Chris Siebenmann
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Chris Siebenmann
@cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer. he/him/they/them 🇨🇦

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A PS about my Fediverse account: I don't normally do this much of it, but the picture boosting will continue until morale improves.
I like programming but I wish it wasn't for this reason status: I added loading my techblog's configuration from a pre-compiled¹ file rather than parsing it from scratch, which significantly speeds up configuration loading because these days I have a ton of CIDR netblocks in it for various […]
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December 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is my angry face that GNU Emacs appears to have re-indented my entire Python file to a different standard without me noticing and I didn't catch it in time. And also it appears impossible in GNU Emacs to FIX this. I do not want four space no tabs, this is historical code that all files […]
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December 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Could I just remember 'apt-show-versions -u | sort' rather than looking it up in our cron job every time? Sure. I could also put it in a script to save myself the bother. (Will I remember the script? Maybe.)
December 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Chris Siebenmann
I've spent my morning editing photos - I lost all my 2020-2022 edits with a hard drive messup a few years ago, but, I'm currently working through them. So, for #MountainMonday here is a refreshed edit of A Cold Morning At Assiniboine.

#landscapephotography […]

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December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A PS about my Fediverse account: I don't normally do this much of it, but the picture boosting will continue until morale improves.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM