Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@acciomath Relaxed cubic splines and linear regression are at the top of my list.

Most of my station instructors for the class I'm teaching next month are confirmed. Was told I could reach out to them to introduce myself, but they're all people who I've previously worked with or have had conversations with so I hope introductions aren't really needed.

The problem with going into work for my first cup of coffee is that I don't realize that I should be going to work a completely different way because all the sane routes have been shut down by road construction until it's too late.

Morning cat

It's been about half a year since my Linux laptop got smashed and I switched to a Mac for day to day computing (because I didn't have the budget for a new computer and I already had this to do the Mac builds of Typica). I'm still annoyed by this thing and look forward to having a budget to move back to Linux where I'm a lot more productive.

@deadsuperhero Some anxiety triggered stuff can definitely kill you (I've come pretty close a few times). Most of that is controllable if you can afford the meds (depending on the condition ranges from pretty cheap to a multiple of my mortgage), though in my case it's cheaper/more effective/more fun to make sure I can take a vacation to de-stress before things get too bad (I'm not your doctor and that's not medical advice, just what works to keep me from bleeding out).

Today I got to tell another person that they probably don't want to take a class from me, but was able to point them at 3 other options to look into.

Yes, I helped design that class/wrote most of the exam, but I don't have a good training lab to teach in and trying to do this in a busy retail environment would not be a good experience for anybody.

Okay, so after a bit of research it turns out that their outgoing mail provider has been known to be misconfigured since at least 2015. They seriously just don't care if their customers can send email.

Don't get me wrong. I know exactly how easy it is to screw up a mail server config. Probably most people who have set such things up have messed it up, but keeping a broken config for years even when people are telling you exactly what's wrong seems pretty bad.

I'd think if your mail server was misbehaving you'd maybe want to get that fixed that so people can receive your email.

Today I've been going back and forth with my shop's insurance company because their outgoing mail server is misconfigured and their admin is a dope.

My usual route into work has been closed for construction for a while now. Today my alternate route was also closed. At this point it's probably faster to leave my house in the opposite direction.

@gnomon Once I figured out that nothing was moving it was just some extra back tracking and a few extra detours.

The combination of roads being closed and a train being stopped where it blocked streets and police being present but not doing anything apparently useful made it difficult to get home today.

New vacuum cleaner seems to work much better than the old one. Picked up about 1 cat worth of fur on the first use.

Too often with projects in other languages I look at the code base and feel like I'm lost in a maze of tiny files, all alike with nothing to orient against. I'm sure one could write C/C++ like that, but why would you?

The more I do it, the more I like C++ as a language for doing server side web stuff. Is there something wrong with me? It's just really nice to be able to go back to a project after spending some time away from it and be able to read the code, follow the control flow, and figure out what I want to work on next.

Finally got around to buying a new vacuum cleaner to use at home. The one I already had was some not good thing that I don't even know where it came from but it took a lot of effort to pull the cat fur out of the carpet.

Okay, it's a nice coffee. Sweet, clean. It's a little lacking in body and personally I'd probably go a little darker, but that's just my own personal preference. I'm also sharing this with my staff.

Got a bag of coffee in the mail from someone on the Typica release mailing list. Brewing a pot to enjoy now.