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Leon Mika

Software Developer and occasional writer of music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

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    Unboxed my new vacuum cleaner. First, love how all the packaging material is cardboard and paper: only thing I needed to throw in the bin was a bit of tape. Second, love how this comes with a stand. I was actually wondering where I was going to stow this (it won’t be the living room 😄).

    A cordless vacuum cleaner standing upright on a charging dock in a living room with a floor lamp, curtain, and a couch in the background.
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    I enjoyed reading Kev Quirk’s post about building a simple journal. I’m still using Day One, but I am still thinking of moving off it. So I was inspired to build a prototype similar to Kev’s, just to see if something similar works for me. Built using Go instead of PHP, but it also uses Simple CSS.

    Screenshot of a journal web-page with a text box with the contents saying 'Thanks, Kev, for the idea'.
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    This morning’s tiding.

    Several magpies gathered on a grassy area next to a wooden fence, with two additional birds by a footpath in the background.
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    Protecting my “super premium” monitor riser with coasters as a certain creature likes to chew it.

    A cockatiel stands on top of a small phone-book placed below a computer monitor. Between the cockatiel are two chewed up coasters resting on top of the corners of the phone-book.
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    Darken bocce courts at the Veneto Club. We were showing our second cousins around, who are visiting from Traviso, Italy. I remember seeing these courts being filled with people when I was young, hearing the loud clank as the jack was thrown against the opposite wall.

    An indoor sports facility features several lanes and flags, including the Australian flag, hanging from the ceiling, with menu boards and photos displayed on the walls.
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    Trying out a bag of Leon organic coffee beans. This bag was given to me by some visitors from the UK. Apparently Leon is a brand of coffee over there (I’m not aware of it being sold here). We’ll see how it measures up tomorrow morning.

    Auto-generated description: A hand is holding a package of Leon Organic Coffee Dark Roast next to a coffee grinder in a kitchen setting. Auto-generated description: The hopper of a coffee grinder filled with roasted coffee beans, surrounded by various items on a bench including an empty bag of Leon coffee and what appears to be a small container of drinking chocolate.
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    Archie is quite the photogenic bird.

    A yellow cockatiel perched on a white door looking at the camera.
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    Got treated to an “Ivy facial” today.

    A man stands indoors with a yellow cockatiel sitting on his head and a white cockatiel perched on his front reaching towards his nose.
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    The guests have arrived. 🦜

    A yellow cockatiel perched on the side of a cage next to a colorful toy, accompanied by a white cockatiel behind her at the corner.
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    Mesdames et messieurs: voici la tentative d’aujourd’hui de passer à un petit-déjeuner plus minimaliste: deux grands cafés au lait.

    Ladies and gentlemen: presenting today’s attempt to move to a more minimalist breakfast: two large cappuccinos.

    A cappuccino in a black coffee mug, placed on a matching saucer with a spoon beside it, sits on a wooden table outdoors alongside an iPad.
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    Reddit’s decision to allow only Google to index their site will probably mean I’ll be seeing them far less often than I do — which is almost never anyway, and generally from the results of a search. So I’m recording this screenshot, which I call “Reddit in the results”, for posterity.

    A screenshot of an Ecosia search result for the query 'postgresql unsigned integer values', with links to Stack Overflow, Reddit, and PostgreSQL docs in the results

    Edit: Turns out Ecosia sources some of their index from Google, so these Reddit links will likely remain in my searches. I guess that makes this post unnecessary. I’m going to keep it up though, for posterity of my unnecessary effort to post for posterity. 😄

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    Preparing the second room for a couple of house guests that’ll be coming next week. 🦜

    A room contains a large empty metal cage, a rowing exercise machine, a small table with electronic equipment, all set on a brown mat and a protective floor covering.

    They get a little funny around mirrors so I’d had to cover the wardrobe with newspaper. Hope it holds.

    A room is set up with newspaper taped in front of half of the sliding-doors of a wardrobe with full-sized integrated mirrors. A large birdcage is positioned on the right side.
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    This week’s earworm: Warsaw in the Sun by Tangerine Dream. 🎵

    Album cover of the Tangerine Dream Zeitgeist Concert, at the Royal Albert Hall London 2010
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    Backpacker on the tram. 🐶

    A black schnauzer travelling in a backpack on a crowded tram. A Myki reader is to the right of the frame.
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    Work offered us a very… American style lunch today. First time I had bacon with my pancakes. Honestly, not as bad as I was expecting.

    A plate with pancakes, bacon, whipped cream, drissled with maple syrup, with a side of Ceaser salad and egg. Wooden knife and fork on the right.
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    Mark the date. First successful CI/CD run of a Go project running on my own Forgejo instance, running in Hetzner. 🙌

    Sreenshot of a successful Forgejo Runner result page, indicating that a project was checked out and tested with Go.
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    So, walk up the hill, then it’s through the gate to get to the path. Piece of cake.

    Oh… 🤔

    An open gate in front of a temporary fence blocking access to a path.
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    Finally did something today that I should’ve done a long time ago: buy a UPS. Hopefully power outages will no longer bring down my Mac Mini server while I’m away (power is usually quite reliable when I’m home, but as soon as I leave for any extended period of time… 🪫).

    A box containing a Digitech 650VA Line Interactive Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is placed on a wooden kitchen table.
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    In today’s demonstration of the gulf between taste and ability, may I present my attempt at fixing the fence extension:

    Auto-generated description: A partially damaged wooden fence with a makeshift repair tied together using green string and an olive tree branch protruding through the slats.

    Part of the challenge was getting to it. I had to hack out a path through the overgrown beds:

    Auto-generated description: A fenced backyard features dense, overgrown plants with long, slender leaves amid a paved ground.

    Trust me when I say that this is an improvement. 😅

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    Checked out of the Cockatiel Cafe and heading home to Melbourne. Always a little melancholy leaving Canberra, but I’m sure to be back soon enough. As for the “residents” I was looking after, I’ll be seeing them again real soon. More posts then I’m sure.

    Two cockatiels, one white and the other yellow, perched on a cage in a room.
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