Dave Alvarado
@dave.alvarado.social.ap.brid.gy
Full-stack dev in a non-tech company. White-passing brown dude.
I play a chaotic good tank in real life.
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I play a chaotic good tank in real life.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://alvarado.social/@dave, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
@mayintoronto May protocol: bop, bop, snooze.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@mayintoronto May protocol: bop, bop, snooze.
@mayintoronto I have a mental image of you traipsing around with a joybat (think Nerf bat of Captain Caveman size), bopping people to make them joyful.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@mayintoronto I have a mental image of you traipsing around with a joybat (think Nerf bat of Captain Caveman size), bopping people to make them joyful.
@xgranade there's also the heat problem. The other day I saw a video a guy made shooting a hobby rocket up into actual space. He had a couple GoPros mounted in it and the one shooting video overheated when there wasn't any air to cool it off. What got me thinking about the data center in space […]
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December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@xgranade there's also the heat problem. The other day I saw a video a guy made shooting a hobby rocket up into actual space. He had a couple GoPros mounted in it and the one shooting video overheated when there wasn't any air to cool it off. What got me thinking about the data center in space […]
@juliette between me word-finding on names and just generally not liking or caring about too many people, I go with "your face is familiar to me" as "I recognize you".
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@juliette between me word-finding on names and just generally not liking or caring about too many people, I go with "your face is familiar to me" as "I recognize you".
@venya that's how to do it on a Mac and it's great. If she can't use the online versions of the Office apps, a VM is the next best thing.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@venya that's how to do it on a Mac and it's great. If she can't use the online versions of the Office apps, a VM is the next best thing.
@xgranade yeah also Linux *is* the corporate option. "The Cloud" runs almost exclusively on Linux. Every Docker container is by definition Linux. Basically if it's a server, it's running FOSS. Windows is the weirdo that has captured the desktop and that's about it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@xgranade yeah also Linux *is* the corporate option. "The Cloud" runs almost exclusively on Linux. Every Docker container is by definition Linux. Basically if it's a server, it's running FOSS. Windows is the weirdo that has captured the desktop and that's about it.
@futurebird "self-smart", the open-book eugenics test. 🤣
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@futurebird "self-smart", the open-book eugenics test. 🤣
@mayintoronto have you also reached that age where pictures of like college-age you make you go "oh you sweet summer child".
Or is that just me?
Or is that just me?
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@mayintoronto have you also reached that age where pictures of like college-age you make you go "oh you sweet summer child".
Or is that just me?
Or is that just me?
@xgranade yeah I'm in 100% agreement with you on JS frameworks trying to take over everything.
I may just be curmudgeonly, but I always thought of applying XSLT to display as a bit of a hack anyway. I had always reached for XSLT when I needed to change one document into another document, not […]
I may just be curmudgeonly, but I always thought of applying XSLT to display as a bit of a hack anyway. I had always reached for XSLT when I needed to change one document into another document, not […]
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@xgranade yeah I'm in 100% agreement with you on JS frameworks trying to take over everything.
I may just be curmudgeonly, but I always thought of applying XSLT to display as a bit of a hack anyway. I had always reached for XSLT when I needed to change one document into another document, not […]
I may just be curmudgeonly, but I always thought of applying XSLT to display as a bit of a hack anyway. I had always reached for XSLT when I needed to change one document into another document, not […]
@xgranade I dunno if I agree, CSS ate XSLT's lunch long before JS frameworks were a thing. The modularity that the "cascading" part gets you is a net good, even if you're trying to build a purely declarative web.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@xgranade I dunno if I agree, CSS ate XSLT's lunch long before JS frameworks were a thing. The modularity that the "cascading" part gets you is a net good, even if you're trying to build a purely declarative web.
@xgranade that's so cool. I used to be a 300-days-a-year rider, and also used to teach the MSF beginner class.
I hope you have a long and enjoyable riding career!
I hope you have a long and enjoyable riding career!
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@xgranade that's so cool. I used to be a 300-days-a-year rider, and also used to teach the MSF beginner class.
I hope you have a long and enjoyable riding career!
I hope you have a long and enjoyable riding career!
@xgranade I really wish there was a way to tell the spellchecker that if I either do the same "misspelling" repeatedly in a document (tech writing with parameter names) or get far enough away from known dictionary words (I made up a word), the spell checker would remove the squiggles and just be […]
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November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
@xgranade I really wish there was a way to tell the spellchecker that if I either do the same "misspelling" repeatedly in a document (tech writing with parameter names) or get far enough away from known dictionary words (I made up a word), the spell checker would remove the squiggles and just be […]
