Rich Lafferty 🐀 / is on Nostr

Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.

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Last Notes

2024-04-25 14:45:10

happy light jacket day!!!
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/332/394/297/800/218/original/adf50284ab009d29.png

2024-01-03 03:16:32

ok let’s clear this up.
THIS (left) is a Stanley CUP. THAT (right) is a Stanley TUMBLER.
thank you for your cooperation
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/689/845/224/749/383/original/47558d19f8ac0e76.jpeg
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/689/845/391/758/099/original/686d27ee5b529ec9.jpeg

2023-12-21 16:32:01

how am i supposed to know when it’s raining in sweden???

2023-12-19 20:44:00

you’d better watch out,
you’d better watch out,
ý̴̯o̷̥̣͒ù̴̳͕̅’̸͍̦̐̔d̴̹̈͂ ̷̬̫̐b̶̬̠̾e̶̮̺̓t̷̕͜͝t̷̹̿͆è̷̗̍r̵̜̬̈̓ ̸̺͂̕ẉ̷̛͇a̶̮͔͆t̴̥̼̓c̵̯̥͑h̵͐́͜ ̶̞͒̐ō̵̡̏u̶̡̘͌t̴̯̰͋
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2023-11-20 17:14:57

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@npub1nvp…agzg Keep in mind that your outdoor power equipment and hand tool battery systems won't be interchangeable even if they're from the same brand, so if you wanted to stick with Makita for 18V/20V hand tools and then go with Ego or Snow Joe for 40V/80V outdoor equipment, it would be fine. (I don't think Makita makes snowblowers, lawnmowers and so on anyway.)

2023-11-19 19:30:11

I realized that the Internet is almost devoid of evidence of four stars and a horse, so I have done my part in immortalizing it.
https://www.lafferty.ca/blog/2023-11-four-stars-and-a-horse/
(Also, somewhat surprisingly I am already the first Google hit for “four stars and a horse”.)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🐴

2023-11-18 22:29:14

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@npub1m9h…7spx i meant the etsy bug/meme BUT that horse is also ok
one of my favourite bugs ever: http://web.archive.org/web/20161005125826/https://www.etsy.com/ca/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/14559563/
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2023-11-18 22:19:14

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@npub1m9h…7spx four nines and a horse

2023-11-06 21:05:57

the actual politics are, of course, terrible, but i find the idea of the Ontario Ford government approving a 50-story building on the flight path to Pearson[1] so hilarious in its incompetence that i made a lil’ mockup
the Absolute condo tower I pastede on (yey) is to the south of the proposed location on the same street, and is 55 stories
“I wonder why all the neighbouring buildings are so short?”
[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/10071072/ford-government-forced-to-fix-rushed-zoning-order-that-put-tower-on-flight-path/
#OnPoli #CanPoli #ToPoli
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2023-11-01 00:22:52

happy hallowe’en from Stacey and Stella!
(the filter is “treat meow” on tiktok)
#CatsOfMastodon #TortieTuesday
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/332/436/593/261/184/original/27cd2f387b3eb5d2.mp4

2023-10-02 03:38:23

earlier i was talking about how coaching people as a staff engineer feels like being an aunt or uncle instead of a parent, and then I had to make this
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/163/339/359/415/801/original/2a8c025b348938e9.jpeg

2023-09-01 00:01:08

$ a8e () { LEN=$(( $(echo -n $1 | wc -c) - 2)); echo $1 | sed "s/^$.$.*$.$$/\1$LEN\2/"; }
$ e9e () { LEN=$(echo $1 | sed 's/^.$.*$.$/\1/'); GREP=$(echo $1 | sed "s/^$.$.*$.$$/^\1.{$LEN}\2$/"); grep -E "$GREP" /usr/share/dict/words; }
(pardon the lack of formatting, here’s a gist alternative: https://gist.github.com/wlonkly/348910a0a40fc63dcca2250c758b0a34)

2023-09-01 00:01:08

2023-06-15 23:16:34

TIL if you go “straight” out of #Halifax Harbour, you end up nowhere near Europe or even Africa, you barely miss the east coast of Brazil, you barely miss the coast of Antarctica, and you finally hit land in Western Australia.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/110/550/777/215/434/046/original/fb536260b49f3c6d.mp4

2023-06-14 00:03:36

and to think people say #Ottawa is no fun, look at inspector clouseau here
(the replies and quote tweets are good)
https://twitter.com/OttawaBylaw/status/1668604129147781124
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