Ross Hendry

I think my RHA wireless earbuds have finally bitten the dust. In the meantime the company has gone out of business, so I’ll have the fun of reading lots of reviews and suffering from analysis paralysis.

Perhaps LLMs could improve Google Photos’ attempts at nostalgic galleries. Today’s was a picture of my son as a baby, and the ship that tipped over in the Leith docks three years ago.

I’ve declared my vim config a disaster zone and installed Astronvim instead. There’s various leftovers and half-configured plugins in there, so I’m taking someone else’s hard work and I’ll use it as-is for a while to develop some muscle memory. Only then will I start to think about adding some more customisation.

Then used the new setup to add some features to my Grateful Dead beets plugin, so that I can list out the releases it finds. Mmmm, hand-coding.

Got a sick child who’s not moving from the sofa, so we’ve not been anywhere today. I did manage to get the grass cut and the wormery moved back outside from the garage, so some jobs done.

Happy New Doctor Who Boxed Set Preorder Shipping Day!

I have a few days off coming up, and I’m going to spend a day revisiting an old hobby of going round as many charity shops as I can, looking for books.

Me, opening up my code: “This looks like someone who didn’t know what they’re doing wrote this in sporadic bursts late at night”

Google Photos giving me today’s nostalgia photos with the message “Has it really been two years?”. I’m wearing the same clothes. Now I think Photos is commenting on the low turnover in my wardrobe.

It’s Spring and the sun’s out. Putting all the jeans away and moving back into my shorts.

I think it might be time to explore the world of split keyboards.

Looks like I’ll be going to see Rush.

Red Dwarf is foundational for me. Watching it over and over, the search for second hand videos, setting every Windows 3.1 sound to Lister yelling “Smeg!”. RIP, Rob Grant.

Akira’s coming round in the cinema again. The experience of watching it on that Sunday morning after recording it from BBC 2 is definitely a pivotal moment in my life.

Can’t wait to see it again.

“My experience with AI” blog posts end up being either “I give it enormous instructions, let it chug away and don’t read the code. It’s the future” or “I have learned to break tasks down into very small, manageable tasks, but it’s my paid subscription that’s improved my productivity.”

Deep thought and Internet searches going into a perceived problem in the code. How to avoid n+1 problem? Can sqlx easily built nested struts in arrays? Will I need a new plugin.

Wait… The whole thing is two queries and a loop. GFDI.

Hello Talk now has an AI bot joining in on helping to correct posts. Feels like it’s somewhat defeating the point of creating a community to help each other.

Then again, it’s all just for the predatory money lending ads, isn’t it?