Weeknotes 195

My slow puncture was repaired. You can stop worrying now.

I’ve been in a self-destructive funk most of the week for no reason in particular other than too much time in my own head. A friend asked me if I was bored not having work at the moment. Sure, but I’m bored when in work too. The differentiator being not having an income.

I tried my hand at mounting and framing some artworks that I’ve had in folders for some years. It didn’t go well. YouTube makes everything look too easy. Throwing money at the problem and trying again soon.

We took a mid-week trip to Helmsley in North Yorkshire and spent a few hours strolling around. It’s a lovely little place in the middle of beautiful countryside if you’re ever in the area.

Game Boy updates: This hobby might not be for me 😪 No real progress and not sure how to move anything forward.

As I’ve said before I bought various cheap-o temperature sensors to add to my future-potential-home-automation-nightmare Zigbee network. I paired them to the network as temporary nodes so that I could compare what values they output over time and see if they are aligned in what temperature and humidity they think the room is.

I spent most of the week procrastinating over creating a graph because I don’t know why. When I sat down and actually looked at how to do it, it was a piece of piss, and done in 20 minutes. Jesus.

And now I have a graph.

Conclusion, they all report about the same and does it even matter anyway?

“Why does target="_blank” have an underscore in front?"

Organic Maps for those wanting to avoid the big tech guys.

Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.

“As Code” – Not the overall point of the post, but this quote stood out to me.

Some unsolicited business advice: don’t create new market categories, enter existing ones and let your competitors bear the cost of educating the market.

Say that you were becoming border-line obsessed with sourcing a Zigbee-capable smart power socket from a well-known manufacturer/retailer because it has energy measuring capabilities and is “available” at a very reasonable price which you think makes it the least likely option to burn your house down, then you might find this website helpful.

“How PostgreSQL’s Aggregate FILTER Will Spoil You”

What can’t Postgres do?

After raving about it some weeks ago I finally finish Secret Level. I think there were probably only a couple of episodes which I didn’t really get into, the rest was great.

This series feels like it’s made for my short attention span

LOL…

Not a dicky bird from the troublesome smart lock in weeks! ✅