Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Looking at some old code as reference for what I'm writing today and I'm running into some instances of, "why would I have done it that way?" Will go for the obviously more efficient approach this time around. Pretty sure I was just rushing through a fairly boring chunk of code and as long as it worked I just moved on to the next thing.

@sean I think I just skipped too many versions. Will try pushing it forward one release at a time and see if I run into the problem again.

Failed up upgrade PeerTube. Switched back to an old release to get things back to working and will look into that more later.

@Stuxhost Third panel: My code no longer works. I have no idea how it ever did.

New higher drink prices went into effect today (the old menu board was drawn by someone who moved on to her next thing 5 years ago so it's time), but we're also increasing the bring your own cup discount.

Not a prepper but kind of see the appeal of just moving into a secret underground bunker.

@gnomon Another person also saw them, so I think it was a real thing.

I don't know what was going on, but the largest group of tandem bicycles I've ever seen just went past my shop. Most of them seemed to be wearing race gear.

Someone just walked into the shop without a mask. We asked if they had one, offered to give them one of ours, but instead he said, "lost another sale," and walked out. Dude, it's a city ordinance. Stop trying to break the law here.

A bunch of people came out to the shop this morning to present the business with a giant novelty check (and cash since nobody will accept giant novelty checks as a deposit). Kind of glad I missed it because nobody needs to be taking pictures of me with my eye swollen with cat allergy.

@requiem Because instead of something like literate programming (and one might assume some improvement in programming literacy) we're lucky if we can even get something like javadoc. We don't code for humans to read so humans don't read much code.

Github calls their mascot octocat, but it doesn't have 8 of anything. They should call it catsquid instead.

I should order a pizza.

Continuing to do the YouTube ad revenue paying the server bills for my PeerTube thing.

I should see about updating my driving music playlist in preparation for the 15 hour drive.

Have my reservations for my next trip sorted out. I'll be teaching a coffee roasting class at a trade event in New Orleans next month. Organizers are doing better than I expected with the covid safety stuff, but I also understand anybody not wanting to go to something like that now.

Tested the code that I wrote yesterday. It all worked with the exception of one thing where I missed an & in a place where the type system can't help me for legal reasons.

Road construction crew has one of my empty green coffee sacks hanging off the side of their truck today. It looks like they're installing the curb today. Hope they don't pick Friday or Saturday to shut us down for sidewalk installation.

Massive construction related dust storm in front of the shop. Recommend protective goggles if you're going to try getting to any of the businesses on the street.