Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Hey tell me about your favorite webcomics
Surprisingly, this does not eliminate the risk that the maintainer will want you to explain or modify your patch. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/175
No one wants to review your patch? Simply become the project maintainer and then merge it yourself. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/174
ADHD
I think maybe the reason priority heap time management has been working well for me is: it lets my ADHD brain go where it wants. As soon as this project stops being what I most want to do with my time, I'll stop. And maybe come back to it. Or maybe not.
I'm not attached to the idea of completing it. I'm not going to push myself to get it done. I won't regard it as a failure if I abandon it.
I suspect I will get it working eventually, though, because the web isn't getting any less annoying.
Esme Povirk
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psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a job" we are holding down the entire science and tech economy, Clarence.
"a defining characteristic of autism is a lack of desire to share interests with others and a deficiency in theory of mind" I think the issue might be that you have never once spoken to a single autistic person as if YOU possess theory of mind, Karen. Now, the doors have been locked for your convenience, and my six hour presentation on obscure writing systems may commence.
Browsers don't care if your HTML is well-formed or not so this isn't surprising.
Still working on this. Got as far as the body tag and into the header of the page I'm working on. But, surprise, the HTML is malformed. They failed to close an element. So I had to add a rule so that, if an ancestor element is closed, it treats that as implicitly closing the current element.
I probably fell asleep right as 2026 was starting in this timezone.
I reached a point where I can parse most of an HTML header and now I'm exhausted.
I've started working on this. The web has gotten sufficiently annoying, even with ad-blocking, that it feels worth it.
Esme Povirk
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we don't know what to call this property, that input doesn't change its meaning merely through the passage of time
but it's a nice property that we wish there were more conscious attention to
Esme Povirk
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Christmas PSA about not being a dick
With today being Christmas, here is your annual reminder to be nice to newbies in your spaces.
There is going to be a very sudden influx of people who are just getting into the spaces you occupy because they got a gift that acts as their gateway into that activity. Maybe you're into photography and someone just bought them their first ever camera body, or you're into music and someone bought them their first guitar, or you're an audiophile and someone bought them their first really nice headphones, or you're big into TTRPGs and someone just bought them their first ever core rulebook.
Whatever the specific activity and gift, these people are going to have no idea what they're doing, they're going to ask a lot of obvious questions, they're going to make a lot of rookie mistakes, and there's going to be a lot of them.
I cannot stress this enough: BE NICE TO THEM.
Few things will ruin someone's enjoyment of something faster than trying to join its community and getting such a rude first impression that their conclusion is "People who like this are kind of assholes. I don't think I want to do this if it's going to involve getting yelled at." Craigslist and eBay and FB Marketplace will be filled with mint condition gifts being resold to attest to this in the coming months.
You were there at the very first step once. Be the person for them that you wish you had back then. (Or if you were lucky enough, the person you did have who fostered your love of it!) Make this something they'll love just as much as you do, not something they'll want to sell and get away from as soon as possible.
Be the reason this Christmas starts a lifelong passion for them, not the reason they decide to abandon something that they would've loved because people made them feel bad for needing a helping hand.
Joined Aug 2018
