@mikesusz social feed.

typical saturday:
✅ sleep a bit later
✅ trip to the transfer station
✅ frenzy of activity on projects/chores
✅ nap on couch with dogs
✅ sensibile dinner
✅ beer

went out to go to the bank and fill up my truck, was quite surprised (and delighted) to see No Kings demonstrators in my town.

@jerzone this station is all-in-one (ambient weather ws2902) my last station had all separate components and i got frustrated maintaining separate solar panels and batteries and whatnot.

@jerzone yeah mine should be two meters off the ground in a corner of my yard, but instead i installed it on a pole above my shed.

i ascend the ladder, contemplating how much effort it will take to disassemble and repair my weather station’s rain guage, possibly needing to wait for parts to arrive.

i lower the mast, clamp it in place to work on the station.

i see a long-leaf pine needle stuck in the rain gauge funnel, and remove it.

nature: 1. mike: ?

@mescutia it is, but my kids go to school online, and i didn't get in touch with the local district early enough to get him in for testing there. lesson for the younger kid!

today i am in our state’s Capital. my son is taking the SAT and i’m taking … a nap in the car maybe.

…so i’m more alert to drive home.

it’s for safety! don’t judge me!

@cabel uncanny!

fun: today is the day. it’s been 9579 days since 01/01/2000. and 9579 days before that was the day i was born.

https://time.sqd.co/?date=2000-01-01

it is kinda neat that the snow on the ground melted but the snow in the trees remains.

i wanted to check if i had brew installed on my work mac so i typed:

which brew

then i laughed

i'm the worst

Release v2.0.0 of my Obsidian MCP.

no breaking changes in this one, but big new feature:

frontmatter-based per-note permissions, and a new permission level to completely hide a note from being parsed by the agent.

tl;dr: agent_access frontmatter can accept ‘hidden' ‘read' 'append' or 'edit'

https://github.com/mikesusz/obsidian-mcp/releases/tag/v2.0.0

and a sneak peek at my future roadmap: i'll be rebranding this to be agnostic to the editor you use, because really it just points to a directory of markdown files.

my
cat
is
chill

if you keep the ingredients stocked in your pantry, making chex mix is pretty quick. i’ve got the prep time down to around 20 minutes. here’s the recipe i use (only sub- i use pretzel-shaped pretzels)

https://www.onceuponachef.com/wprm_print/homemade-chex-mix

tired. it’s been a weird week.

@justsnook older. also, even with flossing, when you discover a popcorn hull rattling around in your mouth 2-3 days after you ate popcorn.

@cabel oh. well... hold it up to a lightbulb?

@jerzone i’m cool with a screen and a chamber where it can build up until it’s emptied or something. i might research something like that (or put it off again until i need to fix the faucet next year)

@cabel i always think of those like secret messages, you have to select them to read. like when we would write notes with milk when we were kids

@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/