Have technically secured user no. 2 of UCL today, after sharing one of the tools that’s using the language with them at work. It’s just a shame that the docs are so far behind (read: not existent). All I really have are these blog posts about building it. Good thing he’s a reader 😛. (Hi, KK).

Things I’ve said out loud today:

What am I going to do about Norway?

I’ve got a plan but I’ve yet to rollout a fix yet. 😛🇳🇴

“Well we can’t run the trams on time, but with our new PTV app, we can tell you just how late they are.”

“What an age we live in.”

😛

I know for myself that if I were to choose one blogging CRM over another because “that’s how I get the traffic,” I’d probably stop blogging. It’d be clear to me that my priorities are warped, that I’m writing purely to chase the views. I can’t see that road leading to anything other than burnout.

I’m noticing how unproductive I am when I’m babysitting long running processes. Every time I try to start some focus work, I immediately switch back to monitoring the output with the expectation of dealing with errors or refreshing timed-out auth tokens.

Bad keyboard! Naughty keyboard! Causing all these spelling errors in your user’s last two posts. 😜

Seeing all these photos from those in the US with massive dumps of snow they need to shovel and clear makes me glad I live in a climate that doesn’t get snow.

I’ve never understood a task asking me to “find out what needs to be done.” These are not big tasks that need a design or prototype. They’re a regular size coding task, with the output being another task of the same size to actually do the work. Why not simply do the work in the first task?

Ooh, what a milestone.

Today is 30 years since Delphi was launched, in February 14th of 1995.

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— pikuma.com ([@pikuma.com](http://pikuma.com)) February 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM

I loved working in Delphi back in the day. I stopped after moving away from Windows and towards more cross-platform languages, but it always has a special place in my heart.

Kind of wish I can be more like Dave Winer and just write about what I’m working on without thinking too much about it. I spent the week moving posts about personal projects and questions are flowing through my head like, “should I be moving these posts? Would it better if they stayed here? Should I even be writing these posts at all?” I don’t know how this topic became such a source of doubt and indecision. I both want to write about it, and not want to write about it. I want readers to read it while also recognising that I’ll be the only one that would find any of this interesting. I want it to be a showcase of how I spent my days at the same time I want to burn it to the ground. In the grand scheme of things, this is small potatoes, yet it would be nice if I can come up with some answers to these questions.

Update at 21:25: I had a bit of a think, and a listen to Reconcilable Difference #254, and I think part of what was causing me to feel that this movement was wrong was that I was not making any forward motion. All that I was doing was cataloging the past. At this stage, I’m not sure that’s a good use of my time. So I’ve decided to not go ahead with moving all my project posts over there and continue to write about projects here. Sure it may make it more difficult to find them, but that’s okay. At least they’re documented somewhere.

Anyway, I’ve made some screenshots of what the site was to be. I do like the red colour.

Lots of good things in Go 1.24, including weak pointers (finally) and a utility function for generating cryptographically secure random strings (good for IDs). This new os.Root, which acts a bit like chroot, looks interesting too.

The Rules dialog in MacOS’s Mail needs some serious love. Aside from the fact that it’s teeny tiny, it’s also buggy. I couldn’t get the “set background colour” action to work, and selecting the condition to choose mail based on content doesn’t allow me to enter a value. Not good.