# resting (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover resting. Page: Feed: --- ## [Status update July 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-jul-26/) _2026-08-18 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I've finished installing minidlna on my home server. Now I can finally disable another service exposed, until now, by Qnap. The goal is always the same: The Qnap NAS should work only as network drive. In the future my aim is to switch from Qnap to TrueNAS. Learning I'm reading REST in Practice, a book I can accross title found during the read of Building Microservice. I bought a physical… ## [Retrospettiva luglio 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-lug-26/) _2026-08-13 · Owlcode.eu_ In questa retrospettiva riassumo quello che è successo nei mesi di giugno e luglio. Vita lavorativa Sono alle battute finali del progetto che coordino come Team Leader e responsabile del backend sviluppato per conto del CNR. Appena si concluderà mi prenderò un breve periodo sabbatico per studiare e portare avanti qualche progetto personale. Sono stato contattato da una grande associazione… ## [Onward, Valiant Snail](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2027452.html) _2026-08-12 · Elise Matthesen_ Recovering from a traumatic brain injury is a bigger project than it seemed at first. Tell me something good? A thing you did, or know, or are working towards? A place you got to go, a little bit of shared joy? A moment like a poem or a song? Someone that you celebrate? Thanks. The concussion clinic sees me in a few weeks. They've been really booked up this year, apparently. The physical therapy… ## [Adjustment – Adaptation – Perseverance – Recovery](https://635916.substack.com/p/adjustment-adaptation-perseverance) _2026-08-10 · Mike Pennington · Mike Pennington_ Life is unpredictable. The unexpected happens virtually every day, so what do you do? ## [a quick sketch of an update post](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2027164.html) _2026-06-10 · Elise Matthesen_ There were thunderstorms going flickaflick kaBOOMba in the Twin Cities much of the night, so I am awake. Now that doesn't mean awake enough to make a proper post on how things are, but here's the basic stuff: On May 10, I unexpectedly surfed down a collapsing retaining wall which then yeeted me headfirst into the side of the house. I got a concussion and a double-fractured ankle. And now I'm… ## [Retrospettiva maggio 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-mag-26/) _2026-06-06 · Owlcode.eu_ Praticamente nessuna attività personale al di fuori di quelle lavorative. Il progetto che sto guidando come team leader entra nelle fasi finali e ci avviciniamo all’ultimo rilascio pre-collaudo. Fatto un paio di colloqui conoscitivi con due nuove realtà a cui sono seguite due proposte: una relativa all’implementazione di un prototipo e l’altra per un servizio di consulenza… ## [Status update May 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-may-26/) _2026-06-06 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects Nothing to report for this month unfortunately Owlcode.eu Published a couple of articles on the blog: Retrospettiva aprile 2026 Status update April 2026 Conclusion Another busy month due to work committments, so I hadn’t any time to dedicate to my personal projects. If you like RSS, subscribe to the feed See you next month🕺. ## [Retrospettiva aprile 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-apr-26/) _2026-05-12 · Owlcode.eu_ Pochissime attività personali in un altro mese sommerso da quelle relative al progetto che sto seguendo lavorativamente. Progetti Ho cercato di eliminare un po' di rumore nelle dashboard di GoatCounter sia per questo sito che per owlcode.it, filtrando alcune pagine di poco interesse. Ho trasferito owlcode.eu da GoDaddy a OVH. La procedura è stata velocissima e non ci sono stati problemi di… ## [Status update April 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-apr-26/) _2026-05-12 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I eliminated a little bit of noise from my GoatCounter dashboards by filtering less interesting pages. I finally transferred this domain from GoDaddy to OVH. A concrete step to move my “assets” closer to home. I received another offer to sell Resting. The terms of the offer are always the same: 20 cents for every active user of Resting on Chrome Web Store. So currently the… ## [In a Blink Everything Changed – Is God still Good even in Suffering?](https://635916.substack.com/p/in-a-blink-everything-changed-is) _2026-05-08 · Mike Pennington · Mike Pennington_ How have you been humbled lately? How do you respond to a devastating event? ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IEg1XuNpUts6) _2026-05-08 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Happy May!](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2026695.html) _2026-05-02 · Elise Matthesen_ It's nice to have good news to share. As of May 1, I have health insurance again! In all directions available! (Medicare is complicated that way, and explaining it takes more words than I have time for, but the TooLong,Didn'tRead of it is: if your Medicare lapses, any supplemental insurance is also voided until you get the Medicare back. Which took from January 25th until now, in my case.) Anyhow,… ## [Retrospettiva marzo 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-mar-26/) _2026-04-11 · Owlcode.eu_ Mese totalmente assorbito dalle attività lavorative, le scadenze sono imminenti. Progetti Ho portato avanti qualche sviluppo su ts-converter, un’estensione per browser che ho scritto in elm. Ho aggiornato vari servizi ospitati dal mio server. Owlcode.eu Pubblicato due articoli sul blog: Retrospettiva febbraio 2026 Status update February 2026 In conclusione Come scritto in apertura il mese è… ## [Status update March 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-mar-26/) _2026-04-11 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I’m working on ts-converter, a browser extension developed in elm, to complete it. I updated some services I host on my server. Owlcode.eu Published a couple of articles on the blog: Retrospettiva febbraio 2026 Status update February 2026 Conclusion A very busy month due to work committments, so I hadn’t any time to dedicate to my personal projects. If you like RSS, subscribe… ## [waving hello from the month of April](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2026247.html) _2026-04-10 · Elise Matthesen_ How did it be April? It seems simultaneously sudden and somehow like it took a million years. Guess I'd better catch people up; sorry about being out of touch. State of the Me: Still waiting for my insurance to be reinstated. (There's a whole saga that I'm too tired to retell right now, but rest assured that Things Are Being Followed Up On.) It's been eleven weeks and one day since my mother died.… ## [Status update February 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-feb-26/) _2026-03-02 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I’m working on ts-converter, a browser extension developed in elm, to complete it. I took me some time to relearn the language syntax and to configure neovim to work with it. I started tracking visits of owlcode.it with goatcounter. I’m now using the browser extension offered by shiori to quickly save bookmarks. I moved my Joplin backup script from my main laptop to my small… ## [Retrospettiva febbraio 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-feb-26/) _2026-03-01 · Owlcode.eu_ Progetti Continua il lavoro su ts-converter, un’estensione per browser che ho scritto in elm, per renderla completa. Ho usato del tempo per riprendere confidenza con il linguaggio e per mettere in piedi un ambiente di sviluppo minimamente comodo su neovim. Ho iniziato ad utilizzare goatcounter anche per tracciare le visite a owlcode.it. Ho iniziato ad utilizzare l’estensione browser… ## [Cardinal John Henry Newman filk, repeated](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2025907.html) _2026-02-26 · Elise Matthesen_ Whoops! It was John Henry Newman's birthday the other day, and I missed the opportunity to post this again. It can be sung to at least one version of John Henry, though things may have to be adjusted here and there. Here ya go: When John Henry Newman was an Anglican He went down to the Holy See Said I wanna see the Pope 'cause I got a crazy hope That they're gonna make a Catholic out of me, Lord,… ## [Retrospettiva gennaio 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-gen-26/) _2026-02-03 · Owlcode.eu_ Progetti Ho lavorato parecchio su Resting. L’obiettivo è concludere il passaggio dell’applicazione da knockoutjs a vue. Ho ripreso in mano ts-converter, un’estensione per browser che ho scritto in elm ormai anni fa per convertire velocemente timestamp numerici in date comprensibili. Voglio terminare le funzionalità che mancano per renderla un’estensione completa: la… ## [Status update January 2026](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-jan-26/) _2026-02-03 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I worked a lot on Resting with the goal of completing the conversion to vue. I recovered ts-converter, a browser extension I implemented a few years ago with elm to convert timestamps into readables dates. Now I want to complete it with the conversion from dates to timestamps. I start exploring vikunja, an Open Source alternative to Trello. Owlcode.eu Published a couple of articles on the… ## [Status update December 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-dec-25/) _2026-01-26 · Owlcode.eu_ This is a summary of the past year. Projects I spent most of the year improving my “homelab” management and self-hosting services for myself, my family and a small group of friends. I worked a lot on Resting with the goal of completing the conversion of codebase to vue. Due to the closure of Pocket, I started self-hosting a new service to manage my bookmarks: shiori. Open Source… ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pBDoLzR4IXuM) _2026-01-25 