2024-11-28 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 06:49

Happy Quote Scene of The Crime Unquote Day to those who celebrate.

#NowPlaying

Alice’s Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 10:16

@IamMrsGeek when it’s obviously the dogs that are in charge of this house

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 10:34

Every once in a while I look up macOS compatibility for a favorite game via Whisky or Crossover. And more than half the time I see something like:

$game works like a charm! There’s no text rendered in any of the dialogs, control panels, or HUDs, but you can still interact with them.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 12:47

It’s a stick! It’s a bug! It’s Stickbug!

A bug that looks like a stick, hanging onto a curtain

how tf did this turn out to be my banger toot for thanksgiving

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 15:29

“There’s a lot of fat on that side.”

…?

“The ham.”

Oh thank god. For a second there I thought she was saying I have a lopsided booty.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 16:00

Gathering around the table for Thanksgiving dinner

They: There’s a Jimmy Buffet line for this moment.

Me: “My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love Jesus?”

They: exactly

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:00

Described eggnog as “sweet buttermilk,” thus guaranteeing I’d be just about the only one drinking any.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:55

@m Absolutely.

I’d rather be a spherical cow than a non-Euclidean narwhal.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 18:59

@m Not going back, man. Hyperdimensionality sounds cool until you realize time blindness means you can now lose your keys ana the couch and the couch kata your wallet.

hackers.town: 2024-11-28 Thu 20:59

Puttering through a Django iteration of my blog. Assuming I don’t blow myself up in the process, it’ll build a static site with Django Distill.

We don’t do these things because we can. We don’t do these things because we must.

We do these things because squirrel.

Adding skeletal model and non-admin views to the Django app took a couple hours, mostly remembering what goes where.

Less than five minutes for a command to rebuild the database article and category tables from site files content and frontmatter – I do that kind of thing a lot.

Then another half hour or so fiddling with admin settings.

Yeah that was a fun start.

Django Admin panel showing most recent blog posts, with filters for year, category, and content format

Django admin panel showing search results for “squirrel”, with three posts listed

Processing command takes 1.8s for a full load (685 pages into empty tables), and there’s still loading assets then writing it back out to a site. At least I’ve already covered generating HTML from page content and stashing it in the DB.

A few complaints from Asciidoc3. Makes sense. The .adoc pages were written for Asciidoctor. But hey at least I didn’t need to launch an external process.