Mark T. Tomczak
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy
Career software engineer living something approximating the dream he had as a kid.
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🎶 Take the last train to Foxville
And I'll meet you at the station... 🎶
And I'll meet you at the station... 🎶
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🎶 Take the last train to Foxville
And I'll meet you at the station... 🎶
And I'll meet you at the station... 🎶
Inside you is one wolf.
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Inside you is one wolf.
Ruminating a bit on how software engineering is really quite a big tent of discipline and how best practices actually depend a lot on the particulars of what kind you're doing, but we all-too-often talk about them like they're universals.
Building a database is very different from a cloud […]
Building a database is very different from a cloud […]
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December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ruminating a bit on how software engineering is really quite a big tent of discipline and how best practices actually depend a lot on the particulars of what kind you're doing, but we all-too-often talk about them like they're universals.
Building a database is very different from a cloud […]
Building a database is very different from a cloud […]
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]
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December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it expensive to buy a gaming rig." ➡️ 😴
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it too expensive to build safety features in industrial and automotive settings." ➡️ 👀
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it too expensive to build safety features in industrial and automotive settings." ➡️ 👀
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it expensive to buy a gaming rig." ➡️ 😴
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it too expensive to build safety features in industrial and automotive settings." ➡️ 👀
"AI market pressure on graphics cards makes it too expensive to build safety features in industrial and automotive settings." ➡️ 👀
The fed interprets monetization as damage and routes around it.
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The fed interprets monetization as damage and routes around it.
@sandstorm Hi Sandstorm!
I've been prototyping out an app for my own use (a task tracker with some very limited org integration).
Question on updating an app's version: it looks like the grains are very self-contained, so when I do something like update a CSS stylesheet to change the UI […]
I've been prototyping out an app for my own use (a task tracker with some very limited org integration).
Question on updating an app's version: it looks like the grains are very self-contained, so when I do something like update a CSS stylesheet to change the UI […]
Original post on mastodon.fixermark.com
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December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@sandstorm Hi Sandstorm!
I've been prototyping out an app for my own use (a task tracker with some very limited org integration).
Question on updating an app's version: it looks like the grains are very self-contained, so when I do something like update a CSS stylesheet to change the UI […]
I've been prototyping out an app for my own use (a task tracker with some very limited org integration).
Question on updating an app's version: it looks like the grains are very self-contained, so when I do something like update a CSS stylesheet to change the UI […]
Hey lazymastodon,
I'm looking for a stupidest-possible solution to mirror a web app client's local store of, say, JSON objects to a server store of those objects. Features would be
* On load, get the full state
* Small state changes client-side are reflected in the client's local state (so […]
I'm looking for a stupidest-possible solution to mirror a web app client's local store of, say, JSON objects to a server store of those objects. Features would be
* On load, get the full state
* Small state changes client-side are reflected in the client's local state (so […]
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December 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Hey lazymastodon,
I'm looking for a stupidest-possible solution to mirror a web app client's local store of, say, JSON objects to a server store of those objects. Features would be
* On load, get the full state
* Small state changes client-side are reflected in the client's local state (so […]
I'm looking for a stupidest-possible solution to mirror a web app client's local store of, say, JSON objects to a server store of those objects. Features would be
* On load, get the full state
* Small state changes client-side are reflected in the client's local state (so […]
I sometimes wish there were a forcing function for international travel. You don't even realize what you're missing until you see someone else's take on, for example, what a city can be like.
I never even noticed how uselessly spread out American suburban regions are until I saw other country's […]
I never even noticed how uselessly spread out American suburban regions are until I saw other country's […]
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December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I sometimes wish there were a forcing function for international travel. You don't even realize what you're missing until you see someone else's take on, for example, what a city can be like.
I never even noticed how uselessly spread out American suburban regions are until I saw other country's […]
I never even noticed how uselessly spread out American suburban regions are until I saw other country's […]
First ride in a #waymo. Apparently, it integrates to my YouTube Music account.
... This felt appropriate.
... This felt appropriate.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
First ride in a #waymo. Apparently, it integrates to my YouTube Music account.
... This felt appropriate.
... This felt appropriate.
Doing a refactor in some Python code and struck by how _awful_ this would be without the static typechecker. Like, changing the return type of one function and the typechecker is catching calls to it I didn't know existed, from a project I barely know exists, from a team member I've met once in […]
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December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Doing a refactor in some Python code and struck by how _awful_ this would be without the static typechecker. Like, changing the return type of one function and the typechecker is catching calls to it I didn't know existed, from a project I barely know exists, from a team member I've met once in […]
Estimates are hard.
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Estimates are hard.