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Other people trying to do the right thing in grief need some help - please read. Thank you](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2025552.html) _2026-01-22 · Elise Matthesen_ There's someone who is trying to raise funds for memorial services and to bury his brother who died of exposure last weekend. I'll just say what I said on bluesky: His family wants to do memorial services in Minneapolis and in Wisconsin where he was born and will be buried. If you've felt grief, if you've comforted people in grief, please help these folks. (My own mother died this morning. If you… ## [you may know this one already (On the Nature of Daylight)](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2025284.html) _2026-01-22 · Elise Matthesen_ Here's where I am today, I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InyT9Gyoz\_o comments ## [in the midst: another passage](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2025153.html) _2026-01-21 · Elise Matthesen_ After some trouble getting ahold of me, my sister has let me know that our mother died this morning. (So maybe don't assume I remember anything I'm supposed to remember this week?) My sister and her husband continue to be awesome in these matters. As does Juan. OK. Gonna go have food and meds now. comments ## [National Weather Service sez](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2024935.html) _2026-01-21 · Elise Matthesen_ ...EXTREME COLD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THURSDAY TO 11 AM CST FRIDAY... ...EXTREME COLD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... \* WHAT...For the Extreme Cold Warning, dangerously cold wind chills of 35 to 45 below expected. For the Extreme Cold Watch, dangerously cold wind chills as low as 35 below possible. \* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south… ## [Retrospettiva dicembre 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-dic-25/) _2026-01-13 · Owlcode.eu_ Vita lavorativa Ho collaborato con la stessa azienda di consulenza software per due clienti diversi. Progetti L’anno è stato dedicato in larga parte a migliorare la gestione del mio “homelab” dove gestisco i servizi per uso personale, della famiglia e di un piccolo gruppo di amici. Ho rilasciato un paio di versioni di Cambusa seguendo i consigli degli utenti che la stanno… ## [filk: Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning Millay](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2024652.html) _2026-01-03 · Elise Matthesen_ (Whoever hellseries on AO3 is, this is for them, because it was their comment on https://archiveofourown.org/works/75916086 that made it happen.) Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning Millay Says the reader to the poet, “Your verse fine and wild My attention has caught, and my senses beguiled” Says the poet to the reader, “Are you going my way? I am Edna St. Vincent Black Lightning… ## [Yuletide progress: it is posted!](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2024062.html) _2025-12-17 · Elise Matthesen_ I have met the deadline and posted the thing! Now we just have the week between today and Reveal Day, also known as "the week where I find all the hidden typos and fix them." Main Collection Reveal Day for the fics is the 24th, and is followed by Author Reveals on January 1. This year was more work than previous years, for a very particular reason. I got COVID for the first time in October, and… ## [Yuletide progress](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2023839.html) _2025-12-15 · Elise Matthesen_ Yes, I am cutting it close. I blame getting COVID Halloween week, and having to rest like a potato. Which I am still doing, but I have advanced to the stage of literate potato. I hope. Because this thing is due in, what, fifty-some hours? Anyhow, I came here to post that I have reached the milestone in writing the current draft where I just reread a section and said out loud, "OK, so there are… ## [Twin Cities history: 1980s, ARA (Anti-Racist Action), Baldies, punk, music, Uptown](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2023500.html) _2025-12-14 · Elise Matthesen_ Um. I tried to write an intro for this, but all I can do is gesture incoherently. No, I wasn't a Baldy, I wasn't a skinhead, but the milieu affected my life for Reasons. If you watch this documentary it may give you a better understanding of (some of) what made Minneapolis in the 80s what it was. Or maybe you were there too, and this will be an interesting tour of byegone days. I really want to… ## [reading about writing, thinking about art](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2023147.html) _2025-12-09 · Elise Matthesen_ So, just a few minutes ago in one place or another, I was reading what someone had to say about style. In the course of exploring a particular writer's habits and style, they said that they themselves weren't sure they knew what style was. A long time ago, a sentence came into my possession that has