Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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?

Working from home this week. Full time continuing work on Typica 2.0. Will need a grocery run and might have a brief PR thing that isn't scheduled but otherwise unless my staff gets into some trouble I shouldn't need to leave the house. The cat approves.

I recently swapped a different old computer in at the coffee roaster and was a little surprised to come in today and discover a Squid Girl screensaver running. I think I had forgotten that screen savers were even a thing.

Nobody will confirm or deny hugging a cat.

The event I thought I was teaching at next week was cancelled. Must have missed the memo. Glad I reached out to check on that as it would have been awful to show up and find nobody there.