Incidental Remarks

@andyc he’s not, it wasn’t until after 6th months when I tried to cut him loose and realised the problem.

What I missed out. There was a month in there, towards the end of his probation, where his father passed away and the company gave him very little compassionate leave. So I told him to just take the time he needed and I’d cover for him. So I wasn’t really in any position after 6 months to pass judgment on his performance.

And he really does talk a good game and interviewed incredibly well.

I’m just going to have to put my big boy pants on and be much more blunt and demanding of him… It just feels strange because I’m not his boss.

@robb thankfully I figured out how to overwrite the URL field of my social posts so that it automatically links back.

Otherwise yeah, as rubbish as it is to have a redundant link back… It always felt necessary.

@Steve bloke in my neighborhood wears an insulated gilet with t-shirt, shorts, and sandals for anything between 5 and 15 degrees.

Absolute lunatic.

@luke it’s still surprising I ever did that… Especially the OG 100 days when it had to be a streak.

I put it down to lockdown and having nothing better to do.

Finally it works. And yes, I was being a bonehead.

I’m at the log.message(“do we hit this line?”) stage of debugging so there’s about to be some timeline spam.

@grmpyprogrammer @ellotheth so that post is actually a markdown file in my static site repo ( https://trivial.observer/notes/2024/1108002644/ ) that is syndicated by gotosocial.

I do stupid shit when I get bored…

@grmpyprogrammer @ellotheth I’ve done unspeakable crimes to my gotosocial source code.

When I create a post, instead of just adding the post to the database….

It sends the content, as a markdown file, to my GitHub repo, which then rebuilds and publishes my Hugo website with the new post. The URL of that new post is then shoved into the gotosocial database.

Restoring a very unloved knife

Was so pleased with myself for not buying a new laptop and instead refreshing the current one with a new battery, a screen cover, a clean, and a reconfiguration.

Well the screen has been doing some concerning things in the last hour so now I’m pretty worried it’s about to die.

Whisper it quietly, but there’s a chance I’ve finally fixed my RSS feed.

Keyboard layout resetting to US on every boot is proving a tough nut to crack.

Upgrading Ubuntu from 2020.04 to 2024.04 has caused one or two issues but not as many as I thought it would.

Every time I work on my website I forget where my caddyfile is. Without fail.

Currently it’s: Framework 13 Vs ThinkPad L14 g5

Currently giving very serious thought to getting a framework 13 to replace my 2016 Dell XPS 13.

I always assumed my next laptop would be a ThinkPad… But they aren’t what they once were.

Apparently it costs them 1.3c per search just in computation costs. So at something like 800 searches in a month and they’re losing money.

Doesn’t really seem sustainable given it’s already likely too expensive.

Paid for a month of Kagi late last night and made it my default at work as well as home.

78 searches in a day. Think it’s fair to say the 300/month plan won’t cut it.

After years of frustration, I have finally figured out, and fixed the crazy clipboard nonsense that my laptop was doing. Not gonna lie it’s a weight off.

I can once again highlight text without said text being placed in my clipboard. Huzzah.

Pondering implementing boosts on my microblog timeline. Will have to check how deletes are processed by gotosocial.

This is what happens when I do CSS work (or anything else fiddly). I just start dreaming up new functionality instead.