Good news: They actually attempted delivery!
Bad news: They claim they weren’t able to get into the building (this is a lie, there’s always someone about who’ll open the door if they just try and few buzzers)
“How do you discover new music, Jon?”
Well, I simply potter about my flat and occasionally hold my phone to the ceiling in order to Shazam what’s playing.
Tempted to go upstairs and ask the person in the flat above to put their previous playlist on, I was quite enjoying that one through my ceiling and now they’ve switched to boy bands and commercial pop.
It appears to be working after I dismantled it, gave everything a scrub, and put it back together again but I’ve been here a few times where it’ll work for a bit and then stop again. Not sure spares are available but it’s small and made of plastic so I can maybe print a new one if need be.
In other news, I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of the last few days dismantling and putting back together my hot water loop. The pump that provides pressure failed for the third time in two years and I’m determined to get to a root cause this time rather than replace it with a new one.
I think I’m down to a little float valve seizing up and preventing water from flowing and the pump being triggered to turn on.
Welcome to day 4 of wondering whether this will be the day the Parcel Force guy actually makes it to my flat before his shift times out. I keep getting emails saying the parcel will be with me by 7:30pm and then nobody showing up, with no acknowledgement at all that they’ve been saying it for days. To add insult to injury, this is a 48 hour tracked delivery, sent on Monday.
@internetsdairy they all have that sort of plug because it’s assumed you’ll be plugging it in in the bathroom. I’m not sure I know anyone who actually does so because who has a shaver socket in 2026?
This trip I’ve been experimenting with a new toy: I’ve created a dedicated ticket carrier. I call it Ticky.
This is a reTerminal Sticky, a relatively cheap eink display run with an ESP32. The company openly encourages you to hack and replace the firmware.
I then upload my passkey or PDF tickets to an app I have on my server, that recreates them as an image the right size to display on the screen. For Interrail, I use a second device, either my iPad or my laptop, to scan the barcode off my phone, as they’ve disabled screenshots.
When I push the top button on the device, it hooks up to the hotspot on my phone and downloads the new images.
I’ve also put a summary of the next few trips on trainlog onto it, as well as a map of today’s trip and the journey as a whole.
It’s worked so far, Ryanair have accepted it, and all the British trains I’ve been on have too.
healthy masculinity is being gay for your air traffic controller
@janl so many of the big developments in software development and infrastructure in the last few decades boil down to huge corporates wanting to reduce how much different teams are required to talk to each other. Microservices, GraphQL, Kubernetes, even cloud computing as a whole to some degree.
@pikesley yes, except for the brief moment he took it off to remove the clothes he was wearing underneath it.
We lost direction as a society when we stopped making these.
@whitequark its best not to try and explain these traditions that are only very loosely attached to their origin.
@foone I’d go with the latter if Ruff was configured to flag it in that environment, because consistency is almost always a good thing, and the first option otherwise because fuck keeping the existence of contextlib.suppress in my head to avoid one extra line of easily read code.
I’ve had a low level migraine all day and have now had enough of it thanks. It’s not even a proper one that would cause me to stop doing things, just a dull annoyance that makes doing things less enjoyable.
YouTubers Stop Talking And Read The Code That Isn’t Working Challenge. Difficulty level: Impossible.
@CynAq @NanoRaptor I can kind of see the IT tech going “nah; printers don’t plug in via HDMI, they use USB, they’re just naming the cable they know” but also if the request has come from someone running a specialised unit at least double check that.
It seems crazy that we have an entire month dedicated to awareness of a single food allergy.
Like, I’d understand “Food Allergy February,” but “No Nut November” just seems like overkill.
Uber: “Our use of AI makes us able to respond to customers” (or something like that)
Also Uber: Advertises the ability to order some ramen delivered for dinner after my long commute under a 15 minute journey taken from the address labelled “Home” on a Sunday morning.
I’m mildly hopeful this time round because this will be the first time it’s happened since starting on the drugs which allow some level of persistence once things get frustrating.
Oh no. I’ve gone and got the idea of building a game stuck in my head again. Will this be the time I actually build a game or will I simply spend the next two to three months learning irrelevant details of game engines?
@mikechislett every now and then you post a thing and I think “huh, sounds neat” and then inevitably I look it up and it costs £7,000 so I again resign myself to not doing network AV distribution I don’t really need anyway.