Notes

I was finally bothered enough by not being able to quickly see recent statuses of people that follow me on my solo server that I wrote something to fetch the recent statuses of all of them, sort them by date, and then dump out a static HTML timeline of them so I can browse them quickly and find people to follow back:

https://github.com/jcs/mastofollow

ouch

https://github-roast.pages.dev/

For some reason I thought only electrolytic capacitors made during the "capacitor plague" era fail early, but my garage door opener from 2008 died the other day and it just needed a replacement 35v 300uF capacitor on its logic board to bring it back to life. The bad cap didn't bulge or leak though.

Maybe we can try this on more than just trains...

"We couldn't make this software secure, so this update adds googly eyes to it"

"Sorry your meal was awful, but we hope these googly eyes drawn on the bill will make up for it"

The TrackPoint cap and fingerprint reader filler were 3d-printed with flexible TPU filament which required a lot of experimentation with temperature and print settings to get a proper color, flexibility, and as little stringing as possible

The TrackPoint buttons and "i" in the ThinkPad logo were painted with a custom paint I had made to (eventually) match the final TPU prints as close as possible while also matching the actual Dolch logo

Dolch X1 Nano
(and its inspiration)

tired: overnighting car parts from japan

wired: buying car parts from some rando on ebay and hoping they're not fake or wrong when they arrive a week or so later

current headline font-size values:

bbc: 28px
npr: 32px
reuters: 40px
axios: 40px
wsj: 52px
nbc: 60px
ap: 60px
nyt: 64px
cnn: 104px
washpo: 115px
msnbc: 128px
huffpo: 250px

I added a USB port inside my ThinkPad X1 Nano

https://jcs.org/2024/05/29/x1usb

Will today be a happy day or a sad and expensive day...

Do you set NO_COLOR in your default shell configuration?

yes
no
what

why

when you keep typing your sudo password wrong