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The cafe I’ve visited today has got this chicken sandwich on a “signature croissant scroll.” I was skeptical at first, but after trying it out, it works quite well. Very nice.
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Go to any bakery in the country round here and every one touts their “famous vanilla slice.” I’m sure every baker thinks their slice is amazing, but the maths just doesn’t work out. Maybe someone should lean into this fact and tout their “rather unremarkable vanilla slices.” 🙂
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Consolidated my three existing online utilities — a world clock, two-letter country code browser, and Freelens logo maker — into a single tools site. I plan to use this for any new online utilities going forward. Felt good to do this. Gave me that sense of accomplishing something I was lusting over all morning.
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documentation (n.) — written artefacts describing the workings, design, or operations of a software projects.
we should really fix our documentation (n. ph.) — common complaint from software engineers. Translates to one of:
- We should actually write some documentation
- We should find that message in Slack someone posted several months ago and put it in our wiki as documentation
- I hate using wikis/this wiki software and I rather this documentation is in our Git repository as Markdown files
- I’m to lazy to to checkout this Git repository to edit this Markdown files and I wish this documentation was in a wiki
- I can’t find anything in this wiki/Git repository and I wish things were organised the way I like
😜
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It’s been 0️⃣ days since I had an issue with TLS certificates.
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I really appreciate the split-screen feature in Obsidian. I use it all time. It’s so useful being able to reference two areas of the same note.
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Looks like the “copy link text” pop-menu item is broken in Vivaldi: it’s present in the menu config but not in the menu itself. Hope it’s fixed soon. That’s such a useful option as it saved me from having to deal with all the unwanted whitespace when I select the link text manually.
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Hosting's Not the Problem With Distributed Video
The central challenge of open-web distributed video lies in creating a user-friendly experience that can compete with the convenience of platforms like YouTube. Continue reading →
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Small DevLog update today. Continuing to work on that Godot game. I got the bulk of the mechanics of level 2-1 built (it still needs dressing up), and I spent this evening mainly just play-testing it, and tweaking it. I think I may need to get someone else to play-test it though, just to make sure it’s not too hard. It’s significantly long, coming in at 10,560 units horizontally, and given how many new mechanics are involved, I’m a little worried about the difficulty curve. But I am happy about the mix of elements I do have. It doesn’t feel boring, which was the concern I had. There are some timing challenges, and I the pacing across the level feels fine. But I really should convince someone else to try it out.
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Murphy’s law of food condiments: if it can be spilt on your clothes, it will be spilt on your clothes (discovered this law this afternoon, to my embarrassment).
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Murphy’s law of caches: if it can get out of sync, it will get out of sync.
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Create and embed TLDraw diagrams in an Obsidian note. I have a few nitpicking UX issues with this plugin, but it works, and that’s the main thing. Looks to be a proper embed of TLDraw as it seems to work offline too (at least based on my tests).
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Domain name registers should start introducing a cool-down period, giving the customer 1-2 hours after they’ve “bought” the domain to change their mind. Could’ve saved me some regret, not to mention the $30.00 USD I’ve spent. 🤦♂️
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I’ve decided to change my attitude towards doing Kubernetes work. I’ll never be one to deploy Kubernetes for my own stuff, but a skill is a skill, and there’s very little downside in learning a new one.
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Don't Choose To Reuse (Yet)
Designing software for reuse too early leads to unnecessary complexity and maintenance burdens, whereas focusing on immediate needs fosters simplicity and effectiveness. Continue reading →
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How many people do you think know about pigeon racing? I know it’s not a common activity, but I thought most people would be aware of it. Yet I was listening to a podcasts today, and it sounded like one of the hosts, who may have been 5 years younger than me, was hearing about it for the first time.
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I appreciate that those making, and putting up, these signs are sticking to this classic phrase.
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Argh! I keep forgetting Micropub wants everything to be an array. Setting a property in a
h=postPOST request to a plain old string doesn’t do anything. It took me 30 minutes of faffing about trying to get draft posts working before I turned to Claude Code to get the solution. -
Not that I need more social media consumption in my life, but I do wonder if it’s possible to follow Mastodon profiles in a Mastodon client, while responding to them via Micro.blog. I would like to follow a few people who post on Mastodon, but they’re really chatty, and I rather avoid having them in my Micro.blog timeline. I could use my Mastodon account to follow them, but that’ll mean responses come from there, and not from Micro.blog. Is there a way to bridge the two, I wonder?
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I keep forgetting that I have a Nebular subscription. I should use it more often.
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New Theme, Who's Dis
451 words about switching over from Tiny Theme to Mythos. Continue reading →
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Im happy to report that you can take portrait selfies in landscape on the new iPhones. Absolute sicko behavior, of course, but it’s there!
Portrait selfies with a phone in landscape orientation I can give or take. What I want is landscape photos from the phone in portrait. Device manufacturers, make that, then we’ll talk.
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Retired my old kettle and set up my new one. Currently drinking my inaugural cup of tea from it, while I work on my site.
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Just read this week’s P&B with @birming. Loved it. It’s always fascinating reading these interviews from people you follow.
