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it’s been a heck of a week. but at least we’ve had this lovely new england Septober weather.

@karlcow awesome, thank you! i’m glad to help.

@cabel @gwhilts I have to say, I never considered the possibility of purchasing two identical cars, and only paying for one registration and one insurance policy. It’s kind of brilliant.

@jerzone can you click through to the article and try there? sorry i should have made that clearer.

hi friends!

this morning i was wondering why my blog doesn't prompt a ‘Show Reader' button in Safari.

ultimately i ruled out any page structure issues. and i noticed - if you access the URL directly, you see ‘Show Reader.' if you navigate from my blog index or homepage, you don't. UNLESS - you reload the page.

if you have @view-transition { navigation: auto; } in your CSS, Safari fails to display the option for Reader view.

more info & demo here: https://mikesusz.github.io/safari-reader-view-transition-bug/

#safari #bug

“Although we are unable to connect with you about this position, we hope you will consider applying for other roles of interest in the future.”

lol welp that’s a No for 12 out of 13 positions i’ve applied to at your company, but sure, i’ll hold out hope.

@sarajw @lynnandtonic @zachleat VHS-C to VHS adapter.

uh-oh, you know mike is serious, he made a new PROJECT markdown file.

in the U.S. it’s Labor Day, and i have done too much manual labor and now i am exhausted and sore.

i think i’m doing this wrong.

@best_of_mltshp happy birthday @jessamyn ! 🎂

@marcamos yes. yes.

@jessamyn these are from Big 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_Mountain

went to races tonight and it was pretty cool. at https://www.monadnockspeedway.com/

i think right now the only thing that Slack does better than Discord is when you select a word and apply formatting to it (e.g. strike through) Slack does not apply it to the space following the word, while Discord does. this seems like it could be easily corrected.

in my career i’m realizing i did a lot of side quests and as i’m looking for a job i’m finding companies seem to want someone who spent decades replaying the main quest over and over.

my basil plant is a weird mutant but it’s still growing basil. i think it’s at least 10 months old.

Shipped v4.0.0 of markdown-vault-mcp today.

Had a user report their whole vault going dark from a single typo'd note (The files are okay - the tools weren't finding them). Turned out to be two separate crash classes AND a privacy bug (a BOM could silently expose a hidden note). All fixed — one bad file now fails alone, loudly, safely.

"The Unbreakable Vault" 🛡️

https://github.com/mikesusz/markdown-vault-mcp/releases/tag/v4.0.0

@siracusa that's only slightly longer than app review _amirite_

just submitted a PR and the reviewer approved it straight away. feels good.

i'm also the reviewer.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@appendx/117179727232378376

the initial release with In App Purchases took 13 days to get through the review process.

this update took about 2 hours.

so, a bit of encouragement if you want to develop an IOS app. initial review is rough, but subsequent reviews are minor.

also, i hope y’all love this. i find it incredibly useful.

in a fit of personal development, i just recycled/disposed of every computer monitor and television box that was in my basement. they overflowed the bed of my pickup truck.

@mathowie you went up to see John! awesome. i hope it was a great show.

both my kids do school full-time online, but my youngest goes to in-person school for band. today, we drove him to a different town to start band at a new school.

this is amazing, of course, and he had a great time. but we're signed up for a whole year of waking up early and shuffling north a few towns.

yay, today i was finally able to mow.

boo, today i was finally able to mow.

https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com

@jerzone ah yes, when i had a tank at another house i actually changed one of those out once. my setup here is straight from the boiler, so i guess the boiler tank is sacrificial. (fingers crossed)

@jerzone yeah most of my house is PEX but downstairs there's a lot of copper in annoying places. electrons are gonna flow where they want i guess. i asked the plumber who fixed my DHW mixing valve on my boiler about bi-metal corrosion, he said basically no matter what metals you use, they all wear out eventually.

@jerzone ah, with my well water mine probably started out thicker and galvanic ate away at it or something. i was trying to use it to replace an elbow that had completely worn through at the outside of the 90

@jerzone i've heard good things about sharkbite as long as the pipe is round and the walls aren't thinning. my problem with trying them was my pipes were paper thin and went oval at the slightest brush

@marcamos aha, trying to build up some immunity before the onslaught. interesting strat.

this weekend various things went crazy and there is way too much happening all at once.

figuring out when to put the roasted vegetables, fries, and chicken into the oven when they all want different temperatures and times

i accidentally typed "anthrolologist" and now i want that to be a real title.

@irafcummings “bikes are safest in the garage, but that is not why we make bikes.”

today was a day of ups and downs. i’m trying to stay positive - always positive. but it’s rough.

in the end, i did some productive things, i cooked a nice dinner. my kids are happy (wherever the heck they are in the house, i’m assuming).

the absence of a gig feels like lost opportunity to help people. i guess it would be okay to “create shareholder value” while also “creating mike bank account value” but above it all, i miss making things that help people.

this is how my big dog sleeps on the couch sometimes.

@marcoarment @jimmynotjim every pair of jeans or shorts i wear has three bags folded neatly in the back pocket. usually i remember to transfer them to the next pair before i put them in the wash.

@m750 nah i think the seller mislabeled it as being compatible with my year/model. it looks like it’s from a ford taurus/lincoln navigator.

sometimes i’m frustrated with everything.

i’m very tired. also it’s probably time for a “3 months” blog post, but, see: “i’m very tired”

i may have gotten my dishwasher to run again by literally punching parts of it until my knuckles were bleeding. i didn’t read that in any “manual”

@jessamyn @jerzone my current pharmacy, i have to use goo gone to get the labels off cleanly. but it’s worth it.

@jessamyn @jerzone if it were me, tiny screws and nails and whatnot.

@threetonesun they're neat but you have to be mindful of cat & dog paws and tails.

sad to report that the root cause in troubleshooting my son's PC crashing is bad video memory. he's been using my previous system, with an ASUS ROG Strix 3080ti that i bought during covid for ... let's just say a lot of money. a lot.

smoke alarms start going off. i’m in the basement. i kinda know how they work this time. i run around to find the one that doesn't have the green light on (that's the one that triggered). i get upstairs to the 2nd floor and find the one that tripped. i go get a step stool, when i come back i see a small spider crawl out of it. beeping stops.

our spider detectors are working 100%.

the replacement gasket i ordered for my sunroof looks nothing like the one currently on the sunroof. now im on the hunt for whatever this is.

@threetonesun Joe, that's no moon.

my 'Graph View' in Obsidian looks like the Death Star.

@marcoarment my first app just got approved. i’m really excited. i got an email that it would take 24-48 hours to review when i submitted it. i ended up contacting them to ask if i screwed something up? it took … 353 hours.