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…
project
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…
Joplin Sync Test
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…
A little disappointing
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.
crypto/web3.0 shenanigans
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…
vidya game music
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…
Strange developments
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…
I hate (lack of) video compression
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…
Overkill Resume stuff
Started talking with a friend of mine about resumes and had an interesting idea brought up I like using the LaTeX language for PDF creation, so on my internal Gitlab I made a CI/CD job to compile my LaTeX to PDF compilation. I might even be able to port it over to generate forms on…
Weird timing
Had an interaction with the CEO of a neat looking company called https://blacklight.tv/ Seems kinda neat, been really interested in the idea of field journalism lately, but right now don’t have the bandwidth to dig in further. Kinda just making a note of it now Gonna make a category called self-reflection and configure an alert…