What should I do for my #birthday?

Not to brag, but helped a random stranger online move their GitHub Actions pipeline to Codeberg yesterday (did involve some debugging and docs-searching...), which provided a slight distraction out of the job hunting doom...

I'll try #getfedihired : Looking for new grad / entry-level full-stack software engineer positions in Canada or US. See https://austinhuang.me/hire-me.html for details. Various open source and on-campus web/backend projects under the belt, but no formal YoE (and it's real difficult to get a […]

oh you think the fediverse is decentralized? watch this [cuts power to all of the data centers in germany]

oh wow, i'm actually posting in here! Just letting my fellow Canadians know of an e-Petition calling for the protection of gender affirming care, as outlined through the wording of the Canada Health Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I've already […] [Original post on sakurajima.moe]

I'm thinking of writing a toy workflow engine that takes in webhook events or RSS articles and executes a series of steps, like manipulating the data and interacting with other REST APIs, but not starting any new container (which is why I wanted something simpler and not involve k8s). Any advice […]

Fix the content shift issue for the main image container on my #website's home page (https://austinhuang.me). Should I fix the content shift in the headline (due to fonts) or leave it as-is? I tried buding a fallback font face but it doesn't seem to have worked Maybe I should not over-optimize...

The administrators of #mstdnparty #mstdnplus propose to appoint @gcvsa as #moderator on mstdn.plus. If you have any concerns about this individual or this decision, please reach out to me or to @jonah by 11:59pm AoE Sunday, January 18. Thank you for your attention! #mastoadmin #nobridge

So my first #blog post in a while (read: like 5 years?) is a #yearinreview (since I just finished my master's program too). https://austinhuang.me/yir-2025.html Give it a read, though I wrote it over a few nights, so my thoughts are quite fragmented (and I probably should include a few more […]

#manhattan #bridge at dusk. Here's to wrapping up 2025! #nyc #newyorkcity #photography #streetphotography

It strikes me as extremely odd that, in this day and age (photo taken this October), there is still someone reselling those old-fashioned PHP-based managed #hosting, less having no TLS (on the website, and no free TLS in its offerings) and trying to advertise it […] [Original post on mstdn.party]

Are the delivery robots #flirting with each other when they get unstuck from a bottleneck? #robot

The Metro-North electric holiday #train, spotted by coincidence last week, parked on a platform in Grand Central's basement. #christmas #nyc #newyorkcity

@lianna I am on Element Nightly 2025122401 on desktop, it does properly process matrix.to links in the search bar (as in if I paste a matrix.to link to a room then it will strip the irrelevant parts and prompt you the room).

Happy holidays! As expected I was at @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social's holiday nostalgia ride, so here are some pics from the trains. Nice that the holiday train shows on station countdown clocks this year! #nyc #newyorkcity #publictransport #photography

We had #Halal cart on the #NYC #Ferry... (It's the new ferry from Staten Island to Brooklyn. Yes, eating meals on fast boats gets nauseous real quick, I quickly recovered, my friend might have not. Yes, the halal cart was near the outlets on Staten Island. I […] [Original post on mstdn.party]

It is the season when multiple final projects don't work out and I had to resort to burning the midnight oil to salvage what's left while my partners have bailed... (Interestingly enough it doesn't seem to happen in spring semester, always in fall...) And yes, AI definitely made it a little bit […]

Heard Beds are Burning once on World Cafe and now I can't stop thinking about it... Gotta say, I feel like it's one of the songs that you'd want to scream out of your chest even if you're not a rock person, on top of, y'know, being incredibly relatable to many of us and having fairly […]

lets goooooo 🔥🔥🔥 fuck your analytics bitch

A recent GrapheneOS update included #aosp UI updates, and I absolutely hate the new control center design: the round corners have an awfully large radius and the icons are just disproportionally sized... (I also don't like the new settings UI, but I don't have to look at it often...) Does anyone […]

I guess intrusive thoughts take over as the semester is about to end... Had Indian takeout, then someone suggested a late night gelato run (they weren't even sure if the shop was open since almost everything is closed on Thanksgiving), and we actually went, missed the subway connection (J) and […]

Who hung a picture behind a road sign? At Jay Street and MetroTech Roadway in Downtown Brooklyn

Adding Crystal Light (lemon iced tea packet, which I like) into coconut water (which I dislike) actually tastes pretty good, the coconut taste actually augments the drink mix.

