Done Since 2021-09-05

I have no damned idea how to characterize this last week, so I won't try. My sleep time has bounced around between 6.5 and 8.5 hours; normal for me used to be closer to 6. And those aren't real numbers anyway -- they come off the CPAP so they include the (mostly unknown) time spent trying to sleep. Blarg.

I spent altogether too much time this week fiddling with the Windows 10 that came with the new Thinkpad X230. I had wanted to move it to the old X230, which will be renamed Panther -- it was a lot easier to move Sable's disk and keep the name associated with its SSH host keys and IP address. All that I needed to do was change the MAC address in its static DHCP lease on the router. But the W$ digital license is tied to the motherboard ID. We'll see. Not too important at the moment because I want to use Windows only on dark nights when the stars are aligned and the moon is gibbous. Or something like that.

I also finished what I hope was the last bit of $writing-gig-2, which involved getting screenshots of how VS Code and GitHub Desktop present merge conflicts. I'm not impressed by GH Desktop. VS Code seems pretty solid, but I probably won't ever use it again. And realized that I should really have been calling it writing-project-2; it's the second of three (as currently planned) projects in my second gig. But anyway, the first one was Use GNU Make to Automate Tasks. The first gig was Introduction to version control with Git, a couple of years ago. Both work-for-hire, but I was pleased to note that Linode gives its writers credit.

Along the way, I wrote ssavitzky/conflict-playground: A collection of branches that you can use to explore merge tools and conflict-resolution strategies, and this really trivial screenshot utility (partly because I needed one that I could call from a commamd line, and partly because I was too lazy to grovel through the menus and find either of the two that were there). And started putting together a set list for next Saturday.

( Notes & links, as usual )