Music, comics, art, and other stuff, all in one gigantic pile. The web of yesterday, tomorrow!
A random conversation tonight awakened a memory in me, namely, back in the 90s, we didn’t refer to fursonas as fursonas, but as “personal furries,” and I had it in my mind that the term “fursona” actually started out as derisive and came from an anti-furry space. Which led me on a bit of a quest.
null or have a value?
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In reply to: Re: How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value?
I have nothing helpful to add here except to say, Javascript’s undefined/null duality continues to be a mistake.
(But also, anything that relies on that duality has also made a mistake.)
>>> import datetime >>> apollo = datetime.datetime(1969,7,20,20,17) >>> delta = datetime.datetime.now() - apollo >>> apollo + delta / 2 datetime.datetime(1996, 10, 13, 20, 57, 7, 893840)
Anything that happened on or before October 13, 1996 is now closer in history to the Apollo 11 moon landing than it is to today.
It’s way too easy to get heated while in the thick of things and for bad-faith interpretations to take over from the point anyone’s trying to make, and that is absolutely a two-way street.1
For now I’ve removed Toot! from my phone and DNS-blocked plush.city from my home network, so hopefully any posts I make to Mastodon are just from my automatic crossposter (like this one). I’ll still (eventually) see replies to my blog posts that come in as Webmentions, but hopefully not being Always So Online will be better for my mental health, which hasn’t been great as of late and I’m definitely lashing out at others much more than I would like.
The spam DNSBL server at njabl.org went no-op in 2013 and dark in 2023, and starting at around 21:00 PST on January 1, 2024, was taken over by new controllers who began to inadvertently reject all email.
I forgot to check up on my previous annual goals post, but better late than never, right?
Notes to self:
Oh well, it was a good learning experience, as long as I actually learned from it.
Oh yeah, earlier today the original contractor came by to look at things. He’s agreed to do the finishing-up work for free, and also will be reimbursing me for the plumbing expenses, which is very kind of him. When I showed him what his previous plumber had done he was incredibly shocked by it.
Hopefully the work will be finished up sometime in the next month; unfortunately he’s traveling soon and won’t be back for a few weeks, but he said he will hopefully be able to schedule someone to do the patching-up.
Everyone else is doing one so I’d might as well too.
Just collecting some notes for myself. This will probably get more stuff on it as time goes on. Feel free to use this as a reference for yourself too.