Links 09/07/2024: Against Slack, Adventures in Webmastery
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Science
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News and Links
The saga continues of JWST observations failing to align with accepted theory. Scientists are "baffled".
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Technology and Free Software
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Slack still sucks
STOP USING SLACK TO MANAGE WORK.
In my workplace we have far too many project management tools already. Jira, Asana, GitHub issues. It's ridiculous. However, at the very least one can see how one might use those tools to manage large projects. They have workflows that allow one to move work through different stages, one can require approval and clearly demonstrate whom is responsible for what part of a task. The tools suck, but they do at least only suck as products as opposed to being totally unfit for their task.
Slack, on the other hand, is a fucking nightmare. I lie awake nights worrying about what I'm going to have to do on Slack the next day because it's just so fucking rotten to have to work with it. People just fundamentally do not know how to behave professionally with Slack, and using it kills me inside.
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The eyes have it
Probably already been thought of - if not implemented somewhere - but it suddenly hit me as possibly cool for tmux to leverage the computer camera to consider eyes staring at a tmux pane/window for a configurable amount of time to mean "switch focus there".
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Things not to do in a shell script 🐚
which makes reading news quite pleasant, but sometimes the output is pretty broken. That's because it's done in a humungous pipe of CLI tools, especially sed. It's more surprising that it works most of the time than that it fails. This isn't really a task for shell scripting. When it breaks, it's hard to understand why (beyond "the input isn't what was expected"). I wonder if the sane way to do it would be... XSLT?
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Internet/Gemini
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Adventures in Webmastery
As you can see, I have a shiny new website and gemini capsule here. If you have somehow figured out who I am, you may be wondering "Why the hell do they need another one?". Well, to tell you the truth, I don't. However, my first site was difficult to maintain, my second was a bit boring, and my old gemini capsule is at maximum capacity thanks to all the images I've been storing on it. I also wanted something a bit smaller and snappier, so I went all out.
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.