My little presentation to my photo club on street photography went quite well.

More build work. The new platform we’re building on is exposing a few issues. Those will be terminated today.

Also meeting with lawyers this afternoon to talk about our HOA transfer of control. Fun times.

Taking time away from the build to take a look at my article clippings. I have a bunch stored up to post but the format is different than it used to be since I’m now using the Obsidian web clipper. I am writing some Python code to rip through them.

Jeez. I hate Youtube announcement videos. They are nearly as bad as the help videos. “This meeting could have been an email” equivalent is “This video could have been a blog paragraph.”

A decent morning. Progress is being made. Found and corrected some issues. Thinking of rearranging the sanity testing sequence. Might take some time later for photo editing.

Approaching build time for our next release. I want it out the door by the 15th. Four independent streams to keep in sync as much as possible. Next time we’ll single stream it. I’m done with this madness.

Attending a 60’s party this evening. About the only thing I can contribute is my vast knowledge of 60’s music and cartoons. Clutch Cargo anyone?

I’m actually getting used to working in Linux (Pop!_OS just because it comes with the hardware I use). I’ll never get used to vim variants or emacs. I’ve tried, but I refuse to live in mode hell. The sublime suite and VSCode are tolerable. Macs are still my jam for personal use.

I agree with most everything Mr. Doctorow says in this: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems.

Another smoky day here in the Northland. AQI of 160. It’ll be nearly 4 solid days of this by the time it is supposed to clear up tomorrow. I’ve seen a few folks masking, more than the usual number. MPR meteorologist says this is the worst air on the planet except for Kinshasa.

Pretty yucky out there. It even smells of smoke. I’m sure those pesky Canadians are doing this on purpose.

I’m having a brain wave on improving our site license checking on a server that handles thousands of concurrent users without overloading the system and user logs with expiry messages. The next question: Is it worth pursuing? The current scheme works almost all of the time.

A most reasonable session with my personal torturer: push ups, dead lifts, a rotator cuff thing, and a hip flex. I can do this.

I’m sensing a desire for the next iPhone. It would be the first time I might upgrade specifically for a better camera. Waiting to see what the specs would be. Is it going to be a street photographer’s wet dream?

Back at the gym for a bit today doing my personal torturer’s recommended workout. I was supposed to be doing this for the last two weeks, but missed a few days. I had to dial it back a bit. New session tomorrow.

Currently up: Molly Maher and her Disbelievers

Waiting for The Wailin' Jennys

Just took on Bluesky. There are folks there I follow that have abandoned X.

I am righteously pissed off at Meta. It’s a damned prison. I’m not posting anything original there ever again.