RebeccaTheDev

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by RebeccaTheDev 13d ago
For what I am using it for, I recently wrote a little web app called Afterfeed [0] that lets you view backups from social media websites as a single unified timeline. To put this into perspective, I was a voracious social media user for dec
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by RebeccaTheDev 1mo ago
> The current climate around seems very sudden. Is it? Grievances against big tech - over issues like the stupendous amount of money being created for very few, and the damage being inflicted among many other things - have been buildin
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by RebeccaTheDev 1mo ago
Conversely, I once had a very large yard for a suburban home, about a third of an acre. I sectioned my yard into about 5 sections, but I mowed pretty much the same way: whatever lines are longest without stopping. The less time I spent in
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by RebeccaTheDev 7mo ago
> Also: subscription fatigue is real. This. I just went and cancelled a bunch of vampire subscriptions that had accrued in my life (both in and out of the Apple ecosystem) and ended up saving somewhere in the range of $60 a month. I ge
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by RebeccaTheDev 8mo ago
To add on to this: if you're a "guy" still trying to feel out some really confusing feelings, playing a vixen online allows you to explore those feelings without it impacting your real life. It's the same reason it'
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by RebeccaTheDev 9mo ago
Nest thermostats. They were an endless source of frustration for me.
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by RebeccaTheDev 10mo ago
> I've known I was gay since high school, probably even earlier, but I kept choosing whatever seemed like the easiest path. Just so you know, you're not alone here. Mine was a bit different (gender related) but the causes are
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by RebeccaTheDev 11mo ago
I mean, it's a hobby? It doesn't necessarily have to have a point other than to enrich your existence.
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
My Mastodon feed has a very "early to mid 2000s LiveJournal friends page" feel to it, and I honestly adore this.
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
I'll add my voice to others here that this is a huge problem especially for small hobbyist websites. I help administer a somewhat popular railroading forum. We've had some of these AI crawlers hammering the site to the point that
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
Three jobs ago I worked for a company that did e-learning systems for industrial clients. This was roughly 2004. One of the company owner's many ideas was a technical documentation system based on XML and XSLT. The "idea" bei
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
My day-to-day work now is mostly Python and Vue, but PHP was my bread and butter for almost 20 years and to this day probably still probably one of my favorite languages just because I am still so familiar with it. There's something to
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
Just wanted to say thank you for this service. I have a little homebrew clock I build from a Raspberry Pi and a small display in my bathroom. Below the time, it displays the weather forecast for the day so I know how to dress. That little c
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
Exactly what I'm doing. I even set it up as a separate binary sensor using a template.
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
At my last job, when I first started there (this was circa around 2006), we actually used a Firefox browser plugin with a custom XUL interface to enable our writers to write content faster. It has a very complex UI, as complex as anything t
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
> Another problem is that programmers specialize at being good at programming, but things like documentation and UI testing are their own disciplines that are separate and distinct in a lot of meaningful ways. Even having decent UIs
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
This is what I did to control an DeLonghi electric oil radiator in my home office. And since it takes a couple hours to warm up, I have it connected to Home Assistant to turn on a couple hours before my workday starts - and also sync'd
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Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”(twitter.com)
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
I was not prepared for my food tastes to change! I used to love candy. But now I’m rarely drawn to it, but I will absolutely INHALE fruit. It has so much incredible depth of flavor now!
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
You can do whatever you like. Many do, and are totally happy about that. Note, again, I am talking about one specific "type" of gender dysphoria, social dysphoria. There are usually far more facets that come into play as well. And
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
I can't speak for other trans women, but is kind of how I describe my experience with this. And this is from someone who is a later-transitioner, talking about this specific type of social dysphoria [0]. It took me enormous effort to
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
I miss VB6 so much. For rapidly prototyping an idea, I have yet to find anything that was as good as VB6. Drag a button, write code. Want to change things about the button? Use properties, that live update the GUI without recompiling. It wa
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
WDE! Ugh, yeah, some of those hallways especially in 1st and 4th quadrants where there aren't very many classrooms and not many people can have a very, very liminal space feel to them. I can totally understand how he got lost in ther
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by RebeccaTheDev 1y ago
What a fun surprise to see this on HN! I had the opportunity to work the Foy Desk a few times during my undergrad at Auburn in the early 2000s - mostly as a volunteer while the regular workers would be in meetings. At the time we had a mult
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by RebeccaTheDev 2y ago
I blocked a lot of social media sites on my home network to help ease my addiction some. Especially Reddit. I found the mornings I was on Reddit before getting out of bed my mood suffered. I still need to have them available to communicate
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by RebeccaTheDev 2y ago
My utility also installed smart meters a few years ago - the Focus AXRe with Gridstream RF. It theoretically has Zigbee in it. It even has the Zigbee logo on it. It also uses some frequency hopping radio thing for reporting that I was never
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by RebeccaTheDev 2y ago
I used to get my laptop out and try to do things. But ever since the seat pitch started shrinking, I find it really hard to get anything larger than a tablet out without it needing to rest on me or risk having the screen broken if the perso
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by RebeccaTheDev 2y ago
I give her my old iPhone that's already paid off when I upgrade (and that I can put parental controls on.)
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by RebeccaTheDev 2y ago
Same. This is the reason my daughter has one. Things are getting extremely hot out there and no one seems willing to do anything about it.
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by RebeccaTheDev 4y ago
One of the big reasons I have always like CDE/Motif was that it, to me, is the epitome of function over form when it comes to a desktop UI and widget toolkit. It's actually the same reason I think the Windows' UI peaked aroun

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