I'm planning to head into SF on Saturday to go to the Emacs meetup from 11 to 1 on 24th a few blocks off Mission. Seems silly to not amortize the travel over multiple things, anyone got suggestions for other things to do?
The Misalignment Museum isn't currently open...
Yeah, we know how to have a rockin' Wednesday evening in this household, first the Know Before You Grow Zoom forum, now reading the staff report on the Petaluma D St pilot project.
https://cityofpetaluma.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=19343
Sigh. Not only is XCode's new "show the stack in little subpanels in the edit space" annoying and stupid, in trying to figure out WTF is going on with some code my XCode is now going non-responsive with weird redraw issues when it tries to do that in this particular case.
My desire to yeet Apple into the sea and escape to the desert or somewhere and just write code for Linux or FreeBSD is intensifying.
Seeing stuff on non-technical open source beginners, and thinking about how back when Qt was packaged with apt I had an easy "here's how newbies can compile SquareDesk" that users actually used, but now with "Qt Maintenance Tool" I have no way to talk them through the nightmare that is installation...
27+ years of blogging, thinking about archives inherent to the protocol, rather than depending on the Wayback Machine, and that the URL still points to what I blogged it as.
Need a simpler markup language for content, and a P2P+archives protocol for distribution.
Today pissed off that I'm spending yet more time trying to make a solar company (High Definition Solar) fix their install to conform to the plans we agreed to, and that I'm gonna have to spend time on the phone with our health insurance (Anthem) to get them to acknowledge a fuckup on their part.
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The unbearable heartbreak of a typo in the name of a git branch, making it difficult to type until it gets merged back in.
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Occasionally I wonder "am I autistic, or are my social challenges just trauma response?"
Then I see the ways in which people are fawning over "AI"/LLMs, and the ways in which these things interact with me, and... yeah, I definitely do not process this stuff the way normies do.
New rule. If you don't let an mtr through to tell me more about the host that's probing my server for /admin paths, I'm gonna assume your entire network is hostile. Talkin' to you, ae1011-0.icr01.tyo31.ntwk.msn.net
The material is about 3/8" think branches nailed to a skeleton of some sort. Wonder what the finish and expected life span of the sculptures out in the elements like this is.
Over at the Sonoma Community Center to see the elephant sculptures, made from lantana camara, an invasive plant that completes with the resources that supports elephants in India.
We have a friend, a piano player and decent vocalist, who's taken to inviting a number of people over on the first Friday of the month to "bring their [creative] gifts".
Last night was a wonderful gathering of song and verse, and I'm inspired and humbled and it was awesome.
You know what I love about modern software? Slack is adding "AI" features and can't get my unread workspaces or messages right.
New features trump core annoyances.
I'm an "AI" detractor, but I would like every developer of a package management environment to use an LLM coding tool to install and configure a package, to demonstrate just how bizarre and how much lore goes in to using these damned things.
My own preferences tend towards modern pop, but my voice teacher tends towards 60s and 70s, which means that along with square dance music, I get to do deep dives into a lot of problematic music.
Anyway, Jefferson Starship's Jane is both musically very challenging, and an awful view of matrimony.
My neighborhood is awash in feijoa/pineapple guava (not actually a guava). Everyone's trying to figure out what to do with them.
I just had one that was smooth and sweet (rather than sour and slightly bitter), and now I'm trying to figure out what we're doing wrong with the rest of them...
For reasons, I went searching for UD railway worker deaths in the late 1800s. It used to be that if someone wrote up a web page on a topic like this, it was an indication that they'd done some digging, and I felt comfortable passing along the page as a reference.
AI has ruined everything.
That boards are choosing CEOs who can't understand why prayer and fasting didn't save their sinking company, and same former Intel CEO then getting investment money to build AI to hasten the Second Coming, says pretty much everything about modern tech culture...
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-ceo-intel-ai-christ
I hope that the big Santa Rosa hazmat spill yesterday involves some penalties for the employer that undoubtedly strong-armed their workers into stupidly transporting stuff in a pickup truck that should not have been packaged that way.
But some low wage worker is undoubtedly gonna get screwed.
Ouch. Today's Timdle got me hard, from Angolan independence to Uno to population...
https://www.timdle.com/daily
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Oh cool, when you get a nullability specifier wrong in an Objective-C header file that's getting converted to Swift, XCode gives you an error message that takes like 5 clicks to find the actual error message, and doesn't remotely reference the header file until you get to the raw text. Neat.
Someone mentioned the "Ms AWs outage", and when I noted that Microsoft's product was Azure, said "Xerox was copiers, AWS is cloud".
Which is an interesting bit of semantic/trademark creep, and I wonder if it's good, or bad, for Amazon.
I talk a lot about how my blog software is two and a half decades old, but in cleaning some stuff up recently I found remnants of a system I wrote to provide web support for an iOS app that was circa iPhone 3, and bit rot is also a thing.
From paths that may not be HTTPS compatible, to depending on external mapping services...
All the commentary over the Amazon us-east failure is a good reminder that we need a solution to server discovery that isn't DNS, and deals with distributed and redundant resources better than HTTP(S) does.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
"You’ve been chosen for a Skin Trial!" <-- subject line of spam advertising Ulta makeup products, or over-eager Tech-Priest in Warhammer 40k fiction informing a victim of upcoming excoriation?
It's kind of amazing how these things jump out at you in the dark. Maybe if there were a light on it or something the driver might have seen it...
Same shot half an hour later for comparison.
Aurora from here under the streetlight
The material is about 3/8" think branches nailed to a skeleton of some sort. Wonder what the finish and expected life span of the sculptures out in the elements like this is.
Over at the Sonoma Community Center to see the elephant sculptures, made from lantana camara, an invasive plant that completes with the resources that supports elephants in India.
not sure whether brazen, or hungry, but out in the daytime in our neighborhood...
Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...
And here's the one with "bee hive". I guess I are a prompt engineer now.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
Painted over the graffiti on the benches at Bob's Beach today.
"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".
Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by Suzanne Clarke
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by @d0rid.bsky.social
My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma.