Chris Hartjes

Staff Software Engineer @ ZiffDavis Shopping. 10x Ghost Engineer. Pixelminer in the remote Canadian wilderness

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2025-02-08 23:03:54 GMT

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I ended up going with Fullhost — on the verge of getting my own GotoSocial instance up and running

2025-02-08 13:44:40 GMT

@npub1dt0…pmw4 Do you have any recommendations for a Canadian VPS solution? I am wanting to move my blog off of GitHub pages along with self-hosting a Fediverse instance

2025-02-07 12:10:36 GMT

“A developer not using AI is like a construction worker not using a hammer.”
Easiest block in my life.

2025-01-22 15:33:23 GMT

If a web site only works properly in one web browser, it is definitely due to developer incompetence. Chrome didn’t become dominant overnight, it had lots of help from lazy developers who believed marketing over their users’ needs.
“But Chrome is *fast*” not as fast as people closing the window or tab and seeking something else.
Again, too many of my peers confuse “inevitability” with “the easiest path to my bank account”
https://liberdon.com/@h4890/113872676254699021

2025-01-22 14:12:00 GMT

After 27 years of getting paid to build web sites, the number of web sites and applications that simply don’t work never ceases to amaze me.

2025-01-16 17:18:11 GMT

I wish my American friends could truly understand what it is like being in Canada and having no control over how your bullshit ruins our country. When your new administration takes over on Monday, they could decide to completely tank Canada’s economy overnight just to score points with their supporters. I am trying to sell my house and do other things in the midst of all this.
None of you will ever understand but I guess jokes about “America’s Hat” or “51st state” are funny to you

2025-01-02 01:35:45 GMT

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All favours designed to help the Westons, who are huge party donors.
Everything Ford does needs to be viewed through the lens of “who benefits from the government doing this”
Beer stuff — large grocery stores who donated
Highway 413 - property developers who donated
Reduced health care funding — donors who want to set up private health care facilities
Reduced public education funding — they hate unions and want private schools to be funded by government money

2024-11-26 16:05:51 GMT

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The worst part of this from my perspective is that US voters don’t know what tariffs are

2024-11-26 15:42:28 GMT

Thank you American friends https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariffs-25-canada-mexico-1.7393160

2024-11-25 20:38:23 GMT

Oh come on
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2024-11-07 20:59:55 GMT

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1) we have no choice for online hosting / cloud computing — all dominated by US companies
2) what language you choose doesn’t matter
3) learn more JavaScript to stay in the web game
4) support your kids interests and teach them to not comply with whatever bullshit the government and others want them to embrace

2024-10-14 13:52:57 GMT

The seller accepted our offer and now we have to sell this place within 30 days #movingwhilegrumpy
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2024-10-13 17:06:35 GMT

As we make plans to move, I am wondering how much I am willing to spend to get all the cat6 cabling done again at the next place. The downside is I would have to get rid of all my UniFi stuff as it relies on wired wifi access points :(

2024-10-06 12:49:52 GMT

My wife and I just finished watching season 3 and I have to say I felt really disappointed by the ending.
Maybe it’s always been like this and I am simply noticing but too many TV series seem to drag things out — 10 episodes when they clearly only had 5 worth of material, season finales that don’t resolve anything.
On top of it, my usual complaints of them trying to make me feel sympathy for (IMO) unsympathetic characters.

2024-10-01 23:36:11 GMT

A grumpy man and his cat
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2024-09-29 23:04:28 GMT

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For me it is 90% acid reflux and maybe 10% GERD (via doctor). Not nearly as debilitating as Crohn’s. I am just struggling with a much-reduced menu of foods I can eat and really struggling to alter eating habits and portion sizes.

2024-09-29 18:20:31 GMT

My stomach issues have turned me from a person who enjoyed eating and trying out things into someone who doesn’t enjoy it because it feels like every meal is a potential landmine. Was that portion too big? Did I eat too fast? One slice of pizza okay? Oh man, my favourite dish at that place is smothered in chili and onions. The steak I grilled caused me stomach pain all night.

2024-09-05 01:13:53 GMT

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We are spoiled at our current house with a three-car garage. The search continues

2024-09-05 01:05:26 GMT

We have been looking at houses to think about moving and there is a place that is so great…but it doesn’t have a garage 😫 Narrow driveway too and I am not sure I want to leave my MuskMobile outside in winter and also do the constant vehicle shuffling

2024-09-04 17:31:28 GMT

Hot take:
Fedi users: we want protection / safety / moderation tools!
Fedi developers: will you pay salaries to developers to build them?
Fedi users: absolutely not

2024-08-17 11:50:06 GMT

The Interns are having a hard time getting going this morning #catsofmastodon #caturday
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2024-07-09 13:19:39 GMT

I am old enough to remember Napster being sued out of existence for asking to treat copyrighted material the same way OpenAI wants to, but I guess the “wrong people” were involved with Napster as opposed to the grifters at OpenAI

2024-04-11 15:46:43 GMT

I’ll be at #phptek24 in a few weeks giving a talk about CQRS (secretly a design patterns talk) and NeoVim for PHP Developers (secretly a talk about deeply learning tools)

2023-10-04 20:32:49 GMT

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“Error establishing a database connection” is one hell of a switch 😂😂😂