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We’re now having a thunderstorm with rain, lightning and thunder and the severe weather map shows all green. I’d expect it to be violet.
20° temperature drop in just a hand full of days. Ooof. We went on a stroll at 10°C today. I could have used a beanie, my ears were very cold. The sun was out, but hardly any people. Very nice. Also, no wind.
It was nice to finally hear a few birds singing again, although it was still fairly silent. The sun gave us a nice show. In hindsight, we should have stayed at the summit a bit longer. In the forest, we missed the very best, crazy red sky. We could only see parts shimmering through the tree lines.
I’m finally continuing with my tt rewrite in Go. So, I thought I use the shiny io/fs.FS. That’s supposed to be a super cool new file system API. It allowed me to write tests more elegantly. I don’t have to place actual test files on disk, but can keep everything nicely in RAM with testing/fstest.MapFS. That actually worked out great, I do like that.
However, os.DirFS("/") for production code is just a terrible solution. I noted that OS paths and io/fs.FS paths are fundamentally different. This new API does not allow leading slashes in the passed paths. This results in an error. So, I have to cut the leading slash off myself.
Also, the whole thing is totally useless on Windows, because of the drives. Simply does not work at all. Well, honestly, I don’t care the slightest bit about that operating system, but it would be nice if this concept were cross-platform.
I haven’t tested it, but I’m pretty sure relative paths or ~ do also not work. I have to first build absolute paths myself. Unfortunately, there is no builtin helper to translate an OS path into a io/fs.FS path.
Of course, others noted these shortcomings and surprising results, too: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44279 There is no OSFileSystem implementation that would simply allow the easy transition from all the classical os.* functionality to io/fs.FS. And they also do not wanna add something like that either. Sigh.
I’m really wondering what they were thinking when introducing this. :-?
Even though, it’s very silly, I’m gonna keep using it. At least for now. Tests have been written. I’m not keen on rewriting them. Sigh.
Fuck, I lost my pocket knive somewhere.
When we passed a few horses in the forest, there was really strong soup odor in the air. It didn’t smell like horse at all, but soup. Maybe they’ve been soup horses, chickens were out of stock.
29°C, zero wind, extremely humid, luckily the sun was behind the clouds. I’m soaking wet, sweat ran down in streams and dripped in my eyes, it burned a bit. The sky is getting a little dark, I hope the thunderstorm and rain are really arriving here later. Rain had always been finally cancelled the couple last days.
I’m gotta go cool off my fingers now, they’re swollen from the heat.
My honey bread fell on the floor and would you believe which side was down? The clean, not the coated one. Witchcraft!
I’m out of shape. I decided to walk up the local mountain to watch the sunset, but I arrived five minutes late, even though I sped up at the end. Should have started my journey ten or fifteen minutes earlier. I saw the setting sun at foot, but the photos were total disasters.
On the way there I picked two handful of blackberries in the forest. Delicious!
Today was the second time in my life that I saw a grass snake in the wild. They can easily be recognized by the yellow “ears”. Unfortunately, this one was run over. :-( But I jumped at the opportunity to photograph it as it didn’t escape in a fraction of a second like my first encounter three years ago. Still, poor fellow. :-(
On the way home, a deer jumped out of the brush in front of me and headed down the forest road before it went back in the other side. As always, that’s nice.
I also had to slow down a bunch of times because of frogs or toads on the paths. Not sure which ones, it was already after dark. I guesstimate it must have been 60-70 amphibians in total, maybe more. Some of them did not move to the wayside but rather into the middle of the track, right in front of me. Crazy suicide frogs! There were four reeeeaaaallly close calls. I could just avoid stepping on them after they tried to hop right under my boot. Not a centimeter to spare. No toads were harmed during my trip. Phew!
Once I had to stop completely because of the large activity ahead of me. A larger (about the size of half a palm) individual surrounded my foot and then jumped against my heel. Twice! What the heck!? :-D But suuuper cool experience. I’m very glad I actually went out. Totally worth it. I met so many amazing animals. Don’t care about the missed sunset a single bit.
It cooled off to 20°C today, but mid week is supposed to be crazy hot again. It was a nice walk, also plenty of people around, though. So we decided against going up our backyard mountain to avoid the masses. We finally took a path that we haven’t checked out for years. That was pretty cool. I couldn’t remember anything on that.
More scenery: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-08-25/
Neither of us has ever seen such a marmelade bun mushroom:
Hmm, bissel kalt… https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/null-grad.png
My mate just said “WTF, there’s somehow a wall lizard in the family tree” and I can only agree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezgweVd4a98 Looks like this is the first real evidence of those lizard people. :-D
Transformed four kilograms of blackberries into a bit over three kilograms of blackberry jelly. https://lyse.isobeef.org/brombeergelee-2024-08-19/ The leftover jelly did not fit in prepared canning jars, so I dumped it in a regular drinking glass (which was a mustard glass in its former life): 
The rest is cooling off on the bench outside.