Don't you love it when someone says they're going to do their groceries at Target on their way home, and then the entire lab decided to just go along? Ended up having a group of six (6) shopping at Target at 10pm... (Target was the only one, within reasonable distance, still open at that unholy […]

I don't know who hung a "rue barrée" (road closed) sign between the incinerator smokestacks on Carriere, but I salute you, whoever you ate. #Montreal #norules #Art

People love to joke about the F-M swap, but did you know that since 2010, the M train experiences dysphoria on weekends where, despite being coloured orange (like B/D/F), it does not actually use the IND Sixth Avenue line? (Yes, I know that 5 and A's shuttle variant also don't travel on their […]

Me: *adds coke to wine* Friend: "woke" (My tolerance is still very low and I'm not in the interest of getting drunk, so I do water things down to 5%~7.5%, sorry not sorry.)

Evening #subway is a mood... At Marcy Av. J/Z/M #newyorkcity #nyc #williamsburg #photography #streetphotography #publictransport

Can there be a #Password #hashing algorithm that considers the distance between each character key on a keyboard (of some specific layout, say QWERTY)? The difficulty of hitting the correct character on a small 26-key on-screen keyboard on my phone is making me think whether we should have a […]

Shout out to WiiLink for letting me order Pizza from a Wii (using a japanese exclusive Wii Channel, Demae Channel)

#mosstodon, I found your car! November 8, 2025. ECC Cars & Coffee, Northville, Michigan. #car #cars #weirdcarmastodon #michigan

Kinda cringe to use old #microsoftoffice #wordart to represent the 70s... #montreal

My last outing for my (last) week back in #Montreal was again at Lola Rosa (except it was not due to dietary restrictions this time, but rather laziness to pick places). There was a loud group of 7~8 people near the windows so my friend and I had to rely on […] [Original post on mstdn.party]

"Attention passengers: do not board the freight train with its enormous rolls of steel on Platform 2." #melbourne cc @daniel

Went to @foulab watching a friend tinkering with their devices... I was not (nor am I generally) prepared to do anything hands-on in a #hackerspace so I decided to take a few shots of their little #retrocomputing museum. #montreal #computer #Commodore #photography

About to step into an SDE job interview... Wish me luck!

oh signal funktioniert nicht weil AWS down ist na gut ich hab ja noch mastodon das ist dezentral auf hetzner gehostet

One recent self-cooked #meal that I liked is rotini #pasta with bell peppers, celery, mushrooms and chicken breast, topped with alfredo sauce and laoganma sauce. The sauces are doing most of the work here: spicy on creamy is... an interesting taste, to be honest. #food

Touching grass at the #brooklyn #botanicgarden... (#alt4me because I don't have a record of flower names) #silentsunday #photography #newyorkcity #nyc #nature #bee

Perhaps I should be a bit less greedy with the portion size (and the veggie size)... But the meal is quite succulent, despite the difficulty to, y'know, handle it physically (with chopsticks)... (This is Ippudo @ East Village.) #food #ramen

my doctor will get a $50 tip on their copay if they can perform the visit in fucking esperanto

Anyone got any tips to make #curry thicker (like a sauce instead of a soup)? Is it just a matter of adding less water? (For the record I cooked the beef then have the broth + curry slow cooked for 2 hours...) (Yes, I know putting #pasta in a curry #soup does not […] [Original post on mstdn.party]

It's @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social 's #bus festival! It looks more natural when they're being driven on the road than being stationary at the plaza (with tons of people)... #publictransport #nyc #newyorkcity #photography #streetphotography

Bit of a slop meal, tastes good though. #groundbeef with tofu, mushroom, shrimp & veggies, plus sriracha sauce (which is probably doing a lot of work here). #food

Given recent events, I think #mastoadmin's should rethink about strategies to respond to restrictions, or calls of restrictions, from governments (of any country) and public figures on #speech affecting local users. Quite frankly I dislike how some admins laugh them off or resort to only moral […]

Remade my #website: https://austinhuang.me I guess it's a more modern take of the neocities stuff: plain and a bit professional (I don't like noisy visuals), but still tries to be playful in some places. Suggestions welcome! I also have a 88x31 now (on the "links" page). Links welcome!

Heard from radio that the Dubai gold #scam is apparently a recurring thing (and has victimized people). Looked up online and it's all over the place on Reddit... Anyway, I actually encountered that at Tribeca once, where a guy pulled up with his family (a wife and 2 kids) in a Florida-plate […]