@mikesusz social feed.

@revmem oh! thanks for the reminder, my subscription to SpotTheStation must have expired.

I wonder if there is an evolutionary advantage to the squirrels who simply distribute the acorns throughout my yard, waiting for me to step on them and crack the shells, therefore they’re able to eat more with minimal effort

one thing Tim Apple didn’t talk about during the Apple fun party was whether the new airpods can reliably detect if they’re inside their charging case and turn off.

or if they are like mine and stay connected all night and kill their batteries (and the case battery - and yet - if they’re getting power from the case shouldn’t they know they are inside the case?)

@jda was this some sort of event day for EVs? my friend in San Diego went to something similar

@marcamos @briandigital isn’t there some sort of “Enable Messages in iCloud” setting that helps with this?

(and a further note, before anyone thinks to attack the remote-work “distractions” mentioned here: they pale in comparison to the dispiriting effect of spending 90 minutes in car to get to an open-plan office where i will be interrupted by co-workers instead dogs and kids.)

spent yesterday crafting tedious logic on how two datasets interact (i was added to a project at work that is nearly done but needs help wrapping up)

the stress of trying to maintain deep concentration amidst (dogs, life, etc.) and also under an arbitrary deadline is pretty daunting.

the saving grace for all of this, for me & my process, is to outline my intent in code comments before i ever write code. if your intent is wrong, you’ll waste time writing code that you don’t need.

until tonight, i was unaware that there are “millions and millions” of illegal immigrants flooding into this country, bringing fentanyl, with the intent of getting government sponsored transgender surgeries, and then planning to eat my dogs.

@threetonesun is this not a direct copy of the guy on the Ikea instructions?

i would like a research grant to study the interference patterns of stacks of partially ovoid concave parabolic planes obstructing flow while passing through a cylinder.

why do pringles get stuck in the can.

please don’t correct me, i am not a scientician.

when you’re done grilling whatever dinner is, take some store-bought tortillas and throw them on the grill, high heat, flip and pull within about a minute. it’s amazing.

@threetonesun @marcamos would have been better with sheets of plywood strapped to the roof

@leaverou congrats on the new gig, they’re lucky to have you on board!

@annika online she sells sea shells by etsy shell

@jerzone oh it’s the potable water, going from the core in the boiler to the mixing valve.

a copper elbow sprung a leak (metal thin with minerals and time) i cut off 2 elbows and replaced a section with sharkbite fittings. three months later one of the sharkbites started leaking.

i think the problem is that piece of copper is slightly out-of-round, the walls of the pipe are very thin. i’ll clean it all up and reassemble, hope it holds until i can get someone here to sweat new copper fittings.

DHW piping on the boiler started leaking again tonight. houses are complicated.

@marcamos yo dawg i herd u like svg buttons

@threetonesun @jayroh
“this is a great idea!”
“let’s turn it into a computer science project!”

@jessamyn here’s a photo of our middle-dog having an uneasy truce nap with our cat.

@jerzone @m750 yeah it seems like opsec and/or no resources to install/maintain the tech. it’s tough enough for us to get enough bus drivers, it seems.

@m750 yeah it’s been slowly creeping back toward the proscribed schedule, i suspect once we’re comfortable with that, they’ll zing us

looking at everyone else’s well-composed ‘first day of school’ photos with their kids and realizing i should just stage those the day before or something, because on our first day the bus showed up 10 minutes early (at 6:46am) and ain’t nobody standing around smiling with a sign at that time of day anyway

@jerzone when we drove up north for the eclipse, it was wild to see the connecticut being narrow and squirrely, when we usually see it down here as we cross into brattleboro and it’s massive

@atpfm john talked about the camera not being able to capture tiny text well. when i use the Magnifier function to view tiny text (ahem like the low-contrast 3px font on apple chargers) it seems to do okay, even if you ‘save’ the image and check it out later. do you know if Apple processes the image differently via Magnifier or am i enjoying my yummy placebo?

