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Live from the avocado jungles of Southern California.

Generation X tech burnout who failed into corporate management. Using my spare time to build a funky little fediverse platform.

Coasting on "happily ever after": married with two adult kids, a cat, three dogs, and 16 chickens.

Anarchist-adjacent. Used to be homeless. Used to like Perl.

ADHD-saturated dilettante. Bad welder. Worse musician.

Leaders over Bosses. Psychedelics over churches. Deb over RPM.

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@squinky@teh.entar.net avatar squinky , to random

The stuff I'm working on for xoro right now is all meta stuff, like rewriting deployment code, improving backups and monitoring, that sort of thing. Zero glamor.

It's because I have a new server, and I know that if I don't improve deployment and instrumentation before I install to it, I'll just put it off longer and longer.

This stuff gives me no dopamine.

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So far at least, the integration tests run 55% faster on the new server.

I'm making a pass over how the entire system handles application logs, including attempts to do something smart when exceptions are thrown.

It really feels good when the core systems are running in a friendly and useful way.

@squinky@teh.entar.net avatar squinky , to random

I have xoro.social running on an N150 mini-pc, which is really probably fine for an average installation. But I have some fairly unoptimized code running and am planning to open up registration requests within a few months. So for at least the short term I want to throw some more hardware at it.

RAM prices being what they are right now, I found 16GB of DDR4 chilling on a shelf somewhere, and am just building a server around that. So there's a mini-ITX motherboard and an old used Ryzen9 on the way.

While I'm at it, I'm revisiting my combination server rack and Corsi-Rosenthal box design so it works with 10-inch mini-rack hardware instead of a DIN rail. The 3D printer is spitting out parts as I speak. I'll share pictures when it starts coming together more.

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    @Binder @bradsucks WHAT?! I’m shocked to just find out via you being shocked to find out

    @squinky@teh.entar.net avatar squinky , to random

    Here it is, my annual Gantt chart. The only way I can cook a massive feast for ten people and not need to be hospitalized from stress.

    All my tasks are broken down by time so that nothing gets left behind. I just finished all the 11am stuff, and can sit down and doomscroll for 20 minutes with a clear conscience.

    A page from a dotted notebook showing a Thanksgiving Gantt chart. Columns show dishes to be cooked and rows are time slots from 11am to 6pm. The sidebar has bullet items describing detailed tasks by time.
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    The opposite page has some simplified recipes for things I don’t make often like stuffing and creamed corn that I’ll need at a glance, and the night-before punch list.

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    Inevitably someone will comment “wow, you’re so organized” and the answer is that no, I’m not, and so badly so that I need to overcompensate like this.

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    I took too much Tylenol and now my music looks like this

    A screenshot from Strudel. At the top a piano roll shows a drum pattern, and the rest of the screen has a bass line being generated in code, partially by Perlin noise applied to a pentatonic scale
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    @squinky@teh.entar.net avatar squinky , to random

    Find someone who wants you to keep you near them as much as the automated voice system does when you ask for a customer service agent