Cube Drone

90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT
Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.

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2024-08-18 16:14:39

okay, #cooking opinion time: microplanes die too quickly, I don't like them

2024-08-12 01:56:36

What I'm looking for is a game that makes me feel like Earthbound did in 199X, but that seems like it may be too much to ask

2024-07-15 22:10:16

I don't like it when board games have legacy mechanics. That 's too big of an ask of my time and friend group, and a lot of times they result in permanent damage to the game's innards as you tear up boxes and bits and bobs.
I've bought a few and I've regretted each one.

2024-05-19 07:14:27

this is what is known as a "french army knife"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/466/516/374/378/250/original/90999665a06dd707.png

2024-05-17 17:52:41

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@npub1sl9…2ckf I think you're right, peak ridiculousness for a gun-sword is age 47, as determined by science

2024-05-17 08:27:18

Ok fine vent the stupid gas

2024-05-17 07:15:14

the older you draw the guy holding the gun-sword, the more ridiculous the gun-sword looks

2024-05-17 01:58:40

Computing
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/453/949/560/826/899/original/bad6c1d84651505d.jpg

2024-05-17 01:31:35

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@npub130x…cunr
Every "every" claim should be understood to be somewhat hyperbolic, including this one

2024-05-17 01:22:13

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@npub130x…cunr I heard someone estimate once that every game team needs about 4 creatives for every programmer and while I'm not sure that totally holds, it doesn't seem WRONG, either

2024-05-17 01:12:46

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@npub1zln…u9mv
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/453/770/293/844/264/original/07d0aaf328f02542.webp

2024-05-17 01:06:13

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i'm seriously considering releasing some software under the WinRar model where there's a long free trial and afterwards it presents you with an easily defeated "hey, could you please pay me?" window

2024-05-17 00:59:55

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@npub130x…cunr
yeah, a model which 100% does not apply to indie games, because if any small financial services company has a crippling dependency on Balatro _somebody is probably getting in trouble_

2024-05-17 00:51:15

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rar
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/453/685/409/315/890/original/f4014f74d49396c9.webp

2024-05-17 00:45:15

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every FOSS monetization model:
* begging strangers for money, hoping for the best
* run it as a SAAS
* large, expensive enterprise support packages
the first one produces vanishingly low returns and the last two don't usually work for games and have you getting run out of business by Amazon

2024-05-17 00:41:27

ok, random stranger, I'm subtweeting you, seventeen people in all of history have ever made a profit from FOSS software, indies have it hard enough already, don't try to get them to release their source code just because you think it will probably work out for them

2024-05-17 00:07:18

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@npub1788…9nku yeah: while I bristle at measuring quality of life in raw GDP, I’m not going to go to bat saying the last 4 years have been rosy :p

2024-05-16 23:29:06

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@npub1788…9nku
what a surprise
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/453/361/941/289/234/original/e7f20e815ede5c5d.jpg

2024-05-16 23:19:02

sometimes I get rate limited by Mastodon, using the Mastodon client regularly, from a single tab, which strikes me as a bit odd, on account of... you know, Mastodon, _you're the one doing this_
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/453/321/456/117/099/original/3c851319b1cd5f96.png

2024-05-16 00:25:56

basically any idea i have after 5PM is terrible and shouldn't be listened to
also any idea i have before 5PM
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/447/922/545/828/341/original/e06b9cddd41d3378.png

2024-05-15 06:05:51

Reading the Delta Green RPG, I'm astonished that this is as popular as it is, it's a fun universe but their "spare no detail" codex style of worldbuilding is just exhausting to read

2024-05-15 02:49:05

canonically the CEO of Cube Drone died when someone offered him a ride on a rocket ship
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/442/823/630/525/473/original/5df32201c58e2406.png

2024-05-14 22:09:02

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@npub1zkf…0m2z
now, that's a lot to ask from a date parsing library, but I kind of expect that if it can do "yesterday", or "2 hours ago", it should also be able to do "9 AM"