"average runner hacks 2 corporations a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average runner hacks 0 corporations per day. Spider Murphy, who lives on Net & hacks over 1,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
#cyberpunk2020 #cyberpunk2077
#cyberpunk2020 #cyberpunk2077
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"average runner hacks 2 corporations a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average runner hacks 0 corporations per day. Spider Murphy, who lives on Net & hacks over 1,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
#cyberpunk2020 #cyberpunk2077
#cyberpunk2020 #cyberpunk2077
The "Gundam Effect" is when you tell a story that has significant weight and meaning to it, but you use a framing device so intrinsically appealing that the message gets lost in it. The horrors of war and how it's not an atrocity a thinking species should commit on itself, but you told us with […]
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December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The "Gundam Effect" is when you tell a story that has significant weight and meaning to it, but you use a framing device so intrinsically appealing that the message gets lost in it. The horrors of war and how it's not an atrocity a thinking species should commit on itself, but you told us with […]
... OH THAT'S NEW.
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
... OH THAT'S NEW.
Absolutely hammering my way through prototyping a sandstorm app.
How am I doing on time, org-clock-report?
12 hours?
Let's see what that looks like in the xkcd time chart...
Hm. I'll save about a minute daily.
_Whelp_ , better dedicate myself to using this over five years to justify the […]
How am I doing on time, org-clock-report?
12 hours?
Let's see what that looks like in the xkcd time chart...
Hm. I'll save about a minute daily.
_Whelp_ , better dedicate myself to using this over five years to justify the […]
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December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Absolutely hammering my way through prototyping a sandstorm app.
How am I doing on time, org-clock-report?
12 hours?
Let's see what that looks like in the xkcd time chart...
Hm. I'll save about a minute daily.
_Whelp_ , better dedicate myself to using this over five years to justify the […]
How am I doing on time, org-clock-report?
12 hours?
Let's see what that looks like in the xkcd time chart...
Hm. I'll save about a minute daily.
_Whelp_ , better dedicate myself to using this over five years to justify the […]
The _Tron_ movies are interesting to me because on the whole they barely work narratively but they're made up of these moments that stick in my brain.
_Tron: Legacy,_ I don't much care for the script. But the acting and specific scenes stick with me. The bit where Flynn pops Quorra's "code" […]
_Tron: Legacy,_ I don't much care for the script. But the acting and specific scenes stick with me. The bit where Flynn pops Quorra's "code" […]
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December 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The _Tron_ movies are interesting to me because on the whole they barely work narratively but they're made up of these moments that stick in my brain.
_Tron: Legacy,_ I don't much care for the script. But the acting and specific scenes stick with me. The bit where Flynn pops Quorra's "code" […]
_Tron: Legacy,_ I don't much care for the script. But the acting and specific scenes stick with me. The bit where Flynn pops Quorra's "code" […]
"I won't tolerate AI slop on the Internet; it degrades the quality of online content. That's why I've always constrained my consumption of online content to Facebook. And Reddit. And microblogging. And Hacker News. And Fark. And SomethingAwful. And 4chan. And LiveJournal. And my local news […]
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December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"I won't tolerate AI slop on the Internet; it degrades the quality of online content. That's why I've always constrained my consumption of online content to Facebook. And Reddit. And microblogging. And Hacker News. And Fark. And SomethingAwful. And 4chan. And LiveJournal. And my local news […]
Reposted by Mark T. Tomczak
is a fortress just a girl fort
December 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
is a fortress just a girl fort
Thinking about that one secret JIRA feature where you can create a form to enter bugs into a tracker by just creating a URL of `/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa`. This is not a feature they want to support and could break at any time, but they practically _can't_ do away with it because (a) […]
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December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thinking about that one secret JIRA feature where you can create a form to enter bugs into a tracker by just creating a URL of `/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa`. This is not a feature they want to support and could break at any time, but they practically _can't_ do away with it because (a) […]
Someone needs to do a parody of the _Naked Gun_ intro sequence except it's the Waymo LIDAR as the car drives through increasingly absurd nonsense.
Internet, I don't have time, I call upon the powers of bored people and their desire for meme-fame […]
Internet, I don't have time, I call upon the powers of bored people and their desire for meme-fame […]
Original post on mastodon.fixermark.com
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December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Someone needs to do a parody of the _Naked Gun_ intro sequence except it's the Waymo LIDAR as the car drives through increasingly absurd nonsense.
Internet, I don't have time, I call upon the powers of bored people and their desire for meme-fame […]
Internet, I don't have time, I call upon the powers of bored people and their desire for meme-fame […]
Oh, Virginia.
Sometimes I do miss you.
Sometimes I do miss you.
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Oh, Virginia.
Sometimes I do miss you.
Sometimes I do miss you.