Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Somehow screwed up certificate auto-renewal on https://code.typica.us

Finally got around to fixing that (I still had another 12 days).

Happy Cirno Day!

I think I'm out of dinner-like food again. Choices: take out, grocery shopping, breakfast for dinner.

This reminds me: my father used to work as a nurse in neonatal intensive care and someone once asked him how to spell Chlamydia because she heard the word and thought it would be a pretty name for her daughter and he had to talk her out of that.

Don't name your kid Accounting.

Who falls for this?

One report should be fixed and the wider issue is documented in the tracker with a link to the example fix. Still need to go through all the other reports and make sure those either get similar fixes or that they don't need them.

On the plus side, this is something that can be fixed without touching core code (no recompile needed, just replace some files). On the minus side, I have to touch all the reports and generate new test cases.

New bug report, prevents data from displaying in reports, potentially an entire class of bugs that I need new test cases to make sure I'm fixing this everywhere instead of just in the one minor case that was reported.

Customers were confused about a product so I took some time to talk with them about that, explain the differences with other products, and I'm a little surprised that they bought it because I also spent a lot of time on what's wrong with it and how there are faster/easier/better ways to do the alternative uses they were thinking of.

It's a case of, for the price I'm selling it, it's fine for the niche it's designed for, but you may already own other things that work better.

If you have trouble reading it, the shirt that I'm wearing in that has an upside down bat on it with text repeated in the background, "more betterer more gorgeouser more excellenter".

The interview video I mentioned earlier has been published now. Here's a link if you want to watch that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH-qhMQ6KhE

Got an email letting me know the VFD I ordered will be delivered on Sunday. Nobody delivers stuff on Sunday so that seems unlikely.

The person who interviewed me at retreat finished editing and uploading that. I'll post a link to that later once it's publicly available.

The video description links to my fediverse profile so if anybody goes there soon and scrolls down a little bit they'll see this boosted note: https://octodon.social/@Taweret/100680778636402360

The cat likes to hang out on the edge of surfaces, but she also likes to roll. This isn't always a good combination.

Money arrived in the mail from my latest teaching gig. It's not much, but I'll take it.

lol Mastodon in VR

Cat wants to bash her head into my face. Time for allergy meds.

Picked up a PSVR after work (I blame Tetris hype). Initial thoughts: I'll need to do some crafting to feel more comfortable with camera placement. It took way too long to find the power button/volume controls. Rez Infinite worked really well but now I suck at the boss fights. Race the Sun seems a little better in VR. Concert Editor in Project Diva X seems a lot less pointless now. Cat wanted to help. Mild nausea kicked in a bit after turning the headset off. Had a big smile on pretty often.

Today's cat.

Yesterday my YT channel hit the payout threshold again. It took a bit over 9 months and works out to an average of about 5/100ths of a cent per video view, so that'll cover a couple months of servers.

There are a few companies that make plaques out of press mentions that insist on pestering me every time I'm in a newspaper and they've apparently branched out into magazines now. Nothing against the product, I'm just completely uninterested in it.