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🗣 Followers 33 · Following 26 · Logs 89 · Docked 2 years ago
Weight and diet talk ahead, so stop reading now if you don't wanna hear it. Started making some changes to my life due to my weight gain starting to push into unhealthy territory, combined with a sudden onset of pretty bad acid reflux. No more alcohol, no more big snacks after dinner. Weight's been dropping week after week back toward my "normal," and the acid reflux is gone. Been pleased/relieved the solution was so simple, but my wife's been sensitive to this sort of talk since her pregnancy-related weight gain does not seem to have such a simple solution. So, I'm sharing here, for better or worse.
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Finally got around to entering the salvageable parts of a busted hand vacuum into my inventory. Surprised to find a microcontroller in there! Not sure what role it'd play. Maybe turning the "charging" LED on and off? I'd have expected that to be a function of the charge controller, though. 🤔
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Made a tool that takes a list of tab-separated date-integer pairs on stdin and outputs a Github-like heatmap as a PNG on stdout. Still needs some features, but it now produces the output I'd originally wanted. https://codeberg.org/lykso/date-heatmap
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Instead of working on my foodbot project, I'm installing Windows 98 with 86Box so I can play Creatures. Had good memories of it from my childhood, so I bought the game from GOG only to find it unusably broken. Dunno what happened to the CD I had, but I've got an ISO. Hope it works!
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Reached feature parity with my Python prototype on my foodbot in Go today. Might be breaking things up into too many modules. The project structure feels a bit off to me, anyway. Here's today's bit, building on my nutrition module. https://codeberg.org/lykso/recipes
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Just released my efforts toward making something I can use from the USDA datasets. https://codeberg.org/lykso/nutrition The project page gemini://lyk.so/files/nutrition.db The resulting SQLite3 database
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Decided to add a Markdown renderer to LML in order to write the README for a new project in it while still playing nice with Codeberg.
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Wrote my own markup language for rendering to HTML and gemtext. Might still be a little rough around the edges, but it seems to work well enough so far. http://codeberg.org/lykso/lml
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Located a keycap puller for my housemate to borrow in about five seconds and was able to retrieve it in less than thirty, thanks to my inventory system. Feels good when a system works so smoothly!
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Always difficult determining if you're about to over-engineer something.
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 8 months ago
Got My Time at Portia a few days ago. It has soaked up all my free time since then. It often happens that I spend the holidays playing more video games than usual, and this year seems to be no exception.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 10 months ago
Does anyone else start new projects by writing out a readme detailing how you want the tool to work? I think I've come to depend on this technique to help me clarify what exactly I want to build.
💬 5 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 10 months ago
Nothing like a warm drink after a walk in the cold.
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Added my first additonal identity today! Now I can post from more places. :)
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I like cooking without recipes. Tonight I decided to make a "fall-inspired" stir fry. Started with roasted butternut squash and improvised my way into a dish consisting of apples, chestnut mushrooms, kale, lentils, vegetable broth, butter, curry powder, cinnamon, "chicken-seasoned" seitan, and a bit of milk to keep things moist. I measured nothing.
💬 3 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Been stuck on my FoodBot project (now PyMeal) for a while. Have finally come unstuck after reading a couple detailed papers on the problem. Now the problem seems to be that I've been doing everything with shell scripts for so long that I've lost my intution about how to organize Python projects. 😬
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Finally got access to my server back. Turns out OpenSSH 8.9 breaks the software that interfaces with my signing dongle. 🤦
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Finally read William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. Glad to have read it, if only because I'd been meaning to for some time now. It certainly suffers from the "Seinfeld is unfunny" phenomenon common to most seminal works, unfortunately.
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Feels good to resume my inventory project after a long hiatus. I've identified the bugs in sc-im as a friction point for myself, so I'm working to replace it in my workflow with a collection of shell scripts.
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Working on paring back my possessions again and cataloguing that which I want to keep. Having a bit of scotch along with it for the first time in a long time. My hair's going gray and I'm becoming less ambitious, which is probably for the better. I have too many half-finished projects about. Found this gemsite today: gemini://d.moonfire.us/ The author's idea, picking a surname when starting a family, seems like a good one to me. I'd independently come to the same conclusion. Was nice seeing someone else had as well.
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Got my tetanus booster shot yesterday. Wiped out today.
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Finding myself trying to pay more attention to how much energy I'm using and when I'm using it. Trying to shift my more energy-intensive activities toward the daytime, when my solar panels are providing most of my electricity. It's proving an interesting exercise. I think I might start carrying a USB stick with media I might want and using that instead of my local NAS in the evenings...
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Last night I watched "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda." It's a documentary about a Japanese composer who, at the time, was battling throat cancer. It was a nice, calm, meandering film. I enjoyed it.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Been prioritizing buying fertilizer, so it took me a while, but I finally got enough coins to buy a synthesizer for my Astrobotany plant! gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/app/visit/a76b6a12acf0444e8a8155c9a5984c5f
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There are not many ideologies today, it seems, that encourage consuming less in order to reclaim more of one's free time for oneself. Yet I think this is a necessary plank in our transition to a greener future. I feel this could be helped along by encouraging simple, maximally inclusive communal activities. Much of our consumption today seems directed toward compensating for a loss of non-consumption-oriented community. I say this as one living in a relatively affluent Western country, granted.
💬 7 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Last night I referred to my own post on Station from about a month ago (linked below) to make another tempeh-and-rice concoction. Had to use honey because we were out of maple syrup. Still turned out alright. I think some ginger would've made it even better, though gemini://station.martinrue.com/lykso/82c7fc62e52a45d48331bf006ae4c370
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I had a Raspberry Pi 4 I wasn't using, so last night I flashed LibreELEC to an SD card and set it up to connect to my backup box over Wireguard. Now I don't have to spin up my gaming box to watch things! Haven't plugged it into a Kill-a-watt yet, but I suspect the Pi is using 1/4 to 1/10 of the electricity my gaming box does. Also, no fan noise.
💬 5 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
Sorry about the weird posts earlier! I was testing out a script for using Station on my e-ink Kindle and it had *appeared* to fail entirely. Guess it only failed partially.
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I've written a post summarizing some of my thoughts lately, framing retro gaming as a counter-"Jevons' paradox" activity. I'm curious about what some of you might have to say about or add to it. gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/011-retro-gaming-against-jevons-paradox.gmi
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
After a period of low-energy, of the sort I'm learning to ride out by taking some time to relax and play games or read things (rather than trying to force myself into "productivity," which really never seems to work), I've spent today almost entirely productively. Wife has termed this "business mode." It's been nice.