π Microcosm - 2024 Jan 1-7
π¨οΈ JAN 07 2024 23:09
Winding down for the night. Looks like we're set to get snow tomorrow afternoon, but my drive into work should be fine.
βοΈ JAN 07 2024 13:18
Apparently, it just takes time for the Minecraft permissions to propagate because today both kids had multiplayer option and I haven't done anything further in the intervening time.
π JAN 07 2024 11:00
Time to get productive and take down some Christmas lights.
π§ββοΈ JAN 07 2024 10:59
I haven't trophied yet (two 6-3's are my best outcomes), but I've been enjoying LCI a lot more than WOE so far. Explore, Craft, and Descend are cool mechanics.
π§ββοΈ JAN 07 2024 10:55
Arena has really killed Quick Draft for rare drafting and collection building since adding Golden Packs. Bots pass virtually no rares from what I've seen, and the rewards are so paltry for the time spent playing. Premier Draft and simply buying packs are the way to go for me.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 10:38
ARS 0-2 LIV FT Another surprising loss at home for Arsenal.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 08:32
Good to see Ramsdale in goal and getting some game time again.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 08:31
Arsenal going all white is like if Spurs played with a red top. Bizarre, but I appreciate the "drained of red" anti-knife crime message. Liverpool in violet adds to the strange color vibe.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 08:05
Wrexham advances to the fourth round with a 0-1 victory at Shrewsbury. I hope they get matched against a Premier League team.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 07:58
FOR 2 - 2 BLP FT Guess there will be a replay at Blackpool now.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 07:27
FOR 2 - 2 BLP 56' Gibbs-White equalizes with a brilliant goal into the top corner. He's another guy that I've looked at for Sorare as he's got decent stats for less than $10 and plays for Switzerland as well.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 06:54
FOR 1 - 2 BLP 39' DomΓnguez with a good response. He's actually a card I own on Sorare so good to see him playing well even when he's not part of a fantasy lineup.
β½οΈ JAN 07 2024 06:36
Watching Nottingham Forest for the first time since Nuno has taken over and Blackpool almost immediately takes a 0 - 2 lead in a two-minute span via a great header after a terrible goal clearance and an unmarked far post run and tap-in. Forest dominating possession otherwise but sloppy and not generating any good chances so far.
π§οΈ JAN 07 2024 05:58
We didn't get any significant snow this weekend, just a lot of rain but sounds like that could change tomorrow (of course when I'm set to drive into work).
π JAN 07 2024 05:54
Today's also the day I take down our Christmas lights along the front porch, but I'll do that shortly before lunch. Unlike past years we now have a string of plain LED lights that we keep year-round for evening illumination.
π₯± JAN 07 2024 05:25
Early morning wake-up, but that's okay as there's plenty of stuff to do around the house today. It's back into work tomorrow of course.
β½οΈ JAN 06 2024 17:37
Timo Werner to Tottenham on a six-month loan with an option to buy seems like a great out-of-the-blue January deal. Knowing how good he was at his Bundesliga peak before his Chelsea move I'm excited to see what he can do under Ange Postecoglou.
βοΈ JAN 06 2024 12:28
Trying to figure out why my younger kids still don't have multiplayer access in Minecraft even though I've granted them permission in the Xbox Family app is the current bane of my existence.
βοΈ JAN 05 2024 22:42
Super happy with how my solarized-dark theme looks on my phone.
πΊ JAN 05 2024 22:28
For All Mankind: S4E09: Brazil π Good penultimate episode to a pretty solid season. I'm looking forward to seeing how everything plays out for all the factions next week as they try to wrangle the Goldilocks asteroid.
πβοΈ JAN 05 2024 22:17
Weirdly enough my iMessage account didn't properly reconnect after I set up my phone again. Only discovered that today after Mary couldn't message me. Probably failed yesterday because I didn't confirm on a different device or something.
βοΈ JAN 05 2024 11:01
The solarized-dark CSS theme I created based on the original microblog CSS theme is installed and active. Will probably submit a pull request for that update later today.
βοΈ JAN 05 2024 10:55
The built-in microblog.css theme does some cool alpha channel based color variation and makes great use of variables but needed a bit more tweaking for the solarized-dark theme. The solarized-light theme was basically just a matter of setting four color values.
βοΈ JAN 05 2024 09:09
Testing out a decent solarized-dark css theme setup on my local machine. Will probably roll it out here for further testing shortly.
