Ben S. / is on Nostr

Dad. Software engineer. Gaming / electronics / computing enthusiast (especially retro). Xennial suburban white cis het ex-religious SJW. I microblog my way through old games a lot (especially CRPGs).

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2024-07-10 22:41:51

Someone tried to dump a task on me in a work meeting today, and I apparently flipped it back onto them so deftly that multiple people on the call immediately congratulated me as the original person declared defeat lol

2024-05-11 20:01:12

The #Windows11 Task Bar is such garbage. I plugged in a second monitor and was wondering if there was a way to get my pinned apps to appear on the secondary Task Bar.
...Toggled an unrelated setting off and back on while poking around Settings, and *boom* they all suddenly appeared.
I wanted to give it an honest go, but given that this is clearly an amateur knockoff of the much superior Task Bar from previous Windows releases, I may as well look at third-party options lol.

2024-05-10 18:07:07

Nice: My timezone is currently 420 minutes behind UTC.

2024-05-10 01:37:01

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@npub14fs…qegk I've known about curses libraries for probably 30 years due to tinkering with roguelikes, but I've never had an excuse to write a curses app from scratch until now.

2024-05-10 01:11:27

Some software I help maintain has a janky logging GUI written in Java that I've been trying to kill off for at least half a decade. Thankfully it's no longer usable due to how we've migrated everything to run in containers, so while I wait for a fancy replacement to get implemented, I'm having a blast secretly working on an ncurses-based "TUI" (textual/terminal user interface) that users will be able to run from a container shell.

2024-03-24 16:23:53

What the f*** is the point of picking a 2 hour delivery window when the person shows up 1.2 hours early? Thanks for ruining my Sunday lie-in!

2024-03-23 22:10:46

Networking nerds, give me home LAN upgrade advice!
Current situation (needs are in post #2) is as follows:
I have 1000/25 internet now, and my R7000 FreshTomato router + WiFi AP only supports that WAN speed if I overclock it to 1.2GHz.
A Cat 5e run connects that to an Asus RT-N66U at the opposite end of the house, which acts as a secondary AP+switch.
These are both downstairs, but we have a second floor. The kids complain about unstable WiFi upstairs.