Done Since 2021-02-21

A week that includes pictures from Mars and getting Colleen scheduled for a COVID shot next week can't be all that bad, can it? Well, there's the fact that R and his partner are, as usual, flat broke -- I paid the bills on their storage unit and phone, and I'm getting their cell phone put (back) on my plan. And Fry's Electronics went bust. Apart from all that, the week was pretty nondescript. Very little got done.

Getting Colleen's vaccination has been a roller-coaster. I first had her scheduled for January 22nd, the Friday before I got mine on the 23rd. But that was one of the week's worth of early appointments that cancelled because they didn't actually have the vaccine in hand -- it apparently arrived over the weekend. Meanwhile I got her an appointment at Island Drug, but they kept rescheduling it and by last week it had been moved out to April 15th. Finally this last Friday I found an earlier slot at Island Drug, presumably due to a cancellation. So... five more days.

The week's reading included Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming, a pretty decent introduction that uses JavaScript rather than something like Haskell. I was a little surprised to see that JS actually seems better for functional programming than it is for OO. I also spent some time on the PrivacyTools site, which I keep running across and forgetting to mention.

Finally, a couple of meta items. The first is that I apparently neglected to actually post Done Since 2020-12-27 on January 3rd. I could claim that we were out carousing on our 45th anniversary, but in fact we spent it rather quietly at home. (Also, my posting software doesn't support back-dating very well, so I did that part by hand.)

The second is that I figured out how to make the to.do block (under the cut) word-wrap at the ends of lines. That's style="white-space: pre-wrap;", for the curious. So folks who use narrow screens or large fonts should have a better UX. Let me know how that works out. Everybody, let me know your preferences for font size in code/pre regions; I don't really like the fact that most browsers make it smaller than regular body text, but that seems to be the almost-universal default, and it probably works better on smaller screens.

( Notes & links, as usual )