isaiah

isaiah, 6 months ago to random

so… this is hard for me, but i’m starting to think it may be time to consider getting a permanent wheelchair. i have a loaner. it’s old, squeaky, judging by weight it’s apparently made of lead.

google seems lousy with enshittified ad pollution.

anyone out there have any good info/advice/love of a particular chair?

also any advice for coming to grips with this transition in my mobility would be greatly appreciated.

plz boost if you can.

isaiah, 1 year ago to random

woah.

my last state-mandated drug test came back with zero of the drug they prescribe — which looks like i’m selling my meds. it also said i was a heavy smoker.

this seemed like an obvious mix up to me. but everyone probably says that regardless guilt.

welp

i just got a call from the doc confirming that it was indeed a lab mixup and was corrected.

really angry — but mostly relieved. i’ve basically been having a panic attack since this happened last week.

breath. breath.

isaiah, 9 months ago to random

is there a fediverse thing that’s less like a twitter timeline and more like a web forum?

last year as an experiment i set up Discord as my primary community for my software. it’s… fine. but being siloed off the web is not great.

i might replace it someday soon(ish) but was kind of hoping there was something part of the open web and maybe self hosted.

anyone have any experience with this sort of thing???

isaiah, 8 months ago to random

finally home from the hospital.

i entered the hospital with a dislocated elbow and a small fracture. likely just a cast for a few weeks. worst case was one ligament repair.

while in the hospital, a nurse broke my forearm so violently that it "scattered bone fragments around the elbow joint and detached about 70% of the ligaments in the forearm." (surgeon’s words not mine)

i was transferred to a trauma center, put back together like Steve Austin, and now have bionic parts and ligaments.

video/mp4

isaiah, 11 months ago to random

i’ve “learned swift” twice already. if you don’t keep pace with its constant reinvention it’s almost a new language every few years.

but i’m getting a “WTF does that line of code do” vibe while watching these wwdc sessions.

even in the pragmatic sense of only needing to vaguely understand it enough to translate it to obj c, i’m having to pause and look shit up constantly.

i was really hoping to avoid a third learning of swift — but i’m not sure it’s going to be possible.

isaiah, 10 months ago to random

had an Xcode crash after adding a few files from an experimental branch.

after the crash something is making git believe the entire repository was replaced so it’s marking ever file as new.

ahhh! halp!

anyone seen this before?
is there some easy way out of this or is it best to clone a new repo and copy over the real changes?

isaiah, 3 months ago to random

things are definitely looking pretty normal. well, as long as you don’t look to close.

i can’t straighten my arm so it looks a bit weird when i walk. i can’t really throw anything or do anything else that would extend things.

the scar is really minimal. it’s definitely a tad more visible when i’m cold or when the muscles are engaged a bit more, but otherwise you have to really look closely to see it.

isaiah, 8 months ago to random

oops. kinda broke myself again.

isaiah, 11 months ago to random

i documented all the hoops i had to jump through to get a vm of Sonoma running on my M1 Air.

i’d post it but it’s just insanely long and depressing. and my icloud issues are shared with no one — so i’m about 25% of the list is stuff that no one else will need to do.

you can basically only create a VM of Sonoma if the os and xcode are updated to the very bleeding edge.

isaiah, 4 months ago to random

i think i’m going to have time for one or maybe even two movies this week while i have the house to myself. and while i have a good long list, im looking at my to-watch list and it just all feels a bit anemic. i’m just not dying to watch anything.

any recommendations?

bonus points for a period drama, sci fi, or spy flicks.

isaiah, 6 months ago to random

current status:

tuesday marks 2 months since my skateboard accident. ~8 weeks since the hospital broke my arm. 5 weeks since covid. 3 weeks in PT.

covid: gone. still have fluid in my ears. normal for me. i think i’ll get ear tubes installed while the deductible is met. i mean, why not?

hip: i can limp around a room and stand for a few minutes. no cane req’d. i still use the wheelchair to get from room to room. i can do a few stairs but the second floor remains frustratingly elusive.

isaiah, 1 month ago to random

if anyone has a recently purchased fridge they love** please let me know what you got. repost if you can.

