mmclar

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by mmclar 2mo ago
SQLalchemy does that. One advantage of the Django syntax is that it can be (pretty much) directly dropped into a query string on any admin page or DRF query and filter the results. E.g. the admin page for all the events after noon today:
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by mmclar 2mo ago
Please don't give me a hint if I didn't ask for it! Maybe make a hint button that becomes enabled at a certain time.
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by mmclar 3mo ago
I posted on Bluesky about NYT the other day after getting repeatedly dark-patterned: https://bsky.app/profile/mmclar.bsky.social/post/3mkiznfgvvk...
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by mmclar 4mo ago
IME crosswords traditionally say "Word before...". Also thanks for the game, I love it and was excited you used one of my submitted clues a few months ago.
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by mmclar 5mo ago
Can you please make it (and keep it) so that friendships are symmetrical? I.e., "friend" rather than "follow". IMO that's the enshittification inflection point of Facebook.
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by mmclar 5mo ago
"What do you do?" and "How do you earn a living?" are different questions and it's on you if you confuse them.
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by mmclar 7mo ago
Not email; social networking. Symmetrical just means the relationship is the same from both sides. Imagine a two-way "friendship" relationship (old-school Facebook) vs. a one-way "following" relationship (more recent Fac
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by mmclar 7mo ago
I'm surprised there's not more discussion here and in general about symmetric- vs. asymmetric-relationship networks. Facebook worked in the beginning because relationships were symmetric and there was no concept of getting "f
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by mmclar 2y ago
Not yet! > I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next month. I'll update here when I do.
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by mmclar 2y ago
I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline, which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server. It also includes an import function for exp
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by mmclar 2y ago
What if I'm not in the location I care about? Musicians are famously people who are often on the road.
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by mmclar 3y ago
Knowing the rules and 'seeing' the ways that pieces can move are different things. I could see this being helpful to someone who has a working knowledge of the ways pieces can move, but hasn't yet built their skill of visuali
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by mmclar 6y ago
I scrolled all the way through that and don't know what it does.
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by mmclar 8y ago
Why call it "name and shame" and not just "name"? Be honest about the behavior and let people judge for themselves whether the behavior is shameful. If an action is above-board, the actor should not mind being named.
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by mmclar 9y ago
Require that a person besides the author has to review code changes before they are allowed into a code base. Do it under the guise of 'transparency' or 'being on the same page'. Don't let him see your post.