Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

How do we feel about cats tonight?

The cat is really into hugs tonight.

I think it might mostly just be the snow. She didn't want me out in the snow.

The cat wanted me to stay home from work today, but she doesn't get to make that decision. We were both heading away from the kitchen when she turned back, saw me putting my coat on, and went MAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Need to buy cat supplies.

The other day I noticed a bug in some unreleased code. Today I found and fixed the source of that problem. There's still a little work to do on the feature before I inflict it on others.

USB stick broke. The parts related to storing and retrieving data work fine, but there's a little hole on the side that I used to attach a little charm to it since otherwise it's too small to easily get out of some of the stuff I plug that into..That's the part that broke as I discovered when the charm fell off and its string was still intact.

I don't know where the political text message spammers get their lists, but I've apparently ended up on both the pro-choice (which I am, mainly just as a pragmatic realist who recognizes that the way to fewer abortions isn't just banning abortions) and anti-trans (which I'm not because I've both employed and partied with them which makes it hard to think of them as a threat [to what?]) scare mongering lists. I keep replying STOP.

There's sort of a weird tradeoff here. I tossed it out for anybody to use for free (it's all done as a single static HTML file with no server side anything so serving this is super cheap) so there isn't any need for a sales pitch on the site. You just go there and start using it, but that also means that there's no good place to onboard people.

I get the sense that this is the sort of thing where people who should find this useful look at it and don't understand what they're seeing at all, so seeing someone actually using it and explaining it as they go could go a long way toward getting other people to use it.

Also put together a very rough outline for a video tutorial series going over some of the ways this can be used.

Slowly but steadily chipping away at the work needed for the next release of CRUCS.

Unrelated, I got an email and a phone call from one of my candy suppliers letting me know that they think they put some chocolate in the wrong kind of wrapper and want me to destroy one item when it arrives with my latest order. None of my staff has the food allergies they're rightly concerned about so making them all aware of the issue and letting them eat it if they want any is probably how that's getting destroyed (rather than completely waste otherwise perfectly good chocolate).

The other half of my cookie order has now been delivered.

Half of my girl scout cookie order got delivered. Glad I checked it so they can go get the other half.

Backyard had been taken over by at least 26 birds.

The cat thinks I should give the cat belly rubs instead of eating dinner.

I've assembled some neat example data to demo the CRUCS feature set I'm working on. That might end up being more educational than anybody expects as I'll be giving practical advice on a topic that I haven't actually seen addressed any deeper than a handwave.

Who is Geoffrey and why does he own so many tubes?