Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Okay, this is odd. Apparently if I plug a PS4 controller into my laptop to charge while I'm playing a game the touch area is picked up both by the PS4 and as a mouse on the laptop.

pet the cat

Okay, crazy thought here, but what if the people who buy/run/make policy decisions about web sites started by, you know, using that site and having some kind of awareness of what it is? Oh, who am I kidding, hey yahoo, want to buy my Mastodon instance?

Just because all the articles about fixing your finger nails are apparently written for women doesn't mean that men can't also fix their nails. Saving yourself some pain while that heals doesn't make you any less of a man.

The other night I was playing around with my new seaboard and there was one bit that I thought sounded really nice. I wish I were recording, but at least I sort of remember what I was doing so maybe I can record something similar.

Put the box at one end of the warehouse, pick out the stuff that goes into the box. As you find it, do your best impression of a quarterback throwing product to the box. This is not a good way to pack orders.

Today's candy order was poorly packed. It's a good thing I don't need the display boxes because most of them have fallen apart. At least the product is intact and matches the packing slip.

So here's a thing I don't get: how do web devs find hundreds or even thousands of tiny single function npm dependencies to quilt into their projects such that it isn't just faster to write their own code?

Crazy long line at the post office today. I noticed the self serve kiosk was not getting used so I went for that. The machine is slow and awkward compared to a human selling appropriate postage but I don't think the line moved at all in the time it took me to figure out how to use the kiosk and get my postage.

43 is not a large enough sample to justify 0.00% in the headline (0% would be fine, or just "no success" without the word rate).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/

Today I drafted a manufacturer neutral guide on how to read the instruction manual that comes with your coffee roasting machine. #rtfm

Come home from work, cat greets me at the door so "I'm home. Were you a good cat today?" and she gives me 1 meow and I don't know if that's a yes or a no.

A customer gave me a gift certificate for the (good) pizza place across the street as thanks for free tech support (because obviously when you need tech support you ask the owner of the local coffee shop who doesn't use any of the tech you're trying to get working). That was unexpected but hey, free food, I'll take it with gratitude.

Video games I played in November (alphabetical order):

Fallout Shelter
Gems of War
Gundemoniums
hack//G.U. Last Recode
Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live
Light Tracer
Mega Man 11
MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies
Red Dead Redemption 2
Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle
Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls
Tetris Effect
Thumper

I'm kind of all over the place there.

Post cat, get notes.

It's been raining all day. At least you don't have to shovel rain.