today i cleaned out the water inlets to our washing machine, after i was made aware that it doesn't fill from hot or cold.
we have well water, and lots of silt/sand/tiny rocks/rust get pushed through the pipes and land on the screens of the inlet.

i use a lab 'wash bottle' to jet the silt out of there onto an old towel.

i end up doing this every couple of months. this, plus the annual mixing-cartridge replacement for the kitchen sink, means i should probably invest in a whole-house filter.

YMMV but upgrading Astro 5 to Astro 6 has some breaking changes (that the @astro team has documented for you! https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/upgrade-to/v6/ )

for my relatively simple site with just a few content collections, the fixes were minimal. after Claude Code and i fixed one of my sites, i asked CC to document the changes for ... themself, in my other sites. so they created this, i copied into my other projects to help CC fix the same things there.

(it's a weird time we live in)

https://github.com/mikesusz/mikesusz.dev/blob/main/ASTRO6_UPGRADE.md

pushing a media playback fix to my personal lifestream/social feed site (https://feed.mikesusz.com) and got to thinking....

is this the type of thing that would be useful for others? i might abstract all the 'mike' out of this and make it clone-able and deploy-able. i just have to figure out how to make it approachable for people who aren't deep into infrastructure.

pretty basic right now, but i’ve made a Projects page to document all the little side projects and tools i’ve been building. more to come!

https://mikesusz.dev/projects

“Nevermind" was released 12585 days ago.

12585 days beyond that was April 9th, 1957.

Elvis Presley's “All Shook Up" was #1 on that day.

https://time.sqd.co/?date=1991-09-24