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Daily Jots for 14 Sep 2022

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:17:19 +0000

09:17: So far the beginning of my day of ‘intensive and consistent concentration on work’ has started with two hours of procastination and internet surfing…let’s try to turn that around. There is stuff to get done!

Daily Jots for 12 Sep 2022

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:23:54 +0000

10:23: Working on my first large scale Flutter project for real. I’m finding some of the default IntelliSense choices by IntelliJ/Android Studio annoying and I can’t figure out a way to override.

Daily Jots for 31 Jul 2022

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:43:13 +0000

10:43: Thought I was walking one way instead of another on the trails around where I’m staying right now and ended up accidentally walking nearly six miles. My body is not used to that distance in one go right now so will pay a little for that but wasn’t hard necessarily.

Daily Jots for 22 Jul 2022

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:57:10 +0000

14:57: OK second attemp at updating my #friendica node, sixth try today. This time I’m bumping up CPUs to 8 from 2 and RAM to 16GB from 2GB. It now has more than enough disk space too.

Daily Jots for 21 Jul 2022

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:26:38 +0000

10:26: I’m starting to experiment with Codium (the de-Microsofted VSCode) and finding it works very well. I was just pleased the snap install instructions worked just as well on ARM64 as on Intel

Daily Jots for 15 Jul 2022

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:45:49 +0000

13:45: PHP is definitely back to feeling Rube-Goldberg like. Trying to XDebug installed with a modern version on Ubuntu 20 has been Kafkaesque. Standard package too old (2.9) pecl path looks installed but never shows up in the runtime (sometimes in the CLI).

Daily Jots for 14 Jul 2022

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:11:17 +0000

08:11: While I’ve been pleased at how not claustrophobic developing with just one 14 inch laptop screen has gotten this past month, I’m still annoyed by the frequency of Parallels Desktop crashing the entire OS (once every day or two).

Daily Jots for 12 Jul 2022

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:14:32 +0000

10:14: TIL a trick for doing a quick dried bean soak. Instead of leaving in cold water over night you boil a kettle of water and pour it over. It cuts the rehydration time from overnight to about an hour.

Daily Jots for 05 Jul 2022

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 08:39:06 +0000

08:39: A great review of 1982-era CGI for the making of Tron, including John Lasseter describing his first viewing it as a Disney animator and becoming inspired. #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory https://youtu.be/Tm4i6D3XXBQ 08:41: …and a doe with her fawns (the size of medium dogs at this point) just started playing in the back yard.

Daily Jots for 02 Jul 2022

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:58:21 +0000

09:58: Me: I wonder if I can do a full day of a monkish focus on work. Me 5 minutes later: I wonder if anyones posted anything interesting on The Fediverse…

Daily Jots for 01 Jul 2022

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:24:22 +0000

12:24: This is the first day since I got sick on Sunday that I feel near 100%. A week of lethargy and loafing has my brain going a mile a minute and cranking out code.

Daily Jots for 24 Jun 2022

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:02:13 +0000

09:02: First procrastination of the day but final tweak to Jotter for the day is adding the reference link 09:18: I just started playing around with Mozilla’s client-side only translation plugin built with the Bergamot Project Consortium.

Daily Jots for 23 Jun 2022

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:09:19 +0000

My jotted thoughts for 23 Jun 2022…