I saw a kestrel on a power pole the other day. It then flew off and attacked another one sitting in a tree:
More peaceful before that: https://lyse.isobeef.org/turmfalke-2024-08-07/
Heck yeah, I already saw three shooting stars in 10 minutes. Perseids are awesome! :-)
Paid the forest recreation week a quick visit and checked out their huts they built this week. My camera sucked hard, most photos turned out really crappy. Oh well. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-08-02/
Oh, the lovely smell of rain. Wonderful! 33°C today, yikes! And I can already hear the thunder rolling in.
Went for a walk onto my backyard mountain again and ate the first three wild blackberries of the season. Watching the sunset unfold from the summit was quite spectacular. The solar disk was glowing extremely blood red. The photos show it way too white, though.
I just heard AC/DC play live in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt for the first time in my life!
Well, when I was waiting for my train home on the station platform. I didn’t recognize that it was Acca Dacca, and I tried hard. In fact, the stage was 500 meters away, so it was just some music-like sound that found its way into my ears. Still kinda cool to know that I heard them live.
I had a barbie with my old workmates. That’s why I have a story to tell now. On the way there, the train was hopelessly overcrowded with AC/DC fans. You couldn’t fall down, simply impossible. It was like in the videos of Japanese subways, where guards press in passengers to utilize every square centimeter. At later stations, plenty of people didn’t get in. Not a chance. This caused quite some delays. And boy, was it hot in there. Streams of sweat running down everywhere.
Originally, I wanted to meet up with a workmate in a city train for the second part of the trip. Due to a signal failure, his train was delayed, though. It got delayed even more and more and was finally cancelled altogether. I eventually got my connecting train while he was still stuck and decided to abort mission and go home after 40 minutes. Catching my connection was another adventure. It was rerouted to another platform, of course without announcement. Because why would you? Fuck the passengers! Luckily, I noticed that it took a different branch at the switch on arrival and ran down and up the stairs to the other platform. The delay counter in this train showed 40 minutes when I finally got off.
With the exception of Acca Dacca, the way home was pleasantly uneventful. Just a few minutes delay and a relatively low passenger volume.
I’m so grateful for not having to experience all this shit on a daily basis anymore. Not looking forward to the next time I have to go into the city. Not at all.
Some colored spots in the sky this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-07-14/
My mate and I went on a hike yesterday: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-07-13/
Oh, this is interesting! Reading the Crafting Interpreters book, I came across a table of exit codes in FreeBSD.
I didn’t know that a command line usage error is supposed to report exit code 64. In the past I either simply exited with 1 or sometimes each exit statement got its own dedicated number. The latter came in useful for debugging shell scripts. I exactly knew which branch was executed. That was handy when the error messages were similar or even the same.
I was always wondering if there is some kind of a standard, but I never did my reasearch. Looking at other people’s code, it always seemed to me that everybody just did wantever they wanted to in regards to exit codes. I just looked up what else is out there and systemd also defines heaps of errors. It even references the FreeBSD one and links to the Linux Standard Base specification, too. Cool, cool!
Do you guys know of these conventions and make use of them?
Looks like the search engine is broken, @prologic@twtxt.net:
Error error parsing created field: parsing time “1713565714000000000” as “2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00”: cannot parse “565714000000000” as “-”
And now it’s even offline according to Clownflare…
Hahaha, of course @prologic@twtxt.net created his own monkey language fork. Nice! :-)
Hell yeah! Thanks to @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s asciiworld I was able to to just spot the ISS. And the coolest thing ever was a small shooting star that came down right in front of the ISS when it just passed Ursa Major! :-) Holy cow, how fucking cool is that!? Mega awesome! Thanks mate for this brilliant program! Absolutely worth every minute you spent on it! Thank you sooo much! :-) I’m super hyped right now. I really gotta go to bed now, though.
In comparison to the last times, today’s firefly hunt was rather mediocre. Just 14 specimens. However, even ten females sitting in the bushes and only four flying males. Certainly a female record, thus, can’t complain. I also came across five, six toads. And I heard a deer escaping into the woods. Couldn’t see anything, but it sounded like hoofs on the asphalt in front of me.
The rain finally got me, it was forecast to arrive later. Oh well.
Loud music from town blasted uphill into the forest. And fireworks reverbed with loud bangs over the hills in the middle of nature, holy crap!
Not too shabby! We also got a rainbow, but I didn’t capture it. https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-06-21/
Nice long rant about AI: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Oh come on. The waffle fell off the plate and hit the door and then the floor. Of course with the apple sauce side each.
