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mdlbearA second week without N and the kids. I've kept busy, but it isn't the same. Only two job applications -- that has to increase. Still not using my time all that well, but a little better. Another Computer Curmudgeon post, plus a Thankful Thursday and a Songs for Saturday. Some work clearing out the plastic greenhouse -- found out Friday morning that it has to be gone by Wednesday. Urk.
I got a moderate amount of software-related stuff done -- the Elm timer app is coming along (too slowly), and some of my websites now have nicely-styled nav bars, in particular steve.savitzky.net, Lookingglass Folk, and Rainbow's End. I pushed the software I wrote with my father in the late 1980s up to GitHub. (Only, what, 3 years late? and it still needs a README.) Somebody wrote an Emacs mode for my songbook software. (We'll have to do some merging -- I have one too, and there are great ideas in both.)
It isn't enough. How do I expect to work full-time again if that's all I can manage? (In fairness to myself, I did put in a couple of full days. But am I productive enough?)
Reading The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work -- which I highly recommend if you have any interest in working remotely or managing a remote team -- tends to confirm that assessment. So does The Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting, which does have a few ideas I can put into practice, including how to write a blog that gets noticed. I'll address that in a later post.
As you can tell, I still have roughly zero self-confidence, and no idea how we're going to survive the next five years. The fact that this is depression talking and that it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy if I don't get things turned around soon is not helping. Oh, right -- has become. For at least a decade.
There have been a few good things. I have gotten some things done. It's been a relatively productive week, though that's not saying much. The cats have been wonderful -- Desti is a real lap-cat, when she isn't lounging in front of the (gas) fireplace or chewing on a cardboard box. (This occasionally makes typing difficult.) My left elbow seems to be almost healed, the left thumb is doing better now that I've found a brace that works, and I managed to move some boxes yesterday without making anything worse. I'll take what I can get.
For link highlights, I'd like to draw your attention to jeshyr's Just Invisible - Medical Access Issues For Homebound/Bedridden Persons (more in the notes), and this uplifting rendition of "This Is Me" by the Carleton Phoenix Project.
The members of the Carleton Phoenix Project have an unusual goal: to practice letting go of perfectionism. This spring they posted an open invitation for singers to take part in a music video—no experience necessary, only the courage to step up and participate.
0603Su
* Up 6ish; S=6:43, W=202.4;
% left thumb hurting. meloxicam
: The cats both seemed to like the Friskies salmon pate; Ticia lost interest first
* fixes to song indices; make gig list a separate file
* image on song page is centered vertically (ugh) - needs styling.
should be done in style.css, but the cause was a missing end tag on the table.
* Nav bars and fixes in rainbows-end.net. Bridge and some past events still not done.
: spent about 20 minutes incapussitated by Desti. Did I mention lap-cat?
: C turned the fire on; Desti spent most of the afternoon sprawled out in front of it.
* Nav bar fixes in lgf.
* need page for RC3 (There is one, but it's wrong, and not linked)
* Worldcon participant questionaire: First, click on the Survey URL. Then log into your
survey using the names and invitation code listed below and click "Accept" to accept
the invitation and then fill out the survey.
Survey URL: https://worldcon-76.grenadine.co/worldcon-76/form/Main-Participant-Survey
@ Songs From Space (1957) (Early filk online)
* applied for back-end developer job at Trello; considering Zapier
-> very amusing automated acknowledgement
& Downloaded, and started reading, The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work from Zapier.
0604Mo
* up 5:05; S=5:17;
: Desti was meowing at me -- turns out that what she wanted was attention. She's been
sitting on my lap for about the last hour. It does make typing a bit difficult; I
spent most of the time reading Wade Foster's The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work -- it's free from Zapier.
% It's also very scary, since it requires a kind of self-discipline that I clearly
haven't had over the last year. Or five.
@ Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub | Linux Journal The article ends with a list
of alternatives.
Gitea
Apache Allura
GitBucket: A Git platform
GitLab
@ Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion - TFiR
" According to reports, GitHub lost over $66 millions in 2016. At the same time
GitLab, a fully open source and decentralized service is gaining momentum, giving
users a fully open source alternative. "
@ Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion | Stories official press release
@ Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog
@ A bright future for GitHub | The GitHub Blog
@ Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft | GitLab
" While we admire what's been done, our strategy differs in two key areas. First,
instead of integrating multiple tools together, we believe a single application,
built from the ground up to support the entire DevOps lifecycle is a better
experience leading to a faster cycle time. Second, it’s important to us that the
core of our product always remain open source itself as well. "
% GitLab is, unfortunately, one of the places I'm not qualified to work at -- they
require substantial Ruby experience. Pity.
@ Privacy statement spring 2018 by nsqe · Pull Request #101 · github/site-policy
Interesting way to present changes to policy, but what you'd expect from GitHub.
@ Nitrokey | Secure your digital life (TFiR)
@ AWS sends noise to Signal: You can't use our servers to beat censors • The Reg.
x hang key box in entryway - the kitchen cabinet works pretty well.
