Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

In the roasting tent.

My room wasn't ready when I arrived and I never got the call letting me know that it was ready, but they took my suitcase up to the room and someone bought my lunch for me (which was unexpected, but I make a point of not turning down a free meal).

I'm told the cat did this all day.

Landed safely at PDX. Found the meeting place for the shuttle. Too many flights on the same carousel at bag pickup.

At the gate at MSP for the connecting flight. The people who designed chair placement at this gate seems to have made a goal of placing as few seats as possible with a sight line to the gate, but there's a high power outlet to seat ratio.

Sent out assignments to station instructors who didn't claim a station and/or roaster. I've taught with them before and know that they're just avoiding conflict in case other instructors have stronger preferences. They're good enough to execute on any of these.

Made it past the recombobulation area. I think Milwaukee is the only airport to call it that.

3AM breakfast because air travel.

Was hoping to get 1.9.1 proper out before retreat but stuff kept coming up. Everything is in the release branch for anybody who cares to compile it themselves and the only difference from rc1 are updated version strings. Will try to get to finishing up a proper release when I get back from this trip.

Doing a backup of the local production database to the new laptop and I'm watching my free memory trend toward 0. It seems that around 0.24GB free it starts releasing cached memory (23GB).

Got a text message asking how I feel about using a Kenyan coffee in my class. I think this is fine.

My list of stuff to work on for 1.9.2 keeps getting longer.

https://social.typica.us is now running Mastodon 2.4.4.

Building Typica with make:

real: 0m30.067s
user: 0m29.518s
sys: 0m1.088s

with make -j 6:

real: 0m20.579s
user: 0m35.057s
sys: 0m1.404s

with make -j 12:

real: 0m20.260s
user: 0m39.467s
sys: 0m1.794s

I'd probably get bigger gains if my source files were smaller and more numerous.

I think the underlying problem with maths and veggies are the same: they're presented badly. If your exposure to peas are these awful overcooked mush spheres you're not going to want to eat peas, but if you present foods in a way that they taste good there's less resistance to eating it. Math instruction is similarly all too frequently awful, which is a shame because it can be fun and useful.

Yes, I put math in my roasting classes. Sure, the computer can do the math for you, but it's good for you to know how to calculate stuff without that. Eat your veggies.

Did a final run through on my slide deck, found a few things that needed tweaking. One of the slides explaining how to do a calculation was missing the example data points which meant the slide made a lot less sense (where did those numbers come from?)

Last night I picked up an HDMI➡️ VGA adapter just in case I get to the event and find that the AV setup only has VGA. Tested that it works and at least with the local setup I don't need to supply additional power to the adapter (it has a warning tag saying if an image doesn't show up, apply more power). I want to test things as best I can before leaving the extra emergency computers at home.

The airline is now recommending showing up 2 hours before *domestic* flights because TSA is that bad now

Today I noticed that some people send email in HTML with the text color explicitly set to black but without setting a background color (ensuring that it's basically unreadable to anybody using a dark theme). All of these emails would be better sent as plain text. The HTML adds nothing but more bytes to transfer and store.

Looking at the stats, it looks like that's the highest my channel has ever gotten for single day watch time when I wasn't actively trying to drive traffic there (the record is 4,136 in the run up to YPP purge)