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Spent an hour yesterday afternoon talking Minecraft with my wife's 7yo god-son. He has only played the demo, but knows more about the...

Spent an hour yesterday afternoon talking Minecraft with my wife's 7yo god-son. He has only played the demo, but knows more about the game than I do.
He and his friends play it in the playground, apparently, in real life.

A few words on moving on from freelancing... https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2022/01/02/closing-doors-and-opening-new-ones/

A few words on moving on from freelancing... https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2022/01/02/closing-doors-and-opening-new-ones/

After the first night, I can say that "dim" isn't quite dim enough. It's still less jarring than the red, bloody Eye...

After the first night, I can say that "dim" isn't quite dim enough. It's still less jarring than the red, bloody Eye beaming across the room though.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon building a digital clock kit which is immediately better than my previous digital clock because it...

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon building a digital clock kit which is immediately better than my previous digital clock because it dims the LEDs when it detects that the room is dark. Win!

(The previous clock got nicknamed the Eye of Sauron due to its unnerving red glow. Had to keep a piece of card over the display to make it tolerable.)

I think that's enough time arguing with dependabot updates for this weekend.(Also, TIL Solr 8.x isn't compatible with Jackson 2.12,...

I think that's enough time arguing with dependabot updates for this weekend.

(Also, TIL Solr 8.x isn't compatible with Jackson 2.12, despite what dependabot wants me to believe.)
#biosolr

Sitting here wondering why the 'k' key had stopped working, only to realize I'd actually put i3 into resize mode...I'm on a...

Sitting here wondering why the 'k' key had stopped working, only to realize I'd actually put i3 into resize mode...

I'm on a home-built keyboard, so having a key stop working could mean anything! 😃

Sunday morning baking: sourdough bread, plus eight savoury scones made with sourdough discard.

Sunday morning baking: sourdough bread, plus eight savoury scones made with sourdough discard.

Fixed the microwave door this morning, so that's another small victory over planned obsolescence.(I can't imagine those plastic...

Fixed the microwave door this morning, so that's another small victory over planned obsolescence.

(I can't imagine those plastic spring hooks aren't *intended* to break after a certain amount of time.)

My main desktop PC died the other day - power button wouldn't respond at all. Today I replaced the PSU, assuming the 8-year old one was...

My main desktop PC died the other day - power button wouldn't respond at all. Today I replaced the PSU, assuming the 8-year old one was probably the issue. No joy. Still completely dead.

Now guessing it's either the motherboard, CPU, or the power button itself. Bah!

Duolingo French feels like a Sisyphean undertaking. Every time I get near to finishing they revise it and add more modules!

Duolingo French feels like a Sisyphean undertaking. Every time I get near to finishing they revise it and add more modules!

The joy of an early dishwasher disassembly, having discovered the rotor is too full of limescale to clean the mugs effectively.Everything I...

The joy of an early dishwasher disassembly, having discovered the rotor is too full of limescale to clean the mugs effectively.

Everything I find online says that dishwasher tablets have a built in descaler, and you shouldn't need to do this. Clearly the water around here is too calcium-rich for that to be true.

Just posted about adding RGB backlighting and tweaking the OLED display on my Lily58 home-build keyboard....

Just posted about adding RGB backlighting and tweaking the OLED display on my Lily58 home-build keyboard. https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/lily58-adding-rgb-backlighting/

My third keyboard build - a Lily 58. https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/building-the-lily58-keyboard/

My third keyboard build - a Lily 58. https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/building-the-lily58-keyboard/

And of course my Drop Halo True switches turn up the day after I've built my new keyboard. Luckily it's hot-swappable...

And of course my Drop Halo True switches turn up the day after I've built my new keyboard. Luckily it's hot-swappable...

Just spent ages bashing my head against QMK, trying to figure out why I couldn't get the media keys to work, only to discover they were...

Just spent ages bashing my head against QMK, trying to figure out why I couldn't get the media keys to work, only to discover they were disabled in the keyboard config. EXTRAKEY_ENABLE=yes, dammit!

Accidentally filled my root partition during an update last night and thought I'd b0rked my laptop. Thankfully managed to restore the...

Accidentally filled my root partition during an update last night and thought I'd b0rked my laptop. Thankfully managed to restore the kernel by booting and chrooting from a USB stick.

(Turned out a mount had failed last time I backed up and it had rsync'd to a local folder instead of my NAS. Oops!)

#phew

Anyone know where I can get a "humanized cutting mouth"? I'll need one in a few days when my LED strip arrives.

Anyone know where I can get a "humanized cutting mouth"? I'll need one in a few days when my LED strip arrives.

Two weeks in, my Let's Split progress report: https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/lets-split-two-week-verdict/

Two weeks in, my Let's Split progress report: https://mattonthehill.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/lets-split-two-week-verdict/

It baffles me that people take the RAM out of old laptops when they sell them on ebay, especially those selling as "Parts only"....

It baffles me that people take the RAM out of old laptops when they sell them on ebay, especially those selling as "Parts only". Surely 4GB of Macbook RAM from 2010 can't be worth re-selling... can it?

Trying to recreate an old mix tape on Spotify, not surprised that I can't find every track. Surprised that one of the missing is...

Trying to recreate an old mix tape on Spotify, not surprised that I can't find every track. Surprised that one of the missing is "More Light" off the first J Mascis & The Fog album though...