๐ Microcosm 2026 - Mar 8-15
โฝ๏ธ๐ค MAR 15 11:30
LIV 1-1 TOT FT Richarlison gets it done late with the equalizer. I actually missed it because I was checking something for Mary, who's off at work right now. Doing my part!
โฝ๏ธ MAR 15 10:21
LIV 1-0 TOT HT Richy has had a couple of header chances, but can't quite find a way past Alisson. Liverpool have been knocking at the door, but don't seem unbeatable.
โฝ๏ธ MAR 15 09:52
LIV 1 - 0 TOT Szoboszlai capitalizes on a soft foul free kick from the top of the box. Vic got his hand on the shot, but too much power.
โ๏ธ MAR 15 09:17
Refactored some emoji picker code this morning and set up some other emoji related tools. The current picker works great, but is missing some emojis I need and also contains a bunch I'll never use.
๐ฟ MAR 14 21:21
In 2012 comedian Tig Notaro nearly died from an abdominal infection, her mother died suddenly, and not long after that, Tig was diagnosed with breast cancer that required a double mastectomy. Tig ๐๐ is the 2015 documentary about what came next, and it's incredibly real, sad, moving, funny, and ultimately inspirational.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 14 14:11
The post tagging functionality in Microcosm is a happy accident that I didn't fully appreciate until after I had been working with the system for a few days. Now I've realized it allows me to filter to exactly the output I need for a given task.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 14 13:20
Thinking of a feature, describing it to Claude and having it build it in a minute or so is pretty magical. Updated
export-posts.jsto be able to specify posts from a specific range of days in the markdown format I use and render any associated images in markdown format. Exporting microcosm and image posts to so.axodys.com just got way easier.โฝ๏ธ MAR 14 13:05
Big 1-0 win for Eddie Howe and Newcastle over Chelsea at Stanford Bridge today. Love to see it.
๐๐ป MAR 14 10:38
Productive morning. Caught up on my last three Week Notes and two Microcosm posts on my Bear Blog (so.axodys.com), which tends to be more of a periodically updated archive than a blog with daily activity. The next Microcosm post (Microcosm 2026 - Mar 8-15) will be interesting because it also contains mini-posts that should get standalone posts in Bear. I think I'll update
posts-exports.jswith a couple of flags to strip tags and simplify making those posts.๐คโ๏ธ MAR 13 13:46
Just came up with a pretty big usability improvement to the posts tab in the Microcosm admin page.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 13 08:12
Just noticed that when editing an existing post in Microcosm (I forgot tags on my previous post), there was no cancel button. Whipped up a fix with Claude and will use this post to test it.
It worked!๐ MAR 12 21:24
SGA and OKC got it done in the fourth quarter, winning 104-102 over Boston. Former Zag, Chet Holmgren, hit the winning free throws, but Gilgeous-Alexander carried the Thunder with 14 points in the fourth quarter, and finished with 35 points and 9 assists in his record-breaking night.
๐๐ฎ MAR 12 20:39
Watching OKC - Boston, and the thing that immediately shocked me was the full rows of courtside seats that have shifted both coaching staffs to the end of the court, and the benchwarmers completely beyond the endline!
๐๐คฏ MAR 12 20:20
SGA (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) just broke Wilt Chamberlain's record for consecutive games scoring 20+ at 127 in the third quarter of the ongoing OKC - Boston game. The record stood for 63 years!
๐โ๏ธ MAR 12 15:31
One more tweak, fingers crossed that I'll be satisfied after this one.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 12 15:21
Tweaked the vertical padding on post layout a little bit this afternoon. Not completely satisfied, but it's a lot better.
๐๐ MAR 12 13:48
I didn't really even think about it until just now while reading something that Dave Winer wrote, but it's pretty cool that GitHub pages just gives you https support automatically.
๐๐ MAR 12 13:17
The "Rubincon" episode title seems to have thrown a lot of people (I had to edit my previous post after realizing my own Rubicon mistake), but it actually makes sense and was intentional, not a giant typo.
๐บ MAR 12 12:49
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1E10: Rubincon ๐๐ Everything a Trek fan could possibly want in a season finale. A Federation-wide threat, a giant show trial, and a chance for a ragtag crew of cadets and their mentors to save the day against terrible odds. Such a great cast, but Tig Notaro, really took Jett Reno to another level this season. I know we've got 10 more episodes already in the can, but I'm worried that Paramount's new ownership is going to screw this up for future seasons beyond that.
โ๏ธ๐ค MAR 12 08:18
This a test to see if adding a new post to out of date local post data will blow up the GitHub copy of posts.json.
It did!
So I added a manual sync button.๐บ๐ค MAR 12 07:52
One thing I really like about Paradise is the way it shows us characters behaving at their best, and also at their worst, depending on time and circumstances. Also, it has at least one character who's an outright chameleon, and I look forward to learning about her backstory and connection to Sinatra. There's still a lot of ground to cover on Sinatra's journey to ruthless bunker mastermind as well.
