James Wynn 🧐

I make things. All kinds of things. And I like scifi. And running. And coffee. Probably not in that order though.

I've been programming for about two dozen years across probably as many languages. I enjoy learning new programming languages and natural languages, though I'm much better at the former.

James Wynn 🧐 boosted:
2025-06-04

THIS. YES.

Screenshot of a tweet from @WarpaintJournal that reads:

“Teaching people how to regulate their emotions is crime prevention. It’s addiction prevention. It’s suicide prevention. It’s generational healing. It’s how we stop raising adults who explode, implode, or shut down at the first sign of discomfort.
Emotional regulation is not just a soft skill. It’s survival. It’s the foundation of a society where people can disagree without dehumanizing each other, where accountability isn’t seen as an attack, and where conflict doesn’t always have to mean violence.
You want a better world? Start with emotional education.”
James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-06-01

@deivudesu @mpjgregoire
I've heard that Kodi's Jellyfin integration was pretty good these days. I'll have to give that a whirl. I wasn't a huge fan of Kodi when I ran it like 5+ years ago. It felt fickle and kludgey. Maybe its better now.

James Wynn 🧐 boosted:
2025-05-15

So now I'm looking for a replacement. I eschew corporate crap as much as possible and focus on #FOSS where I can. I found #Waistline, which seems quite mature and integrates with both USDA and Open Food Facts databases. The search is reasonable, though not super fast. But anything you add gets stored in your local database so its quick to add the next time.

I only have two minor quibbles:

  1. It mostly uses metric and I grew up in 'Murica, so these things take a couple extra logical leaps for me to think about.
  2. No native support for exercise, but you can enter a "food" with negative calories and it increases your calorie goal rather than reducing your total calories. Good enough.

If I stick with it for a few weeks I'll have to hit the dev on librepay or something.

https://github.com/davidhealey/waistline

#health #nutrition #CalorieCounting #android

James Wynn 🧐 boosted:
2025-05-15

Years ago I used #Lifesum for calorie counting and it did a pretty good job. Relatively clean interface and it had a pretty accurate food search function. In decided clean up my diet a bit so I took another look. Like so many other products it is now totally polluted with #AI garbage. Instead of a handy search feature it instead hallucinates garbage food based on your search term. I tried searching for food a few different ways but nothing really works. The bar code scanner still works, so there is that I guess.

#health #nutrition

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-29

@Nux
GoToSocial is super lightweight and great for small instances

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-24

@lattera
That would be a great power nap

James Wynn 🧐 boosted:
VissViss
2025-04-24

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James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-09

@cybeardjm
I didn't realize Murderbot was coming out so soon. It looks like they gave it a really good treatment. Though I'm a little disappointed they didn't cast a more androgynous actor for the role. That felt like an important facet of its identity.

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Ellie Huxtableellie@hachyderm.io
2025-04-09

Just shipped something new in Atuin 18.5: Scripts :atuin:

You can now turn shell history into reusable, synced, and encrypted scripts.

✨ Built from real commands
✨ Supports variables + templating
✨ Custom shebangs (Python, etc)
✨ End-to-end encrypted + syncs across devices

This has been super useful already. I use it for deploy commands, fiddly git commands, and other things I forget a bunch.

Blog post with details: blog.atuin.sh/atuin-scripts-sh

Would love to hear what you think! Feedback very welcome <3

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-08

Just got my copy of Winter Rabbit from Absurdist's Kickstarter! I havent gotten to play it since the beta. I need to find some time to play it soon.

Its a fun coop game based on Cherokee fables. Design and art are both by Cherokees.

boardgame box in blue and white featuring an artistic rabbit and a bit of Cherokee lettering
James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-07

If everyone at died in a horrific fire I would dance with glee. Parasites.

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-04-01

I just read this mind blowing article about how much tracking some android apps do. An app can list other apps that it can query on your phone and the worst abusers are listing hundreds of them.

peabee.substack.com/p/everyone

Does @GrapheneOS prevent this?

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-29

@chewie
I had a 1 inch thick piece of packing foam from a video card that ive set it on now. It seems to have done quite a lot on its own.

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-29

I noticed that most of the noise I can hear through the walls from my wall-mounted rack is from my NAS vibrating, and it decreases my like 90% if I just lift it up. Any good ideas for insulating the vibrations? Maybe setting it on a piece of foam? Its just sitting on a rack shelf.

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-24

@lanefu
Thanks for the tip! I'm sure that would have tripped me up.

James Wynn 🧐 boosted:
2025-03-24

Guess who's back
Back again
Nicole is back
In your DMs

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-24

I'm tempted to break everything by switching my cluster to CNI today. Surely it couldn't be as disastrous as when I deployed , right?

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-19

If I had a band it would be called "Fresh Deli Meats"

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-18

@Some_Emo_Chick
Are you me?

James Wynn 🧐jameswynn
2025-03-18

Now that is gone and is dead, what are other users using to block spam calls? Strong preference for FOSS.

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