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note-sender, which I use to post this weblog, as well as my kid's site, Daily Mrrp, my painting site, take-a-break.exe, hourly comics attempt, and maybe others, is a web app that was oriented toward one post per page.

This thing happened lately in which I wanted to post several pictures or videos, but I didn't want to pick them serially. I wanted to just pick a bunch of media that I might want to post, look at them in the client, decide which ones I wanted to post in one go, then write comments and post those. But I couldn't, so I just didn't bother.

One of the advantages of making your own tools is that you can easily change them, but in light of the fact that "easily" in programming still means hours, I put off addressing this for a month. But now I've done it, and I think it was the right choice, despite taking time away from other projects in progress.

Also, I re-re-relearned that you should try to use classes instead of ids in CSS because sometimes, you have to have multiples of an element that you initially thought you were only going to have one of.

OK, big client update—can I still post?

Aw dag, TwitRSS.me broke. Well, email me Twitterers!

I'm trying to do the hourly comics challenge today. First challenge: I do not know how to draw myself or any other people. It's handy to re-learn this limitation, though.

I had some dream about Spotify and woke up really early thinking about the evil of a corporation of that sort making its workers think it is working for the purpose of anything but amassing wealth and power. Hedge funds are more honest, assuming they don’t have all this “mission” stuff vaguely connected to social good. The “you are part of a special community” stuff is super gross.

I’ve put off hauling up and setting the humidifiers for such a long time that it feels like a major accomplishment.

Katt cleaned them when we put them away, and I wiped them down before turning on, but they still kinda smell.

From All Men Are Brothers:

Of those two, man and wife, the man was also a well-known fellow among the rivers and lakes and all called him Chang Ch’ing, The Gardener. His wife was nicknamed The Female Savage and her maiden surname was Sheng. They were very hospitable

These are good wrestling names.

TFW you realize you’re going to have to spend a lot of time on taxes this year, even with an accountant.

This Vanilla album is instrumental hip hop, and there's something a bit library music and a bit "Wii menu" about this, in a good way.

Huh, when you run a Windows game in Steam on Ubuntu, Steam automatically runs it in Wine. Potentially, there are a lot of Windows games I could play.

Dag, completely forgot to work out today.

The single-digit weather walk to school wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but condensation rising from my mask instafroze on my eyebrows and hair, giving me this Frostillicus vibe.

A likely explanation for the decades-old Dyatlov mystery has been found. tl;dr Simulations shows that, yes, an avalanche could smash a chest open.

The article has this is interesting anecdote about this kind of research:

“We discovered that, in the 70s, General Motors (GM) took 100 cadavers and broke their ribs,” says Puzrin, “hitting them with different weights at different velocities” to see what would happen during a car crash.

Well, here is a familiar situation. The bigger an app gets, the more code and time it takes to add simple features. Maybe I'm fucking up the architecture? It feel really early for this.

10-4-4-4-4-12.

Type checking can help you avoid passing the wrong type of thing to a function. But it can't help you if you provide the wrong type when you instantiate a generic function. You'll just get really confused about why it's not compiling with your param, which seems to be the right type.

The thing to check for that is, unfortunately, the human programmer.