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The Week #186
by James- ๐ฑ My new headphone jack / switch arrived for my iPod. It was easy to replace, except had the smallest screws known to man. Once everything was put together it worked! Right and left channels work like a charm! I'm excited to be able to carry all of my music with me.
- ๐ต I'm not sure how much longer that will be true as I rebuild my music collection. I can see artifacts of the great iTunes Match subscription cancellation of 2012 as I'm finding folders that I knew were full of music, gone. e.g. I know I had all of the Smashing Pumpkins albums.
- ๐ซ It was a rough week with Leo. For some reason he's not wanting to go to school any more, so getting out the door is rough. Even going to robot school, something he said he wanted to do, has become a battle. He told the teacher he wants to quit. Thing is, when he's there (at school or robot school) he has a good time according to all. Maybe he knows my business trip is coming up and clinging because of that? If not, I hope this is just a phase and it ends soon.
- ๐โโ๏ธ On the good Leo news front, he we running with me again. He wants to go further and further...but I think we need to work on not stopping for our current runs. At school he wrote a map of where we're going to run and of course it includes a Triforce from Zelda ๐.
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by JamesLunch Run
The only problem to running to Dookie is the temptation* to air drum every 3 minutes. Totally air drummed.4.6km
31.1min
20.2m climbed
141.1avg bpm
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by JamesAfternoon Run with Leo
Rain finally let up.1.0km
28.0min
6.8m climbed
104.4avg bpm
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Checkin to MOS Burger (ใขในใใผใฌใผ)
Rainy day Mos burger with the boy. -
๐ 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification
by JamesIt turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement.
It's alarming how easily Google is managing to take control over email. It's the lifeblood of the internet. Just dropping all email from a list that you subscribe to, sent from a reputable domain, just because is completely unacceptable.
If you're using gmail, please stop. I switched to Fastmail years ago and recommend you do too. -
Checkin to Spice Curry Shinkai (ในใใคในใซใฌใผๆฐๆตท)
Double curry for dinner ๐ -
by JamesLunch Run
Essentials of Nofxโฆwithout The Decline?! Does not compute.3.8km
25.7min
16.2m climbed
155.6avg bpm
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The Week #185
by James- ๐ข I got a promotion at work to Software Engineering Lead ๐. It wasn't a total surprise, especially as I said a week or two ago, I've gone from leading a team of 4 to 15 in the past year. When I joined the company, most developers had similar titles, like "Software Engineer" or "Senior Software Engineer". It was nice how flat it was i.e. my manager had the same title as me. On the other hand, it also meant that if you wanted to "move up" you had to lead teams and do people management. Now we have 2 tracks so people that are good individual contributors and want to remain ICs, can.
- ๐โโ๏ธ Leo went running with me again. He was looking forward to it all week. This time we ran about 1km, with a few walking breaks.ย Good thing too, as it was my only run this week ๐ฌ.
- ๐ถ My iPod classic arrived...and the hard drive was dead. The disk still spun, but it had enough bad sectors on it that I couldn't even sync music to it. I upgraded it with an iFlash Solo, which allows me hook up a SD card to the ribbon cable and I replaced the battery. I excited synced all my music and...the headphone jack was also worn down and only a single channel worked reliably ๐ซ. So I've ordered a new headphone jack / lock switch off Ali Express. I'm hoping that allows me to start living my offline music dreams again.
- ๐ฎ Having a custom / modded iPod Classic has also gotten me looking at other old tech that I liked and I discovered a huge scene of modding / upgrading Gameboy. I'm really tempted to pickup a Gameboy Advance SP so I can play the games I used to...(technically I could do this with my switch today, but that's always hooked up to the TV and requires a subscription to Nintendo Online).
- ๐ฆ On the way home from a friend's house, I suggested we visit Manma Pasta and Leo could get a pizza or something. He went on about how he'd rather make a pizza (fine, but not starting at 5:30pm without dough on a school night) and it turned into an argument between him and my wife. As we left the parking lot (it was on the way home) he realized we were serious about not eating out if he's gonna be so selfish and hardheaded. "Ok, ok, I got it. Let's eat here" he said, but by that point, we've already decided we're not eating out. Naturally he continued to argue most of the way home. The next day, without any prompting, he apologized for his behavior the night before! There is hope!
- Readers might be feeling a bit of whiplash โ a single post with both great and horrible days. Such is life with a 5, almost 6 year old. Sometimes you miss the "good ol' days", when things were easy and you had (so much!!) free time, especially on the bad days...but the good days... the good days more than make up for it.
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๐ Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
by JamesOnline platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
This tracks with my experience growing up online. AIM was good, but IRC was my gateway drug for the internet. Being able to interact with like-minded people my age across the world in real time was a real treat. Now it's the norm.
I find this move from the silos to smaller, distributed communities and platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb encouraging.
