These notes come so late, that the “publishing date” is a whooping BIG LIE. But for posteriority’s sake, that has to be ignored, and the fact that I’m writing this from the future shouldn’t matter as time goes by…
It’s a week where I was quite in a hurry to finish up my current work project for a customer, but actually managed to fit in enough private time. I’ll write a bit more about my learnings from this work period once it’s finished, i.e. in the next week notes. Beyond that, a short vacation time is looming.
More cheap PC parts got in, I’m just waiting for my dream late 00s CPU cooler to literally top things off, hoping that I’ve got enough screws for the retro case (it’s one of those full-copper Zalman coolers). Then we’ll see how far we can overclock this Core 2 Duo, and whether it’s able to run both retro-Windows and current-Haiku.
Health #
Managed to get my 10k steps in a few days, but no progress on the “get thine posterior to the gym” project. I do have a fully-functional retro-iPod Classic now, including working Podcast sync.
Gaming #
This worked quite well. Three sessions in the same setting (Germany’s “The Dark Eye”), two with me in the gamemaster roler, one being a player in a campaign that got started again after a 6 month hiatus. Incidentally using three different rule sets, but that might actually be an interesting topic. Well, if I decide to write role-playing stuff here… Also a bit of online Pathfinder gaming.
Apart from looking at what games I could do on my upcoming retro-PC, not much in the video game sector.
Side projects #
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A bit of Ruby programming, not as much Rust. But work programming soured the taste for too much late evening coding.
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Looked a bit into Unpoly, which once was a big contender for HTMX’ predecessor. Hope this doesn’t turn into bikeshedding.
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But I also got the idea of doing a longer hobby project using Angular, which would be mixing work and hobby streams. But the new version(s) actually look kinda cool…
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Prepping three RPG sessions certainly took a bit of time, too. Meaning to get some campaign wiki started here.
Links #
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Didn’t know about
display:contentsbefore, read this article about it and immediately saw it at work. Did I learn that before and forget it or did I just use a lot of workarounds in component-based frameworks? Yikes! -
Wes Bos’ How Is This Website So Fast was the start of a rabbit hole for a while. It’s an interesting topic, as it’s not one of the usual candidates for hyper-optimization: It’s neither some static site generation magic with islands of PHP/JavaScript interactivity as some propose (or people think everything was in the golden past), nor a mega-cloud based, edge-rendered framework monstrosity that takes half a jigawatt per user connected. No, it’s ASP.NET with a relatively heavy-weight old-fashioned Javascript library.
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The library being YUI – the old Yahoo JS framework. I didn’t do a lot with it back then, compared to JQuery or backbone, but it was the basis for the first versions of ExtJs (not given the current owners the honor of a link), and I used that professionally quite a bit, and actually liked it. Maybe I should write a bit about YUI in the future…
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Interesting article about how to print web pages in two-columns from fellow Mastodon user 82mhz. Although this raises quite a few of my typography hackles, so I see this more as a base for some experimentation of my own, not something that I’m using as-is.
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Listened to a few episodes of the Conspirituality podcast. Starting with one about an “anti-sunscreen movement”‽ It’s an interesting setup of podcasters, all more in the yoga-/spirituality sphere, but seemingly grounded and with some scientific training. Wonder if this will be another case where US humanities alums will sound good, but delve way too much into early psychoanalysis for the “scientific” counterargument…
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Speaking of which, did you know that the US FDA confiscated some material about the Orgone “research” of early psychoanalyst and general kooky dude Wilhelm Reich? Who also was into building “cloud busters”? So the US government clearly doesn’t want you to have better weather! Tell everyone.