hallettj

Just a basic programmer living in California

Declaration of scope

4d 4h ago in programming@programming.dev

I haven't done this, but I think this idea is going to stick with me going forward

How do you guys stay optimistic? It's tough

12d 20h ago in memes@slrpnk.net from slrpnk.net

There's not much one person can do. But there are a lot of us - if lots of people each work on something small it adds up. There are probably plenty of things in your community that have been getting a little better over time for exactly that reason.

When I felt hopeless about politics joining a DSA chapter helped. It makes me feel like I'm doing something helpful, even if it's something small.

What you can do for climate change depends on the opportunities near you. But some ideas might be:

  • plant trees
  • lobby the school board to install solar panels over a school parking lot
  • join an activist group to protest for closure of a local oil refinery
  • tell friends an neighbors about benefits of EVs, heat pumps, and other electrification options
  • write your elected officials regularly about climate measures you want them to vote for, to thank them when they vote correctly, or to chastise when they don't

I'd focus on one thing instead of trying to do all the things. Working with a local group is ideal.

Strava just killed its free API

13d 6h ago in bicycling from communityhub.strava.com

Maybe there could be an OsmAnd plugin that interacts with FitPub instead of a dedicated app. OsmAnd already has the best biking route generation out there

NixOS 26.05 released

18d 5h ago in nix@programming.dev from nixos.org

Heads up: when I upgraded network name resolution broke. It looks like the problem was services.mullvad. Unfortunately booting into an old generation still left me in a broken state. I guess there is some non-declarative state set. If you get into this situation there is a recovery procedure given here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/314694

Nix Flake Update not pulling latest git commits

18d 18h ago in nix@programming.dev

No problem! We've all been there!

It looks to me like 696b10c removes the filter that previously skipped the xrizer-fix-aarch64 patch. So I would expect that patch to be applied in the latest nixpkgs-xr

What does your flake.lock look like before and after running nix flake update nixpkgs-xr ?

I was the only one who thought this of Erica Ortega was non-binary or trans man?

18d 23h ago in startrek@startrek.website from startrek.website

I checked it before I posted, but now clicking the link in my comment doesn't work for me either 🙃

I think this is the correct link, for José Tyler: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Tyler

I think one of those kisses in Exhibit A was an evil duplicate. But yes, you make a strong case

Clik valve review

2mon 9d ago in bicycles@lemmy.ca from leminal.space

Clik valve review

2mon 9d ago in micromobility from leminal.space

The 6 Big Ideas of Typescript

2mon 11d ago in programming@programming.dev from sitr.us

Bike mirror review

2mon 22d ago in micromobility from leminal.space

Tip for securing bikes on BART, or other trains

2mon 23d ago in micromobility from leminal.space

[HowTo] run Kodi media center

3mon 10d ago in nix@programming.dev

The milk crate usurper!

4mon 1d ago in bicycling from leminal.space