Random Thoughts

Sometimes I just want to throw a rock at people.

Built the latest Ladybird browser app. It’s coming along nicely. Still some bugs with Youtube like streaming content that won’t play but it’ll get there. Just give it time to grow.

Meetings are the deathnail of productivity.

Why do people insist on asking my opinion when they never take my suggestion to heart?

This is what getting up at 3 in the morning gets you.

I like that there are new MacBook Pro’s but I’ve never been happier than with the M4 Max. Save yourself some money and get one if you find one. There’s not much difference between M5 and M4.

It’s a tappity-tap kind of day. IYKMYK.

Caught this shot of an American Kestrel on the hover of a field along the coast this weekend.

Supposedly doom scrolling is supposed to trigger a dopamine reaction in your brain that makes you feel better. Yeah, no. Not me.

Snow level looks to have dropped to 1000 feet. It was 32 degrees Farenheit when I got up this morning. I hope it snows here.

Tried running Claude through Ollama with Qwen3 as the model. Talk about frustrating.

Five day weekend next week. So looking forward to it.

I wanted to go pet my cat but she was cleaning herself and I realized that she’s probably thinking “OMG. I got human all over me. Gotta wash that off before it stains. Stupid humans.”

Got a new lens. Had to try it out. Here’s a bird sitting on the powerlines that run behind my house. I guess it’s a House Finch.

Well, look at that. Suddenly it’s Friday and a 3 day weekend.

Wednesday.

Happy Tuesday.

The freeway is very loud this morning. Lots of traffic.

Because of issues I have using ftp with my hosting provider I’ve added rsync functionality. You now have the option to ftp, sftp, or rsync your static site files to your web host. As always you can use username/password or id_rsa for passwordless connecting.

The Photo Manager has also been moved from the Settings pane to the sidebar as the new Media section.

Working on Mandeep’s site. Let’s hope I don’t break anything irreparably. 😉

Taking forever to download.

Trying to determine if there’s still a bug in the app when it tries to upload the static files to the host. I seem to be getting an rsync error about port 22 but if I click the upload site button it works fine. It’s hard to diagnose because it could be the hosting provider limiting the port.

Testing the publish feature to see if the bug is fixed.

Let’s test this again.

Test posting again because you haven’t seen this enough have you?

Testing the publish button.

Let’s test this again.

Well that’s all the bugs fixed for tonight. The next thing to work on will be improving the editor. Currently it’s an HTML editor but I’m thinking now a rich text or markdown would be better.

Well hello there.

Making some changes to the app. Your blog can now be saved to Github where you will be able to import and sync your blog. This is useful if, like me, you work on many different machines.

Honestly thought I was going to lose all my posts. Happy I didn’t.

Just tried to do a site backup and it failed saying the data wasn’t in the correct format. I guess that’s ok because the backup will be in Github. In fact, I can probably remove the backup and import from static files feature now that my data is synced to Github. There was only one other person testing the app and I don’t believe they have used it at all.

Just fixed a bug with the blog upload. Let’s see if it’s fixed.

Well, I’m not seeing an error so looks like we’re good.

Error was still there. Made an update. Hopefully this fixes it.

Bug testing.

Waiting for the next round of storms. This one is supposed to drop 5′ of snow in the Sierra.

Half an inch of rain in 15 minutes. I guess the storm is finally here.

No wonder why Christmas only comes once a year, Santa spends 3 months doing marketing and then does an around the world trip in 24 hours. It’d take me 9 months to recover from that, too!

Went to Target a couple of days ago and there wasn’t a Salvation Army bell ringer in front.

My dog’s nose tells me that as milk is exposed to air longer and longer the more it smells like cheese.

Turns out the milk was bad.

Some days I think to myself: “I need a bag of gummy bears.”

The Four R’s of IT: Restart, Reboot, Reinstall, Recycle.

That moment you look back at an app you made several years ago and wonder, “How is this actually working?”

Fog so thick it registered 0.01” precipitation.

Successfully accomplished everything on my todo list today which had nothing on it.

Out of Splenda for my hot tea so almost Doordashed Starbucks for me and my daughter but after the upcharges and fees and everything I went to Amazon and bought a box of coffee pods and a bag of Splenda for less than the cost of Doordashing Starbucks.

Big storm supposed to start soon. Just had a smattering of rain so far. Got my boots all waxed up and ready to go. I’m ready for the wet and wild weather.

I really shouldn’t watch camera videos because then I buy them.

Midweek holdays where you have to work on both sides of the holiday are evil. It feels like this week has 2 Mondays.

Can’t sleep and I hope I’m not getting pink eye.

Rough night. Being sick sucks.

Day 2 of the cold. Thought I’d dodged it. I was feeling better earlier but now I’m congested again and coughing.

Also, I didn’t realize it’s been so long since I last posted. I’ll have to try to update more regularly.

I think I have some kind of selective muteism that keeps people from hearing what I say. As an example, when someone asks “how do I do this?” I will respond and they continue what they’re doing as if they didn’t hear my answer to the point where they get so frustrated they give up.

Today’s the day when people realize how vulnerable hosting on Amazon has left them. Too many services are there making it a prime (pun intended) target for widespread disruption of services. Take your stuff in-house.

Trying the Kirkland VitaRain Zero. It’s like VitaminWater with less taste and no sugar.