2024-05-14 19:48:55

Following up
with the mental model
of validating solutions
aligned autonomy
while tailoring
our frameworks' approach
to specific flows
out of these perspectives
we've gathered a lot
of great feedback
for planning and executing
roll-out team objectives
baking that in
to a new process
to address pain points
we've identified
including barriers
to ideation,
focus,
and synergies,
while preserving
our best chance to succeed
with a new team-level

2024-05-14 17:28:12

this is the worst library I've ever tried
here are it trying to interpret "10 minutes ago" various different ways, and it appears to apply different timezone rules each time
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/440/616/911/372/972/original/e4a3e82f4d36ddf7.png

2024-05-14 01:51:53

When your family member edits the Google doc by downloading it and then sending you an excel spreadsheet

2024-05-14 01:32:34

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@npub12rh…g0fk
I'm from so far north I'm not even in the same country and I still celebrate my birthday with corn and hot dogs every year

2024-05-14 01:30:49

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How Curse of Strahd players see Waterdeep
#dungeonsAndDragons
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/436/849/628/785/421/original/d44e50a9c6a5aa00.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/436/852/264/852/366/original/ff304423f7c041bd.png

2024-05-14 01:28:27

how Waterdeep players see Barovia
#dungeonsAndDragons
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2024-05-13 23:22:17

Comedy Author: In my sitcom I invented the Stupid Torment Nexus as a joke, to make fun of the dumb things that people build.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Stupid Torment Nexus from classic sitcom Ha Ha, What A Terrible Torment Nexus

2024-05-13 22:15:12

database, ok
data warehouse... ok
data mart... ok
data stream? ... ok
data... lake? .... ok
data lakehouse? ... no, this is starting to get concerning, you're crossing the analogies

2024-05-13 22:07:03

Box graters are nice for a wide variety of miscellaneous kitchen tasks
Radial graters are for people who are about to create a heaping, snowy mountain of parmesan on their food
Radial graters are for people who never told their waiter to stop
They just made eye contact and waited
Surely they will crack before you do

2024-05-13 20:18:23

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2024-05-13 19:06:26

at least they're finally being honest about WHO'S dreams that kid was chasing
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/435/340/241/238/866/original/859e151e747a689a.png

2024-05-13 09:59:14

(after pointing a dusty fan directly in my own face for several hours)
my eyes are dry
must be eye strain from all of the monitor usage

2024-05-13 07:51:42

my cat is orange, and he has a white chin and a white belly and a tiger striped tail, and we're very good friends, and somehow this fulfills a deep-seated itch planted in my brain a very, very long time ago
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/432/684/147/048/313/original/fdeab7342ac4d2d5.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/432/685/210/519/314/original/4aca40e320a05bfe.webp

2024-05-12 08:02:20

I think Slate may imply that the problem is sexism and while that's likely the case, I'd also like to advance the theory that the last few remaining fans of golf have simply died
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/427/064/372/456/274/original/dda46d4d4dc649a6.png

2024-05-11 21:17:36

Lazy Saturday #cat
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/424/532/887/077/920/original/f69f1abd24a2d9f2.jpg

2024-05-11 06:26:29

my friends are going to be very frustrated when they get to the end of the campaign and learn that the real Strahd was the friends they made along the way

2024-05-11 05:55:55

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The second time around I thought I'd be clever and stash a Creative AI in my pocket just in case I needed to take things in another direction only to hit The Awakened One.
TBH, though, both of these decks would have absolutely wrecked Donu and Deca

2024-05-11 05:54:28

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most final bosses can mount about 600 health which means that you've gotta cast Hyperbeam, like, 15-20 times successfully, and keeping the Defect alive for that many turns in a boss fight, even with buffer and intangible and all kinds of tricks, it just doesn't work: Hyperbeam offers loads of hallway utility but it's actively the opposite of scaling damage

2024-05-11 02:20:29

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The Canadian special
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/420/062/997/434/300/original/7768609503704ad9.jpg

2024-05-11 02:13:50

Little pan focaccias
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/420/036/582/283/664/original/27a351f4ea6b4b76.jpg

