mdlbear | Done Since 2022-04-17 (Reply)

Not a great week, mainly due to medical issues (probably less serious than I thought they were, and apparently mostly resolved as of today) that I wasted a great deal too much time and anxiety over. I've added prunes to my shopping list. Further details have been redacted from the notes. Maybe a separate post later.

The other thing I've been struggling with is WordPress. On the whole, the formatting on GoingSideways.blog is pretty decent, but there are some details that I simply can't figure out how to fix because they appear to have been hacked in by the designers in some obscure way. Coding standards? Documentation? Ha! A ~~rant~~ post on that subject will be coming out sometime later this week, hopefully. For now let's just say that some WP themes and page builders lead to a lot of lock-in, and since there have been some major changes in the platform over the last few years, that's a problem for people stuck using the old stuff. Also, several plugins that would really make my job easier have become unavailable -- some aren't keeping up with the recent changes (hint: anything where the last update is more than two years ago is almost guaranteed to stop working soon if it hasn't already), and at least one (the official one that crossposts to Medium) has been removed.

Anyway the latest GoingSideways post, Figuring It(aly) Out, went up yesterday.

Among the links, I suggest "4 of the Most Profound Theorems in Math are Also the Easiest to Understand" -- it's a nice, easy-to-follow exposition some pretty deep topics. Watch outfor rabbit holes.

Notes & links:
0417Su Easter * litter boxen
* up 4:30; S=5:01; ... shower
* 10 c starts work; leave ~9:30
% fiber gummies ~11:35
@ How to cross-post on WordPress and Medium and avoid duplicate content
-> the plugin that makes this trivial is defunct
One Scenario Where The Medium.com Import Tool Fails | Keeping Up To Date
@ Should you publish on Medium? (Updated September 2020)
Digital Sharecropping:
The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Content Marketing Strategy - Copyblogger
@ The Science of Conversion Copywriting. Why you should treat copywriting NOT like an
art form! (Updated November 2020)
@ NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster – WordPress plugin bad support - avoid
@ WordPress Plugin for Multiple Social Media Auto Posting
@ Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler – WordPress plugin
$ TAXES FILED - refund ... accepted
-> damned website doesn't seem to have the planning stuff that the app did, and the
only way to go back and look at this year's entries appears to be the PDF. Growf
% a bit of sadness in the yard. I'll miss this place.
* SL: TP, eggs, protein bars, kind bars,
* laundry
% meloxicam with pm drugs; load drugs
% 11:30 apparently I fell asleep in my chair.

0418 * tax day
* up 7:10ish; S=6:58;
@ A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times
Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command - The New York Times
borisdayma/dalle-mini: DALL·E Mini - Generate images from a text prompt
@ Stanford Dean: You Need These 8 Skills to Qualify as an Adult
1. talk to strangers 2. find your way around 3. manage your workload and deadlines
4. do basic household chores 5. handle interpersonal problems (my low stat)
6. cope with life's ups and downs (resilience) 7. manage money 8. take risks
@ Is this the most terrifying movie ever made? | by Keith McNulty | Medium Threads
" One of the main reasons why I find this movie so terrifying is that it is not trying
to be terrifying. It is merely attempting to be as real and factual as was known at
the time about the consequences of a nuclear attack. " -> so... yes, probably
* 15min: dishes
@ The Dark Truth about VPN. Use Tor instead of VPN for privacy | by Dre Tech Tips
: Computer weirdness. First the external monitor blinking (fixed by plugging in Panther
for a couple of minutes, then going back to Sable), then DNS couldn't find
savitzky.net (eventually followed the link from DH's control panel, though it was
probably just the long delay that fixed it)
% white rice with a little salt and pepper and spicy kimchi on the side is good stuff
* started trying to find a new PCP at UW. Ugh! I hate this.
% meloxicam with pm drugs
% Colleen's silky blouse is quite warm, as I'd hoped. Should work like a bed-jacket

