UI is a policy decision the app gets to make.

@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud Ask them to complete the thought. Often it's some combination of "... and then the tests run forever and slow us down," and "the tests are brittle, and having to constantly stop and fix them slows us down." There's not great guidance on how to navigate that (or there is, but it's drowned out by guidance that isn't so great).

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social My stroke of library fortune was when my Mom had a quiet talk with the librarian, and my 11 year old borrowing limit was quietly doubled. I didn't know such a thing was possible.

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social They do empasize only doing this on old whiteboards

@natpryce@mastodon.social One reason I've left my 'Dave tries possibly dumb ideas' repo public

@marick@mstdn.social Many years back when I was driving my daughter to an early HS class ('zero hour', may such things die in a fire), we'd crank this up to jump start the morning. It delivers.

@brohrer@recsys.social Los Angeles

@ceejbot@toot.cat ouch!