Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

That's a totally normal thing to start doing at 11PM, right?

I want to make cinnamon rolls.

I'm still upset by what they did to the best restaurant they had. Kicked them out right after they finished a contractually required renovation because a new "anchor" store wanted most of the square footage. The big store didn't last nearly as long as that restaurant had been there and the place that replaced them in the now smaller space wasn't anywhere near as good. (The owners opened up a non-mall location and did fine with that, but it's too far away for me to go there for lunch.)

This morning I took my mother to the mall so she could get help from a phone store. We don't have a good mall (shopping trends aside the management seemed to be doing what it could to kill it for a long time) but it was at least less depressing than the last time I was there. Don't get me wrong, it's still mostly empty, but the mall walkers are back so there are other people there.

They said they'd tag us when they posted the picture to I don't think they said where but I doubt I'll see that because I'm only on fedi.

I am now the owner of one of those giant fake checks. The last time someone came around with a giant fake check it was a whiteboard and thus reusable, but apparently those are really expensive and it was more economical to just have a bunch of separate ones printed (also some people like to keep the giant check). They also had one for the pizza place across the street.

Tomorrow's schedule includes a photo op with the mayor and one of those giant fake checks. The shop is getting some grant money. The city's original plan was to do this as a loan program, but there was enough uncertainty at the time that every small business owner looked at that and said, "this looks like a trap," and stayed away from it.

Is there a word for a male Karen or is Karen gender neutral?

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.

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.

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.

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?