@mikesusz social feed.

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!

obligatory “ton of work” photo. looks like it’s been 74 days since we bought our last ton.

transfer station run, full pickup, then a ton of pellets brought home, then a section of kitchen flooring demo’ed and new flooring installed. as the kids would say, i’m cooked, chat.

@jdarnold that’s a cool station! i’ve been looking at this newer generation, not sure how long mine will last (but it’s pretty hearty!) but definitely considering them when i need to replace it. ideas on if you’re going to upload data and to where? (i’ve been sending data to wunderground for … 18 years now)

@atpfm good perspective on AI development from Grady Booch, he’s been doing a few podcasts recently e.g. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-third-golden-age-of-software

i find that roughly half of my projects around the house benefit from some combination of patience and luck.
while the other half call for a bigger hammer.

if you ever have one of those little shelf support pins break off inside the hole, a tiny screw and a lot of luck might save you.

@shanselman :) i think you taught me Corillian Voyager when i was working at WaMu, they’ve only been gone for a few years, right?!??

how it started / how it’s going

when i trim my beard i first brush it upward and then i suddenly have strong opinions about things like taxation without representation

@jerzone it must have been something you said

@jerzone 🔪

apologies for the spoiler, but today’s Apple Crosswords Mini: “Song from the ‘80s” = “OLDIE”

i. will. stab. you.

@jerzone there are power tools that do this and fit into tight spaces, but i opted for the $140 manual tool vs. the $399 dewalt tool that would work with all my batteries. maybe if i am building a cabin someday, that will be worth it. but for this purpose - i was able to make all the joints and make the assembly in my shop, i only had one joint to make on a ladder/in a tight-ish space.

@jerzone since i completed the project i was using PEX A for, i can comment that it’s pretty straightforward and foolproof. you put the expansion ring over the pipe, use the expander tool to stretch it out, quickly insert the fitting to the shoulder designed to mark the proper depth, hold it for a while while it contracts back to its original size.

the caveat is, the stretcher tool is large and awkward, and if you have to use it in a tight space (e.g. a joist cavity) it will be tough

that was a boring as heck football game. but even though i couldn’t understand the lyrics of the halftime show because im a basic american, i had to pay extra attention to the context provided by the scenes and i really loved it.

go ahead, call me woke. i care about people, even if they don’t look exactly like me.

especially if they don’t.

@mescutia i should probably come up with some silly name and start my own youtube channel. please like and subscribe.

this weekend i did plumbing, electrical, flooring. i’m exhausted. but on the plus side, i now possess all the skills to build my own cabin.

-6.2F (-21.2C) here this morning. the dogs didn’t spend a lot of time outside when they woke up.

whoa, big update. the other side of the yard, looks like deer were bedded down here overnight and got startled. the first few leaps across were probably 8-10ft apart!