@mikesusz social feed.

the first pot of coffee was gone before 8am. it’s been a week, folks.

@sarajw i feel like i just updated to v2.

final trick-or-treater tally: 4 doorbells, 3 carloads that went around the cul-de-sac and skipped our house. i guess our hill isn’t worth a handful of candy.

also, a metalworking project today. made an aluminum frame to mount our soundbar above the tv.

another small woodworking project, another opportunity to use too many clamps.

@hbuchel
“i cut our website load time by two-thirds.”
“wow, that’s amazing! how did you do it?”
“i removed the two extra copies of jquery we were loading.”

it’s been a tough week. for dogs. apparently.

@marcamos surely a portmanteau should be created here

random revelation: we do hobbies because it’s satisfying to feel competent at something.

anything.

@threetonesun (looks around nervously at other shoppers) “oops, sorry… i wasn’t on mute”

@threetonesun but Joe think of the serendipitous conversations and the hallway interactions. Being able to read someone’s body language. If these exchanges don’t take place face-to-face, I don’t know how the young shoppers will learn.

@hbuchel i hope i removed “are you happy now zod???” before i pushed

@stephaniewalter what about a triathlon? several distinct phases, each one requires a distinct aptitude, but overall performance will depend on success in all

@marcamos imagine how frustrated they were “why is it so hard to get to my insurance company??? and why didn’t i learn to read?!!!”

@Meyerweb i track mine in the Medications section of the Health app. it’s like gamification for seniors!

@mescutia thanks mike!

i spent this weekend bending clear acrylic tubing for my first custom-loop water cooled PC. i think it turned out pretty well.

anyway. hi. it’s mike. i’m 50.

today was a fairly big milestone for me, and i have thoughts. just not sure where to post them. my tech blog is not the appropriate place. perhaps i should revive my main blog that hasn’t been updated in earnest for a decade. do i still remember my wordpress login?

@revmem i just ran the AC because it was 75 with 60% RH in the house. too swampy.

@jerzone i’ve dreamt of a more holistic solution to moving heat around. like in the summer my AC just dumps heat to the atmosphere while i still burn oil to heat my water. it could be put to better use … heating DHW, heating a hot tub, i dunno. of course any of this requires major investment and disruption to implement.

@irafcummings @jayroh always made me smile when i passed the Sleater Kinney road sign on I-5 when driving from Seattle to Portland

if you live in a certain region in France do you need to fuel your outdoor grill with propagne?

TIL: if you have a “bunch of stuff” to sell on ebay and you’ve been putting it off becuase you have a “bunch of stuff” to sell on ebay, it’s possible to just list one thing. today. just do it.

@marcamos if i go one town north of here (Jaffrey NH) i have 4 bars of LTE but can’t do anything online. period. like not a byte will get through. it’s like verizon has cell towers that aren’t connected to the internet. i guess i could … make a call

@hotdogsladies @dandersod used to drive my momma crazy

@jayroh i sure do! it was … the 90s

stacked.

@searls @tenderlove imagine being able to code Whidbey Island Style.

@m750 they remind me that there’s always room for chaos in any system.

@_Davidsmith familiar to web developers and our debugging css rule 
* { outline: red !important;}

macOS Sonoma off to a great start! initial screen prompting you to choose Sonoma wallpaper or your previous wallpaper, doesn't respond to Tab keyboard controls to confirm the dialog.

@m750 ah well, the well was the key. we get sediment sucked up by the well pump sometimes. the mixing valve on the boiler (that regulates the temperature of hot water by mixing in fresh cold water) was clogged with detritus. i had to open it up all the way (to take full hot from the boiler) and flush it out.

@m750 no valves were touched but you’re on the right track. another hint, we have well water.

@m750 no water heater. DHW comes directly from the boiler. no electrical problems. boiler still produces hot water for baseboards. we had hot water last night.

looks like i have a ton of work to do.

this morning i fixed our “we have no hot water” problem, and now i’m making it a guessing game for my old-dads slack group.

just learned that the large cable co. who bought out the small business cable co. in my town, is now stringing fiber. i’ve been on fiber (gigabit, symmetrical) from my telco for more than a year. soon i will have two fiber options?

so amazing to me, as for a long time the best i could do was two bonded DSL lines to get 14 megabits downstream.

and when i moved to this town, there was nothing. the NYT even covered us in an article about satellite internet in 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/technology/14satellite.html

happy friday y’all.

one of the best features of my mixer setup is having my work computer playing a training seminar or something and laying some blistering techno over that. i think this should be a feature.

me: (crunching pringles on mute)
webex: PRESS THE SPACEBAR TO UNMUTE

kids take too long in the shower?

how is it only tuesday

@hbuchel chaotic

finally got tired of wi-fi/cellular interference with my little mixer. (choosing one with a metal case would have prevented this)

but i had some copper shielding tape and this morning i put some inside the case. it seems to work well - i can literally hold my phone directly over the mixer and there is no noise.

i discovered a difficult to diagnose problem with my truck today and an easy to diagnose but difficult to resolve problem with my car today.

i almost look forward to being angry at javascript tomorrow.

@hotdogsladies

put fruity pebbles on ice cream.

@marcamos git branches or Mini Metro?

this has been a heck of a week.