I haven’t been to Jasper yet. Is the Dark Sky Festival a good time to go?

Nearly empty bottle of Campari outside of Neumos (Seattle) ahead of the Mind Enterprises concert. Of course.

Was hoping to get tickets to Angine de Poitrine. No luck. It sold out in less than an hour! And now there’s Verified Resale tickets, $200+. fukc @ticketmaster.com

I vibe-coded a site, to check whether permanent DST or permanent ST (standard time) is better: daylightsavingtime.click

For Vancouver/BC, I'd have to agree with the gov that permanent DST is better. Who needs sunrise at 3am in summer!

Their gig in Seattle still has tix!

Looks nice. What app is that?

This morning I had never heard of Mind Enterprises, and now I'm sad that their Vancouver concert next month is already sold out :(

In fact, I'll often use the name from the "leaf" API call, and bubble that name up verbatim all through the code. This helps with code greppability tremendously, something both humans and agents can appreciate.

One of my pet peeves is function parameter naming. If you're passing an argument through several layers of code, just keep its name the same. Eg. don't have it change its name from var "allowUpdate" to a parameter "update_allowed", then to another parameter "updateAllowed".

Wow, first time seeing July Talk at the Commodore Ballroom yesterday and I'm a fan. Great presence. What's their style, blues meets rock? Loved it!

On the flight from Armenia to Germany I saw a dude with a stack of four 3.5" hard drives. And I calculated: ~8TB per drive x4 = ~32TB total, ~5hrs flight, count another ~5 hours to/from airport, makes for ~1GiB/s. That's pretty good bandwidth for that distance! 🤯 Terrible latency though.

With some help from Claude, I got the VIC-II raster IRQ set up, switching charsets, for a whopping 510 unique Hanzi/Kanji on the screen! Next up: up/down scrolling.

Panorama photo of Goris, Armenia.

Holy crap. Yesterday I visited Goris, kilometers from the Iranian border.

First time in Yerevan, Armenia. The city gives me "Bucharest in the 2000s" vibes. Tons of Chinese influence to be seen though: the public buses appear to be old ones from China, but tons of new Chinese EVs on the roads too.

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Hehehe, I added a live deployment counter to our homepage :) defang.io 44k deployments and counting.

Redis+SSE FTW.

I published a new blog post: Infrastructure-as-Code is the wrong abstraction

defang.io/blog/post/in...

Screenshot from Time Machine on MacOS, showing a backup in progress 11.4% done to destination "RPI.local".

Two minutes later it showed up as a backup destination on my Mac! At this point, it's not even worth publishing a guide for this setup, other than what I just wrote.

It's been months that I picked up an RPi5 and an 8TB drive to use as a Time Machine for automatic backups from my Mac. Been gathering dust, because I planned to have it setup with ZFS and I didn't know where to start. Finally just gave Claude SSH access to the RPi and asked it to set it up for me.

Tough call, but we decided to postpone our V3 release for a few more days of quality testing.

"I made this"-meme: Top: Person 1 labeled "Claude" says "I made this", gives a thing to Person 2 labeled "Me", asking "You made this?" Middle: Person 2 looks at the thing, sadly Bottom: Person 2 smiles, says "I made this"

How I feel when I get Claude to create a new page in NextJS:

I found an SD Card while walking outside. On it are 55 photos of a kids bike trip, taken April 26th 2017. What should I do with this?

It's actually an interesting problem: the C64 VIC-2 video chip has two modes: text and graphics. In text mode, you can print any of 256 characters, which is not much, but you can have custom charsets. In fact, you can change charset halfway through the rendering!

A screenshot of the C64 showing the simplified Chinese characters for Hello World: 世界你好

I found a 7x7 simplified Chinese bitmap font at atelier-anchor.com/typefaces/di... and installed the ACME cross-assembler on my Mac. Got my rusty hands dirty with some 6502 assembly!

The screenshot shows Hello World (世界你好) in C64 text mode on Vice. Pushed to GitHub github.com/lionello/han64

I received my C64 Ultimate last Sunday! Thank you
@commodoreofficial.bsky.social !

I love the manual, teaches you all about the machine you just bought. Reading it, I recall studying it as an 8yo kid.

These early machines only had ASCII or Katakana, but how did folks in the east show Hanzi/Kanji?

The last thing I bought on Amazon before my Amazon prime membership expired was Enshittification by Cory Doctorow. Quite fitting, methinks.

With all the tooling and linting we have set up, nothing caught the missing `return` before `c.text("OK", 200)` in a #Hono handler, resulting it a misleading log entry suggesting 200 was indeed returned, but it actually, returns a 500! Had to dig through AWS ALB logs to find out.

Screenshot of an article from CBC News. The headline reads: Montreal-Ottawa chosen as first leg of high-speed rail project.

We’re going to build a high-speed rail network that will connect millions of Canadians, build our economy, and create thousands of high-paying careers.

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