Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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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. 😅
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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.
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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.
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please remember that you can get skin damage from the sun even when it's not hot and even when it's a bit cloudy. we're still close to the the solstice, so in the northern hemisphere remember your sunscreen, put on a hat if you have one, wear sunglasses, seek shade.
sun is responsible for the majority of visible skin aging and with the visible aging comes functional aging too. not to mention the risk of skin cancer.
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I had this thought last night - in the near future, every single company will be shipping code with AI, super fast. That code will be the fast food of code.
Then someone will open a startup and their motto will be to deliver handcrafted software. Just three people on the company, a client calls them, they visit in person, spend some time at your business, and they WRITE SOFTWARE BY HAND - a software that only you have and no one else, and was done with your requirements in mind. It took longer but it’s damn fine software.
The same way you would have a personal chef home cook you a special dinner and that is a premium service.
The full moon was majestic tonight. Like a second sun peeking through the clouds. Sprinkled with an abundance of fireflies.
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i hope the power outage lasts all night so I can get more of that sweet full moon illumination tonight
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LLMs are mansplaining as a service, but more specifically that type of mansplainer who googles your question and replies authoritatively with the first result that comes up, despite having zero understanding himself.
Unexpected that I'm not finding any reviews of the #twiddler 4 online when I search. Has anyone actually used this thing?
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Calling it now, learnable graph cellular automata will be the future of "AI coding assistants" :P
Question for #math and #ComputerScience folks: What search terms should I use to find papers related to transitioning graphs to other graphs. Kinda like graph cellular automata but more the basic operations. I want to think about code AST transforms but would like to learn about general purpose graph transforms first. Boosts appreciated.
Love it when a task takes an order of magnitude less time than expected 😎👍
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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.
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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. 🤔
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 🤷🤷
Async cancellation is hard.
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@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%"
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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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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