๐ฌ๏ธ MAR 12 06:42
It was incredibly windy overnight, but it seems to have died down some this morning. Iโm always wary of the tall pine trees in our backyard during these kinds of conditions.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 12 06:32
Donโt fully trust Microcosm on my phone. It didnโt download the posts.json file to local storage after I connected successfully. Thereโs supposed to be a check if you try to publish a new post now with local data that doesnโt match GitHub, but if the logic is wrong it will overwrite posts.json. Syncing is tricky.
๐ค๐ก MAR 11 22:33
Had a productive day working with Claude on the Microcosm static microblogging system. Fiddled around with tag filtering and unifying the post layouts across the home page and archives. Then got down to brass tacks this afternoon and sorted out the permalinks. Finished up by updating the RSS generation logic to reflect the correct permalinks and subscribing in NetNewsWire.
I like the way my emoji + [tags] titles look in NetNewsWire on iOS, but I'm not completely sold on them in the desktop application. I got the idea from how Microcosm displays posts (originally just on index.html, now all archives as well). Might turn it into an optional setting down the road.๐บ MAR 11 20:04
Paradise S2E5: The Mailman ๐๐ Good to finally see Teri's survival story. So much serendipity with Bean (which makes me think back to what the mysterious Professor Miller said to Billy in S2E3), but what a gut punch twist.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 11 17:07
Testing one last permalink UI tweak to improve visibility.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 11 16:57
Just pushed out a few more permalink fixes to GitHub. Then I'm going to take a break before I start working on the RSS feed generation later tonight. Things are coming together.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 11 16:44
Just had a moment where Claude raced into a fairly big coding task with one mistaken premise that saw immediately, but couldn't interrupt its process. Claude corrected the mistake pretty quickly after I prompted it, and now I've pushed up the change. Time to see if permalinks work as expected now.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 11 15:47
Doing another test post to see how everything is coming together in the Microcosm UI. The tag filtering is cool, and I'm pleased that it's functional in the index and all archives now. Now I need to add permalinks to the post entries in the archive pages.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 11 14:23
Working on the tag filtering functionality right now. Just pushed a couple of commits through to github and now need to generate a little bit more content
โฝ๏ธ MAR 10 13:24
You can't make this kind of thing up. Spurs trail 3-0 thanks to two glaring mistakes from Kinsky and one from Van de Ven. Field is really slick and Spurs are just hapless so far.
๐ก๐ค MAR 10 11:06
I didn't think that microblogs should publish titles, since the RSS spec doesn't actually require titles, but something occurred to me today, and now I want to try it out since I control my own publishing platform.
๐ MAR 10 09:45
Have a Super Mario day!๐คโ๏ธ MAR 10 09:09
One thing that working with Claude on my Microcosm microblog project has confirmed to me is that AI is very helpful, but not remotely infallible or close to being ready for full autonomy. It's an amplifier, and it will happily amplify mediocre people's mediocrity.
๐๐ MAR 10 07:40
Happy Birthday, Dad. Wish we were having a big family birthday party tonight with Gonzaga playing Santa Clara in the WCC tournament title game on TV in the background. Would you believe that the Zags are playing in their 29th straight WCC tournament final after beating Wayne Tinkle in his last game coaching at Oregon State, have won 21 so far, and are joining the Pac-12 next year?
โ๏ธ MAR 09 23:15
One last post for the night. I think I've figured out what was breaking my archives. Going to bed either way though.
Update: It worked!โ๏ธ MAR 09 22:12
Time for another check. Can we overcome GitHub's annoying page cache and free our archives?
โ๏ธ MAR 09 21:49
Going to try checking something momentarily. Is there a cache issue?
๐ MAR 09 21:17
16 - 15 Santa Clara just under the ten-minute mark. I expected this to be a close game, but kind of disappointed that Santa Clara already squandered their good start and let SMC right back in.
๐ MAR 09 20:58
SMC vs Santa Clara off to an interesting start. Broncos lead the Gaels 12-5. They're very much a bubble team so a win tonight would go a long way towards securing a dance ticket. Kind of surprised of how shaky St. Mary's has looked early.
๐ MAR 09 18:44
Oops, just realized the Zags are playing in the WCC tournament semi-finals against Oregon St. right now. Guess Iโd better see if I can find it on ESPN.
๐คโ๏ธ MAR 09 17:14
Welp, got derailed by an emoji encoding bug and some kind of git filesystem chenanigans where it refused to acknowledge the updated file that Claude gave me, but I was eventually able to sort things out manually in VSCode. Fingers crossed that I can safely make some new posts through the web interface now.
๐ค๐ MAR 09 16:01
Finally got the static, GitHub Pages-hosted, personal microblogging system I've been thinking about forever, up and running with a lot of help from Claude. It's still pretty rough, but it works, and I'm looking forward to building on it further.
๐โ๏ธ MAR 09 14:11
Eureka moment? Or just disappointment? I'll know in a moment if this actually works.
๐ค MAR 09 09:18
Claude helped me make some tweaks to the Microblog format I've been using and I should be able to import everything all the way back to September. Unfortunately, it's struggling to make the final import-posts.js utility right now. Must be a lot of compute demand at the moment.
๐ค MAR 09 08:22
Working with Claude on my microcosm project.
โฝ๏ธ๐ค MAR 08 13:05
How did I not realize that Modric had gone to AC Milan this season? All the more reason to root for AC Milan in Serie A.