had another malware distribution attempt get through my spam filter today, let's see what's inside :o

windows malware written in golang cross compiled from a mac is a new one

I volunteered at a fix-it fair today!

Highlights include:

- fixed an antique typewriter by staring at it intently for twenty minutes, then picking up and shaking it (there was a dead bug jamming the bit that makes all the things advance when you press a key)

- fixed a cracked PCB inside a speaker by soldering across all the traces crossing the crack, and then coating the whole area in jb weld

- sent another volunteer off to go find a C13 power cord to test the speaker with, but being aware that normal people don't know what "C13" is, I described it as "the normal power cord desktop computers use, like for this kind of connector" and showed them the power connector on the speaker. They misunderstood, disappeared for a while, and returned carrying *a whole ass desktop computer* from which I could salvage the power connector. I do not know where they got this computer from.

https://pdx.social/@courtney/117615866031034990

namecheap: possibly the latest victim of my superpower and/or curse, where i quietly move away from a company that no longer fits my needs, and then a while later everyone else suddenly hates them for entirely different reasons

(i was using namecheap's api for tls cert renewal through acme dns challenges, but they require listing each individual ip address you connect from, and i stopped having a fixed public ip address, so it became unusable)

airplanes and airlines imply airpoints

and possibly aircubes

wrapping all inappropriate descriptors for groups of people in U+1D177...U+1D178 because semantic markup is important

slept for most of the day because headache, it is now 20:00 and i'm vaguely considering doing anything

all outlook traffic routes through my brain subconsciously i guess

`&` is called "ampersand", which is a word-smash of "and per se and"

therefore, the correct term for `|` is "orpersor"

oops

just lost a promising nethack run by accidentally biting a cockatrice (forgot i was in dragon form)

idk if anyone plays shorkle besides me and two of my friends, but if so, apologies for the weirdness with the share links over the last day or so

the backstory here is last night i made a cursed bonus puzzle specifically to troll my partner, but then i found a bug where it'd generate the wrong share link for that type of puzzle, and i tried to fix it over ssh from my phone in bed, as one does

it kinda looks like a printer! :o
#3dprinting #theWorkshop

(i do have an actual reamer in this size but idk where it is)

i have this batch of amazingly trash drill bits in small metric sizes. idk what steel they are but it's definitely not any kind of tool steel. attempting to drill metal with them usually ends with them being twisted into a shape that is definitely not what drill bit flutes should look like

but this does allow me to do tricks like sticking one in the lathe and turning down the shank to fit in a pin vise, for use as a hand tool for reaming m3 holes in plastic :3

i did verify that the one screw was actually threaded into wood, because i needed to know which way to drive the rest of the screws and there was a nonzero chance it was just stuck in more spray foam

gods these people loved spray foam

adventures in homeownership: "so yeah, that light was held in with one screw and a bunch of spray foam. now it has three more screws and some caulk, hope that's enough"

did a codesignal assessment tonight for a job i applied for, and i have mixed feelings

positive:
- it mirrors my actual working style much better than the "watch me write code but also expect me to talk through my thought process out loud" style of interview. some interviewers are totally cool with me working in silence like this, others are bothered that i don't talk through what i'm doing
- it doesn't require scheduling
- it made me check a bunch of "i will not cheat" checkboxes before starting, and i was ready to get mad about some invasive camera-watching or weird browser extension or something, but then afaict it did absolutely nothing to enforce that

negative:
- the way their coding tests work is you get a single function entry point that takes a massive array of strings. it is the most tortured interface ever. the practice problem codesignal provides is also in that style, which makes me think it's a limitation of the platform rather than this specific employer doing horrors
- i have no idea if anyone looks at the actual code i wrote. timed interview code is never Great, but am i optimizing for readability or maximum hack speed? i don't know!
- my reading of the instructions i got conflicted with the provided test cases in a few cases, and i would normally handle that by stopping and asking the interviewer "yo wtf", but i did not have that option here

two hours later i have finally managed to make myself a cup of coffee

they're back!
thanks, whichever of my followers is hiding in youtube maintaining this feature the rest of the company has forgotten about

i have the "got out some bread to make a sandwich then spent the next hour cleaning the inside of an espresso machine" kind of adhd

cool discovery: luer lock syringe with a small-gauge needle makes an excellent tiny manual pressure washer

i did it. i finally unplugged the bad usb cable next to my bed that i keep accidentally plugging my phone into

also kinda hurled it across the room and then realized as it was flying that (1) it's like 1:30 and $partner is asleep and (2) i should probably have put it somewhere i can find it in the morning to throw it away. hurling cables is fun though

ugh youtube's rss feeds are broken *again*

the `<link>` is still there in the html but it 404s if you try to actually follow it