Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My sister is having dental work done tomorrow so I'll be taking over more of the tasks she normally takes care of for a few days while she recovers from that.

I'm not exactly sure where the typo was (once I knew which section it must have been in I just copy/pasted from the example instead of trying to hunt down the difference), but it resulted in 404s on webseeds (downloads still worked).

https://video.typica.us/ is back up and running with local videos working correctly. Bad nginx modification during the upgrade to PeerTube 1.2. I was stuck in a meeting for too long before I was able to fix that but everything should be good now.

local videos on video.typica.us temporarily down. will try to get that up soon.

Cat is wet. I think she decided to drag herself through her water dish.

Traffic design there is bad enough when everybody is following the rules.

Had to double back and reroute on the way to work today. There was a convoy of extremely slow moving public works trucks going the wrong way on 1 way streets blocking my route.

One of the great things about my eclectic professional experience is that lots of people talk to me. I can't share most of the stories I hear (I'll anonymize and/or wait until the company involved gets bought out/goes out of business or until the people involved are no longer in the business) but I do enjoy hearing them.

Sadly, nobody locally wants to talk shop. I might "steal their secrets." (I totally steal ideas from others but local competitors don't have secrets worth stealing)

The oldest video game in my collection is a 2 player Computer Space cabinet (glittery green color). One of the neat gameplay elements is that shots are implemented just as a distance in front of your ship that increases over time until it hits something or reaches a maximum distance. The play field also wraps at the screen edges so you can do things like fire off screen and then rotate your ship to curve your shot into the other player. It's unusual enough that most don't expect it.

I make a better lemonade.

Take out again because I'm out of clean dishes. Got a free lemonade (this was my 4th drink choice because the first 3 choices were out, but hey, free).

I was hoping to have the next episode of Coffee and Code out by now, but I thought it might be nice to have some graphics for one of the sections and I haven't had time to finish writing the code to generate what I want. If it takes too much longer I'll just do without and maybe extract the audio from that section and turn it into a different video once I have more time.

Immediately after everybody left the cat came out and asked for hugs.

I have running water again. All the damage was in one place.

Whenever I end up with this sort of plumbing problem I get the valves upgraded to the kind I like. The kind I like are faster and easier to turn and you can see at a glance if the water is supposed to be on or not.

The cat is in her usual hiding from strangers spot. That's behind a big chair in the corner of the bedroom upstairs.