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I wrapped up this thread, plus a few more details, into a blog post.Repairing a detached mandolin brace,...
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Week 164: Under the Domehttps://po-ru.com/2024/02/25/week-164-under-the-dome#weeknotes
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Rails app won't start because of `uninitialized constant XYZ` from somewhere in zeitwerk (which appears to be wasting much Zeit und causing much Werk right now). The weird thing is, the string for...
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Mystery solved. If, for some reason, your app has a file called `lib/break_stuff.rb`, zeitwerk will assume that it defines a constant called `BreakStuff`, and fail when it doesn't.Great work, everyone....
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Current work soundtrack is Paradise Lost's 1993 album Icon, clearly recorded in an era before autotune and none the worse for all that.
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Chatted with a busker playing a Chapman stick in Green Park station. What was really impressive, though, was that not only could he play it well, he could carry on a conversation while doing so!
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On a private Trello for work, this popped up on a card trying to add the #teaxyz cryptobollocks spam, claiming to be from me. But I didn't do it. What's going on? How did this get in here?
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Does Gmail just not work any more? I use Fastmail, and search works. My partner uses Gmail, and things she has forwarded to me from Gmail are no longer findable via Gmail's search!
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I ordered something from a commercial seller on eBay a fortnight ago. It hasn't arrived, so I complained. The seller has now added a tracking number, which shows it as delivered … "by Derby DO". But I...
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For some reason, fretting with my little finger on #mandolin is much harder that on guitar, so I've been doing some targeted practice to improve its strength. The weird side effect is that immediately...
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It's a bit like that trick where you stand in a doorway with your arms pressed against the frame for a short while, and when you walk away your arms float up.
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Why in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty four am I still finding __MACOSX and .DS_Store files all over the place like rat shit, even though I don't use a Mac? Whom do I have to murder to get...
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My MPK Mini mkII keyboard had a dead G key, and I was all set to buy a new mini MIDI keyboard to replace it. But before I did so, I searched for "mpk mini dead key", which led me to this video. Ten...
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On the other hand, I'd have replaced it with something that has real (non-USB) MIDI out, so maybe I'm not quite so much of a winner.
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Week 165: Building a bridgehttps://po-ru.com/2024/03/06/week-165-building-a-bridgeVery late #weeknotes for last week
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Ordered some more RAM for the little Lenovo ThinkStation M710q I'm using as a home server. It sometimes becomes unresponsive, but I don't know why, there's nothing in the logs. Upgrading from a paltry...
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Week 166: Improve your memory with this one simple trickhttps://po-ru.com/2024/03/12/week-166-improve-your-memory-with-this-one-simple-trick#weeknotes
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Until last week, I didn't know that Nintendo Switch emulators existed, nor that you could download pirated Switch games. Now, thanks to Nintendo's lawyerin', I do.Not sure that was what they wanted,...
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I just took from the oven a loaf of bread that I leavened using yeast cultivated from the dregs of a bottle of oude gueuze. It's risen beautifully. Flavour tbd.
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The gueuze-leavened bread tasted good, by the way, but it's noticeably less tangy than my regular sourdough culture.
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