About done with making my youthful mistakes I think.

(I turn 50 next month.)

successful piano tipping, which was tricky given the size of the room it's in

disassembly will need to wait for another day, blocked by several issues including not having a big enough screwdriver bit

My I naturalist brained sis

I wanted to perform Annea Lockwood's "Piano Burning", but it is impossible to get it out of the little room it was built into.

I already de-stringed it, which is the worst bit, besides the sheer barbarians at the gates feeling of it all

hosting a piano demolition party today

sad

I remember implementing automatic hard wrap in BASIC, I was probably about 12 years old. The Helix bug may get to that age before they do it lol.

helix still mostly fine but I am really missing automatic hard wrap and had to resort to this macro to limp along "@mip:reflow<ret><esc>;"

I had been meaning to try hx anyway, and also I had been wanting to use haskell-language-server which requires some horrible mess of plugins in vim and just works in hx

really a pity about vim, it does look like they either fixed or introduced a security hole with one of the commits, so I hope that works out for them. I used vim for about 25 years, emacs briefly before that.

I do remarkably little editor configuration or fancy stuff despite using it all day, but anyway yesterday I discovered vim is getting vibe-coded commits and today I have switched to a pretty stock helix which looks like it will be fine.

making lentil soup with solar power in a little snowstorm

pondering filletting a piano

had a moment where I wondered if a friend had faked his death

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054108#84

#unicode combining mn when? #microsoft

I have a HOW big ssd in my car? To hold that few mp3s? lol

guess it's finally time to repartition this 1 tb ssd that had a 15 gb boot partition copied over to it and was otherwise left unused..

in which i receive a working LLM-generated patch, and almost clean-room a reimplementation for copyright reasons, before realizing that Anthropic INC probably copied my own code w/o attribution

https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/fails_to_get_from_apache2_server_URL_backend_file/#comment-3a9ea4adeeffd457fb805962f056e36b

Discovered a T510 Thinkpad we didn't know we even had, and cobbled together a working power supply. Well, I guess I need to install linux on this Windows 7 beast.

Wild to me that plumbing has a boundary between the user servicible side and the pro side. Where the user servicible side is all rubber gaskets that will fail, flexible pipes that will corrode and leak, and crank it tight but not too tight fittings. And the pro side, whether PEX or copper pipe, is super solid and *easier*.

Of course this is a post about #computing as well as #plumbing

Imagine coming so close to War Games, entirely unintentionally.

(Also it's nice to read some actual human written code rather than what the LLM brainrot later reduced you to.)

Dug a bit more into the guy's work in between these two career endpoints, and found quality commits like these.

Truely amazing.

imagine being 17 years old and a year ago you were using AI to generate dumb stuff like this.. but today you had to private all your socials after your AI bot went rogue and started writing blogposts to shame a free software developer

They officially suggest hiding who is running bots. Trust me, they understand what they're doing.

#Openclaw is a DDOS attack against free software. Including the psychological wellbeing of its developers. People who put such tools in the hands of script kiddies need to be held to account.