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A FAQ Sonnet
26/4/15 23:20For comments authored by "anonymous"
We must assume the best of all intents
But sadly there are bots autonomous
and Google's rules they aim to circumvent.
For CAPTCHAs to prevent the spamming trash,
if answer first received is wrong, will fail.
An answer given twice will trigger cache
and will not recognize that ship set sail.
To make it through the tor'trous field of woe
and get your comment posted on the page
A hard refresh will brand new query show
With different answer crave'd on the stage.
To do this thing and pass through chain-ed gate
a doubled keypress needed to unlock
Control and function five will wipe the slate
Just hold together to turn back the clock.
And if there is an error to report
Just take a breath, and kindly ping Support.
From this thread regarding the fact that I'm hesitant to work on FAQs when I've been reading and writing early modern English text all evening.
I'd be sorry, but I'm not.
We must assume the best of all intents
But sadly there are bots autonomous
and Google's rules they aim to circumvent.
For CAPTCHAs to prevent the spamming trash,
if answer first received is wrong, will fail.
An answer given twice will trigger cache
and will not recognize that ship set sail.
To make it through the tor'trous field of woe
and get your comment posted on the page
A hard refresh will brand new query show
With different answer crave'd on the stage.
To do this thing and pass through chain-ed gate
a doubled keypress needed to unlock
Control and function five will wipe the slate
Just hold together to turn back the clock.
And if there is an error to report
Just take a breath, and kindly ping Support.
From this thread regarding the fact that I'm hesitant to work on FAQs when I've been reading and writing early modern English text all evening.
I'd be sorry, but I'm not.
Tech Ethics?
21/7/14 11:13Does anyone have recommendations for books/articles to read regarding the ethics of technology? With this whole "corporations are people" thing that's going around in the US right now, it occurs to me that computers, using the same criteria, could also be classified as people. Now isn't that an interesting thought?
Anyway, throw your recs in comments. :)
Anyway, throw your recs in comments. :)
I'm having a docs party in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on Monday because it seems like a good idea. If you're in the area and are interested in working on the documentation which goes into the FAQs, please let me know so I can get you the location! Party starts at 6ish and ends when I am too tired to type. Booze and snacks will be provided.
Hope to see a few of you there!
Hope to see a few of you there!
Odd Circumstances
5/9/13 16:11I was meeting with someone yesterday about something completely non-DW related (I was meeting his kids to see if I'd be a good fit for a backup babysitter), and maybe kinda sorta recruited him into possibly coding for us.
Also, he wants to write a book about user --> developer relationships and communication, so there's that.
Also also, his kids are so adorable that I want to puke. It should be illegal to have 4 children who are that precocious.
Also also also, cheese.
Also, he wants to write a book about user --> developer relationships and communication, so there's that.
Also also, his kids are so adorable that I want to puke. It should be illegal to have 4 children who are that precocious.
Also also also, cheese.
My friend Carrie wrote this upon requests for prayers to tech gods:
Oh god of techiness, circuitry be your name.
Thy emails come,
Thy downloading done
On earth as it's done is interspace.
Give us this day our daily cookies,
and forgive us our email
as we forgive those who email against us.
Lead us not into pop-ups,
but deliver us from spam.
For thine is the Pinterest,
the Facebook, and the Databases,
Forever and ever.
Upload.
To which the only response is:
in nomine rahaelis, et marci, et spiritus afunae, amen.
Oh god of techiness, circuitry be your name.
Thy emails come,
Thy downloading done
On earth as it's done is interspace.
Give us this day our daily cookies,
and forgive us our email
as we forgive those who email against us.
Lead us not into pop-ups,
but deliver us from spam.
For thine is the Pinterest,
the Facebook, and the Databases,
Forever and ever.
Upload.
To which the only response is:
in nomine rahaelis, et marci, et spiritus afunae, amen.
From here.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jadelennox: I think the kitten is misskat and the turtles are all the volunteers.
misskat: Yes, exactly this, but with more yelling.
jadelennox: I think the kitten is misskat and the turtles are all the volunteers.misskat: Yes, exactly this, but with more yelling.Life with Kat and Fu
25/6/13 16:51No shit, there we were: Mark, Denise, Fu, and yours truly, in a hotel room in Portland, at Oh-Good-Lord in the morning.
Mark and D are slooooowly recaffeinating, and looking askance at anything that moves too quickly.
Fu and I are on the far bed, basically doing this:
It is a testament to their patience that Fu and I made it out of that room alive/without laser holes.
I love my job. <33333
Mark and D are slooooowly recaffeinating, and looking askance at anything that moves too quickly.
Fu and I are on the far bed, basically doing this:
It is a testament to their patience that Fu and I made it out of that room alive/without laser holes.
I love my job. <33333
Super Maaaaark!
21/6/13 20:54Sometimes, when the site goes down, I have to text Mark at odd hours to get him to make it be less broken. The following is a reenactment of one of these incidents:
Thanks for all you do,![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
mark! YOU ARE A SUPERHERO!
Thanks for all you do,
mark! YOU ARE A SUPERHERO!
Off to Portland!
17/6/13 10:00I'm trying to pack for OSBridge in Portland, and both ferrets are looking at me like, "mommy, you are going to pack us too, right?" Well, Hermes is. Isaac is trying to crawl *under* their bed. I don't even know.
It's really sad because there's no way I can smuggle them with me. I know: I checked the airline regulations yesterday evening, and ferrets aren't allowed in the cabin. I am going to miss my sweet, ridiculous, not-quite-all-there boys.
