Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat wants to sit on me tonight.

Sometimes I need to remind myself that I'm writing my own code and if the interface to some piece of functionality isn't convenient for what I'm trying to do I can just change it and make things easy for myself.

That service is, of course, broken in oh so many other ways as well, but all of the alternatives also suck and my sister (who deals with this the most) already knows how to find stuff in the current system.

It seems that QuickBooks Online Payroll for Mac changed its export screen and now it's broken in such a way that it thinks February 15 is not part of February (but is at least part of the year 2022) and exporting from there doesn't work there at all on Firefox or Safari.

Relaxed cat is relaxed.

It's snowing and I still need to buy groceries.

The cat says it's time for belly rubs.

Some coffee that I was expecting to have in November ahead of the Christmas season might be showing up late next week or early the week after. It's unroasted and supposedly well packed so the delay shouldn't have much if any of a quality impact as long as I can still sell it all fast enough.

I will settle for another hot cup of coffee instead.

Wish I were at home hugging a cat.

Someone left a couple of puzzles still in their shrink wrap in the community puzzle exchange. One of them features a naked lady on top of a giant cake with freaky frosting animals around the edge.

One nice bit is that while the old deserializer needed to be (or rather, was convenient to write as) a whole class, the new one is just a free function.

Finished up the first bit of coding that I wanted to do today. This is a rework of Typica's old code for deserializing saved data to work with a new data model. The new code is faster, safer, consumes less memory, and I'm hoping will make it easier to develop some new features that I've wanted for a while, though the next bit of code that I'll need to write to make this work are a bit more complicated. Should still be a net win once it's done, though.

It looks like search engines found this forum post I wrote about using the Ocean Hued Clam set on Qiqi in Genshin Impact and are ranking it highly in relevant searches. https://www.hoyolab.com/article/1610218

(at least I hope things aren't horribly broken now)

Sorry for any inconvenience during the update, though given that I'm the only person logged into this server in the past year I doubt anybody was inconvenienced at all.

Got social.typica.us ready for the impending security update. Was previously running 2.9.0 because the last time I tried to upgrade versions things broke and rather than spend the time figuring that out I rolled the changes back and figured I'd get around to it later. I guess it's later now, but this time things went relatively smoothly so whatever was broken last time around seems to have been fixed.

The cat has decided that it's fun to drag herself through her water dish.

Surprisingly few bugs in the last bit of code that I wrote so far. Testing out more of the functionality I found one missed case where a certain kind of data wouldn't be deserialized and a missed check to make sure an optional had a value before attempting to get it. Both issues are now fixed.