2024-05-10 23:36:21

there's a bard spell called viscous mockery which they cast when the words aren't flowing as well as usual

2024-05-10 19:22:59

I’m not sure when my cousin May’s birthday is, so I asked my mom and she said “May may be May, maybe”

2024-05-10 19:15:48

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@npub1upk…tcwy "it's git, she's talking about git"
and then the next toot confirmed it and I felt a little frisson of excitement and validation

2024-05-10 19:04:29

sometimes I think it's funny that we dump so much mercury in the ocean that all of the fish are a little poisonous now, and mercury doesn't _go anywhere_ once it's in the ocean, and we haven't _stopped_ dumping mercury in the ocean

2024-05-10 09:05:39

my recipe for iced tea is elaborate and needs to be shared far and wide
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/415/990/913/438/211/original/1dad6535045021a2.png

2024-05-10 07:26:06

lately I've been making an iced tea out of hibiscus and lime that's just very, very good

2024-05-09 20:03:42

one thing I really did like about Cities: Skylines 2 is that people will absolutely and routinely flout traffic laws if they feel like it will get them to their destination faster, driving in pedestrian-only zones and bus lanes with impunity

2024-05-09 19:37:21

Techies heap scorn on nontechnical folks for solving their problems with Excel and Word and Zoom and Discord and Facebook Groups and Instagram as if those aren't flexible, generic tools that are widely understood compared to some hard-to-install PHP software from the mid-oughts

2024-05-09 07:51:18

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@npub1ksu…p5ea the quick pickle is also great for radishes, onions, shallots, carrots, hot peppers, all sorts of things. I like coriander, mustard seed, and garlic in there.

2024-05-08 23:46:11

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Oh, I probably don't need to say it, but for these reasons Elf/Goblin relationships are explicitly verboten, being as Goblins get old and die at ages where elves would still be considered _young_ children.

2024-05-08 23:44:08

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A gnome game will involve several consecutive DC 20 INT checks and a chess-clock to keep things snappy.
A goblin game will involve live explosives.
An elf game is gonna essentially be cricket: long and drawn out with loads of incredibly boring rules.

2024-05-08 23:41:38

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Gnomes are going to be the ones in your D&D universe to have developed calculus and established a legitimate space exploration agency in the woods, but also they often depend on humans for things like "walls" and "crops" because those things are, dare I say, BORING AS HELL

2024-05-08 23:36:40

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That speed tends towards high DEX and INT scores because they're literally _wired faster than everybody else_, but with the hyperactivity comes all manner of little issues like losing track of things around them, memory issues, and treating boring or repetitive tasks like the literal end of the world.

2024-05-08 23:33:51

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In contrast, we have Gnomes, who are small, overclocked elves.
The difference is that there are a lot less of them and they live much longer.
Gnomes have the long lifespan, but their society can be goblinesque in some ways because gnomes are simply Very Fast Thinkers.
The experience reality at about 1.5x the speed of other cultures, like, everything around them seems frustratingly slow, so they give off _really aggressive ADHD vibes_.

2024-05-08 23:26:20

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Relationships between humans and goblins are relatively rare for exactly the same reason that relationships between humans and elves are rare: a human is reaching the end of their life at an age when an elf isn't even considered an adult yet, so basically all relationships have Very Bad Age Dynamics that other people find creepy, like if you had a 45-year-old friend dating an 18-year-old.

2024-05-08 23:21:45

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Often they're evil - in the sense a pack of schoolyard bullies who've been confused into worshipping an evil god would be - but they're weaker than even low-level PCs so they're only aggressive in large numbers or with *very obviously* weaker foes, and as soon as the battle turns against them they'll immediately drop everything to get out of dodge.

2024-05-08 23:17:35

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Goblin inventors, mages, and clerics tend to be _extremely_ respected and feared: for the same reason that everybody listened to that kid who figured out how to get all of the extra lives in Contra. They rarely have the time necessary to truly _master_ their art, but their recklessness can make for some wild results anyways.