Don't mind me. It's just really dusty in here.
It's really sad because there's no way I can smuggle them with me. I know: I checked the airline regulations yesterday evening, and ferrets aren't allowed in the cabin. I am going to miss my sweet, ridiculous, not-quite-all-there boys.
Don't mind me. It's just really dusty in here.
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13/6/13 09:38azurelunatic: Hey Rah, am I allowed to try to ride a segway into the library, even if it's not the library of someone we know and who knows where I live and can hunt me down?azurelunatic: (asking for a friend)denise: azz: no.azurelunatic: ok!azurelunatic crosses off list of possible hobbiesdenise: i swear i need a rah!bot just to tell you people nodenise: you're gonna kill me one of these days(For the record, I am not allowed to throw things off the hotel balcony, buy sparklers, spend excessive amounts of money on nail polish, stay up past my bedtime, or lick the keyboard. I am allowed to go to the conference without pants, interact with people on less than 4 hours of sleep, and have ice cream for breakfast. [Though to be clear, I maybe didn't exactly *ask* about these things, and just did them anyway, and I take "not being told no" to be the same as "being told yes."])
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Kat and Afuna!
10/6/13 10:01One of the best parts of YAPC was meeting fu offline! She is tiny and short and adorable, and it really is a minor miracle that I didn't pack her in my suitcase to bring her home with me.
fu offline! She is tiny and short and adorable, and it really is a minor miracle that I didn't pack her in my suitcase to bring her home with me.What I Learned at YAPC
1/6/13 16:36diag "why science";
sub tony_no {
my $arg = shift;
if ( $arg eq 'no tony' ) { return 'tony stahp' }
else { return 'jarvis halp' }
}
is (tony_no( 'no tony' ) , 'tony stahp' , 'go to sleep stark' );
*bows*
sub tony_no {
my $arg = shift;
if ( $arg eq 'no tony' ) { return 'tony stahp' }
else { return 'jarvis halp' }
}
is (tony_no( 'no tony' ) , 'tony stahp' , 'go to sleep stark' );
*bows*
Holiday Dysmorphia
1/5/13 12:25It's May, and nominally spring here in balmy Minnesota. "Nominally? Why is it only nominally spring, Kat?" you ask, eyes wide.
Well, my dears, it's snowing. It is snowing. In May. During Winter Storm Achilles (aptly named, as it's hobbling my bean planting abilities).
Now, there are Rules About This Sort Of Thing. Namely, there are rules governing when I am allowed to sing Christmas carols. Fortunately for me, "snowing out of season" is one of the rules! I started writing these up in IRC, and then it became a teambuilding exercise, which is TOTALLY in my job description.
Thus, I present unto you the Descent Into Mayhem, or the Dreamwidth Christmas Album
( Lyrics for Marky Baby, Little Coder Person, Have Yourself A Happy Dreamwidth Birthday, Baby There's Code Outside, and O Radiator )
I have some ideas floating around for 12 Days of Code-mas, but nothing concrete yet. Suggestions welcome in comments!
Welp, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Well, my dears, it's snowing. It is snowing. In May. During Winter Storm Achilles (aptly named, as it's hobbling my bean planting abilities).
Now, there are Rules About This Sort Of Thing. Namely, there are rules governing when I am allowed to sing Christmas carols. Fortunately for me, "snowing out of season" is one of the rules! I started writing these up in IRC, and then it became a teambuilding exercise, which is TOTALLY in my job description.
Thus, I present unto you the Descent Into Mayhem, or the Dreamwidth Christmas Album
( Lyrics for Marky Baby, Little Coder Person, Have Yourself A Happy Dreamwidth Birthday, Baby There's Code Outside, and O Radiator )
I have some ideas floating around for 12 Days of Code-mas, but nothing concrete yet. Suggestions welcome in comments!
Welp, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Happy birthday, DW!
30/4/13 21:114 years. Open Beta feels like it was just weeks ago.
Thank you to everyone who uses Dreamwidth! Without you, this whole thing would be irrelevant.
-Kat
Thank you to everyone who uses Dreamwidth! Without you, this whole thing would be irrelevant.
-Kat
YAPC:NA Update!
10/4/13 00:01My talk, The Care and Feeding of Volunteers: Lessons from Non-Profits and OSS got accepted to Yet Another Perl Conference, being held 3-5 June in Austin, TX this year.
Congrats tomark, whose talk, Sowing the Seeds of Diversity, was also accepted! The abstract says "we" a lot, so it may also be denise's talk, though I'm not 100% on that.
EDIT: Looks likedenise has her own talk: Be Kind to Your Wrists (You'll Miss Them When They're Gone). Congrats to my bossen!
In any case, Dreamwidth REPRESENT. *DW hand gestures*
Congrats to
mark, whose talk, Sowing the Seeds of Diversity, was also accepted! The abstract says "we" a lot, so it may also be denise's talk, though I'm not 100% on that.EDIT: Looks like
denise has her own talk: Be Kind to Your Wrists (You'll Miss Them When They're Gone). Congrats to my bossen!In any case, Dreamwidth REPRESENT. *DW hand gestures*
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Wordcounts
2/4/13 01:08It is pretty clear that denise and I have evolved Support answer styles in two different worlds. It took her 187 words to say what I managed to get across in 38! She's way more wordy than I am, but the gist of our messages was the same.
I am amuse.
denise and I have evolved Support answer styles in two different worlds. It took her 187 words to say what I managed to get across in 38! She's way more wordy than I am, but the gist of our messages was the same.I am amuse.
