Random Thoughts

Trying to fix the keys on my Corsair mechanical keyboard. The 3 and 4 buttons have stopped responding.

Removed the keycaps and blew the key out and the caps. That appears to have worked.

Also I missed posting on Satruday again.

Debating about getting a Switch 2.

It’s Friday. I bet you knew that.

I wonder what mischief will come my way today.

Testing my rust port. It’s pretty good. It’s used a lot of tokens. I’ve had to stop 3 times as I hit the wall. Currently waiting to finalize some things and squish some bugs before building out the installers. That’ll probably be in round 5. It will be completely cross platform for Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Just watched MKB’s video on the slate truck. 

The price is nice but for $24k you can pay a little more and get a nice Honda.

Totally down for a hybrid Honda Element. honda-reportedly-bringing-back-element-as-affordable-hybrid

Creating my ALUT proof of concept music player in Rust really got me excited about Rust. Oh the places we will go!

Rebuilding one of my favorite open source apps that’s a native Mac app in Rust as a cross platform app. Just because I want to see how it comes out.

IF someone were to ask me if I’m better off than 2 years ago I’d point to inflation which is still out of control, wars, gas prices, grocery prices and then shake my head “no”. We’re not better off than 2 years ago.

Burning tokens.

Couldn’t sleep. Will have to go to the eye doctor for a follow up visit as the eye scan was inconclusive in my right eye.

All other tests were normal so that’s good. Still worried though.

Had an interesting idea. Building a PoC.

Here’s a peek what I’m working on.

ALUT — Audio Look-Up Table

A portable, content-authored EQ “render intent” that travels with an audio file — the audio analogue of a color LUT in video.

Instead of baking tone changes into a master, a creator (or listener) ships a tiny description of how the sound should be shaped, and any conforming player applies it in real time. Loudness already travels with content (ReplayGain) and dynamics can (MPEG-D DRC) — ALUT is the missing open, codec-agnostic spectral layer.

Went to Yosemite yesterday. So tired I forgot to post anything.

It’s Juneteenth. Do we say Happy Juneteenth or Merry Juneteenth or ?

Trying to score Oogie Boogie Bash tickets today.

Inn the queue.

Tickets confirmed. Oogie Boogie Bash on October 4th.

Took today off for Doctors visit and yearly tests.

Oddly it’s Tuesday but it’s also my Friday.

Scared the cat by blowing dust out of my keyboard. Took a while to coax her to come back.

Well I thought the database duplication had just crashed out harmlessly but in readlity it FUBARed everything. Nice going me.

Did not sleep well. The boy is on about something and my blood sugar might have been really high. Got carb bombed off something.

FedEx: “How was your recent experience with FedEx?”

Me: “Well, since you asked…”

I did end up getting my package last night at 6:30pm. Only a day and 4 hours late. If they had an Amazon style “where is my package” tracker people wouldn’t  be pissed off at them. Instead what they have makes it look like they either lost or stole your package enroute. Not a good look. Defiinitely a fixable problem. They should throw some money at it and get it done. Reputation is everything.

I love the Luna Ultra. I only have one question, what’s this piece of open cell foam that was packed in it’s own little bag for? I don’t see it listed in the included items on the bos or in the instructions.

My Luna Ultra was lost by FedEx after it left Sacramento. I have never had a good experience where FedEx is concerned. If I had my druthers I’d never use them. In fact, they’re part of the reason I buy stuff in stores and shy away from ordering online. Amazon provides a much better shipping experience. You had one job FedEx. One job! Why you gotta be like that FedEx? 

Also, this ends the second full week of sharing something here everyday.

Supposedly my Luna Ultra is out for delivery on FedEx but it’s already changed delikvery times twice due to lateness and now it’s just saying “by end of day”. I have no love for FedEx.

FedEx gave my package to one of their drivers to deliver in the off hours because it wasn’t deliverd by end of day as they said it was. I’m sure it’s never going to get to me now or it’ll be broken.

I’m sure, as many of you are well aware, today is in fact…Friday. TGIF!

Posted that last big and got to wondering, do kids today even know what TGIF means?

Winds have changed direction. We’re getting smoke from the huge medical supply fire in Tracy. The air smells like burning plastic.

So…I did a thing yesterday. A thing being I made a web based version of my app in PHP and JavaScript. It’s exactly like this except you can access it from anywhere and don’t need to ftp anything. It runs right on your web server. It’s also very, VERY small.

If you’re interested in it I’ll be posting it on my github sometime soon for download.

Right now it doesn’t have github backup and I’m not sure that I’ll be adding that. 

It also doesn’t have a combo-key launch nor does it run in the menu bar of your Mac. This is a good setup for Linux or Windows users who want something similar. I’m thinking about adding a template system to the online one so the page template can be edited.

