hypomodern @hypomodern@a2mi.social

#fridaycheckin

I need the product team to do hackathons more often; I'm much more productive when not in meetings / constantly juggling priorities bubbled up by other people 🤣

Plus, I taught myself a couple new things, which is great.

Looking forward to a calmer weekend (no guests, hopefully no sunburn this weekend!) — gotta finish and send out startup guides for my next TTRPG.

Y'all, I just finished a course in the rust programming language, learning how to use it while also learning an entity component system & little game engine.

It had me make a wee little dungeon roguelike, and I quite enjoyed it! It's got levels and loot and is all fancy, multithreaded and memory-safe thanks to rust.

rust: 1
bracket-lib: 1

#binary_review

🤣

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ngl; it's been a rough week for my GI tract 😞

Don’t tell Miss Rue

So good (Kermit and Fozzie have an ad-libbed comedic existential crisis during camera tests)
https://twitter.com/HistoryMuppet/status/1402003688835649538

More nerd art prints up; very glare-y today, hard to photograph!

We tried. This poor rabbit did not survive :(

In any case—please be respectful of wildlife. Look how adorable this bun is; praying the little one makes it:

Rescued a baby rabbit from the clutches of our neighbors fucking outdoor cat; fortunately not too much damage done. I hope the little one will pull through with stitches. That cat has murdered a bird and another baby bunny on my property already this year.

I like cats, but I do not understand how humans, with all our other destructiveness towards the natural world, tolerate this. It’s not the cat’s fault; they are what they are. Makes me so mad.

I cannot recommend becoming sunburned.

#fridaycheckin took the day off and spent most of it on the river with Heather and her folks for her birthday.

Despite applying spf 50 three times in 4 hours, I still burned! Outrageous UV intensity, I guess :).

Work is intensely stressful and busy; glad to have a long weekend.

Wee little juvenile squirrels come to visit our bird bath / shade garden most mornings and evenings 😍😍! This is great. Blurry picture, my phone has seen better days :)

The unearthly background howl/buzz of the cicadas (? I assume, been going on for about a week) is really weird.

Holy crap, the drought season looks megabad

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it is hot out there if you were planning on cutting sod out and other such heavy yard work 🤣

Made some of ol’ general Tso’s chicken; good stuff. This batch a little less crispy than my first effort—I suspect I left it too juicy from the marinade, or humidity was too high? Delicious, though.

Aesop Rock's "Dorks" has been playing in my head a lot recently. I guess I'm disappointed in the thoughtleadering zeitgeist 🤣

We brought in 10 yards last year too; very little overlap between the two zones, but I think we should be able to get less each year henceforth

Yesterday and today I moved 10 yards of mulch. This is a lot of mulch! But hey, the gardens that this lot clearly demands are starting to look cared for and maintained 🤣