Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

More high end laptops should come with giant HDDs instead of tiny SSDs. I get that people like the performance boost from using SSD, but you destroy all those gains as soon as you need to start copying stuff off over a slow external bus to make space for whatever it is that you're trying to work on. Use the savings to load up on RAM and don't use a system that crashes all the time and you probably come out ahead in the long run.

Bulk uploads like that are going to be a lot less common from now on as everything going forward will either be new stuff or stuff that I want to do a little more editing on.

Some of them are still processing, but today I moved a bunch of travel videos to https://video.typica.us/

Video from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Did I somehow never edit/upload a video of last year's roasting tent? I should see if I can dig that up some time.

When I'm asked for career advice, one thing that I say is if you have the opportunity to do something cool, take it. Saying yes to working on interesting things leads to more people asking you to work on interesting things. This is how I've been able to travel around the world.

Last month someone sent an encouraging message to the alt PSN account that only gets used for access to stuff on the Japanese store.

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.

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.

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?