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@Bdkl
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I used to be a sous chef. Now I’m having some sort of mid-life crisis. An archivist, a father, and someone who just wants to carry librarian vibes going forward. Interested in programming, good literature, and most genres of music.
GitHubhttps://github.com/virinvictus
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@matt_birchler The graphic novel is really amazing too.

Having Claude Code go through my system and look for optimization points. Last week of Claude Max. I got so much work done.

Back to coding by hand.

Related: start acting like your life matters.

I suffer from a disease called Meniere's and it's become such a roadblock in my life. Any time the weather has huge barometric swings or the humidity jumps to the 80s, I get tinnitus and my ear feels plugged.

When the barometric pressure goes back up and the humidity drops, I spend a whole day with vertigo and the spins.

It's been such a struggle to find work that can handle random absences.

I think I might have to apply for disability and work on online projects as a volunteer.

I've been working on modding tools for an RPG from the 90s called Dark Sun: Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager. They're games most people probably forget but they're buggy little balls of perfection and I want to try to fix them and modernize them if it's possible. I've already built a lot of tools towards it and I've had a lot of successes.

I see the DSO guys and I'm utilizing a lot of their research.

I've been working on a few discord bots for a friend and it kinda makes me want to make an IRC bot lol

is it faux pas to star your own repos?

idk i'm doing it anyways

I've been really digging org-mode as a productivity application... so... heh... I gave it a GUI that looks and feels like a mixture of Things 3 and Omnifocus and it's database is mirrored into an org-mode readable folder structure.

It has two modes - simple mode (more like Things 3 where it hides the more complicated side of the application) and builder mode (more like Omnifocus and a lot more detail on your task).

I really tried with this one. It's local-only.

https://github.com/VirInvictus/Atrium

I haven't been able to update metadata in Calibre for the last week or so and its' been really frustrating me - Storygraph was the only source available to me but it's library is too limited - to find out today that it was a bug specifically with Fedora 44 and how they handled certs.

sudo update-ca-trust extract --rhbz2387674

Had to run that in order to fix the cert issue, but I saw in the MobileRead forums that Kavil has it patched in the next release of Calibre.

@chockenberry The Onion is the only news source worth following in 2026.