Thoughts

• But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! 2022-01-13 13:38:10 permalink →
• My 2022 new year's resolution is to decide which #ttrpg to finish writing ✍️ 🎲 2022-01-03 09:49:54 permalink →
• Shut the fuck up and have a mug of Horlicks #notsponsored 2022-01-02 20:18:31 permalink →
• New year, new bath towel 2022-01-01 19:38:33 permalink →
• Normalise buying face masks for the men in your life 2021-12-28 18:01:09 permalink →
• My skincare routine is at its best in the two weeks after Christmas Day 2021-12-28 18:00:33 permalink →
• Can you rent LEGO? I love building it but I hate having the models in the house taking up room 😅 2021-12-27 16:34:23 permalink →
• I've become one of those people who sends two texts when one better-formulated one would suffice. Nip that shit well and truly in the bud! 2021-12-27 11:48:14 permalink →
• Merry Christmas ya filthy animals 🕊✌️ 2021-12-25 09:12:22 permalink →
• Really feel like I should attempt properly learn C again 2021-12-22 18:46:54 permalink →
• Absolute class! refs: https://twitter.com/justcraigyp/status/1472635264958971904?s=21 2021-12-21 20:33:18 permalink →
• The absolute god complex of males teachers making you call them sir 😂 2021-12-17 11:32:21 permalink →
• When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. 2021-12-14 09:05:17 permalink →
• Best thing about insomnia: there's only 4 sleeps until Christmas 2021-12-10 18:33:40 permalink →
• Fantastic 😙👌🏻 refs: https://twitter.com/patrick27835875/status/1468104034229891078?s=21 2021-12-09 12:27:13 permalink →
• Good news, YAML-backed link aggregator is nearly feature complete. Bad news, it's ~1000 LOC in a single main.go 😬 https://agg.ols.wtf #refactor 2021-12-08 18:49:56 permalink →
• “Veni, vidi, vici.” I came, I saw, I conquered. As a comment it always struck Vimes as a bit too pat. It wasn’t the sort of thing you came up with on the spur of the moment, was it? It sounded as if he had worked it out. He’d probably spent long evenings in his tent, looking up in the dictionary short words beginning with V and trying them out… Veni, vermini, vomui, I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi, vereni, vamoosi, I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away? 2021-12-07 17:11:02 permalink →
• Sausage, chips, and beans for tea. So good being able to cook what I want 😂 2021-12-01 20:41:18 permalink →
• Find your John Lewis ad song. The number one on your 8th birthday covered by the artist of the number one on your birthday in 2017. Obviously don't share it anywhere because that's an opsec nightmare. Just bask in the horror that it probably involves Ed Sheeran. 2021-12-01 17:54:05 permalink →
• Inbox zero should not be celebrated; it should be the norm 2021-12-01 10:41:22 permalink →
• Can't get phished if you never check your work emails 2021-12-01 08:12:22 permalink →
• Strange to think that this time a couple of years ago I'd happily be arriving at work after a 60min commute and treating it as normal, whereas now I can't imagine waking up early enough to do that 😂 2021-11-30 08:07:10 permalink →
• Some cool tech zines at https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines about VPNs and crypto and shit 2021-11-29 08:32:28 permalink →
• Americans in general have got *lots* of things wrong. Candied yams are not one of these things 🤤 2021-11-28 17:26:34 permalink →
• Vegan lemon drizzle in the oven. What can I say? I get bakey when I'm feeling festive 2021-11-27 09:47:48 permalink →
• The girl loved her dinner too. Vegan toad in the hole recipe: 8 Richmond meat free sausages in a cake tin, covered in a glug of olive oil and cooked for 10 mins. While cooking get 250g strong flour; 2tsp baking powder; salt; pepper; 200ml oat milk; 200ml water all mixed together. Add the batter to the tin and cook for 30 mins. 2021-11-26 19:51:47 permalink →
• Vegan toad in the hole was amazing, thank gods. Won over the boy, but most challenging will be the girl when she's back from ballet 😬 2021-11-26 17:19:09 permalink →
• DZ: Food Trying a vegan toad in the hole tonight. It's from memory of how to cook a non-vegan on so I'm sure it will be absolute fine 2021-11-26 16:33:09 permalink →
• Update: we won the Paris trip. Feel like Joey in the Friends episode where he buys a boat. 2021-11-24 23:49:00 permalink →
• Tell me you've drunk too much without telling me you've drunk too much. I'll start. Just bid 2k for a holiday in Paris (flights not included) #silentauction 2021-11-24 20:55:18 permalink →