Ever have one of those moments where you go to your Github page and see unexpected things that are public and think, “Hmmmm…I hope those don’t contain anything that shouldn’t be public.” They didn’t.

Ordered the Insta360 Luna Ultra. Possibly the cutest hand held, gimbal stabilized, video camera on the market. It’s got amazing specs too like a 200mp pano image, 8k,/30 4k/120 video, 10 bit, i-log, and a 12x zoom. Don’t forget it’s also cute. 

Watched the live cam yesterday as they tore out the cafe at the Pacifica Pier.

I know people lost their business and it was an icon in the community but, the view is much improved with it gone.

I’m sure I also have the unpopular opinion that removing the pier would also be an improvement.

Why is this breaking? It was working fine and then suddenly it’s become an issue.

Evidently the new Apple software to run AI locally on your Mac runs best on an M5. Having just spent WAAAAY too much on a specced out MBP I am not upgrading to an M5 or anything else for 3-4 years. You lose Apple. Make it more affordable or make it work with the M4 Max’s.

Had to practically throw a bucket of ice water on the girl to get her to wake up and put her work clothes in the wash.

Math says it’ll be 95 degrees plus today.

Missed a day yesterday. Over 300 emails of which 35 were troubletickets, 10 regular emails, 1 from my boss, 1 from the cafe and the rest notification emails from processes that spawn and run. Read and marked them al lbecause Inbox Zero.

Not feeling the best this morning. Not sure what’s going on.

Been burning the candle with a blow torch. Think I need a day to recover.

Didn’t sleep so well last night. Now I want to take a 6 hour nap.

News is saying we might get rain next week. Really.

Athenos roasted garlic hummus is pretty good.

Psss. It’s Friday. Just thought you should know.

Wow! I’ve posted something here 6 out of 7 days this week so far. Maybe I’m on ot something.

When I trigger the quick entry there’s an additional line above but I don’t see it in the output so it must be a display bug that doesn’t affect the render. Good enough.

I have to say, I’ve made a couple of different RSS readers of late and nothing ever felt quite right. They always seemed very “cookie cutter” but the IDE RSS reader is fun and quiet easy to read. I really like it.

Sat outside in the sun for half an hour. I can’t get this song out of my head now.

People think: “Oh well, you’re coding it with AI so it’s super easy.” If it were that easy why the F@#$ am I so stressed out? S#!& goes south just as much with AI as it does when doing it by hand. It just goes faster and farther.

I think if they remade The Princess Bride today, they should cast Shaq as Fezzik.

You can take me out of the designer role but eventually you’ll have me designing something for you.

Now who would make an RSS reader that looked and functioned like VS Code and even used VS Code themes? Oh yeah, me!

Do I want to get my fishing license and take a mental health day to do some fishing?

The girl wanted to make her own cold foam and tried using heavy whipping cream. I tried to explain that it was made with hydrogenated vegetable oil, the same as the filling in Oreo’s. Needless to say it wasn’t the same so I now have heavy whipping cream to mix with milk (efffectively half and half) in my morning coffee.

Serendipity has been running rampant last couple of days.

It’s weird that at this point it’s humans that are slowing me down.

Try to keep up, fleshlings!

Listening To:

“Stone Over Water” by Death Cab For Cutie

Added expanding links to Youtube videos so now a link to Youtube will render the embedded player.

Been trying to get some sun. Vitamin D is good.

Welcome to June!

Is Sklur AI generated?

This is one of my most favorite Youtube streams to have playing in the background. Sometimes it gets too quiet around here.

Now that we got this done I guess it’s time to get back to Sierra Anglers.

Someday people will actually listen to what I have to say. Won’t that be the day?

It’s the boys’ 24th birthday. Damn I’m feeling old.

Added a quick entry through the toolbar.

Testing the new keybind that allows you to open the quick post editor.

Slight modification to quick posting. 

Just testing the quick post behavior again.

Well it looks like we won’t be integrating it with the Shortcuts.app for Mac as this requires wrapping the project in Xcode. A little annoying you can’t just do it in Swift which is Apple’s own language.

This is a test post after making some fixes in my app.

There was a bug during upload. Checking to see if it’s righted.

This is a new test post. We can bold!

Ok, bugs are fixed and new features have been added including a rich text editor, html editing,  adding photos from the editor from the media library or the machine directly, a post inspector and we’re now using Liquid Glass.

Not to mention the sftp bug was fixed and the github storage bug.

Booked Disneyland for this year. Going to try for Oogie Boogie Bash.

We did the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween 3x but this will be the first Oogie Boogie if we can get tickets.

Man on the radio said we’d be getting periodic thunder storms today. It’s been raining solid for the last 3 hours. I’m calling bullshit.