Tonight’s cooking question: can I make egg fried rice with half a kilo of rice? Should be interesting…
It’s a “Free Electricity Hour” day today. Standing poised to run all the self-cleaning cycles, boost the heating, make a coffee. Didn’t get a chance to start on making bread.
Finally unpacking some books
Not sure when I last had this box of books unpacked. Some of these probably haven’t seen the light of day in over a decade.
Watched the first episode of Kamen Rider on YouTube. Hopefully I can keep up with the limited availability streaming as it goes on.
backed Sharp Eye - Issue 1
Sharp Eye - Issue 1
A daylight noir sci-fi comic set in the hot, fetid ruins of far future North America
Going straight from Mickey and The Roadsters to The Owl House is fine for a 3 year old, right? How about Samurai Jack?
Turns out there’s an audio book of David Tennant reading Hairy Maclary. Slowly introducing more Doctor Who into his life.
I really love it when someone’s poorly implemented a debounce or something on a text field and when typing on mobile it grinds to a halt then shoves the cursor back and finishes the laggy input.
backed GRIFF GRISTLE: THE BOATMAN'S CALL Graphic Novel
GRIFF GRISTLE: THE BOATMAN'S CALL Graphic Novel
The supernatural seadog in an action packed 140 page extended HARDBACK! For fans of Hellboy, BRPD, Hellblazer and SEA SHANTIES!
The thing about reading a new book to your child is that sometimes you realise halfway through that the story is an allegory for acrimonious divorce and its effect on children.
“Yeah, you can have this one again, but maybe Room On The Broom after it?”
Shimazaki volume 5
Really enjoying this series. The action sequences are superb, the tension is almost stifling at times, and the light hearted moments bring some relief. Love it.
Tried my hand at growing some mushrooms
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”.
First project with the circular saw
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.
A little light gardening
We’ve filled this thing three times over now. Slowly clearing the front jungle/garden.
One of these things is not like the other
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?
backed Glacier Bay Books Fall 2025 Program
Glacier Bay Books Fall 2025 Program
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.