Saw #WeirdAl tonight and it was a helluva show!
Best of all, I got to share the experience with my dad (who got me into Al) and my daughter (who I turned onto Al), so it was a multi-generational affair 😁
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Steve Grunwell
@stevegrunwell@phpc.social
mastodon 4.7.3Software developer, open-source contributor, and speaker. Amateur stompbox builder. Part-time musician and improviser. Cishet, but love & support my LGBTQ+ homies.
Music stuff: @popcornfordinner@musician.social
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Joined June 15, 2023
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Location:
Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Works on contingency?:
No, money down!
It's been about a month and a half since the layoffs, so it's probably time to start trying to #GetFediHired (ideally in a #consulting capacity):
I'm a staff-level software engineer with ~18 years of experience working with teams of all sizes. #PHP is my go-to, but I'm comfortable across the typical web stacks (and a quick learner).
My specialty is automated testing & code quality, and I've given > 100 talks since 2014.
I'm anti-AI, but good at setting up guardrails to protect against slop.
Another brand new #ComposerPackage for y'all: BackTrace, which is best described as "value objects for debug_backtrace()"
This one might be pretty niche, but I needed it for a feature I'm building on TypeSnitch, so now we all benefit 😁
I like traveling with a #guitar. Even if it's unamplified and just for strumming in the room, it lets me pretend like I'm on tour.
I understand that I'm an outlier when it comes to password hygiene (I'm *meticulous* with 1Password), but it's for that reason that I get irrationally-upset any time a service switches to "magic links" instead of logging in with a password.
This goes double for "gee whiz, it looks like you haven't updated your password in the last year"—no shit, my password's like 32 characters and has never been used anywhere else by me! 🙄
I parked a few spots down from a #Cybertruck last night, and they're just as stupid looking up-close as they do on the internet. 🤮
#IncelCamino #Deplorean #Swasticar
On this #StarWarsDay, it's important to remember that the Galactic Empire was a stand-in for the imperialistic tendencies of the United States, especially in the wake of Vietnam.
Fight the empire, friends.
Me: You don't get your produce from #TaylorFarms, do you?
Sassy Bar Owner: Of course, boo! How do you think I got so skinny?
I'm choosing to trust that he was being sarcastic🤞
Hey, you! Do you have a legacy #PHP application that needs some much-needed #modernization? Upgrading to PHP 8, wrangling dependencies, building out a solid test suite + CI pipeline, etc.?
I'm available for short- and long-term contracts starting as soon as August!
https://stevegrunwell.com/consulting
#GetFediHired #AvailableForWork #Consulting
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@grmpyprogrammer@yac.grumpy-learning.com @mfrost503@phpc.social this was also my daughter's first real concert, so I think I've successfully set the bar pretty high 😁
Meanwhile, my first was Elton John, shortly after The Lion King came out
RE: @FaithinBones@mastodon.social
This is a very good rule.
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@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org Nice! I'm seeing him in a couple weeks and really looking forward to it!
I've worked in a few languages, but it always comes back to PHP for me.
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@clarkjrasmussen@phpc.social Change boards are meant to create friction; an external party where big changes can be scrutinized in order to avoid production incidents.
They're also a great place for people to get off on telling people "no", regardless of roadmaps.
It's all a stupid game that we're forced to play.
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@clarkjrasmussen@phpc.social This sounds like someone hears "probably" and gets triggered.
You can still hedge your bets, just use more "confident" language, e.g. "our default approach will be to fix forward."
It says the same thing, but nobody's hearing words like "probably".
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@optilude@techhub.social That's a good reminder. My #GAS and strive towards leading a more minimalistic lifestyle are frequently at odds with one another.
I saw this #SuperbOwl whilst (attempting to) check the mail yesterday.
Sadly, he wasn't there when I checked today, so I was safe to bring in the bills and junk mail.
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@mfrost503@phpc.social Mostly blues rock these days, though oddly enough my "best" song at open mics lately has been "Pink Pony Club" 😅
RE: https://phpc.social/@awoodsnet/116976981979051244
This is a bummer, I used to speak at #WordCamp events all the time.
Is it that they just didn't recover from COVID, the organizers got burned out, or something else?
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@paulshryock@phpc.social so I've heard. This visit also includes a sauna and float, so I'm gonna be relaxed af 🤞
John Oliver did a whole episode on #AI #Chatbots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8
AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
RE: https://indieweb.social/@phillycodehound/116222395181605186
I've been away from the #WordPress ecosystem long enough that I sometimes forget about #WPDrama, and things are better for it.
