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Will Richardson
@willhbr@ruby.social
mastodon 4.7.3Computer enthusiast and photographer.
In Sydney, Australia. From Christchurch/Otautahi, New Zealand.
Software engineer at Google. Personal opinions only.
201 Followers
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Joined November 24, 2022
I found a projector in the garbage room of my apartment building. My apartment doesn't have any space for a projector. What should I do with this??
Owning My Streaming With #Navidrome
Alternate title: how to spend more money by cancelling subscriptions
https://willhbr.net/2026/09/28/owning-my-streaming-with-navidrome/
This is what peak performance looks like
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@howking@mastodonczech.cz I do use bike paths, and appreciate how much I can stay safe off the road! But sadly there are lots of places where there's no bike path—so who do I pay to get space for my bike in those cases?
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@howking@mastodonczech.cz so I can't pay to use my bike on the road then? So people don't have what they can afford, they have what is built for them?
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@howking@mastodonczech.cz why should I need a car to get to work? It would take me longer to drive and slow everyone else down, which seems worse for everyone imo
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@howking@mastodonczech.cz oh yeah I get your point, most of the time I'm stuck behind cars since they take up so much space on the road. Anyway, thanks for your perspective 😊
"I started being kind and patient to my reports and they work better now"
If Elon Musk made a console it would be called the Xbox
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@e_nomem@hachyderm.io @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems pavement for pedestrians? No! Free storage for share bikes!
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Also I can listen to Naughty Music™ that's not allowed on streamers, ie mashups like Girl Talk's All Day and Neil Cicierega's Mouth Moods
https://illegalart.net/allday/
http://www.neilcic.com/mouthmoods/
CSS is hard, I guess
Saw this happen from Barangaroo, thought they'd just frozen and didn't realise they were dropping out of the air 🫣
I'm now a restic-pilled backupmaxxer
If you use Restic for backups on MacOS, how do you schedule it? Cron? Launchd? Manually? Pls share expertise
@jsnell@zeppelin.flights I thought you only did one episode a week! 😉
what about vimmaxxing
Added my wall photos
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf one eight of availability is the new baseline 🫣
To be fair, Pages has a ~99% uptime, and the CDN is through Fastly (iirc?), so it seems like that part is pretty stable
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Hi to whoever requested /HelloItIsMe
I see you also speak both en-AU and en-GB
Just bought tickets to a show, I had to provide name, email, phone number, home address, and date of birth, as well as making an account in venue's system. I'm sure this will be handled with care.
Honestly if something uses bold text I just assume it's AI generated. Real humans use italics.
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@NunavutBirder@mas.to I've tried it (admittedly briefly) and found the editing performance too slow, eg it doesn't update exposure in real time as you drag the slider
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Using Shelv as a client just because I wanted something free to test with. It's pretty decent, mostly only UI quibbles
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I reopen Spotify (still premium until next month) and it decides this is the perfect time for a full screen interstitial "sponsored recommendation" ... 🤔
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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one So I learnt today that the <<: *foo syntax (called a merge key) is only in YAML 1.1 (https://yaml.org/type/merge.html) and not YAML 1.2.
But seemingly a bunch of YAML 1.2 parsers include it, which is why I expected it to work.
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pls subscribe to the RSS so I can feel justified making the whole website and publishing system
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I'd appreciate any pointers on what works well vis a vis self hosting music streaming. Some kind of server and an iOS client. MacOS client would be nice too.
#Sydney metro stations are great
Except all the huge ads in central. Those are gross.
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@wezm I don't understand why you'd work with a weird custom Arch distro instead of working with Arch themselves. Surely all the work to get drivers cooperating will be done upstream, so why not work with the upstream?
How will I mix this up today?
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@petitmote@toot.aquilenet.fr this was a while ago so not 100% sure, I definitely remember seeing this advice. This was on MacOS so not sure what the hardware acceleration story is there.
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@esparta@ruby.social hmm that's weird, it's hosted on GH pages so usually I'd expect it to be quick, but maybe you just hit outside the one nine of availability
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@nickheer@c.im everyone claims that their city has "the worst drivers" and no one has realised that people suck at driving
Please compliment our painting job. I haven't painted since I was like 7 and my parents trusted my with the roller in my room.
Back to 100Mb/s 😢
Since apparently it's important that your tools are added as co-authors to your commits:
[templates]
draft_commit_description = '''
concat(
builtin_draft_commit_description,
"Co-authored-by: JJ "
)
'''
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@esparta@ruby.social I'm sorry to say that you've been 100% AI this whole time. Text formatting choice is the most accurate Turing test.
Check out this wall #shotoniphone
Anyone that's got Opinions™ on licenses for small personal projects, what're your fave licenses and why? For libraries versus applications? Any resources that you found particularly useful?
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Main complaint is that the header doesn't collapse when scrolling, so there's only really enough room to see one full row of albums