I added ten seconds to build time!

the page needs work and so does this screenshot

I finally have year/month archives on my site. Bookmarked a post on the topic by Adam Jarret a while back. Finally did it. In Perl, though. Not Node.js.

Generate Yearly and Monthly Archive Pages with Hugo Sections - Adam Jarret Blog

The build time problem comes from following his template logic - based on a Jekyll plugin. Got some ideas, but they’ll wait. Now it’s bedtime.

Fred Brooks was right

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.

– Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month

That line’s been in my head since yesterday for boring work reasons. The important part is thank goodness for SQL files. The ones I can understand, anyways.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2020-05-13 Wed 07:10

Why is Firefox using 143% CPU and locking up the computer? Ah yes, somebody’s using old React code.

hackers.town: 2020-05-13 Wed 09:27

Booting into Windows to reliably interact with others.

no i know i don’t like either of those things either but we do what we must.

hackers.town: 2020-05-13 Wed 10:39

Windows Webex installer shows a splash screen and promptly deletes itself.

I must say: I am impressed by Cisco’s commitment to user security at all costs.

Ah, I stand corrected.

Webex installer shows a splash screen, installs w/o permissions, deletes itself, and doesn’t show up in the Start Menu until you launch it by seeing that it’s an option setting up test meeting in the browser.

Still impressed, but in a much different way.