0419Tu
* up 6:30; S=6:45, BP=119/74, P=61; 300mg docusate
* the following snippets should go into Dog/.config.make: (replace 2021 with yyyy-1)
dg ' \$ C'| grep 2021 # charitable donations
dg ' \$ ' | grep 2021 | grep -v ' C' # everything else
@ Gutenberg Block Editor Toolkit – EditorsKit – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
@ posted Things That Don’t Help - GoingSideways.blog
* schedule recall and 37500-mile service for Molly
@ Eat This to Save the World! The Most Sustainable Foods—From Seaweed to Venison
% meloxicam with pm drugs, ~10pm

0420We
* Up 4:45; S=4:50; not clear whether I should try to get back to sleep ~6am
-> gave up after 20m
& discussion with N about backup plans for the small business if the blog doesn't work
* 15min: move rainbow rug from m's room to mine (with N)
= the doors in the studio are ~30" wide (i.e. need that much room to swing)
~ renew S's mailbox at UPS store -> turned in keys; they'll contact S about her set
@ Functional Programming Vs OOP: How To Think Functionally | Tarka Labs Blog
% meloxicam with pm drugs

0421Th
* up 6:15; S=6:52;
* 15min: tab maintenance on Delta
@ 20 Things You Might Not Know About Gutenberg WordPress Editor
@ The French town where the lighting is alive - BBC Future
* 15min: load/run dishwasher
* move in rainbow rug from m's room (with N)
% fiber cookies ~4pm
& researching block themes
& another mysterious DNS problem with savitzky.net. Registered at GoDaddy; nameservers
set correctly to NS*.dreamhost.com, and both GD and Whois shows them as correct, but
DH couldn't see that. Weird. Ran DH's DNS checker twice. Came back after roughly
half an hour; DH currently shows 50% propagation.
% meloxicam with pm drugs

0422Fr Earth Day
& awake 4:40; BP=139/85, P=66, S=4:03;
@ posted Figuring It(aly) Out - GoingSideways.blog
: apparently forgot to update 04.done last Sunday!
Commit 17b858e2493fc02f4db24bc1cdbe8a35003011e7 starts the post
fixed: see `git log f7b094ca51e17d775242cc0dbee40a54e54faad1`
* git checkout -b fix 17b858e2493fc02f4db24bc1cdbe8a35003011e7^
* # copy the events to 2022.04.done
* git stash; git checkout main; git stash pop
-> discovered this while looking for something that turned out to have been in March
-> no, I'd just misplaced it in 03.done. Which I checked for but apparently not
carefully enough. And I didn't get all of it the first time. blarg.
% debating urgent care vs. ER for gut problem. Probably should _not_ wait until Monday
Urgent Care Near You at UW Medicine | Seattle & Federal Way
-> constipation listed under "when should I go to an urgent care clinic?"
: GS: try to use the image embed code in an html block.
Embed Wikimedia
Works, but poorly. The embed block doesn't work. Pasting the embed code into an HTML
block works, but it can't be styled. Grump,
RDP Wiki Embed – WordPress plugin doesn't work with Gutenberg
* UW Ravenna neighborhood clinic. Arr. ~12:40 Est. 2:40 wait -> seen ~3:20 -> 420
* ER at Northwest, which proved to be totally unnecessary but I didn't know
that when the doctor at Ravenna misdirected me. [Details redacted.]
: Sable has been weird. Not recognizing USB-2 devices on the USB-3 ports. reboot?
kernel update + second reboot fixed it. Weird. Sable's been strange lately

0423Sa
* up 7am; S=6:10;
@ 4 of the Most Profound Theorems in Math are Also the Easiest to Understand
nice exposition. Turing, Gödel, Cantor, Euclid (primes)
@ Scenarios Where the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor Replaces Custom Code
@ The Challenge of Switching from a Page Builder to the WordPress Gutenberg Editor
@ 10 Stunning Places to Find Free Images For WordPress in 2022
@ Wikipedia Preview – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org -> installed
@ Anton Hur on
Twitter: "As part of an initiative against censorship, any teenager in America is
eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. This will allow teens in states with book
bans to check out ebooks and audiobooks at BPL. A select list is made “always
available,” in other words, no waiting."
@ 11:30 fiber cookies
* 1:00 head up to Whidbey -> 4:40ish