• Oh sweet, just noticed if I do 'hoot:' a tweet then it shows up on Twitter actually as a quoted retweet; that is pretty smart. Gods I need to write all this down before I forget how it works. 2021-11-23 20:19:01 permalink →
• Turns out sharing a link to a tweet works relatively nicely across all platforms. Except for the fact that in order for one (honk/yeet) to recognise it as a tweet, it has to be prefixed with hoot:. I suppose if I change the code to look for refs: instead then that looks nicer overall. I'd like to do the same with ActivityPub posts in order to add commentary to a boosted post but not sure the flow is the same 🤷‍♂️ 2021-11-23 20:08:37 permalink →
• hoot: https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1463236124529340420?s=21 2021-11-23 20:04:06 permalink →
• Turns out the Christmas tree isn't due until **next week**, premature celebrations were ironically also premature 🙄 2021-11-23 15:53:38 permalink →
• How could I forget that our Christmas tree is being delivered today?! 🎄 It's the most wonderful time of the year (or will be in a month or so) 2021-11-23 11:40:35 permalink →
• A teeny tiny cajon-based drum kit looks really attractive right now 2021-11-23 11:16:01 permalink →
• Anyone want to start a ska covers band? 2021-11-22 13:40:57 permalink →
• My daughter (7yo) wants to play D&D again with a new character. Instead of 5E though I think I might run Knave or even Racheek to get her into #OSR 🤫 https://ols.wtf/racheek.html 2021-11-21 18:23:38 permalink →
• The canonical source of my social posts is https://ols.wtf/thoughts. They just so happen to proliferate via ActivityPub and to the birdsite as a result of hacky shell scripts. I should probably write about how it all hangs together, mainly so I don't forget... 2021-11-20 14:03:31 permalink →
• The thing missing from the #streamlabs debacle is a viable alternative for streaming to multiple platforms from mobile (specifically iOS) 2021-11-20 08:45:00 permalink →
• 2/3 of the way through November and I've managed four paragraphs. Standard #NaNoWriMo 2021-11-20 07:04:06 permalink →
• I've written a web to #gemini proxy for when you want to view a webpage without leaving your gemini client ☺️ https://ols.wtf/cramp.html 2021-11-19 15:05:10 permalink →
• Happy #InternationalMensDay! Check your balls, be healthy, be a good friend, be a role model 💙 2021-11-19 10:17:08 permalink →
• The ideal number of Slack channels follows the formula of n-1, where n is the current number of Slack channels 2021-11-19 09:42:39 permalink →
• The irony of propping open a fire door with an extinguisher really is lost on some people... 2021-11-11 09:33:04 permalink →
• Introducing the lad to Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Gaia is fucking pissed. 2021-11-10 16:55:56 permalink →
• Excited to do some drumming tomorrow for the first time in **years** 🥁 2021-11-10 15:17:21 permalink →
• Trying to get a DisplayLink D3100 dock working with OpenBSD, but I can't find any reference to udl as a driver anymore. Is it gone? Or installed by default (and my dock just isn't supported) #openbsd 2021-11-10 07:33:13 permalink →
• Front bike light broke so had to make an emergency trip to Halfords to pick up a new one 😬 way too dark to chance it! 2021-11-09 15:52:27 permalink →
• Is it even a family holiday if you're not shushing the kids because they're interfering with the bingo? 2021-10-25 19:07:46 permalink →
• Definitely going to try NaNoWriMo this year. Got so many ideas from previous attempts that never came to fruition. Solarpunk murder mystery the front runner 2021-10-23 08:40:19 permalink →
• If it takes me two minutes to eat two slices of toast, how long does it take two kids to eat one slice each? Fucking ages. That's the answer. Fucking AGES. 2021-10-22 08:39:13 permalink →
• Something I think about pretty often: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-10-21-huge-disaster-recovery-plan.html 2021-10-21 15:56:48 permalink →
• Just had a turn of that wikipedia game where you open two random articles and have to bridge between them. Forgot how fun it is! I got 1982 Scottish Masters => D. Newlin Fell School. So went 1982 Scottish Masters => Scotland => Atlantic Ocean => North American Plate => North America => List of regions in the United States => Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia => Philadelphia => School District of Philadelphia => List of schools of the School District of Philadelphia AAAAAND then that school wasn’t linked off that list, even though it was on the list... so I added the link in and completed the bridge. 2021-10-20 10:20:20 permalink →