* apply at Zonar (Jesse's company) Firmware Developer II
& helped V take N's Thai mat up to the apartment.
~ 2:30 (V) C Coupeville - catheter change
0605Tu
* up 6:30ish; WQ=201.2, S=6.9;
@ GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source | GitLab
" It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about
#movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we've seen a 7x increase
in orders. We went live on Bloomberg TV. And on top of that, Apple announced an
Xcode integration with GitLab. "
@ posted mdlbear | Git and GitHub, with a side of Microsoft
: I was a little concerned about my tax refund -- turns out it was deposited a month
ago. That will help. I still have to track down the receipts that will let me submit
an amended return -- there were a lot of improvements in the year or so after we moved
in to Rainbow's End.
: callback from OnStar, telling me my connectivity problem was fixed. I knew that, but
it's nice that she called
& cancelled my singing lesson for this week
* 3:45 C Coupeville. Catheter replacement. Leave 3pm
& take-out from Freeland Cafe at C's request: burgers and shakes.
@ What Microsoft buying GitHub means to open-source software development | ZDNet
@ Top GitHub Alternatives to Host Your Open Source Project | It's FOSS
10 Best GitHub Alternatives to Host Open Source Projects
@ GitHub XP: Home Edition funny.
0606We
* up 1, 4?, 6; S=6; no mask last hour or so
: C vomited twice during the night. Two pad changes and I'll have to do the sheets,
pillwcases, and probably the pads under that. Switch to multiple or longer underpads
@ A daemon-haunted (container) world no longer: Introducing Buildah 1.0 [LJ]
@ Scanners Live In Vain : Cordwainer Smith (via Wikipedia)
Internet Archive Search: creator:"Cordwainer Smith"
Game of Rat and Dragon : Cordwainer Smith : Streaming podcast.
Not the way I hear it in my head. A couple of pronunciation differences, but not
clear which of us is wrong.
* order drugs from Express Scripts. Get refill of meloxicam?
* 10ish go down to Rest Stop. Science with j. -> actually left a little after 11.
-> left a little after 4; got back at 7 after a little shopping.
-> bought a thumb brace. Not comfortable for more than an hour or so at a time.
I can type in it, so that's good.
% reading "The Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting" -
it is extremely clear that there's no way I could do that. Certainly not full time.
-> Appendix D is a 30-day step-by-step guide to finding your first client
@ 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity - Steve Pavlina
@ put link to MakeStuff in website footers. * s.s.net * S.S.net
@ Creating a Productive Workspace - Steve Pavlina
* humira
0607Th
& awake 3:30ish; back to sleep without mask.
% dreams - 1. building a loft-like thing to turn half a living room into a bedroom.
2. There was a girl; we had made love the night before and were discussing whether
to do it again, sort of indirectly because the discussion was of whether to eat
the same thing we had the night before.
3. In a hospital. Our baby had died overnight. I went out to find a nurse.
-> woke up, found Ticia sleeping at the foot of the bed; cuddled her.
% Ame, are you trying to tell me something?
* up 6ish; W=201; meloxicam, shower
* apply at CircleCI (working on cover letter ~8:30 to 9:30)
@ Just Invisible - Medical Access Issues For Homebound/Bedridden Persons (jeshyr)
Links to Executive Summary, full document, Press Release
Specific to Australia; one can only assume that things are worse in the US.
@ Home Assistant home control on a pi
@ The Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting S(L)
-> 30-day program which is mostly about setting oneself up as an expert. The parts
about meetups and cold calls to prospects would be next to impossible for me.
articles on LinkedIn and HackerNews, answers on Quora and StackOverflow... should
do those. Twitter syndication of blog articles, yeah, should do that. Ads on
Craigslist and other places -- I'd need to switch my profiles over from job-seeking
to consulting, of course.
-> thought it had gone away, but I'd been seeing it in a viewer. Got it.
* track down PIA and RiSource.org on archive.org
pia.rii.ricoh.com just the front page. No demos.
RiSource.org but of course I have that already.
@ Table of Contents | Clojure Documentation | Clojure Docs
You can really see how they've mapped Java concepts into a functional framework.
* went out to the shed, the pod, and the greenhouse. Notes below.
~ call UBOC about debit card -> seems to be working now.
: C suspects that her seafood or shellfish allergy is back, and that that's what made
her sick night before last. It would have been from the onion rings having been fried
in the same oil as something fishy; they have a captain's platter.
* took the css file out of the timer app's repository. Went smoothly. The only working
tree was the one on Cygnus, so all it took was push -f.
* Pushed sri up to GitHub as Silvermine-Resources. Added MIT license. Still needs README
& was curious about when we got Desti -- 20130623. IIRC Desti was 3 at the time.
% feeling very strange for much of the day. Disoriented? Detached? Dissociated?
Things seemed to slow down and become quiet a couple of times. Weird.
% There's also the fact that damned near everything is a trigger. That's been going on
for months. Or years. Regret or something like it seems to be my normal condition.
