Eric Cloninger

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Human. Mostly water.

I am not going to get into a fight over which non-Xitter network has a better foundation or protocol. I am just going to go where there are interesting people not named MElon Husk. We'll see which one will be permanent.

On bsky, I'm @ericcloninger

I can't believe I'm paying an extra $10 for a static IP address to my home network. But, it seems to be solving the problem.

A bit of a milestone with my holiday project.

Caution: there is no TL;DR

https://ericcloninger.com/blog/my-holiday-downtime-project/

My Holiday Downtime Project

My employer shuts the entire company down over the holiday break, so I find myself with idle hands. Naturally, it’s time to break something. Caution: There is no TL;DR on this one.

EricCloninger.com

A coworker says "just install the module from npm and extract the files you need from there" for a non-node project.

sudo apt install npm

Currently downloading and installing 400MB of junk into my VM I don't need to get the 40K of css that I do need.

I love evaluating new products that gently guide me in my discovery by popping up helpful suggestions in another part of the screen that can only be dismissed by mouse clicks.

I'm especially endeared to the products that, having decided to buy, reset all the tips back to "unread" for my paid account.

My weekend has gone the exact opposite of Sam Altman's. Interpret as you wish.
I'm moderately curious how much stuff would break if I added *.x.com and *.twitter.com to the pihole on my network.
Live photo from the USGS offices this morning, as they send out an earthquake drill alert at 10:19 *UTC* instead of 10:19 PDT, waking up half the Bay Area in the middle of the night.

If you do not tell us how well the lady who sold you the iPhone did or the guy in Tesco who sold you a sandwich did on a scale of 1-10, and whether you'd breathlessly tell all of your friends and family about it, we will notice.

We will text you.

We will email you.

We will chase you to the ends of the earth.

We will never stop.

If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine turning every interaction with another human into an integer and storing it in a database, forever.

The USPS will start shipping free COVID-19 tests again. You can start placing orders next Monday, September 25

https://special.usps.com/testkits

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidTests

COVID Home Tests | USPS

COVID Home Tests | USPS