ποΈ JAN 04 2024 12:35
The Talk Show With John Gruber 392: 'Halos and Harps', With Casey Liss Great Apple year in review episode for 2023. I drastically cut down my Apple tech podcast listening during the pandemic (including Casey's ATP), but I never cut Gruber.
βοΈ JAN 03 2024 17:11
Definitely need a dark mode theme for the microblog.
π± JAN 03 2024 17:08
I'm not going to put Twitter back on my iPhone now that I've unintentionally cleaned house. Tempting to leave off Instagram too, but I'll bring it back along with Threads and BlueSky for now.
π± JAN 03 2024 15:14
iPhone is operational again, now doing the tedious process of app organization and restoration. Thankfully all my two-factor authentication credentials in Authenticator were backed up to the Google Cloud. That was my biggest fear as most of my documents and data have some form of cloud backup.
πβοΈ JAN 03 2024 11:47
I think part of the reason that the original iPhone update attempt had issues was that I didn't realize that Docker was still running in the background and using way more resources than it should have been. I only realized this after mouse pointer responsiveness was inexplicably degraded and I started looking into system activity.π€¦π»ββοΈ
ππΎ JAN 03 2024 11:40
The one silver lining is that I do have an iMazing backup from August that I can hopefully use to restore some of my authenticator apps if necessary.
ππ± JAN 03 2024 11:35
In the middle of a nightmare iOS 17.2.1 install scenario.π€¨ First it failed during the initial install. Then it didn't accept the device code passcode on startup.
Eventually was able to do a restore mode install, but even that didn't go correctly. I'm in and miraculously still have all my photos, but I have no Phone, Message or App Store apps. I think most of my App data is still there based on data usage indicators, but I'm unable to pair with my iMac now.π JAN 03 2024 09:00
Based on a paywalled article from last week that I found on The Information, Reddit looks like they fell about 200 million short of their 1 billion ad revenue goal. Doesn't seem great for the 2024 IPO they've been targeting.
π€ JAN 03 2024 07:59
I wonder how much impact soft banning third-party clients ended up having for Reddit? My engagement has been down a fair amount since, but I doubt too many have abandoned the service. I refuse to use their app so it's all web everywhere for me.
π€§ JAN 03 2024 07:33
Slow start to the day. Went to bed early and still slept in. Improving but still sick.
π² JAN 02 2024 15:14
Had a good post-lunch indoor bike ride, but now I feel like taking a nap. I blame getting up early and still recovering from being sick.
β½οΈ JAN 02 2024 08:18
Pape Matar Sarr joins Destiny Udogie in signing a new contract extension through 2030. Very happy to see Spurs rewarding their breakout young talent and setting up a strong nucleus through the end of the decade. Sounds like new deals for seasoned vets Bissouma and Son are also still in the works.
π₯± JAN 02 2024 05:34
Woke up really early again. Lay in bed doing NYT mini crosswords for a while before deciding I might as well get up. Probably a good thing as our cat was stuck in the basement when I came downstairs.
π± JAN 01 2024 17:37
Looks like I'm going to have to upgrade iOS on my phone so I can try out Ice Cubes. I really need to free up some space on my phone anyway. Feel like there's going to a lot of overdue computer and office cleanup happening this week.
π JAN 01 2024 16:41
My Ivory subscription renewal is up at the end of the month and debating whether I use Mastodon enough to justify paying $15 for another year. Probably time to check into the competition.
πΆπ» JAN 01 2024 16:32
One amusing consequence of my younger kids enjoying the Boss Baby series of movies and tv shows is that when they play store they joke about needing a lawyer to destroy their sibling's rival business.
βοΈπΏ JAN 01 2024 11:35
Finished doing some Plex server file migration and general cleanup. Think it should have all the videos that the old one did now. Should be able to power down and retire the old one this week.
βοΈ JAN 01 2024 10:01
Funny minor New Year's story from last night. It's a holiday tradition for our family to watch The Snowman, a forty-year-old animated short based on a children's book of the same name. I recently switched our Plex server, and it grabbed the metadata for the 2017 R-rated crime thriller with the same name because the video file lacked a year in the title. It took some convincing to get my wife to just press Play anyway so they could get going.π
π JAN 01 2024 09:41
TIL: ^βS is the key combo that toggles the Finder sidebar in macOS. Confusingly enough, on older versions of MacOS X the key combo is: β₯βS which seems more appropriate to me.
π€§ JAN 01 2024 09:21
Slept in this morning, and I actually went to bed shortly after midnight. Still pretty congested with a nagging cough so it takes me a while to feel functional.