🗓 Microcosm 2025 - Nov 16-22
🧙♂ NOV 21 21:14
Really enjoying the Avatar the Last Airbender set so far. Avatar Jump-In has been pretty fun and I'm 3-0 so far in my first Premier draft.
⚙️ NOV 21 12:34
It's been long enough since I set up my little home server without working on it that I forgot the password, but luckily I did record it somewhere. So I logged in and ran some updates.
🧙♂ NOV 20 14:32
Microsoft just open-sourced Zork I, II, and III. Great news for gaming history preservation.
⛏️NOV 20 14:19
Also learned that you can burn leaves from trees in the forge so now I want to try that too.
⛏️NOV 20 13:46
Didn't realize you can make coal by burning logs in a furnace until I watched a Minecraft newbie video this morning. That's the obvious day one method for getting torches and surviving your first night.
🐍🍏 NOV 20 13:43
I was curious if Mojo, the pythonic systems language geared towards working with modern cpus and gpus has Apple Silicon GPU support yet. Turns out it's in the works but on the bleeding edge of development right now.
👴🏻 NOV 19 09:58
Heh, my supervisor was ten years-old when I started at Gonzaga!
🌐 NOV 19 09:53
Sites that specify a dark mode that is not dark piss me off. But that's the beauty of browser extensions like Noir.
⚽️🏗️ NOV 18 08:39
There's a YouTube channel featuring daily drone shot coverage of the construction of Wrexham's long-awaited new Kop Stand, and it's completely fascinating. After preparing the ground for the last several weeks, they've got the piling rig in and have started doing test bores.
🐍⚙️ NOV 17 12:37
Fiddling around with Chatterbox definitely demonstrated how wonky pip and its whole utility ecosystem are. I can see how uv came about and why IndexTTS would prefer it for installation.
⚽️ NOV 16 19:54
The USL League One Final was a real bummer for Spokane. Knoxville jumped out to a 1-0 lead before I even found the game on Paramount+. Spokane played really well the rest of the first half but didn't equalize, then gave up a cheap outside the box penalty (because no VAR) early in the second half and could never get on the board.
🤖🎙 NOV 16 19:49
Figured out that cropping out the silence on my voice sample made a big difference with accurate Chatterbox TSS audio generation. Still haven't got it working with the Applei Silicon GPU yet, but have a promising alternative GUI project with extensive macOS package installation documentation to try now.
🤖🎙 NOV 16 11:20
Took me forever to sort out all the pip package dependency nonsense on my mac to get Chatterbox TTS running, but Google Gemini was a ton of help and it's finally working. It's not as fast as expected so I think it's running in CPU mode currently. Still very cool!