Posts about life and programming.
Recently I got LASIK on both of my eyes, and I noticed something interesting: A lot of the habits that I've formed over the past decades were suddenly in turmoil. I had created a pretty solid morning routine that included things such as face cream, weighing myself, brushing my teeth. I've always struggled with forming good habits, and worked hard over the past 2 decades to fix that, with around 10…
Alternative title for this post was "Remove MyQ from Home Assistant post-2023.12.0 upgrade", but this applies to any time you might need to downgrade your version of Home Assistant due to a local issue that you need to roll back. The Problem # Back when 2023.12.0 came out, Home Assistant finally relented that Chamberlain's MyQ service was not going to be cooperative with third party tools, and…
My friend Daryn and I both host Lemmy instances on Digital Ocean droplets, implemented via the Lemmy Easy Deploy script. We've gone through the update processes a few times recently and encountered the same issues. Here are some comment problems and what we had to do to resolve. These issues were caused by updating up to 0.18.3 unless otherwise mentioned. White Screen of Death (WSOD) # After…
Recently I decided to start hosting a Lemmy instance. I am hosting it on a Docker server on Digital Ocean , following the very easy-to-use Lemmy Easy Deploy instructions. Naturally, I needed to explore the Postgres database to make minor changes and create backups, so I set forward on discovering how to connect to and access it locally. These instructions should be the same for any remote host, so…
I've built a new project recently on SlimPHP and it was time to find hosting. I had a strong desire to stick with serverless-esque hosting, such as Vercel (my current provider of choice), but their third-party PHP support was... lacking. That's when I discovered fly.io . My hopes were initially dashed as it seemed that I needed to use Docker. Locally I was sufficient with 'just' using php --serve…
In the hours after finishing Ringworld , I kept coming back to the book, wondering what I liked about it, and what I didn't. Many times I'll finish a book and immediately move on without a second thought, even the ones I loved. But this one has captivated me on several levels. When it comes to Ringworld I'm left with questions, and curiousity: About the Ringworld, about the Engineers who built it,…
My Memere (term for a French Canadian grandmother) always made meat pie ( tourtière ) for the holidays. It was one of the most sought after courses by my relatives. Tourtière is a québécois recipe that definitely varies from family to family, and they all use different types of meats, fillings, and preparation methods. I was lucky enough to learn this recipe while my grandmother was still alive,…
Last Updated July 17th 2020 As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the world, especially across the United States (and my home state of Florida), I regularly see articles about anti-mask activists, like the ones recently dominating a county meeting in Utah . I've been thinking about what wearing a mask (or the mandates requiring masks) means to these individuals, and what we can…
My wife first tried a caipirinha at Disney's Coronado Springs resort when we first got married, and immediately fell in love (with the caipirinha). Naturally, we had to figure out how to make the cocktail at home. It's now a tradition of ours to make this cocktail for our Dungeons & Dragons nights, which is following the theme so well , don't you think? What is a Caipirinha? # The Caipirinha is…
In the span of a couple weeks, I had a few moments that sparked thoughts on what it's like being a hard of hearing remote worker. A manager friend of mine hired a remote worker who has a hearing impairment and wanted thoughts on what he can do to be accommodating A tweet was shared with me that was asking for ways to get into the coding world that is accessible. link Ensuing discussions among a…