Ayo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @ayo@niu.moe

Why implement threaded or async network I/O when you could just as easily add a notice.

Decided to give my new phone's camera a test drive. Most of the photos turned out blurry or with shitty lighting, but that's just me sucking at photography.

Visual novel reading chair: acquired.

It's old and dirty, but
Oh,
So,
Comfortable.

My new phone just arrived. My old phone took that as a sign to... Open up? Seems pretty broken...

Typical day in the life of a sysadmin: A bot found a slow page. 😞

#Perl's dynamic type system is definitely a weak point. Types are implied by operators rather than by values. Except when they aren't, and you end up writing hacks like this.

And the problem is only worsening.

Thanks to @glaurungo's tip I expanded my monitoring tools selection a bit, but only thing I've found is that (1) number of TCP retransmissions from the origin server to the nginx proxy seems a bit high, but that could be normal behavior of nginx providing backpressure for slow clients and (2) perf tells me that a good chunk of time is spent in sys_write/tcp_sendmsg - that's high-ish but doesn't at all explain the user-space CPU usage of nginx.

I might be on to something. Let's keep monitoring...

I accidentally wrote a wonderfully annoying UI.

This is what happens when I get distracted by the noise of leaf blowers outside.

Someone has been playing a LOT of visual novels against their will.

Looks like twitter is A/B testing a new layout. It's supposed to be the same search results page, but it's not even giving the same results...

Pushed out a large and potentially breaking update. Time to go for a hike!

I've seen many negative comments on the web, but this is a new low.

The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem was a fun read. A short story, chock-full with humor, fast-pased action, weird hallucinations, odd twists and an interesting utopia-turned-out-to-be-dystopia. The dystopia in itself is like many others in the genre (Brave New World-like, just a little worse), but it's hard to find such a great combination of tropes in such a short novel. Can highly recommend. #AmReading #SciFi

It's ugly.
I don't care.
It works.

Talking about miniflux, this item on their homepage keeps amusing me. Barely readable gray-on-white text is not exactly a good example of "Optimized for readability". I wonder if it's intentional, but it's so out of place... https://miniflux.app/

Finally finished Chasm City, another 700 page monstrosity by Alastair Reynolds. It's as hard to review as it was to read.

I liked the writing style, the masterful world building and the meticulous approach to hard #SciFi. But it's not without faults: The story takes 400 pages to get anywhere at all, I had trouble making sense of the motivations of many important characters and the foreshadowing and final story explanations could have used more subtlety. Still, it's a brilliant read (and a brilliant universe!) if you have the patience to make it through. #amreading

I add one hidden <fieldset> around the main box and suddenly the box shrinks so that tabs are next to it rather than above it. Modifying an old CSS mess is, well, a mess.

Looks like the Nyoro~n emoticon has been removed. I don't know how else to respond to this error.