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Ok, I admit that I probably should’ve looked through the settings menu before writing a post, because it looks like my new cooler does has a shutoff after N hours feature. It also allows you to set the fan speed. Why it’s on page 2 of the settings menu is beyond me, but it’s there and it works.
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We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels.
Wheels are not the same. If I need a wheel for a wheelbarrow, I don’t want to use a wheel for a tractor just because it exists. The same is true for software. If all I want to do is minify some JS without all the transpiling crap that comes from using React or Typescript, why not eschew Webpack for my own handwritten build scripts?
Via: Simon Willison
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I thought the need to use these isolators — which, when opened, will shut off power in the overhead line flowing from north to south — was the reason why the train replacement busses are where they are. Turns out I was wrong, as these isolators are still closed. Must be some other reason.
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So many people on bikes today. Have not seen this many cyclists in the park for a while. Guess the cool weather has brought people outside. 🚲
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Moving all my project posts onto a separate blog… again. I tried writing them here, but I still feel like they belong elsewhere, where I have a bit more control over the layout and the design. Spent the morning configuring the theme, which was going to be orange but I had to change it to red as the orange didn’t provide a nice contrast for reading (you had to darken it almost to brown). I’m not sure if I’ll move the old posts over to it yet. Maybe the one’s on UCL.
Update on 14/2: No, changed my mind again. See this post.
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UCL: Some Updates
Made a few minor changes to UCL. Well, actually, I made one large change. I’ve renamed the foreach builtin to for. I was originally planning to have a for loop that worked much like other languages: you have a variable, a start value, and an end value, and you’d just iterate over the loop until you reach the end. I don’t know how this would’ve looked, but I imagined something like this: Continue reading →
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Enjoyed this week’s P&B with Lou Plummer. I enjoy reading linkage.lol and I know people I work with who also follow’s Lou’s work. His blog recommendations look interesting too.
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Released a new plugin for Micro.blog: Sidebar for the Bayou theme (yes, another sidebar plugin). Thanks again to @Mtt for making changes to the theme to support adding the sidebar. Can be installed from the plugin directory (please ensure you have Bayou version 1.1.3 or later).
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What a cruel irony it is that the instinctive response to an itchy eye is to rub it, which doesn’t provide relief and only prolongs the irritation. The only way out is to ignore instinct and practice self control. There’s a metaphor here somewhere I’m sure.
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About My New Cooler's Programming Feature
There’s lots to like about my new cooler, but the programming feature is not one of them. My old unit had a very simple timer with two modes: turn cooler on after N hours, or turn cooler off after N hours. Anything else requires manual intervention. The old control panel (turns out I did have a photo, albeit an old one). Set the mode: cool/vent (fan), the power setting, then tap Timer Select to choose between turn on or off after N hours. Continue reading →
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I don’t understand YouTubers who start their videos with a hype bumper. Just get to the frickin’ interview. You got my attention already.
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Keep forgetting to give my keep-cup a proper clean when I get home. Now today’s morning coffee taste like yesterday afternoon’s lemon and ginger tea.
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I had a Ventolin inhaler expire on me, a first in my life. It was a little smokey yesterday so I used it, and sprayed… something into my lungs, resulting in a coughing fit. I still feel the effects a bit today. Hope I didn’t cause too much damage.
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🔗 Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time
Using OpenGL Shading Language, which is apparently supported by browsers, to produce an animation of Rick from Rick and Morty. I’ve yet to go into this post in any great detail, but it certainly looks very interesting.
Via: Simon Willison
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My unread items in Feedbin are starting to pile up again, largely because I’m “keeping them for later.” Need to decide when later is now. May as well have later be now now. 🧐
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May have gotten to the bottom of a problem that was stumping people at work. The cause, yet to be verified, looks to be a change in the integer value of a gRPC enum value. Suspect that it may have been a manual change to generated code (yeah, try to avoid doing that if you can help it).
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It’s a shame online integrations assumes that everyone’s using GitHub. I can understand why they build their products that way, and I knew that I’d loose much of those integration niceties when I moved to my own setup. Still, it would be nice to see more integrations work with any Git-based SCM.
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Trying out Bayou theme by @Mtt on a test blog. Lots to like about it, especially the idea of having the latest micro-post appear in the form of a status message. Very unique.
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New AC installed and doing the best it can on this slightly humid day, although it’s performing better than the old unit. I forgot to take a photo of the old panel, so here’s a photo of the new one (the lower one is for the heater).
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Was not expecting the 10 mm of rain we had last night. Not sure anyone was, not even the Bureau. Put a dampener on my plans. I thought I was being super smart washing my towels in the evening and hanging them on the line to dry overnight so I could use the line for other washing today. Ah well. 🤷
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Idea for UCL: Methods
I’m toying with the idea of adding methods to UCL. This will be similar to the methods that exist in Lua, in that they’re essentially functions that pass in the receiver as the first argument, although methods would only be definable by the native layer for the first version. Much like Lua though, methods would be invokable using the : “pair” operator. strs:to-upper "Hello" --> HELLO The idea is to make some of these methods on the types themselves, allowing their use on literals and the result of pipelines, as well as variables: Continue reading →
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My latest YouTube binge has been Drew Gooden, and his videos on YouTube and Instagram influencers and trends: an area of online culture I know nothing about. I’m kinda glad that I stayed well away from that area of the internet. Seems like more drama than I can handle. 📺
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Getting a new cooler installed tomorrow. The one I have, which I think is as old as the house, is on it’s last legs. It struggles to cool the house, only managing to keep the inside temperature steady if I turn it on early enough, and leaks profusely. I shutter to think what my next water bill will be.
The new unit’s going to be another evaporative cooler. Everyone I talk to tells me I’m crazy, and I should just go with reverse cycle. And I will agree that it’s a bit of a gamble. But it’s worth trying, given the quote I was given and the fact that I don’t have to do any major modifications to the house. If it doesn’t pan out, there’s nothing stopping me from getting reverse cycle later.
I did pick the worse time to do it though: we’re going through a heatwave that won’t break until Tuesday. At least it’ll give me an opportunity to do a fair before/after comparison.
