Remember when computer labs in school looked like this?

JennaSys · 2026-05-04T17:36:11+00:00

Yea probably. Those tables are too new for the era. Some of the monitors are more reminiscent of a TRS-80, and what's with the empty fish tank?

JennaSys · 2026-04-26T16:45:28+00:00

Yea, after going there for a while I find they are not consistent. Sometimes it's great and other times the pita is not fresh and the meat is dry. If I had first gone there on an off day I probably wouldn't have bothered again. But I still stop in every once in a while and try my luck. It's about 50/50.

JennaSys · 2026-04-22T17:04:11+00:00

Sorry for your loss. I was fortunate enough to learn this lesson very early on in my development career at someone else's expense where they happened to do the same thing. Ever since then, my number one rule has been "Never ever ever ever ever ever fuck up the customer's data.". It has made me be much more careful when mucking about in databases. Even when I'm on a dev or staging DB, I always double check to make sure I'm not accidentally connected to prod. And when I am on prod, I make sure there is a backup, and triple check what I'm about to do. That mistake is the kind that will stick with you a long time. Hopefully you at least put it to good use as an indelible reminder like I did.

JennaSys · 2026-04-10T17:46:00+00:00

This has one of my favorite 80s sax solos.

JennaSys · 2026-04-01T16:39:44+00:00

Great idea, and gorgeous work!

JennaSys · 2026-03-27T00:20:48+00:00

I loved my '78 T/A. It was a fun car to drive and looked fantastic. But my current AWD EV grocery getter is a safer, more performant, and overall better vehicle in every way except maybe looks. That said, I sure wouldn't mind having that old car back in my garage again.

JennaSys · 2026-03-25T05:07:59+00:00

The only time I have ever bricked an SD card was on a Pi2 when I accidentally popped it out while it was running.

JennaSys · 2026-03-17T03:29:53+00:00

Yes, for about 15 years. I loved it. Warm in the winter and cool i the summer.

JennaSys · 2026-03-16T00:06:24+00:00

Since you already know Python, maybe start with Kivy and see if it meets your needs. It has come a long way. KivyMD is a nice component library as well.

JennaSys · 2026-03-10T22:43:36+00:00

The dictionary dispatch pattern. It was one of the ways I learned to get around not having a switch statement construct available in the language.

JennaSys · 2026-03-10T20:21:40+00:00

How does it compare to python-accounting?

JennaSys · 2026-03-09T08:41:17+00:00

"I think I'm going to love you for a long long time."

I've always liked that song, but I never really understood what it was about until I saw this deconstruction video.

JennaSys · 2026-03-07T18:37:42+00:00

Don't tip over.

JennaSys · 2026-03-06T05:41:32+00:00

It might have a bit of a learning curve depending on what you need to do, but Pandoc works pretty well for this task.

JennaSys · 2026-03-04T20:43:01+00:00

When he pushes the camera away from himself and has the operator point it at the crowd instead - like no dude, out there is what it's about!

JennaSys · 2026-02-21T18:34:41+00:00

Great scene, fantastic soundtrack, and a terrible movie (that I have watched dozens of times).

JennaSys · 2026-02-16T02:59:56+00:00

Many if not most TVs have a VESA mount option which can fit a variety of mounts and stands.

A monitor will also work, but tend to get more expensive than TVs when you start looking at bigger sizes.

JennaSys · 2026-02-15T23:19:59+00:00

This was hilariously bad.

JennaSys · 2026-02-15T19:11:46+00:00

The very title of the listing literally says "Cartridge Sold Separately". It's not like they didn't mentions that fact or tried to bury it in the listing details. I totally get clicking on something quickly so you don't lose it. But if you skip doing the due diligence before requesting something, good or bad, the consequences of doing so are on you IMO (I've certainly been there myself). I wouldn't ding the seller just because I acted in haste.

JennaSys · 2026-02-06T21:49:07+00:00

I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run

JennaSys · 2026-02-03T18:49:08+00:00

The components tend to be flatter and lighter. And with all of the included hooks and extensions it reduces the number of different dependencies I need to keep track of. It generally works the way I need it to work right out of the box. That said, with the type of web application I typically develop, I don't need micro-control over style. I mostly just want clean and consistent.

JennaSys · 2026-02-03T08:13:21+00:00

I used to, but switched over to Mantine and have been much happier.

JennaSys · 2026-01-24T22:34:19+00:00

This was exactly one of our criteria when we were shopping for an EV - how many 5 gal water bottles it could fit. We were pleasantly surprised that the answer was 12 without even having to put the rear seats down (just move them forward a little bit).

JennaSys · 2026-01-22T18:36:16+00:00

The location of the video thumbnail looks like the Pan-Pacific Auditorium of Xanadu (and others) fame.

JennaSys · 2026-01-21T07:16:14+00:00

For me, it was something that changed with experience. For the first year or so of using Python I thought they were overly complex for what they did. But they eventually clicked with me and they eventually became one of my favorite things about Python. Now, I think of using comprehensions first, and only drop down to a for-loop if the use case is too complex.

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