Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

Oracle should buy one or more of the big AI companies so our cyberpunk dystopia can get even more cliche.

Recommendation systems that aim to maximize time spent scrolling should be illegal.

Even if voting ian't always a great way of choosing paths, I think at least 80% of those involved should actually choose something they beliece in even if they don't think anyone there will necessarily want to choose their option. Even if the option is "none of the above", tbh.

An example of me making life harder on myself for fun. The other is running linux and hoping stuff will compile properly when I try to install them.

When I played The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion as a kid I didn't realize you could just fast travel everywhere and I've ended up imposing a "no fast travel" rule on myself to keep with immersion more ever since.

After my TypeScript-ification slog I've been having fun building with rocksdb-native and compact-encoding. It plays pretty similar to leveldb but a bit more low level and with first class support for separating "column families"

https://github.com/holepunchto/rocksdb-native

https://github.com/holepunchto/compact-encoding

I love hyperfixating on computer stuff 🥰

@technobaboo I saw the discord Q about #i2p and @agregore

It's not supported yet because I'm jot sure what the protocol handlers would look like and what content already exists for i2p.

OKOK I like typescript again because it helped me find a bug due to a library using a really weird return type. Sometimes a negative number, sometimes an array of objects that also has a string property defined on it for some reason. 🙃

LOL. Discord randomly locked my account. 🤷

So the issue was that I'm not allowed to re-export the `Event` and `EventTarget` types for some reason. 🤷

LMAO nvm I hate typescript again 🤪 WTF am I supposed to do with this error about not being able to generate a `d.ts` because I'm exporting a type that extends EventTarget? Like, do people just not use DOM APIs in libraries?

I ordered one for myself for xmas! Let's see if it works!

Finally doing some coding on my #twiddler one handed keyboard. It's surprisingly quite a mental workout and I keep reaching for my computer on impulse. Thankfully I'm doing better than I expected and the tab autocomplete + existing muscle memory helps a lot!

Ahhhhhh. Scratchy throat. Can't go out. Stuck at home. At least home is where all my favorite things are.

I still have a lot of trouble visualizing interactions with more than one time dimension.