Notices by wilkie (wilkie@mastodon.social)

I know the world is ending, but it's truly fucked that biweekly and bimonthly can mean the same thing.

for Halloween, here's somebody that (functionally!) dressed up a flash card as a floppy disk. 💾 ❤️ http://spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm&page=3

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I wrote a personal essay on federated social web meets the rogue archivists, the nuance and power of forgetting, and building social software around consent and archival resistance. https://wilkie.how/posts/social-archival

technology becoming better means we should have less satellites, not more. collect the junk satellites and set an aggressive minimum, please.

stop telling me to sit properly in chairs. i'll sit in chairs "correctly" when they become beds.

1999: I really want to play Doom, but I need to do my homework first
2019: I really want to play Doom, but I need to assign homework first

tech impostor syndrome is one part not thinking you are smart enough and one part not thinking you are a shitty enough person to succeed

If only

sometimes a student mistakenly calls me a professor and I have to correct them by letting them know I'm just a staff person that does research, writes grants, teaches classes, reviews papers, and manages undergrad and grad student work. simple mistake, tho, no harm.

we should all try to appreciate the Borland C++ installation program

You walk into the dark alley periodically looking back to see nothing but a dense fog. You meet your informant, shaking as they ask, "Is it safe to speak?" You announce in your best non-regional dialect, "Hey Google, Alexa, Cortana, Siri" and wait for a beep; "Good. We're alone."

My boss made a WordStar joke so I added WordStar to the software archive and associated it as a viewer of .DOC files. This works pretty well, though I have some speed improvements I'd like to make. https://mastodon.social/media/XDPa56ToA_Y5ev9nfd0

unsung heroes of early programming: the many women who, as factory weavers, assembled programs on rope memory.

interviewers expect us to implement linked lists on whiteboards because they are fundamental, but not weave or knit programs??? idgi. https://mastodon.social/media/_gpYfKQjzGd_XcxI5mM

my favorite part of the autotools FAQ https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#Why-is-everything-so-complicated_003f https://mastodon.social/media/1vhEMqfDqZ8DRyxptAU

oops I think I broke it sorry https://mastodon.social/media/7HhwlEvgc37bwFS3iMM

Switching to my other computer until this security fiasco is fixed. Bonus: it boots in less than a second. https://mastodon.social/media/K3kHxSyMdbA0vyOZniI

I love this shit so much!! even tho it means we have to essentially throw every modern CPU in the dang garbage.

*reads CPU flaw PoCs* AHHH. That's WAY worse than the worst scenario I imagined!!

I'm apparently in the "everybody has a newborn niece" age group right now.