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So today, I took delivery of my first electric bike. An Ariel Rider X52. It’s unbelievable how much I love this thing. Cruising around on a pseudo-motorcycle at about 25mph is amazing. I even got a typical “motorcycle wave” from a guy on an actual motorcycle. Kinda blew my mind. It was cold as can…

Today I shipped out my first batch of prototypes for <REDACTED>. I dunno what they’re going to use them for, but they got all kinds of neat potential on both sides of the moral compass. One item could be described as a self-defense weapon, but could also be considered a utility item. Legal? Probably? I…

WordPress (and the internet as a whole) really is a unique beast, I had gotten a monthly summary of data usage from Cloudflare for activity on the page, I had completely forgotten to configure email alerts for things like comments. Opening up the WordPress dashboard showed me I was missing out on a bunch of…

Apparently, my Joplin scraper crashed at one point and stopped posting. It looks like there was a power outage that restarted the raspberry pi it was running on and I must have forgotten to add it to cron. Oh well. More to come should be fixed now.

It drives me nuts how often we see stupid crypto projects, there’s all kinds of really interesting potential projects. A couple years ago I whiteboarded a scraper to pull every account on Wikipedia, generate a wallet for it, and credit one token for every new article made it. Every subsequent change would be credited after…

got a copy of this game “space warlord organ trading simulator” It really takes me back to when I worked on a trade floor, I’m sitting here playing this, squawking orders, and reaching for sector keys. The soundtrack is fucking awesome too. https://spellmynamewithabang.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-warlord-organ-trading-simulator-official-companion-album I wonder if there’s anything moddable about it? Could be kinda cool…

I’ve been contracted to build a few things that I’m torn on the moral side of, very strange, but the contact seems legitimate and they say they have no issues meeting my usual fiscal requirements. How does one weigh out the fiscal incentives of something when they may not agree with what it’s going to…

Why does it feel like videos have just gotten needlessly large? It used to be normal to get a 2.5 hour movie and have it push two gig. Hell, even the old 700mb XVID releases packed a crazy amount of video into a small datasize. It’s just annoying how gluttonous data is, now that bandwidth…

While writing the backup systems, I let spotify throw some random music at me. It made a pretty good call with this one. Kinda hooked on this album and am gonna eventually order a vinyl. I do find the truly interesting how Rare Americans is actually a Canadian band. I’ve had nothing but good times…