Went on a great 20km hike to the Wäscherschloss (lit. Launderer Castle) with my mate. Unfortunately, the castle was closed (only opens on Sundays and public holidays), so we had to peek under the door with our cameras.
Sunny and a few clouds, very windy, my hat blew off a few times, perfect 20°C hiking weather. Could have been a few degrees less, though. We walked through some beautiful scenery, especially when it is lit up by the sun. Really gorgeous views and paths. I should go over there more often. Last time was almost exactly two years ago.
The one steep foot path in the forest had 60cm deep canyons from the flood two weeks ago. Absolutely crazy! The burried post cable caution tape even was revealed. That path didn’t look like a path anymore at all.
At home I had to remove a tick. Those fucking bastards!
These 24°C were brutal. The cow in 03 was standing in the bog, not sure why she liked this brackish water. It sounded “tchlk, schlk” when she moved around in that mud (what do you call that?). Some of these canyons, like 14, are over 30cm deep. Wow. In 15 at a height of two meters, a torn rag hangs in the tree in the creek bed. It’s crazy to see how high the flood came in 16 with all the washed up stuff in the hedge.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-06-07/
It was a tiny bit moist on today’s stroll. We saw exactly one other person in the forest. It’s only raining once the entire weekend. And how!
All the black stuff on the shore of the pool are tad poles. Technically, there are hundreds of them on the flooded forest road. :-)
Hmm, when I join all my eight incremental database schema changes into just a single one (basically drop support for migration of old databases), my test execution time drops from about 1:10 minutes to just 33 seconds. I might consider doing exactly that. I’m the only one who runs that software anyway.
Just haven’t figured out where exactly the speedup comes from. I suspected that the column recreation is kind of expensive, but it doesn’t really appear to that obvious. More testing is needed.
One of our scout leaders found a blackbird laying outside the car and is now raising her:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/amsel-2024-05-29/
I should have taken a video of that gorgeous bird.
And today also just a quick two hour roundtrip in order to make it to the Yarn meetup almost in time: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-05-25/
Lol, somebody reverse-engineered the secret API to tell Windows that some snake oil is installed: https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender
Regarding https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/POSTING-en.html: I remember using Star $Something back in the days. I don’t remember the exact name anymore and none of the screenshots of StarOffice look familiar. Hmm. I have a green UI in mind. Not sure if I completely hallucinate it or whether that was actually the case. It was a commercial software, not freeware, we had to buy it, I think.
My first LaTeX distribution was MiKTeX with – if I remember correctly – the TeXNicCenter. A bit later on Linux I used Kile as my LaTeX editor. LaTeX produces the worst error messages I’ve ever come across. So compile early and often. But the results are amazing.
I know people who never make use of headings and the like to this day. Bold, italics, underline etc. is all they use. Despite writing larger documents. Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.
These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it. RST and Markdown if it has to be more fancy.
Oh dear, I got plenty of spam – if not even worse – on one of my jabber IDs. One sender JID was on exploit.net or exploit.im or something like that (I already forgot).
Two mates and I went on a 25km hike yesterday to the Wasserberg (lit. Water Mountain) and Fuchseck (lit. Fox Corner) on the edge of the Swabian Alb. They arrived by train and of course it was delayed by half an hour, “due to limited availability of tracks”. That was a first one, I never heard that reason before. Another train had a breakdown in a train station and later my mates’ train had to be rebooted, too. That restart alone took 10 minutes. O_o Software problem, it can’t be helped.
It rained the whole day before, so a lot of foot paths had turned into small creeks. Also, the mud levels were much higher than usual. We also took one or the other shortcut which were even messier. And also reeaalllly steep (see 07 and 08). It didn’t help that my guiding abilities also sucked a bit and I took the wrong turn twice. Oh well, we just explored new paths I’ve never been on. That’s a win in my book. :-)
After a rest at the Wasserberghaus with a Spezi, we then decided to also visit the Fuchseck, since we’re just around the corner. It took a bit longer that I remembered and after enyoing the view and eating homemade waffles with apple sauce, we then made our way home.
About 100 meters in front of the train station it began to rain. The thunderstorm caught up on us. We just made it in time, a couple of minutes later, the train was supposed to show up. I quickly walked home and was a bit soaked when I unlocked the front door.
It was great fun, it was a nice stroll for me, my mates were absolutely exhausted. Well, I admit, my feet hurt, too. :-)
Here’s a nice view on the Three Emperor-Mountains in the distance. From left to right: Hohenstaufen, Rechberg and Stuifen, the left one is my backyard mountain:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/42.jpg
More pics: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/
All packed, ready to go.
Righto, it’s time for a rotation into archive feeds again.
I just cleared my following list. Kicked out all the 26 feeds that have not been updated for two years or more. This will reduce a bit of useless traffic.
We had a nice sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-05-03/
The thunderstom is closing in on us now. It just started to drizzle.