• Birthday card shopping for the wife. There are some dirty cards about on the Internet that I didn't see last year. Can't imagine why I'm being marketed to for these 😂 2021-10-19 14:21:13 permalink →
• The answer is yes, colour me extremely impressed with past me 😂 2021-10-19 08:33:52 permalink →
• Wonder if my random thought to toot to tweet monstrosity still works 2021-10-19 08:21:31 permalink →
• Not like me to shitpost I know, but here is my answer to those "no JS" and "sub 256kb" website clubs https://onlyinthis.club/ 2020-11-28 12:49:06 permalink →
• Someone asked me if I had any plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realise they meant "autumn" rather than the impending collapse of civilisation. 2020-11-28 07:50:02 permalink →
• I think I might actually be becoming semi-competent in Go 🤔 2020-11-26 19:13:11 permalink →
• Attempting to write a crawler/scraper/indexer/search engine in Go and let me tell you it is a FUCKING CHORE 2020-11-21 14:31:33 permalink →
• Just had a scam email where the notes "scam victim using santander if in madrid" had been left in... 2020-11-16 18:29:22 permalink →
• Sad times. The wallet that I have had for many years, and has travelled across continents with me, got put in a 90 degree wash and has shrivlled up like someone has insulted its maculinity. I am now on the market for a sustainable slim wallet. It was a TGT. 2020-11-16 07:39:26 permalink →
• Seriously considering a switch to zsh after what feels like a lifetime of ksh (interactive only, scripts should be done in sh of course) 2020-11-15 12:00:39 permalink →
• Nixers book club, starting with "The UNIX Programming Environment" (only the first couple of chapters mind) What a fantastic idea! 💡📚 2020-11-14 17:34:15 permalink →
• First gemlog entry done; also published to gopher phlog. Thankfully I put it on the web too otherwise I'd feel invisible: gemini://ols.wtf/gemlog/my-top-10-commands.gmi 2020-11-13 18:24:57 permalink →
• I'm writing a post now that will go over the limit of Twitter, but I am hopefully doing something pretty sneaky by truncating it by *just* enough to make it all fit into one tweet. Like all things in computing, there is likely to be an off-by-one (or many) error which makes this go down in a ball of flames, but never mind! 2020-11-13 16:19:48 permalink →
• I'm writing a post now that will go over the limit of Twitter, but I am hopefully doing something pretty sneaky by truncating it by *just* enough to make it all fit into one tweet. Like all things in computing, there is likely to be an off-by-one (or many) error which makes this go down in a ball of flames, but never mind! 2020-11-13 16:17:57 permalink →
• I just can't leave this thing alone, this post has come from a command line client that I'm writing in POSIX shell to handle everything (instead of random other bits and bobs) 2020-11-13 16:02:04 permalink →
• Done a naughty thing in Gemini. Using the quote identifier > but suffixing it with i, !, or ? allows me to style those differently when viewed on the web. Doesn't seem to screw up Gemini clients though so it's all OK. Come at me 2020-11-11 21:15:31 permalink →
• TIL continuous integration means you have to continuously retry your builds until you stop getting rate limited by Docker Hub 2020-11-10 22:14:44 permalink →
• I should add a "did you know this is a gemini proxy?" banner to every page of the capsule when viewed through the web proxy 🤔 2020-11-10 22:04:15 permalink →
• I want to get vomit-worthy drunk 😵 2020-11-10 22:01:36 permalink →
• Made the executive decision to have these social posts use a web link rather than a gemini one. Makes it more accessible but still drives traffic to the gemini server, even if it is through a web proxy! 2020-11-10 19:33:44 permalink →
• Chocolate oat milk is perfection. The only way to improve on perfection is to add bourbon. Change my mind. 2020-11-10 19:28:53 permalink →
• We're being encouraged to take 30 minutes away from work (lunch and regular breaks don't count) every day. Lots of people are using theirs to cycle, walk, meditate, etc. Today I used mine to set up a web proxy to my gopherhole: https://gopher.ols.wtf 🤷‍♂️ 2020-11-10 15:53:26 permalink →