** modesty priced options plz. i’m sure those with $5000 thermadore commercial fridges love them — just not what i need right now.

isaiah, 6 months ago to random

it’s monday so i should do a “current status” update on my recovery from the no good, very bad, terrible September.

tl;dr:

ears — pretty f-ing good.
hip — continuous improvement continues.
elbow — pain. that’s all there is.

isaiah, 9 months ago to random

ok. who knows the total number of indictments and charges trump is facing now?

amazingly ive lost track of both.

isaiah, 8 months ago to random

back in the ER. god i love it here. the food, the extra covid risk. what more could i want.

oh. yeah. current status: turns out i broke my hip too. will be ruining some surgeons labor day.

on the plus side, they said they’d give me the fancy pain meds. 😵‍💫

isaiah, 1 month ago to random

prepping a little release
practicing a talk for friday
making slides for saturday talk
i did not need to add any more to the list.

but…

our fridge just died 😩

or something. it seems to be blowing frosty air — but everything in the freezer is lukewarm — all food for the neighborhood trash pandas now.

do people even try to repair refrigerators anymore? seems an awful waste to trash it. i’m guessing the lightning on monday fried a thermistor. probably a cheap fix for someone with the know how.

isaiah, 9 months ago to random

i don’t think i’ve ever seen so many qualified experienced professionals looking for work in my timeline as right now.

i’m not even looking at the moment. still freaking me out a bit.

how’s your company doing?

isaiah, 5 months ago to random

current status: despite two separate consultations with the doctor telling me to press on with PT despite pain and swelling my worst fears have come to fruition: i started to lose feeling in my hand and fingers last friday.

i’ve never experienced anything quite like it. when i try to pick up something with my fingertips, type, or run my fingers through hair i get a sudden electric shock feeling like i’ve hit my funny bone. then my fingers are tingly and asleep for a minute or two. very strange.

isaiah, 7 months ago to random

i keep trying to write a longer blog post on all of the awful, no good, very bad things that happened to me last month. but my elbow is recovering very slowly and i can only get through a bit before my whole arm cramps up.

you’d think i could just begin the next day where i left off but writing is not my forte — i haven’t really had much luck doing that.

it’s been almost six weeks since the first accident. it feels like recovery is taking forever. i’m frustrated and my patience is waning.

Angry He Man GIF

isaiah, 4 months ago to random

a close friend of my wife just passed away. we thought her cancer was in remission as there had been no news since autumn, but it looks like she went radio silent after finding out she was metastatic and didn’t have long.

life is too short.
#FuckCancer

isaiah, 9 months ago to random

do i know anyone that has immigrated to/from any countries without a company sponsoring a work visa?

i think we’re starting to investigate another big move to somewhere less suburban more seriously now. i’m just wondering if i’ve overlooked any options for getting out of the US.

isaiah, 3 months ago to random

feeling deeply behind today.

it did not help that my phone decided to disconnect itself from ALL OF THE THINGS. i didn’t notice until i realized i couldn’t favorite anything in Ivory and the last pasts were from 3am last night.

rebooting + re-enabling my icloud account after its daily disabling seems to have fixed everything.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

so about 30 minutes ago all of my monday morning notifications arrived en masse.

(gif showing my to do list reorganization after notifications)

tsunami GIF

isaiah, 3 months ago to random

hey nerds,
did you guys study automata theory for your CS degrees?
i didn’t — but i’m trying to learn a bit.
i’ve been reading along with my kid’s class and it’s very neato stuff but i don’t get the lectures, just the rather dense textbook.
anyone know any awesome resources for upper decision CS theory type stuff?

isaiah, 1 month ago to random

currently on the side of the road at an old ciwboy cemetery north of lampasas.

much more north and we leave the path of totality.

clouds are spotty here. it’s a crap shoot whether one will pass over during the final few minutes.

but partial starts in five minutes.

isaiah, 6 months ago to random

6-week post op appointment today. had full set of x-rays and measurements. everything is going well — but my extension is not great. i can’t straighten my arm much.

doc basically told me that i have a 6-week window of opportunity to improve my flexibility. if i don’t manage to break through the scar tissue then i’ll be stuck here.

so i have to push through the pain and make this happen. the sooner the better. i need to find my mojo. it’s currently MIA.