Finally ordered a manga series that’s been on my “to read” list for thirty years. All those hours spent digging through boxes of comics I couldn’t affort at marts. Thankfully, this one hasn’t shot up in price.
Brought home the last of the old junk, erm, collectibles, from my folks place. About to found out how little resale value there is for Babylon 5 and X-Men 2 trading cards.
Many years ago, a new engineer joined the company I was at and within a week called an all-hands to propose rewriting the entire product in Ocaml in order to eliminate bugs.
I look at the bun story and wonder if these days they would have just pushed up a PR.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of listening to The Grateful Dead since I heard my first notes nearly 30 years ago, and I have finally listened to Wake of the Flood.
Nothing like carrying a bad rucksack round the zoo for six hours to make you appreciate the one you should have brought. Oh, my back!
Doublespeak
I think you can just say it caught fire, no need to try and obscure it with vague language.
My brain just mixed or up merged “append” and “amend” and I had a little “but how does this work?!” spiral while running a git command.
My brain just mixed or up merged “append” and “amend” and I had a little “but how does this work?!” spiral while running
The Vinland Saga and Usagi Yojimbo bundles are back on Fanatical. Well worth picking up.
It’s only May. I have no idea what my job of software engineering is going to look like in 6 months.
It’s still going to involve code, but I don’t know what my contact or relationship to it will be like.
Looks like I’ve managed to make my social media posting POSSE blog thing work with activitypub as well. How exciting.
I could be something more useful with my time, I guess.
Failed to adequately explain to the boy why he couldn’t play with my gunpla. So my RX-78 is currently sitting in his new magnatile house alongside Spider-man.
Why does eBay need to train its AI on my personal data?
I’ve never seen Highlander. Do you need nostalgia to enjoy it?
Spent some time last night trying to get a fork of abcde up and running. Had to patch unmaintained perl libraries, make custom packages, and I’ve come to the conclusion that my cdrom drive is knackered.
read Fishflies by Jeff Lemire
I love starting a new Jeff Lemire book.
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This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.
read Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography by Tom Baker
Doing some much needed tidying and, oh look! Another bag of USB cables. I’ll definitely need to keep all of these.
My evening is sorted
That’s my evening sorted.
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.
Kitbashing
The wee one is not going to follow your instruction book!
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.