@threetonesun same people who negatively review products on Amazon because the delivery company lost or damaged their package

@jerzone or more deceptively, my wife’s flex has “buttons” that aren’t real buttons, but just touch sensitive areas, that get activated when they are touched by the cable that goes to her phone when it is in its dash mount.

she said to me “the temperature in my truck just keeps going down and down”

dearest microsoft
i cannot figure out why
there is a dot here

@akahn indeed, straight line cuts with a jigsaw are a path to madness. (a wobbly, crooked path)

@akahn nice! the plunge cut always freaks me out.

it got better when i got a drawing tablet with a puck-mouse and i assigned one of the buttons on the puck to ‘enter’

now i didn’t even have to move my keyboard hand over to hit ‘enter’ for things that needed confirmation.

my lesson in all this is, optimize all the things? just enough that the optimizing doesn’t detract from the task itself.

my dotfiles repo is here if you’re curious https://github.com/mikesusz/dotrepo and i throw extra aliases in a local file ‘.dotlocal’ and reload everything with ‘pro’

today i’m updating my local dotfiles again (i have 2 or 3 character aliases for almost everything i do from the command line) and i recalled how way way back when i was an architecture student and draftsman, the thing i liked most about the DOS version of AutoCad vs. the Windows version was that i never had to click on menus or buttons -

i would hit a hotkey to select a tool or perform an action, then use the mouse to draw. hotkey/draw. hotkey/draw.

@jerzone oh also bearing design might be the problem there - they’re resisting load sideways when designed to mostly hold weight in the other direction

@jerzone ah yeah disadvantage is they can’t spin faster than 1x wind speed. but they can be deployed in lots of weird places. i’ve seen them on roofs of urban buildings (attached was in Wicker Park, Chicago)

@jerzone is that a VAWT or just for funsies?

this is said somewhat cheekily. i consider myself an IBMer but my loyalty only goes as far as it’s reciprocated.

i just wish (in the IBM Consulting organization) we spent more effort on scoping, sizing, and staffing projects correctly. this is the long-term (sustainable) solution to increasing profitability. the focus seems to be on whip-the-developers / short-term solution for short-term increasing profitability.

if this sounds like your workplace, i’m sorry and i feel your pain.

if this doesn’t sound like your workplace — are you hiring? https://mikesusz.dev

once again, i’ve been parachuted into a project at work that is nearing a deadline with a lot of functionality left to complete. this wouldn’t be too terrible, but i’ve also inherited a half-built thing and have been expected to just ‘finish it up’ except it’s deeply flawed and should be rebuilt completely (conveniently, nobody told me why the former developer was removed from the team)

and did i mention an arbitrary deadline?

@hotdogsladies i think i got non-consensual push notifications about it so i blocked apple tv+

@jlengstorf (hope you’ll recover quick!) there are two types of people in the world: those who have already cut themselves on a mandoline slicer, and those who will in the future. (and some people are both. hi! 👋)

@sarajw so i’m being self-deprecating and/or my own story is familiar and feels less fascinating. :) what i love is the common feelings of discovery, innovation, sharing, and responsibility. and there so far has been no mention of … profit?

the web 1.0 era was super wholesome.

@jerzone i gotta schedule that but i try to get it close to a weekend because it usually knocks me down for about a day

after writing and posting my own web origin story i’m reading a lot more of them from other people and quite frankly theirs are more interesting and you should go read them. @sarajw has been boosting a lot of them.

@annika you’re in the five-timers club!

@m750 @jerzone i could get a piece of hardwood and make new handles. gotta check if the metal parts are still up to the job.

it has wheeled its last barrow

@jerzone i am generally against bumper stickers so i will have to find a way to incorporate this. maybe inside the hatch.

today i drove up Mt Washington.

@hotdogsladies you’re one of them fancy lads, aren’t ya?

@hotdogsladies there must be dozens of people there. dozens!

@jerzone when i lived in washington we would go to a dogpark that was nearby a tennis club and the club would put a bin of expired tennis balls out for the dog owners to collect. it’s a great relationship!