@macdonst it's a new codebase to me still so I over estimated how bad it'd be :P Luckily it was just a minor dep update.

Love it when a task takes an order of magnitude less time than expected 😎👍

Is anyone from #YYJ going to FediCon in Vancouver, and if so, what do you hope to come away with from the conference? #fedicon

Web comics about emerging technology don't generally age that well, but the passage of a mere decade hasn't blunted this one a bit.

Had a dream where the moon was taking up the entire sky.

Then a dream where a dog detective needed help solving a case. But he could only bark and honestly the clues didn't add up like he thought they did.

@Miaourt Just high level making sure you handle cancellation in every program that uses async code. It can be hard to answer "What is the best way to handle this long running task needing to stop half way through at arbitrary points". In my case it's needing to stop indexing events from a queue due to teardown of the indexer instance.

@ohmrun I honestly don't mind the language itself. It's just that it gets way harder to interface with it when you're using JS dependencies or trying to do stuff that works best with JS but is a huge pain in the ass to represent in TS.

I feel like a pure TS workflow with Deno would be less annoying to deal with compared to slapping it onto node.js and the node_modules workflow. 🤔

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Still convinced TypeScript has added 10x more complexity and struggle to catch bugs that could be caught by CI. 🤷 I guess there's the fancy intellisense stuff too but I don't use it so 🤷🤷

@thegibson There are two numbers you need to know. What is the minimum bill rate you need to survive. If you don't know know your billable utilization, assume 40%. 2080 hours in 2025, assume that you'll bill 832 hours. Find the bottom number that will allow you to pay your bills.

Then find out what bill rate is usually charged for your service. Usually, it's much higher than your bottom number.

Now you know how much you can wheel and deal on billable rate. My pitch used to be be "I'll beat the going rate by 20%"

I'll jot some down here... When independent consulting... There is a rule of 3.

If you feel your time is worth $50 per hour, your billing rate is $150.

why?

1/3 to you

1/3 to the lean times between gigs

1/3 to the tax man

If you are working at fixing this sort of thing, you should be expecting closer to $100 per hour to you.

Trust me, they can pay a $300/hr billing rate without concern in most cases.

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the most important form of resistance is to live

SD cards are a technology taken right out of early Gibson, real neuromancer shit. Incredible trash tech. Gigabytes of low quality abundance. Small enough to lose even when you're paying attention. Extraordinary but embarrassingly low grade.

There's very nice classy ones from SanDisk but there's so many more from nameless foundries for sale on AliExpress and a tenth the price, that mostly work.

(Chairman George Morrow would shit bluebirds: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks", two obsolete things in one sentence.)

I'm using the big ones in my cp/m machine. Doing serious endurance testing and marginal testing. The really cheap ones do _weird_ things sometimes but work ok, mostly. I now have some good test code, ask me in a week....

With two cards installed, on the same SPI buss, doing random disk random block random read/write I *suspect* there is some odd stuff going on, but it's hard to separate code from electronics from the cards' various effects.

Pretty fucking interesting though.

I want to make the cheap cards as usable as the good ones. I think tristate buffers will do that.

Rooting for the underdogs.

It’s 49,781CE. Humanity has reached the stars and spread among galaxies. We’ve reined in physics and all of space, gravity, time, matter, and energy is ours. The great blooming accelerates.

And there’s still no way for two arbitrary devices to share files.

@06b7819d7f1c7f5472118266ed7bca8785dceae09e36ea3a4af665c6d1d8327c The NFC stuff in safebox looks cool. Would you be into collabing on getting it published to the P2P web and testing it in @agregore? I feel like HTTPS and DNS is still a major point of failure for decentralized apps.

Hell yeah, debugging test failure where I need to rerun this several-min-long test like 8 times to hit the failure case 😎👍

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