I think I’ve fallen well truly down the Nix rabbit hole. I was reading a blog post earlier about enabling something on some other Linux distribution and spent the whole time thinking that it would have been a single config file on NixOS rather than editing half a dozen files and firing off a bunch of random executables while hoping nothing breaks halfway through.
I have spent so much money over the past week or so on buying things that aren’t quite right to fix my electrical problems. Some might say I should have done more research and planning, to which I reply SQUIRREL.
It looks like today is a three espresso day, thanks to some unexpected network engineering which touches on a whole section of the Linux network stack I don’t usually have to deal with.
Who is the patron saint of email?
Saint Francis of A CC.
(Don’t @ me, I stand by my choices)
I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.
Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.
I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?
“I’ll quickly put this smart switch on my water heater over lunch”
Reader, my hot water system is currently held together by Wagos and controlled by turning that loop on and off at the breaker box due to a missing part in this puzzle, and being unable to get the old switch back on. I truly hate electrical work.
Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.
To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.
Are you trans / gender-fun, an Engineering Manager (or Director, etc), in or around London, UK, and would like to attend LeadDev.com this year in early June?
If so, I have 1 free ticket to allocate to someone and I would really like to support other trans people managers in tech to be there.
It's a good conference, and will help you in your role, and yes I'm going too but I would like to help other trans eng leaders to be there.
Feel free to boost if this is not you, DM if it is you. 
I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@alice @alice_watson I genuinely believe this is a big part of why LLMs are being heralded so much by people. The internet has become an unusable maze of ads and misdirection for anyone who doesn’t know how to install ad blocking.
Today in things The Orange Site found controversial: Stalking and harassment are worse than property theft, and given a choice the former should be prioritised over the latter.
I am once again pleading with music streaming services to provide the non-deluxe versions of albums.
An album is (or should be) a coherent authored experience with a beginning, middle, and end. It is not enhanced by slapping a few half arsed remixes and acoustic versions on the end.
My most hated chore of the year, filing my tax return, is done. It’s always fine, and I always find it incredibly tense in the lead up because no other chore comes with the threat of criminal prosecution if I get it wrong.
I’ve made a very silly thing. My Home Assistant instance now has a button that will tell my Linux desktop to boot in Steam Big Picture mode, then turn on the TV on the correct input.
This is never in a million years going to save me more time than it took to build it, but I have learned a whole lot about how NixOS does things in the process.
@thoughtbot @csara they make the tests less noisy but I’ve never understood the value of what is effectively testing Rails works. I can safely assume that if I put validates_presence_of :foo in my model it’ll validate the presence of foo.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.
I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.
It makes everything more robust and reliable.
Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.
The curse of knowing how things work is knowing that there’s no good reason for them to be subtly shit all the time.
This thought brought to you by a TV popping a needless notification in the corner whenever it’s turned on, and the response “oh, I just ignore it, it goes away”. If it were my TV I’d be hunting down the option to turn it off before anything else got watched.
Unprompted thought of the day: Is Karen (as in a person who just loves to complain) now a valid word in Scrabble?
The boy also enjoying climbing is generally good, it’s great to have something active we can do together. It does make a session very demanding though; in the gaps between boulders where I’d usually sit and relax I instead find myself climbing halfway up something to show him something.
Anyway, I’m ludicrously proud of him today, he’s got to a point where he’s willing to keep trying at things rather than bail after a couple of failures.
I’ve got a working CO2 sensor again and I’m not sure I like it. I’m constantly being informed levels have gone above 1000ppm again because realistically I don’t want to have the windows open all the time when it’s 7c outside.