@mikesusz social feed.

just replaced the drip pan, burners, and igniters. the little “hats” over the burners still have some life in them so i’ll continue using the old ones until they fall apart.

grill of theseus.

@annika @andybaio i was super shocked at the time also. i didn’t realize he doubled down on it all. the tripled down? ugh.

@jessamyn i guess they’re not familiar with input type=number it’s relatively new it’s only been in the html5 spec since 2008 /s

updating my reading.mikesusz.com website because i just finished Project Hail Mary. now i can let the family watch the movie. yep i'm one of those people.

@jerzone is it the difference between individual rooms vs. the whole house? 🤔

so i stealth dropped this here last saturday and it's already the most visited blog post on my site, by far. i guess more people find this interesting than i thought. https://front-end.social/@mikesusz/117021856610945531

@jerzone the front coming through seems to have split to around us, mercifully.

getting an iOS app reviewed for the first time and their ‘24-48’ hour estimate isn't very accurate. i wonder if they're getting a large volume of new apps. but i’m at 168 hours and counting.

tonight we got 1.57” of rain in less than 30 minutes. i checked my car and the entire (bare metal) interior is wet. after i cleaned out the sunroof drains.

the carpet is bone dry! because it’s in the garage. lol.

today i did indeed apply to jobs and write a blog post and thank people at a company for talking to me even though im not moving forward in their hiring process. i’ve never felt more productive and yet not earning any money.

i’m very tired and sore. it’s like i’ve been pulling and pushing on ratchets at weird angles all day.

i think tomorrow is back to job searching / app development / blog writing for 24hrs.

also ibuprofen.

ibuprofen.

i've gotten 5 emails from linkedin telling me to connect to the same person (who i don't know). two of them within 4 minutes of each other.

this is a feature that is obviously worthwhile and pleasing to your users.

@jerzone ah good point. if i see something obvious i'll address it. every bolt will probably go back in with anti-seize. although i don't plan to remove any of them again.

@wq yeah inches of standing water in the car.

update: i've confirmed the passenger side sunroof drain was completely clogged. using some weed-whacker line, i got it flowing somewhat, but there's still something restricting it.

also, the line will only go in about 3 feet, i think there's a hard bend in the drain hose somewhere. what a terrible design that would be.

@jerzone so... this is a 2013 ford focus with a DPS6 transmission, 160,000 miles, wet timing belt, rotting out quarter panels, and broken A/C.

so i'm not so much in the "improving it" phase as i am in the "keep it moving until something catastrophic happens" phase.

pulling the carpet means if i get another 20,000 miles out of it, at least they won't be a stinky 20k.

doing the right thing isn’t always the easy thing.

so automotive carpet is a finicky thing. it has a waterproof backing that is compromised in various places. so you’re left trying to remove water from above and below.

the best solution, much to my own chagrin, is to remove the remaining seats and the center console and pull the entire carpet out. sigh.

after shop vac’ing as much as i could, the car is now sealed up with a dehumidifier running full blast inside.

@jerzone i knew i had a small leak in the sunroof but it looks like leaves were blocking my cowl drains, and with the downpours we got (7" of rain the past week) it flooded up the cowl and into the intakes for cabin air. there were inches of water on the floor (all windows closed)

well, this is gonna suck.

today was random chores, transfer station, grocery shopping quick hit, mowing the entire dog yard, shower, nap, grill pizza for dinner. energy level: 0.

my grill continues to fall apart slowly, and I’m at the point where I need to decide whether I’m replacing the grease tray, the drip pan, and all of the burners and igniters, or replace it with a propane pizza oven from craigslist.

i organized my research from making my app AppendX into a blog post about how and what iOS apps Share (or don't Share). i hope it's helpful, or at least interesting.

https://mikesusz.dev/blog/what-ios-shares/

home from seeing my son play at UNH in Durham for Summer Youth Music School. another few performances on Sunday when we go to pick him up. seems like he’s having a blast.

presented without any particular context.

me: whew, finally ready to submit this app
apple: here’s a list of 9 things you haven’t done yet.
me: (does several things)
apple: here’s a list of 12 things you haven’t done yet.

product redesign. these are the small tapes of hat i buy periodically when i go to home depot. the new version is thinner, a bit lighter, and has a hole for a lanyard.

the college that i attended (and then worked at for
four years) has contacted my oldest son.

@danyork thanks! yeah i’ve visualized all these projects but i surely underestimated the time for each.

did truck stuff with my truck today. now i need to do home improvement stuff with home improvement materials.

do not smoke.

gentleman’s agreement.

@rands i guess this is why he hasn’t finished the jackpot trilogy yet. also - squee.

@fonts ooh good one, then get 1493 :)

i get that it’s a statistical outlier but i should not be admonished for sleep duration being too long.

i had a heck of a busy week. i need to determine the subtleties of “busy” versus “productive” but definitely didn’t feel idle or rested.

@m750 switch to sherbet?

that escalated quickly.

@jdarnold nice to see that you’re … steppin’ out

today was a day suffering through making changes that touch every use-case of my app and then running through every test scenario i have, over and over and over again.

@annika darn. well, if anyone is looking for Odyssey spoilers...

@annika spoilers?!??!

had to promote my son to Administrator on his PC so he can install a virtual machine and linux to take a cybersecurity course and i don’t think “cat’s in the cradle” covers this kind of moment.

@irafcummings i think they’re the same but I Am Not A Metallurgist

@irafcummings if you get pans from e.g. Misen, they do the tempering process in a factory.

i watched zero world cup games this year which is like double my average of zero world cup games previously

tempering a carbon steel wok. this is best done outdoors. thankfully i have a burner on my grille, but a 2nd (and more “nuclear”) option would be to dig out our old brewing kettle burner.

sharing some perspective. https://mikesusz.dev/blog/ten-years-and-two-months/

i guess it’s emoji day so everybody has to watch that horrible movie

@revmem i guess if i liked oysters maybe