Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

(at least I hope things aren't horribly broken now)

Sorry for any inconvenience during the update, though given that I'm the only person logged into this server in the past year I doubt anybody was inconvenienced at all.

Got social.typica.us ready for the impending security update. Was previously running 2.9.0 because the last time I tried to upgrade versions things broke and rather than spend the time figuring that out I rolled the changes back and figured I'd get around to it later. I guess it's later now, but this time things went relatively smoothly so whatever was broken last time around seems to have been fixed.

The cat has decided that it's fun to drag herself through her water dish.

Surprisingly few bugs in the last bit of code that I wrote so far. Testing out more of the functionality I found one missed case where a certain kind of data wouldn't be deserialized and a missed check to make sure an optional had a value before attempting to get it. Both issues are now fixed.

The coffee roaster has been cleaned, re-assembled, and is ready for the next roasting shift.

Also, I've roasted the last of my decaf Peru. That's no longer available through the web site, but locals can grab a bag from the shelf.

Had a small chaff fire in the roaster while cooling that off after the last batch of the day. Not sure what set it off. It looked bad enough from the outside that someone in the area called the fire department over, but I had it put out by the time they showed up. They stuck around while I verified that it hadn't spread into the exhaust and set up some big fans to help air the place out faster.

@goat How many years has it been September?

@caranmegil People only think demons are bad because they threaten entrenched planet killing business interests. Some say we wouldn't even have a climate crisis had we just let Maxwell's demon do its thing. So embrace your computer's demons. They're just trying to help.

One of the checks in the deposit was from a business account that I have access to so I could go and print their scan of the back of the check with my very clear written instructions on it that the credit union failed to follow.

Had to go yell at the credit union. They put my last deposit in the wrong account and then tried to steal a bunch of money in fees that were a direct result of their mistake.

The cat likes to make sure that I can always pet a cat, just in case petting a cat is a thing that I want to do at any given moment.

Reminiscing with staff about restaurants that had better menus before they changed ownership.

Lately I've been writing a piece of code that's a little bit too large for the amount of time in a coding session that I've had. Now that enough of it is done that I can start debugging it I'm surprised by how little needed fixing. I expected to have messed up a lot more.

Nobody has reached out to me about teaching at SCA Expo in Boston, but one of the classes on offer has exactly the same description as a class I developed ages ago under a new title. (I wrote the class with the express intent that lots of other people would be able to pick up the material and teach it, and many people have so don't read this as me taking issue with that. I kind of hope it is just what it looks like.)

Finally got around to learning how to make my own context menu entries in Dolphin (KDE file manager). That saves a Shift+F4 and mucking about in the terminal if I bother to add entries for things that I do often enough but not so often that I remember the right way to do it.

@edsu This sounds like an excellent topic for a book report.