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Duck shaped snowballs

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Coding and testing your code feels like designing a door, and once you make sure it works and it's sturdy, you add "Push" and "Pull" signs, trying to make them both visually appealing and noticeable. You also add alternatives for disabilities, adding braille on the signs and a button that opens the door. You go through the door a thousand times, checking what happens if someone pushes instead of pulls because it can happen to everyone, it's okay! Test that the button works, that it's at the right height, that everything is up to (no pun intended) code

And then the user comes along, throws an ax at the door, this doesn't open it, opens the window next to the door, climbs in, knocks over the potted plants on the window sill and says "bad user experience. 3/10"

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I was looking at my github comments and these pretty much sum up my programming experience

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Two new cave paintings on river pebbles. It's so captivating to make something from materials you picked up yourself. Currently making beads for these pendants out of small jasper pebbles

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thinking about the expression, "you can't see the forest for the trees" and how the writing version is probably "you can't see the story for the edits" - or whatever other small detail it is that we can sometimes get caught up in

so this is just a reminder for anyone who's stuck on a single paragraph or can't get past that one word: what's the story that you're telling? the story is way more important than any individual word or phrase

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Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

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today i got locked out of watching youtube videos entirely on adblock grounds, so i did some tinkering.

ublock does not, in fact, seem to circumvent this, but i did find out something new through circumstance as well as trial and error:

bf told me two bits of information that turned out to be rather useful. 1) he hasn't really gotten the youtube adblock notifications much. 2) his work laptop blocks youtube cookies completely. (this annoys him a bit because a couple quality of life features function off cookies)

so when i was trying to troubleshoot how to wrangle youtube into letting me listen to music without constantly throwing intrusive as hell ads at me, i decided to block youtube cookies just to see what would happen.

well wouldn't you know, it has stopped complaining about ads being blocked entirely. for now anyway.

TL;DR: looks like youtube is using cookies to check for adblockers, so blocking them seems to cause it to leave you alone.

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i love printers

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playing in th snow, splish splashin around, havign fun, frolicking with wild abandon

these are a kind of animal