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#dealwithit
Friday, October 13 2017
At some point in the afternoon in the remote workplace, two of the new frontend developers began showing off some Slack /giphy tricks none of the rest of us knew. /giphy is sort of a plugin that allows a random animated gif (selected from a large library) to replace some search term. Sometimes it works better than others, and that's part of the fun. Well it turns out that if one includes a hashtag inside the search term, /giphy will do various things programmatically, such as add weather information for a zipcode or, hilariously, animate a pair of sunglasses falling from the sky onto what its algorithms have determined are eyes, concluding with a text overlay reading "DEAL WITH IT!" That last one uses the hashtag #dealwithit, and it works well on portrait headshots. It works less well on animals, where the algorithm generally gives up, unable to find the eyes (although for a picture of Charles the Cat that I shot the other day in the yard, it tried to drop the sunglasses onto a pattern somewhere down in his fur).
Later in the day, Dan found a picture of the founder of The Organization looking off into the distance, ignoring a preeminent moral philosopher who is seen talking directly to him. This worked really well with #dealwithit, which dropped the sunglasses on the ignorer, not the ignored.
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I was able to take my customary hot bath at close to the time I like to take it (7:30pm), but as has been happening of late, work-related ideas occurred to me in the tub, and I felt the need to do more work once I got out.
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