been both comforting and humbling by degrees. It is this: "Style is what you can't help doing." The… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aKb60W0DTiJy) _2025-12-09 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Status update November 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-nov-25/) _2025-12-05 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects I’ve finally implemented the list of articles grouped by year on this blog. What’s going on with Resting? I’m converting a base component, used in multiple parts of the application, in vue. Someone contacted me offering to buy Resting for 20 cent per user. I declined because this isn’t part of my plans. I noticed that Chrome active users jumped to 3000 in just a… ## [Retrospettiva novembre 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-nov-25/) _2025-12-04 · Owlcode.eu_ Vita lavorativa Il preventivo per l’estensione del gestionale è stato accettato ed è in lenta fase di sviluppo. Partito ufficialmente il progetto Spring Boot che seguirò come responsabile backend e team leader per i prossimi mesi. Come sempre in fase di partenza c’è un sacco di lavoro da fare. In questo progetto, oltre ai test d’integrazione con Testcontainers, proverò ad… ## [Stoppard.](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2022767.html) _2025-11-30 · Elise Matthesen_ He were brilliant. Mr Ford took me to London (first class, yet, as he had to use up a lot of frequent flyer miles on a reorganizing airline, so we went fancy) to see Arcadia at the NT. It was stunning. Glad we had him on the planet. He will be missed. comments ## [Still resting LIKE A POTATO but with small bits of work in between, and ASKING YOUR FAVOR](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2022622.html) _2025-11-30 · Elise Matthesen_ I test negative for COVID these days, and feel a lot better. As directed by many people who learned some of it the hard way, I continue to rest LIKE A POTATO. And no, the giggle-inducing power of that phrase has not worn off. Juan has a way of intoning it at various sleeptimes that brings even more amusement due to the solemnity. And these things are good. HOWEVER, what is not so good is that I'm… ## [Health: COVID symptom whack-a-mole?](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2022250.html) _2025-11-20 · Elise Matthesen_ tl:dr Silly body is silly. I continue resting LIKE A POTATO. Whatever's going on in there, COVID (or something) has apparently been playing with the sliders and the lit-up buttons on my disabilities and chronic ailments. The good leg because the bad leg for several days. Really bad, pain-wise. Now that seems to be easing up a lot. The bad leg is doing something with sensations on the part of the… ## [still resting LIKE A POTATO, with a slight lapse yesterday](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2021938.html) _2025-11-13 · Elise Matthesen_ The status around here is STILL RESTING LIKE A POTATO, though yesterday I did give in to "this needs to be done, it is a safety issue, and I'm the only one who's likely to do it." Thus the two small stumps at the edge of the yard are now decorated with strips of rag tied around them in a way that, one hopes, will convey the notion that there is something here which should neither be mowed over nor… ## [idle memories (while resting LIKE A POTATO)](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2021791.html) _2025-11-12 · Elise Matthesen_ Apropos of recent attic archaeological finds (no, I mean from my actual attic\*), there was a time when Mike and I were talking about funnymen and who-knows-what, and I conflated two names. This yielded "Victor Borges" instead of Victor Borge, and THAT yielded a good several minutes of improvisatory Fordeana covering labyrinthine comedy and surrealist punctuation. Anyone else remembering points of… ## [How to use dateAsFormattedString in Spring Data MongoDB](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/how-to-use-dateasformattedstring-spring-data/) _2025-11-11 · Owlcode.eu_ We want to reproduce the MongoDB query below db.presence.aggregate( \[ { '$group' : { '\_id' : { 'date' : { $dateToString: { format: '%d-%m-%Y', date: '$date'}}, 'sensorId' : '$sensorId', }, count: { $sum: 1 } } } \]); How can I use the function $dateToString in Spring Data ? Let’s say we have a collection presence with documents defined as below. @Document(collection = 'presence') public class… ## [Status update October 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-oct-25/) _2025-11-10 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects The repository of pommy has been migrated from Github to Codeberg. I want to migrate all services executed by my nas Qnap to one of my mini-PCs. The idea is to dismiss the qnap in the future and switch to something more open. The first step is moving all services to a local debian server and maintain the qnap only as storage. At the moment I have moved the backup of Cambusa and installed… ## [Opportunity Food](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2021434.html) _2025-11-06 · Elise Matthesen_ At our house, Opportunity Food is defined as what you can make when you can't stand up that long today. Currently, is Bowl o' Cronch: take bowl spread some nut butter on bottom/sides of bowl (note: INsides, not OUTsides) - today is peanut butter throw some dried fruit at nut butter if you got some - today is raisins and some crystallized ginger put in puffed brown rice (or whatever you got) add… ## [Health Natter: still resting like a potato. also, possibly useful bureacracy](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2021209.html) _2025-11-06 · Elise Matthesen_ We are still getting through COVID. We are still resting LIKE POTATOES. (Still funny. Every time.) A helpful person pointed out it is still open enrollment time for health insurance. Well then. Have inquired with health insurance broker. (It doesn't cost anything. If you are in Minnesota or Wisconsin, and need one, I have references.) There are things that can be done, it looks like. For right… ## [Health Natter: COVID, and continuing to REST LIKE A POTATO](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2020891.html) _2025-11-05 · Elise Matthesen_ Have had food. (Soup!) Have had meds. Vented on Bluesky, where I am lionesselise.bsky.social . Am about to rest again for a while. LIKE A POTATO. If a potato could crochet, anyhow. I'm in a mood for a little crocheting before sleepage. Love you all. You are the best. comments ## [Retrospettiva ottobre 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-ott-25/) _2025-11-05 · Owlcode.eu_ Vita lavorativa Ho lavorato qualche giornata sul progetto Micronaut per introdurre una nuova funzionalità. Ho preparato un preventivo per estendere le funzionalità del gestionale che gestisco per un mio cliente storico. Un nuovo progetto è in partenza e mi occuperà nei prossimi mesi. Sarà sviluppato principalmente con Spring Boot e PostgreSQL. Il resto del tempo è stato dedicato allo studio e a… ## [Health Natter: insurance switchover bites me hard: stuff already in progress has bad timing](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2020704.html) _2025-11-04 · Elise Matthesen_ Because I recently turned 65, there were changes in my insurance. I now have Blue Cross Blue Shield, which I used to have some years ago before I got switched to a different insurance. They have now denied a med that is a cornerstone of why I am feeling better and breathing better these days. The switch happened after my August birthday. All the other meds are (allegedly, and I do believe them) on… ## [Health Natter: COVID: Jelly Turtles from Spain](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2020413.html) _2025-11-04 · Elise Matthesen_ Still have COVID. Still continuing. Still resting like potatoes. (With the caveat that I do get up and sit in a chair for a while each day, because my body needs that for some things.) Today's things included talking on phone with multiple people at new insurance/pharmacy/et cetera. Cried twice. This is harder than it actually needs to be. Told them, when they asked if med was medically necessary,… ## [health natter: "rest like a potato!"](https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2020244.html) _2025-11-02 · Elise Matthesen_ The "rest like a potato!" protocol continues and so do we. comments ## [Surprised by Contemplation! Drawing closer to God](https://635916.substack.com/p/surprised-by-contemplation-drawing) _2025-10-02 · Mike Pennington · Mike Pennington_ Contemplation is almost a foreign term in this harried, "always on" 24-7 world today. Who has time for contemplation, anyway? Jesus, for one. I'm learning it, too. Soul Marking #2, Contemplation ## [What is God Preparing You for?](https://635916.substack.com/p/what-is-god-preparing-you-for) _2025-09-30 · Mike Pennington · Mike Pennington_ Preparation is essential and strategic. Jesus prepared for 30 years. Were those wasted years? Of course not! Every moment of preparation with God is vital. Prayer Trail, Soul Marking #1 ## [Retrospettiva settembre 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/retrospettiva-set-25/) _2025-09-29 · Owlcode.eu_ Vita lavorativa Concluso il lavoro con Micronaut. Ho usato il framework per circa un anno e l’esperienza non è stata esaltante. Nonostante sia alla versione 4.x, l’ho trovato immaturo, con alcune mancanze e qualche problema. Forse vuole offrire troppe funzionalità out-of-the-box e questo diventa difficile da gestire, per cui sono incappato in problemi anche in scenari semplici. Stesso… ## [Status update September 2025](https://www.owlcode.eu/blog/status-update-sept-25/) _2025-09-29 · Owlcode.eu_ Projects Some news about Resting: I have decided to stop my test project on creating a web-extension with knockoutjs, vue and vite. I’m stuck on importing a knockout file into vite. So I have decided to proceed with the porting to vue and then consider introducing vite into the project. I discovered that the Resting website is no longer indexed by Google. I tried to request a new indexing…