Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Helped some neighbor kids while taking out the trash. They lost a toy in a tall bush and I guess I looked tall enough to fish that out for them and I was so I did.

Hello

It's 3:19AM and on the one hand I want to keep working on the code I'm writing but on the other hand I should really get some sleep.

Time to bust out the basic statistics.

@gnomon The original version of that method would have been written late 2005 or early 2006 so it's a long time coming.

Took what used to be a 128 SLoC method and got it down to 26 SLoC. 9 of those lines are just brackets and similar and the code that's left is a lot easier to read.

Oh no, I'm template metaprogramming.

I've got some new code working with way fewer SLoC than the equivalent from the previous version and now I'm tempted to golf it down a little more.

@federicomena I still read KVM as a box with a chonky dial on it that lets you plug a keyboard, video display, and mouse into multiple computers and turn the dial to the computer you want to use with a satisfying thunk sound.

The cat has requested hugs, so I'm hugging the cat to calm her down. That always works, but she can be content to stay curled up on my lap for hours and that's not going to work right now. Several minutes of hug will be fine.

@emma Of course dwarf planets are still planets (planetary scientists say so, at least). Nobody says Mars isn't a planet because it's a red planet because that's not how adjectives work. Jupiter, on the other hand, is too massive and thus doesn't quite orbit the sun so if we want to pick nits we can kick out Jupiter instead. Maybe say gas giants shouldn't be called planets and kick out Saturn too. (Not totally serious, but I'm totally cool with massively expanding the planet count.)

Advantage of administering your own systems: phishing scams claiming to be from your whatever admin are obviously bogus no matter how well they're crafted because you certainly didn't send that email to yourself.

I wish I could convince my sister that not only do I not know anything about iPhones, I do not wish to learn enough about iPhones to be competent technical support.

Relaxed cat is relaxed.

Is there some reason computer makers haven't figured out how to put the headphone port on the front of the machine?

Working from home this week. Full time continuing work on Typica 2.0. Will need a grocery run and might have a brief PR thing that isn't scheduled but otherwise unless my staff gets into some trouble I shouldn't need to leave the house. The cat approves.

I recently swapped a different old computer in at the coffee roaster and was a little surprised to come in today and discover a Squid Girl screensaver running. I think I had forgotten that screen savers were even a thing.

Nobody will confirm or deny hugging a cat.