2024-05-08 23:15:28

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In more placid goblin settlements, adventurers will quickly find that most goblins do not have a well-developed sense of personal property - again, whoever owned that sword first probably died - which can create awkward situations even in peaceful encounters.

2024-05-08 23:13:30

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The short lifespans and massive goblin redundancy give them a tendency towards chaos, lack of respect for life, and hedonism. There is no word for "safety" in the goblin language.

2024-05-08 23:12:25

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The rapid maturation makes them like overgrown, violent children, and their relative naivete makes them extremely prone to poor decision making and cult-like-behavior. The rapid rate of mutation also means that any given tribe of goblins is extremely different from any other tribe of goblins, with culture and slang almost incomprehensibly different between any given set of tribes in only a handful of generations.

2024-05-08 23:08:46

My personal D&D goblin lore is that most of their whole deal can be explained by the fact that they have a LOT of children, mature at about twice the rate as humans, and have about a third of the lifespan, so they're essentially to humans what humans are to elves

2024-05-07 21:23:32

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@npub1ytq…9rrp
all tests: green on first try
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/401/908/139/063/850/original/8f1b0aaba37af79b.mp4

2024-05-06 20:46:02

I spent the evening watching a flat-earth debunker's various and sundry youtube posts, which is fun, and also pretty much evergreen, because the task itself is sisyphean.

2024-05-04 05:38:47

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@npub1mj5…0r0x if you live downtown you should have some food and ammunition stocked in your pantry in case Vancouver ever _nearly_ wins the Stanley Cup

2024-05-04 05:36:57

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This one-ingredient chicken soup will blow your mind:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/381/198/875/026/132/original/14d070777dbd919a.webp

2024-05-04 05:35:38

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(i'm joking, but this article advocates pouring canned biscuits into a can of chicken soup which is as depressing as it sounds)

2024-05-04 05:34:28

duh, it's "chicken" and "dumplings"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/381/186/853/703/752/original/da4d4a753cf3d3da.png

2024-05-04 05:32:48

I know that the Canucks are close to the heart of everyone in Vancouver, but since I don't follow their schedule, most of my experience of Canucks games has been "surprise, transit is completely fucked" or "surprise, this pub is booked solid" or "surprise, traffic is backed up for 2 solid hours"

2024-05-03 00:41:53

when I interviewed at bethesda, the interviewee was just two eyes floating in space over an empty coat
i didn't get the job because I couldn't rotate my head 180 degrees vertically

2024-05-02 19:56:07

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I don't think it's WRONG that programming is best done in quiet, uninterrupted, focused stretches, that's actually kinda self-evident
but I also think that demanding these stretches can seem petty and arrogant, as if programming is the only discipline that benefits from focus and quiet and reflection

2024-05-02 19:52:26

When I was in my 20s I'd see an article about how a programmer's focus and flow is a PRECIOUS AND UNIQUE GEM THAT MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS and think "yes, it is, I agree"
and now, older, I think that we have had it too good for too long and are used to being treated like pampered babies, yes, we must be exempt from meetings and distractions in a perfect sea of quiet or the golden goose will not lay its programming eggs
... but I'm still happier when it's quiet and I don't have meetings

2024-05-02 07:43:14

I gave my players a scroll of Pyrotechnics, one of the less useful spells in the game (IMO) figuring that if they ever figured out something to use it for, it would be fun.
Anyhow, one unexpected effect, Rules as Written, is that the spell starts by extinguishing a 5x5 cube of fire, (which would, IMO, insta-kill a CR 5 Fire Elemental) and which the players used to solve a "fire" problem they were having. The fireworks afterward were just incidental.
#dungeonsAndDragons

2024-05-01 22:50:56

today in work:
a build with "build" in the name of the build will build, but it won't deploy
because when we build it, it includes "build" in the name of the completed build
but when we try to deploy it, it decides that "build" is the cut-off point for the name of the build, but it uses the "build" in the name of the build rather than the "build" added by a completed build: as a result it can't find the correct build
in conclusion: build

2024-05-01 04:07:11

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@npub1sl9…2ckf I’d say it’s too many whisks but I have like 5 pairs of tongs in mine and that still might not be enough tongs, so it’s hard to judge

2024-04-30 17:48:40

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@npub18yz…0kg0 while I was able to fix the problem, I was never able to determine why BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB happened

2024-04-30 09:33:33

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I guess it could be T...erry Pratchett and I could cram something else in the P-zone, like Piers Anthony
then Ursula Le Guin is the only chance I'm going to have to fill "U"
Vaughan
Wells
and I'm going to declare X, Y, and Z out of play. For... reasons.

