I tried a mushroom growing kit recently. Pack a tub full of used coffee ground and wet cardboard, along with some spores, and wait for the mushrooms to poke through.
Might try it again but cut a few holes in the lid, maybe get more mushrooms.
Lots to do on a bank holiday, but first some coffee and the first episode of Terminus.
Currently suffering from the medical condition known as “gardener’s back”.
In order to get to know the circular saw a bit, I built a shonky cat stepladder for our aging cats.
Just watched one of them contort herself around it in order to get in the door. Oh well.
We’ve filled this thing three times over now. Slowly clearing the front jungle/garden.
I’m not sure the recipe will work so well with that substitution.
Bought a bluetooth adapter for my open-backed headphones. Of course, the microphone is dogshit which makes it pretty useless for work.
Every set of bluetooth headphones I’ve tried to use for calls as had awful microphone quality. No idea if it’s a config or device issue.
Finally managed to drag my Previews order helper into the current day and make it also pull in information from other distributors since there’s less and less in Previews.
A lot of my saved searches in it were for individual creators rather than book titles, so I could see whenever Jeff Lemire and Ed Brubaker have new books out without nedeing to worry about missing order cutoffs.
That’s the first major work I’ve done on it for five years, and I left a lot of traps for myself to fall into. Hopefully it’ll be a little easier to understand next time I have to dive into it.
In the process of gatsby upgrades I fixed an annoyance/bug/workaround that had been in the code for five years.
Sometimes you just look at it again and think “Well that’s not the way to do it”.
When forking a project that uses urls for module or package names (Hello, Go!), is it polite to rename the module straight away, or do you just leave it as the old name?
Always need more books
Aw, man! Do I need to start moving away from using github as a login provider? I mean, sure, I can set up my own indieauth endpoint, bridge to my own OpenID as a provider, expose that on a VM somewhere, implement tailscale reverse proxy auth, then forget my password. Just seems a bit overkill.
Managed to get the posse’ing blog to split notes and post threads. But why does the root message not show on the profile page? 🤔
After putting underlay back down, the stairs are definitely a bit quieter, and I also resolved some problems with the kickstarter feed over the weekend.
Fixed a bug where if you linked to your project in pre-release, it would probably never show up in the feed after launch. Just on the feed today I’m seeing new projects (to me) that have been running a while.
Also made it run much cheaper. Not before I also introduced a bug for three days that’s cost me ~$30. Win some, lose some.
The carpet is back down, all tools put away, the stairs still creak. But, I had fun. I’m mostly very wary of tackling DIY, so getting all that done was a big win.
Also, no blood lost on carpet tacks. No wood splitting, no plaster damaged, new underlay down. All in all, very far from a disaster.
Switched up how the bluesky feeds generators are consuming all the messages. Turned out to be a great idea as it’s dropped the CPU usage massively. I’m basically back to free tier for hosting it now!
“I’m moving my blog to substack” is becoming a really handy way of cutting down on the number of RSS feeds I feel the need to keep up with.
Made a little update to the Kickstarter feeds. It’ll now correctly pick up posts which embed the Kickstarter link but don’t include it in the text.
Going to do some work over the next few days to try and get the running costs down more.
A Peruvian Cyberpunk Saga
So what I want is a single copy with the cover blemishes of each taken out, but it’s fine. Now I just need to get lucky with volume 2…
It’s my own fault. I uttered the immortal phrase “I’m all done with this task, just need to update a couple of tests”. I could hear gremlin-like giggling as soon as I said it.
I have finally (finally!) ordered a new bluray player. I’ll be able to make a start on the last two years of Doctor Who boxed sets