0608Fr
* up 6ish; W=201.8, S=7:24;
@ First contact: what if we find not organic life but ET’s AI? | Aeon (thnidu)
@ Let's Solve the Deeper Problem That Makes Facebook's Bad Acting Possible | LJ
You own it, download it – Take control of the data powering your life.
Tools – Customer Commons
Facebook Compartmentalization | Linux Journal separate browser; use TOR
Data Privacy: Why It Matters and How to Protect Yourself | Linux Journal
@ AI at Google: our principles [LJ] is this like "don't be evil"?
@ Happy GDPR day. Here's some sensitive data about me.
* Mike meeting with propane guys
I had the date right, but had the day of the week down as Thursday. :P
-> Mike didn't show; Rob from Skagit was here. Tank set scheduled for 0613We
* line up help moving boxes
-> called SWAH - not really enough lead time, but they'll try.
-> BackBreakers Whidbey Island
* 15min: Some work on moving stuff. Set up a piece of plywood on sawhorses and moved a
couple of the lighter boxes out of the greenhouse. Ordered two sets of plastic
shelves from $A; Smaller than I'd like: 32" x 54" with 4 shelves, but they're supposed
to get here Sunday.
* catching up on LWN
@ Browsing around on Google Fonts
Five Fresh Headline and Body Text Pairings - Google Fonts
Cormorant Garamond - Google Fonts
@ ArneBab / filktex-mode / source / — Bitbucket (2018-05-07 Emacs news) !!!
: Incapussitated by Desti for several hours. Mostly on my lap, but it's really hard to
type over a cat. Mostly browsed by mouse.
@ 'This Is Me' Music Video Carleton Phoenix Project - YouTube
" The members of the Carleton Phoenix Project have an unusual goal: to practice
letting go of perfectionism. This spring they posted an open invitation for singers
to take part in a music video—no experience necessary, only the courage to step up
and participate. "
interviews here: 'This Is Me' Interviews of Vocalists Carleton Phoenix Project - YouTube
via Carleton Alumni eNews.
@ Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - YouTube pretty sure I've linked
this before. -> apparently not. Why the hell not? It's amazing.
found tab for it; I suspect it's still impossible. Sort of Travis picking
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - YouTube
Miranda Russell - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - YouTube
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Wikipedia
@ CSS Is So Overpowered It Can Deanonymize Facebook Users Yipe!
@ On being a safety net – Mia Cooledge – Medium
0609Sa
* Up 5:25; W=200.4, S=6:37;
: Somewhere in the house a fire alarm is beeping at long intervals to say that it wants
a new battery. Or a replacement. Grump.
-> battery
* S4S -- see above: Carleton Phoenix Project and 1952 Vincent. What a mix!
Songs for Saturday: Yesterday's listening - 1952-1969
@ Sorting the letter ÞORN (pmburgess via thnidu | Happy Thornsday!)
: HDX 72 in. H x 36 in. W x 24 in. D 5 Shelf Plastic Ventilated Storage Shelving,
which I think is the size we have, is available for pickup in Oak Harbor.->isn't
@ Say the Hard Thing – Rands in Repose
% I've just spend over an hour doing nothing because I don't know what I want to do
next. (And some of the options include phone calls.)
-> called BackBreakers; phone rang 10 times, never got to an answering machine.
: Greenhouse has about a dozen boxes, a little more small stuff, and the futon left.
Doable by just me and T. Moved out several boxes. Seem to have picked up some insect
bites; there were ants in one of the boxes.
% very tired - mostly in the legs. No back trouble at all, for which I'm grateful.
: The shelves in the pod are 18", not 24. They're actually cheaper at HD than $A
% Thinking it was Sunday, I took Sunday's morning meds by mistake. Only thing that will
be a potential problem is the bupropion. I'll skip it tomorrow morning. I should be
taking part in the morning and part in the evening in any case, apparently.
I did it because I've been feeling weird all afternoon. Similar to yesterday.
Also because I occasionally do miss my morning meds if I get up early and decide it's
too soon after my evening dose. Stupid.
: FontAwesome icons not showing up in chrome -> PrivacyBadger. Finally tried it in FF
and it worked, so...
@ Element.scrollTop - Web APIs | MDN for lyrics viewer. parameter in pixels.
% Had thumb brace on almost all day. It helped.
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Date: 2018-06-11 05:37 am (UTC)There are probably a number of places who could use a part-time IT person. (I realize you're more of a coder, but you could certainly handle a lot of IT support and I know some places use remote people for their on-line IT stuff.)
Though I'm reminded that I should also ask one of my friends up there if her company has openings, since I know it's on the island.
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Date: 2018-06-11 08:45 pm (UTC)*Please* ask your friend! Besides, I don't know many people here on the island.
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Date: 2018-06-11 09:47 pm (UTC)They do seem to have a tech support position open, though I'm not sure that's the kind that best suits you. She also said to stop by and drop of a resume anyway because sometimes they just pull from the resume file instead of posting jobs.
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Date: 2018-06-11 10:32 pm (UTC)Feel free to give your friend my contact info if you think they might be interested.
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Date: 2018-06-13 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-13 12:36 am (UTC)