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Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Nothing like realizing two of your favorite things work great together https://twitter.com/Tailscale/status/1580334253690486784

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

I think that running a 10K is a good thing and getting a Covid booster is also a good thing but in hindsight doing them both on the same day was not a good thing.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

The new updates to @shortcatapp are so good! I can't think of a better example of how accessibility features can improve usability for everyone.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Not a bad evening to sit out on the deck listening to Gillian Welch and watching fireflies if you ask me.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Really great to see @pedrothelion tonight for the first time since… um 2000, I think? Wait that can’t be right can it? 👴

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

I just tried this with https://t.co/WNRjfDJv5i and like everything else with @tailscale it is infuriatingly easy.
RT @nickoneill: Another 🤯, but this time from the perspective of a service: you can actually embed a Tailscale node as part of a binary that you run anywhere

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Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Broke my Wordle streak today but it came down to luck. I realized it would be possible to get 4 letters correct on the first guess and still not be guaranteed a win.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

I like the meta-wordle of trying to guess what other people’s guesses were based on the score they post.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Can't believe I didn't realize my public keys were in Hmong this whole time. No wonder I couldn't read them. Thanks Chrome!

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Going to hell because of a recalled baptism would just be the worst. Can’t they patch them with an over-the-air firmware update or something? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/15/catholic-priest-wrong-word-baptisms-invalid/

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

One of those days where you put your coffee in the fridge instead of putting the half and half back.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Honestly I would have rather lost in OT against the Bills than have to watch this.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

After finishing this video I turned to look at my dog sitting next to me on the couch and felt extreme envy because he’ll never have to know anything about NFTs https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g&feature=share

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Before shoveling the driveway today I decided to look up optimal snow clearing patterns (as you do) and learned that snowblowing is NP-complete: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~bender/newpub/2011-compgeom-snowblowing-ArkinBeMi.pdf

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

If you created a monster from the DNA of Benedict Cumberbatch and Engelbert Humperdinck what would you call it? Bengelbert Cumberdink? Engeldict Humperbatch? Benebert Cumperdink? It’s impossible to decide.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Getting my EyeLights ready for tomorrow night https://github.com/willgorman/eyelights_newyear_countdown

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

The hardest problem in software engineering is being able to tell the difference between making some adjustments to a good solution and adding more fixes to a series of bad solutions.

https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle/status/1430713667016921092

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

The British also have a more healthy respect for the cobra chicken than we do, apparently. https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/1424796036871049236

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Very disappointed to learn that the 100m butterfly is a swimming event and not anything like Mothra.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

I love this: https://t.co/xC69b9xuEs 5 years later, someone recommends a package that does exactly what the question asked. The twist? The question asker is the author of the package and they wrote it because they couldn't find another solution. They accept the answer.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Exaggerating a _little_ bit but boy, 192.168.1.0/24 doesn't feel as roomy as it used to.

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Laptop and desktops: 5 ips
Phones/tablets: 6 ips
IoT/raspberry pis/virtual machines: 240 ips
TVs/game consoles: 3 ips
someone who is good at subnets please help me budget this. my /24 is dying

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Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

For example, I've been adding things to HomeKit by giving them HTTP interfaces for Homebridge plugins like https://github.com/jnovack/homebridge-better-http-rgb to talk to. I just found https://github.com/brutella/hc that I could use to directly add things to HomeKit

Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

One of the best/worst things about software development is constantly realizing that you've been doing things the hard way and there was an easier way to do it all along.

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Will Gorman @willgorman.bsky.social · Nov 17

They probably can’t deploy until they hear back from all of us