Just did my first twitch stream in a long time today. It was a bit 'scuffed' due to some audio issues (need to fix my actual mic). I had a ton of fun and can't wait to do it again!

Girlfriend saw I wasn't feeling great and decided to complete surround and cover me with plushies. She's so good to me

Stomach hurt, brain hurt, head hurt, yeah it might be time for bed

Extremely happy with how this commission came out. It's of my OC/soon-to-be vtuber. Art by @niniidawns.bsky.social

I just can't get this song out of my head. Absolutely obsessed with this one. Vibes off the chart cw: slight self-harm mentions / depressing lyrics youtu.be/fm3O1gKq7Os

My OC brought to life by the wonderful @niniidawns.bsky.social I couldn't be happier with how she turned out. Ninii was amazing to work with; I highly recommend her! Just a ref sheet for her for now, but I've got some more commissions in the works and I'm excited to show them off when complete.

I've leveled up once again (it's my birthday). Decided to just dump all my stat points into lesbianism and cute factor.

I learned a valuable lesson. Properly log out of TSO instead of just letting the session time out Apparently session time out doesn't delete the SPFLOG dataset, which is now max size Annoyingly this now prevents me from logging in and deleting it myself because the main ISPF task abends upon login

Have you ever wanted all of your variables to be global and remain in scope for the entire run of your application?

Floating point math might be forever cursed but fixed point math has its own set of problems. While reviewing the results of a test after some development changes we noticed that the subtotal was 10% of the calculated total. Somewhere, somehow a decimal point got moved that really shouldn't have.

I reinstalled Gentoo after realizing that my problems with it were mostly self-inflicted. Honestly, the entire experience has been a lot of fun and I've come to learn that I *actually enjoy* resolving compile errors or dependency issues or whatever. Problem solving is fun, even when I caused them.

Union protest outside. Their inflatable display was great. It was a literal "Fat Cat" strangling a hard hat wearing construction worker with one hand and holding a green money bag in the other. Their noise machine and air horns are a little grating but I will always stand in solidarity with workers.

Time to play my favorite game Is my insomnia just flaring up, or did I catch the plague?

Bluesky showing us all, once again, why centralized social media platforms suck. Sure, there's problems with decentralized platforms as well, but at least it isn't....this

I know I don't talk about this stuff a lot (or as much as I should) but seeing cis friends and acquaintances support things like HP and the like hurts. You can say you care about the trans community and our rights all you want, but your actions betray that. But no, we're the downers, cool /s

I'm so glad that the terminal emulator my work uses allows us to record and write custom macros. Having to manually cross check between an Excel spreadsheet, a generated report dataset, and a few DB2 Tables is a lot easier when I can shorten it to just a couple key presses.

thump

I have learned the lesson the hard way, don't make a 301 redirect if it's not permanent and especially don't make the redirect to somewhere you don't own. 301 is usually cached indefinitely, to "undo" it I would've had to redirect back again. I can't do that because I had it set to my bsky profile..

Mozilla adding enabled-by-default AI features to Firefox is the final straw. GenAI is a cancer and having to opt out of AI everywhere is becoming mind numbing. AI has it's uses. It can be trained to assist as a specialized tool, but it should never be a default "feature" of anything. What a shitshow

DIY > AI

I've been learning Rust with the Rust Book and the Rustlings course and I've honestly been having fun with it. The Rustlings course gives me that little bit of gratification my ADHD needs in-between sections of the book and the book teaches everything pretty well even for someone who's less familiar

Getting to telecommute 2 days a week is really nice. It may have to always be Monday and Friday per policy but it's still nice. Having to fill out a "Work Accomplishment Report" detailing what I did during the hours I TC'd is not nice. On days in the office, nobody cares what I did all day.

I wish to speak with whoever came up with those pre-recorded interviews. The ones where you record yourself answering prompts, but there's no actual interviewer there. I'm autistic, I can barely hold my own when I have someone's reactions and such to bounce off of. When there's nobody there I freeze

I don't *yet* consider myself a software "engineer". I have little to no proper background with CS fundamentals. It's like the difference between a chef and a cook, or an engineer vs a construction worker. Labels are dumb, but I am actively trying to fill the knowledge gap by finally learning these

Working with COBOL code that was written in the 70s where the last change was in 1998 for "Millennium compliance" is amazing It's interesting to see how design and standards and such have changed when comparing these really old components to some of our more modern stuff. Mainframes are pretty neat

I could not have asked for a more hype top 8 and Finals for UNI2. What an amazing set.

need 👏 more 👏 Yuri 👏 Isekai 👏 manga 👏

There's a lot I wish I could say to my younger self. You *can* be a girl! It gets better Stop making excuses for toxic people in your life But I think most importantly I'd tell myself to just like the things you like and do whatever makes you happy without caring what others think. Cringe is dead

Being neurodivergent and having an office job is rough. I usually find myself frequently apologizing when unnecessary and also over explaining myself to the point where it probably seems like I'm being really defensive. Why can't office jobs just be filled with cat girls who meow at each other

Cannot wait for this GenAI bubble to pop. Between the amount of money that governments and private companies are pouring into it and the environmental/energy impact of training such large models I think we'll look back at this moment in 20 or 30 years and wonder what the hell they were all thinking

I never thought, at 29 years old and stuck in retail hell for 14 years with almost no will to continue, that I would end up landing a job doing COBOL development on a z/OS mainframe. A year in and I love my work and my life. Things do get better, it might take a long time, but they do get better.