• Really fancy some out-and-about shell goodness, but my Zipit Z2 is currently in the office, which is under lockdown 😔 absence makes the heart grow fonder I suppose! 2020-11-10 07:18:22 permalink →
• Is a 9pm coffee ever a bad idea? 2020-11-09 20:43:24 permalink →
• Alright, that previous message didn't even make its way to Mastodon, likely because of its length exceeding 500 characters. That means I *definitely* need to do something to make the length of a post cap at 280 characters including canonical link... 2020-11-09 19:05:17 permalink →
• That last post went over the Twitter character length, which is fine. The link that the Mastodon cross-poster added to the tweet links to the root on chaos.social which in itself links to the original post. Maybe I should do something whereby my "toot" script looks at the length of the message and strips the end off so that it doesn't go over 280 characters including the canonical link. Then again, I don't really care so much how this appears on Twitter... In case you haven't noticed from this message, I'm trying to go over the character limit of the Mastodon server I use (500 characters) so I can see how this gets handled. I think I should be over now, let's see what happens! 🤞🏻 2020-11-09 19:01:58 permalink →
• This won't be shared on the socials. I just want to "check" some -/:;()£&@".,?!'` special symbols []{}#%^*+=_\|~<>€$¥• 2020-11-09 18:56:02 permalink →
• Started porting a Gemini server to OpenBSD this evening. Got to a stage where everything looked like it was going to compile and then boom 💥 undefined references all over the place. Reminded me why I tend to use Go or shell for everything 2020-11-09 18:30:27 permalink →
• Spent a little time on my not Twitter or even Mastodon because I own my own thoughts microblogger to make it work with my new gemini-first way of living. This right here is a test so wish me luck! 2020-11-09 16:08:20 permalink →
• Trying this again using only gemini 2020-11-09 15:51:05 permalink →
• Real talk this evening about how we're getting closer to Guerilla politics including cooperatives; soviets, collectives and communes 🤞🏻✊🏻🤲🏻 2020-09-23 22:43:09 permalink →
• Time flies during the collapse of civilization. 2020-09-19 16:51:01 permalink →
• Ops folk are the jocks of tech. Come at me 2020-09-18 17:54:11 permalink →
• Motivation doesn't cut it, I need discipline. 2020-09-16 19:48:35 permalink →
• Watching Kerrang! and remembering how awesome it was to be 13 😂 2020-08-16 14:01:46 permalink →
• I've succumbed to the pressures of the targeted Instagram advert and added a weighted blanket to my Amazon basket... not pulled the trigger on purchasing yet though 2020-08-14 18:50:39 permalink →
• Oh yeah, I never did any proper markdown stuff here did I... 😳 2020-08-11 16:34:22 permalink →
• What happens if I put an actual image here?  2020-08-11 16:33:04 permalink →
• What happens if I put a link to an image here? https://ols.wtf/images/Blah.jpeg 2020-08-11 16:30:05 permalink →
• What happens if I share a tweet here? https://twitter.com/heyitsols/status/1174061740415315968 2020-08-08 08:44:44 permalink →
• Gone from having 0 side projects to like 7, all in the space of a couple of weeks. Burnout incoming! 2020-08-08 08:11:57 permalink →
• Right, last bit on this today (assuming it works) is done; this should now contain a link to the individual thought rather than the timeline 2020-07-25 18:12:20 permalink →
• OK I have quite a bit to write up: thought timeline which pushes to fedi and twitter, an image uploader, plus blog posts from emails (all static sites built with the shell of course) 2020-07-25 16:14:25 permalink →
• Let's see if this makes it all the way to the socials... 🤞🏻 2020-07-25 15:29:36 permalink →
• Little boy's first ballet class today #proud 2020-07-25 15:16:50 permalink →
• This is a test 2020-07-25 09:57:41 permalink →
• This is just a test of a thought. It's a bit longer than the other thoughts.gmi I've sent in the past, however it still pretty short 2020-07-25 09:36:21 permalink →
• Test ignore 2020-07-25 09:35:55 permalink →
• Ignore me I'm just a test 2020-07-25 09:34:40 permalink →
• Testing whether I can send a thought just using dictation 2020-07-25 09:32:26 permalink →
• This is a test just to see if thoughts.gmi can be shared using voice only 2020-07-25 09:17:43 permalink →
• I need have something that takes the contents of these thoughts.gmi and tweets/toots it 🤔 2020-06-06 15:24:08 permalink →
• Well isn't this interesting? 2020-06-05 14:57:25 permalink →