2024-04-30 09:30:13

#10Authors5BooksEach
I wanted to do them alphabetically but...
Adams
Card
Beaton
Eddings
Gaiman
Heinlein
I.... saac Asimov
Jemisin
Kui
Leckie
McCaffrey
North
O'Malley
Pratchett
Reichl
Smith
T...
T....
god dammit, T?

2024-04-30 04:50:15

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as regexes go, [0-9] does not, in fact, match "B", and as for why it's showing ALL of those Bs....

2024-04-30 04:49:37

i am not sure what i've done wrong here, but
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/358/363/262/925/352/original/fe4fd5639b301174.png

2024-04-27 19:04:40

Just cruise into the living room to discover a fully tucked cat
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/344/738/397/614/094/original/894341e0c96f4460.jpg

2024-04-26 08:33:54

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@npub1g53…v0hh
that checks out
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2024-04-26 08:15:15

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aaaaaa I made a tiny change to the indexing strategy and it's so fast

2024-04-26 07:12:25

progress
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/336/274/696/986/119/original/9d890af7661c8f99.png

2024-04-26 00:21:56

day 3 of tattoo healing and my frustration with the bandage is only mediated by how itchy and sensitive I know my arm would be without it

2024-04-25 23:32:20

i know I'm old, and therefore too painfully uncool to be aware of any modern jams, but this putatively real music festival lineup is so arcane that it feels like it was generated by an AI trying to come up with band names
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/334/465/328/044/150/original/019960ea64987d7b.png

2024-04-25 18:40:06

sometimes it's hard to reconcile my belief that Software Development Isn't That Hard And Just About Anybody Who Seems Smart Could Probably Do My Job
with providing useful feedback during the interview phase

2024-04-25 17:55:08

my suggestion that, for pride, we simply roll out the NYC world but leave a bunch of bricks lying around, has been rejected out of hand

2024-04-24 22:39:37

🙋
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2024-04-23 06:41:06

having a bengal is a fine way to experience being very gently eviscerated by a friend

2024-04-22 08:02:32

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"i can't live in the ad-space for a Coffee News from 2016"
whiners the lot of you

2024-04-22 07:11:43

good news, #vancouver, amidst this crushing housing crisis, I have found an affordable space to rent
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/313/621/452/161/690/original/037d52d6de442a12.jpg

2024-04-22 00:24:14

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@npub130s…kfgt
why yes, i do
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/312/021/305/462/322/original/d4e0bb0b8d4e0d2f.jpg

2024-04-20 21:36:38

the good Dua Lipa songs have a part that goes "clap clap", the lizard brain enjoys this

2024-04-20 20:10:00

I can't stand working in coffee shops. It's loud, people are having conversations all around you. Not enough screen space. Laptop keyboard. You can't leave your "office" unattended to use the bathroom unless you want it to wander away. I have better coffee beans at home.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/305/358/892/768/766/original/6df554d82f74671a.jpg

2024-04-20 07:30:52

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which, y'know, I don't mind
I don't mind a little wonton soup

2024-04-20 07:27:32

Sometimes Tiff protests when I say that she doesn't cook
but I've been sick for three days, I've made dinner on two of those three days (because otherwise there would be no dinner) and on the third day Tiff thought it might be nice to offer
to order chinese food

2024-04-19 22:04:38

I answered one question on Stack Overflow, one time, a decade ago
but their algorithm is so good at entrenching answers that my worthless point harvest is bountiful, e'ry season
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