@mikesusz social feed.

@jerzone i think i might at least put a screen inline at the shutoffs for the kitchen. $45/yr in cartridge tax is getting old

today i cleaned out the water inlets to our washing machine, after i was made aware that it doesn't fill from hot or cold.
we have well water, and lots of silt/sand/tiny rocks/rust get pushed through the pipes and land on the screens of the inlet.

i use a lab 'wash bottle' to jet the silt out of there onto an old towel.

i end up doing this every couple of months. this, plus the annual mixing-cartridge replacement for the kitchen sink, means i should probably invest in a whole-house filter.

@threetonesun @marcamos o7

since my old sneakers are literally falling apart at the seams, i’ve finally relented and began wearing my new ones (exact same model). i already miss the paracord laces, i might have to move those over.

@Meyerweb lousy smarch weather!

YMMV but upgrading Astro 5 to Astro 6 has some breaking changes (that the @astro team has documented for you! https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/upgrade-to/v6/ )

for my relatively simple site with just a few content collections, the fixes were minimal. after Claude Code and i fixed one of my sites, i asked CC to document the changes for ... themself, in my other sites. so they created this, i copied into my other projects to help CC fix the same things there.

(it's a weird time we live in)

https://github.com/mikesusz/mikesusz.dev/blob/main/ASTRO6_UPGRADE.md

today i also added an alias to my dotfiles repo/zsh so i'm gonna go party like it's 1999

I wrote up a summary of creating my Social Feed.
https://mikesusz.dev/blog/social-feed/

pushing a media playback fix to my personal lifestream/social feed site (https://feed.mikesusz.com) and got to thinking....

is this the type of thing that would be useful for others? i might abstract all the 'mike' out of this and make it clone-able and deploy-able. i just have to figure out how to make it approachable for people who aren't deep into infrastructure.

@annika that's not bad! really annoying but after 24 days they disappear for 11 months. i like it.

@annika how about Advent Capitalist? 🤔

pretty basic right now, but i’ve made a Projects page to document all the little side projects and tools i’ve been building. more to come!

https://mikesusz.dev/projects

@marcamos :) getting old sucks, Marc. but it beats the alternative!

“Nevermind" was released 12585 days ago.

12585 days beyond that was April 9th, 1957.

Elvis Presley's “All Shook Up" was #1 on that day.

https://time.sqd.co/?date=1991-09-24

i don’t think the world
understands just how
profoundly tired i am.

the deep, packed snow in the backyard has hit the density level of “every 7th or 8th step you sink up to your knee”

@revmem what the cuss???

it’s a saturday and i don’t have to shovel snow or go to the transfer station so i have no idea what to do today

as a person who does things in an industry that i’ve been in for so many decades, i have never been so simultaneously excited and terrified about my prospects.

and maybe, the last time this kind of shift was happening around me, i wasn’t terrified because i didn’t yet have a spouse and a mortgage and a car payment and children to feed/clothe/house/support.

@jerzone i wanted to do something more fancy but then i realized that i can't replace all of it at once (we let the dogs out onto the deck->into the backyard) so i have to piecemeal one section at a time

@jerzone i researched prefab railing sections, that would have been neat but pricey. i ended up building out of pressure treated, but i plan to cap it all off with a composite handrail to avoid splinters.

crunch! crunch! crunch!

@jerzone neat, last trip to H-mart my wife and kids picked up a bunch of different flavors of turtle chips. spoiler: they seem to contain zero turtles.

@jerzone down here we got 3-4” of snow, then sleet and freezing rain for hours. it’s crusty out there.

@snugug my favorite so far was copy/pasting eslint errors back to it from a pre-commit hook. it made one change - excluding all typescript files from eslint. :D

these things are powerful but they definitely need supervision/guidance!

@jsnell they rented that STUPID car!

i have my social media feed MCP server hooked up to Claude Desktop and Claude is helpful and sassy, as expected.

oh look it’s snowing again.

@hotdogsladies Merlin! Cronanalogy. (Chronanalogy?) i was thinking of that when i made: https://time.sqd.co/

something i've been thinking about. trust is a spectrum.

folks who live south of me had it way worse, but i’ve been moving snow around all day and it’s been mostly unpleasant.

@marcamos welcome home! got gas for the snowblower?

@mescutia yeah all the models i’ve seen have it hit hardest south of the city and on the cape. ‘blizzard’ or not, some of us are gonna get hammered.

and daytime.

thanks @akahn for the nudge. i woke up the beast to take care of the driveway.

now instead i can hurt myself doing other projects today.

@akahn probably true. But the issue is that my driveway is 22 years old and is not flat at all. So wrestling with the snowblower is sometimes more difficult than just shoveling.

@jerzone ah yeah we have a slush layer on the bottom also.

last night i broke the broom in half that we were using to clear the deck, i guess the snow is heavier than i expected. this morning i shoveled the deck and patio, driveway over to my car, cleaned off my car. i’m already wrecked. what a difference the liquid/frozen ratio is! either the kids are helping with the rest of the driveway, or i give up and break out the snowblower. probably 6” total fell last night.

more on the way sunday night. yipee.

so, this again.

UI developers: we are still needed. quite urgently.

side projects beget side projects:

- started out with my twitter archive.
- then thinking about also pulling my mastodon and bluesky posts.
- now they're in a unified database being updated regularly.
- a website to search my social feed going back to 2008.
- recently took a course in writing MCP servers.
- already have a local LLM running as a RAG for all my reference markdown documents in Obsidian.
…
now writing an authenticated MCP server for my social feed and hooking it up to my local LLM.

@irafcummings it was one of my more (or less) brilliant moments!

@Meyerweb the people who were in/responsible for that movie, and otherwise involved, is kinda bonkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_Boy

i realized a photo of this at night would be useful to demonstrate what i’m talking about. no direct path from lightbulb to eyeball, can see the tv without moving to avoid the lamp.

@Meyerweb you’re one of them fancy lads aren’t ya

i got tired of being blinded while walking by this lamp in our great room so i took an old piece of broken plexiglass, cut a circle out of it, hit it with the random-orbit sander for a while until it was “frosted” and it’s worked really well.

@hotdogsladies Ned!