gnomon

gnomon, 2 days ago to random

I am NOT going to watch a four hour YouTube video about a star wars hotel

gnomon, 3 days ago to random

i hab a code

gnomon, 5 days ago to random

I am the opposite of a morning person: generally when I wake up I'm feeling the worst I do all day, and that gradually improves as a shower and have breakfast. But this morning I'm already feeling loads better than I did at every point yesterday! So that's nice.

I don't have a working theory about why, but yesterday I just felt super low energy all day - sleepy, but also physically tired as if I had worked hard all week (dear reader, I had not), aching joints, the whole nine yards.

gnomon, 9 days ago to random

The more time I spend with GitHub Actions, the more convinced I become that workflow files belong in a repo but not in the commit history graph of the default ref; maybe under a different namespace, refs/ci/* or something. There's too much value in keeping them right next to the code, but too much negative value in requiring their changes to be intermingled with codebase commits.

That said I also firmly believe that workflow files should be STRICTLY orchestration; execution logic is app code.

gnomon, 11 days ago to random

Get your timed mute buttons ready, #monsterdon is about to watch The Pit and the Pendulum!

gnomon, 13 days ago to random

Got a haircut. Got trapped in the subway tunnel due to a security incident. Missed my Megabus to Ottawa.

gnomon, 17 days ago to random

Is there an idiomatic SQL (sqlite3) way of mapping a subset of selected records from a large table ("users") to unique values in a smaller table ("coupons")? It's easy enough to select all the user records not yet mapped, and to select all as-yet unmapped coupons, but then what's a nice clean way of mapping one to the other? Order doesn't matter, only that the mapping once established can be queried again in the future.

My brain is stuck thinking sequentially about this, frustratingly.

gnomon, 18 days ago to random

Get your timed mute buttons ready if you're a #monsterDontian, #monsterdon kicks off in 20 minutes!

gnomon, 21 days ago to random

When I pass on I want there to be a party, a proper one with music and drinks and dancing. I want professional staff, generously paid and properly treated by all; the band too; and I want three solemn volunteers at the exit to ensure everyone gets home all right, by themselves or in a hired car or with an escort if need be, and to extract a promise: that each attendee, before the next full moon, will take one task from their neighbour's todo list & fulfill it to the very best of their ability.

gnomon, 26 days ago to random

Blurgh, in the last 25-30 minutes the back of my throat has developed that worrying little ache that usually precedes a cold or a flu. Haven't felt that in a long time, at least a couple of years. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I'm skipping Katie's and my dance lesson tonight. :-\ Means missing something I was looking forward to, but better to not take risks with other folks's health. (I hope it's not actually an illness coming on but rather, like, a bad pollen day or something.)

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

Keeping a little brief log of bicycle maintenance activities with automatically added timestamps has turned out to be a really useful little tool now that I have a few years of data in it.

I started it in 2017 as a project tracker for my ridiculous frankenBrompton. Now I can predict with decent accuracy when I'll need wear part replacements like new chains, brake pads, tire reinflations, battery recharges, a new helmet... super useful!

And NO ADS

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

Some kind of heavy hydraulic machinery starting howling literally right outside my office window at 9:01 sharp, about 55 minutes ago, and I cannot hear a n y t h i n g. Going to be a challenging day for concentration I think.

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

This makes twice now that The #Monsterdon Collective™ has picked films I already own and to be honest it feels a bit judgey

edit: proof

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

So @k8eb wants us to watch Spongebob

And, like

Ma'am. We are not going back and watching eleven seasons of this show.

...

...are we..?

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

Yesterday Katie and I attended our first dance class together. It was fun! It's been a long time since I've done anything like that.

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

Get your timed mute buttons ready, #monsterdon kicks off in five minutes!

I just put the DVD in the player and boy howdy, if the movie is anything at all like the intro clips we are in for a ride tonight

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

I have a little fanless Intel N5105 machine about the size of a bus station paperback. It's called a MeLe Quieter3C. It spends its time pulling down 1-2W at idle, running Kodi on Debian, quietly waiting for us to remote control it into playing back video files from the household fileserver while we eat dinner on the couch instead of at the kitchen table. (Sorry, Mum.)

Once a week or so it boots into its copy of Windows 11 so it can run Syncplay for a movie evening with distant friends.

1/2

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

Everyone joining the fediverse should learn the guiding principle ABC: Always Boost Cat

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

A pal of mine accidentally carbonated his toilet water for an unknown number of days recently

I just like to remind myself of this every once in a while.

gnomon, 1 month ago to Toronto

Jin "jnyyz" of Biking In A Big City attended an online session recently by Councillor Morley¹ (ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore²) about the Bloor street extension planned for that ward. Brief post, good read: https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/ward-3-online-meeting-on-the-bloor-st-west-complete-street-western-extension/

#bikeTO #Toronto #mastobikes #topoli

¹: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/members-of-council/councillor-ward-3/

²: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/ward-profiles/ward-3-etobicoke-lakeshore/

gnomon, 1 month ago to random

look i know it's not technically in the right category but the fact that #monsterdon has not yet even put Goncharov on the weekly ballot is a travesty

gnomon, 2 months ago to random

Get your timed mute buttons ready, folks, we're about to do a #monsterdon.

gnomon, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good computer case that keeps the motherboard horizontal instead of vertical, with a preference for something cube-like? My top choices of the Coolermaster HAF XB Evo and Thermaltake Core X5 are apparently like a decade out of date. There are some decent cubes for mini-ITX but I think I'll need an E-ATX enclosure.

No particular hurry on this, I'm waiting for X870E boards / Ryzen 9000 CPUs to ship in Q2/Q3. Just planning ahead for now.

gnomon, 2 months ago to random

Lotta snow out there today. Getting around on two wheels was a bit challenging. Tomorrow's going to be harder. 😬

Gotta do it though.

#dlws

gnomon, 2 months ago to random

If you have a few little scripts hanging around in your ~/bin/ that use regexes to destructure and/or synthesize URLs, give @bagder's trurl(1) a look. It's small, simple, speedy, and super useful; it makes the intent of the transformation a lot easier to infer from its implementation. I don't know whether it'll grow to be as popular as its big brother curl(1) - the niche is smaller - but I hope it does!

https://curl.se/trurl/

https://curl.se/trurl/manual.html

https://github.com/curl/trurl