I mean, they suck in different ways, but at least it's not the same bullshit every week.
Before anyone gets concerned, my wife knows that I'm posting my #wiener on the internet
Figure 1: A Venn diagram illustrating the overlap of cohort A ("People I respect") and cohort B ("People who insist that #AI is a net-good for tech, society, and/or the planet")
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@muddle@infosec.exchange put another way: I build robust CI pipelines and test suites that prevent low-quality code—AI-generated or otherwise—from hitting main.
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@ramsey @macmanx @adhdeanasl yup, only an absolute piece of shit would take issue with it. We don't pick the names we're given at birth, nor should we be stuck with them.
A modest proposal: we hand over Trump, Hegseth, et al to Iran. They can do whatever they want with the bastards, up to and including public executions (though I'd suggest Iran try them all in an international court for war crimes and crimes against humanity).
End the unjust war and Trump's tyranny in one fell swoop.
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@linc@phpc.social those places want the Robocop version of Detroit, apparently. Maybe they think they'll somehow be safe, but more likely is Robocop shooting them in the dick
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@bobmagicii@phpc.social rules are made to be broken, and for everything else there's TV-be-Gone 😉
RE: https://triangletoot.party/@Wizkid_alex/116228713035367449
I just downloaded the app, and I can see this being very useful! Even better that the developer is someone I already follow on Fedi 🙂
#FreeIdea for a mixed nut or trail mix brand: Deez Nutz
Hungry? Why not snack on Deez Nutz?
Stuff your face with Deez Nutz!
Alternatively, use a wholesome granny-type named "Dee" and make it "Dee's Nuts" and play naive.
Nothing tastes better than Dee's Nuts!
No one can get enough of Dee's Nuts
You can't stop at just one of Dee's Nuts
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@epicdemiologist@wandering.shop "excuse me, can we change the channel, please? I'm deathly allergic to this horseshit"
@kiki "This person is busy."
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@saramg@fosstodon.org I'm sorry to hear that you're going through this, and hope that things improve for you on the other side of it all. 🫂
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@mfrost503@phpc.social I've had it flop before (semi-rural brewery with an older crowd), but generally it's well received 😁
https://musician.social/@popcornfordinner/116958509486854344
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@optilude@techhub.social I have a birthday coming up in a couple weeks, and now I'm thinking a Beam Solo might be my fun present (I'm also looking at new tuners for my dreadnaught, but that's hardly celebratory).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heavyimage/117004922842803650
Co-signed, and my birthday's in like two weeks, so...chop chop
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@optilude@techhub.social My setup is a Deluxe Reverb with all of my pedals in the basement, then smaller, digital tools in my office: a Positive Grid Spark Mini and a SonicCake Pocket Master (which can apparently load NAM v1).
It might be worth it just for the NAM goodness, but I also have my amply-powered laptop and Focusrite audio interface in my office, so I might just be duplicating efforts 🤔
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@ross@crikey.social It's also a bummer because he and his wife (Nataly Dawn) make up Pomplamoose *and* he's one of the band leaders for Scary Pockets. I used to really enjoy watching their live studio recordings on YouTube :/
Definitely don't hit the new Meta data center on being built on 25 and 582 just north of Bowling Green, Ohio!
https://nerdculture.de/@fzer0/117004011410638187
Help, I'm nearly 40 and just booked my first-ever professional massage.
Who am I?
The sum of times I've been at a brewery and thought "ooh, an ice cream novelty sounds incredible right now!" far exceeds the sum of times in which said ice cream novelty was available.
This is disappointing.
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@mfrost503@phpc.social There are a lot of great, doomy fuzz circuits out there. Any particular ones in mind?
BTW, I recently found https://pedallayouts.com/ which searches some of the popular sites for layouts.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SouthDakota/116936742206090188
Adding #AltText: A yellow sign, decorated and hung as a street sign in a metropolitan area, reading: "Somewhere in America, a little girl is hiding in an attic, writing about I.C.E." #ice
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Ooh, it looks like there's even an official #VivaLaDirtLeague flat clicker. Maybe that's the way to go (though I don't really need a flat clicker this big) https://vivaplus.tv/products/vldl-flat-clicker-blue