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  I told myself I wouldn't work for a company again that stylizes its name all lowercase, but here we are again. Making me look like I forgot to capitalize. It's the worst when it's at the start of a sentence.

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  I don't know why, but oh-my-zsh asking me if I want to check for updates is the key thing that makes me want to stop using it and figure out my own config.

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  @mcc@mastodon.social I saw one at the office last week and I had to stop and think about it . It's so good

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  @davew@mastodon.social with the right instructions they can do the right thing. Did some big refactoring and swapping out libraries. The chance of success is higher depending on test coverage and good types

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  I'm back on the market! I'm a Toronto software eng with 20 years of experiene and looking for a role with good technical/management mix. Remote or hybrid in Toronto. Know anyone who might need someone like me? Resume: https://evertpot.com/assets/evert-pot-resume-2025-apr.pdf

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  @vga256 Love these and the iMacs from that time.

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  Yesterday we saw the most _new_ NPM packages being released in the last 12 months, at 2804 packages. Pretty steady upward trajectory here, unlike we've ever seen. This graph is spiky because it's daily data and weekends are lower.

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  Accidentally made 20 TB file, and found a `ls` bug!

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  Framework is giving me the same excitement Apple did in the mid 2000's. want to know about every product release

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  Github actions has to be my least favourite programming language to work in

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  Wrote a small blog post about my #Gopher client. Time to move on to smaller things! https://evertpot.com/burrow-gopher-client/ #gopherProtocol

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  I just blogged: "Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser" https://evertpot.com/burrow-gopher-client/

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  There's a show on TV called 'paradise' which is about a community living underground after a massive disaster. 20,000 people living underground in a 'perfectly' designed town. And in the show they're all driving cars and they made it car dependent 😂

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  For my birthday I took a day off to get a haircut, eat a chill brunch and buy clothes at a store. Haven't had time for me in what feels like at least a year. Gotta take more days off

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  It's wild how completely opposite AI discourse is here to pretty much everywhere in my IRL life. My feelings are complicated but I don't feel I fully belong in either place anymore when the topic comes up.

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  Just finished a 15 hour shift taking care of 18 month old kid and partner vomiting all day. Idk how single parents do it. Luckily my work is hella supportive

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  https://malus.sh/ - Clean Room as a Service

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  Killer opening paragraph on why modern UI is so bad. https://www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/01/acme/

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  Gopher client / HTTP Proxy update! This is probably as far as I'm gonna take this for now. If people care, I might add search support or try to do some ports to native desktop clients, but we'll see. https://burrow.din.gy/ #GopherProtocol #gopher #retrocomputing