Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@cnx @PINE64 Every time I saw one of those they seemed a bit janky, but it looks like they are only like $30? If it's that cheap I might as well get one just to have it.

@gadgetbridge Bonus if I can wear it on my ankle or something so it doesn't have to also be a good replacement for my Pebble Time😅

Does anyone have recommendations for the best #fitness / sleep tracker compatible with @gadgetbridge, or even just a decent one?

I'm getting jealous of all the data my wife is getting from her Apple Watch, but I'm not enthusiastic about using some cloud walled-garden service.

We still sent them, of course.

Coincidentally, we also put in a little card for each of the parents with mine and my wife's contact info in case the other parents want to get in touch. 😅

Maybe these delicious cookies my wife & son made will minimize the flood of imputations…

Sent this "scratch art" kit out to all the kids at my son's school for Valentine's Day; I think you can tell that we have a bit of a "free range" parenting philosophy from how long it took us to think some might object to us arming a bunch of 3-4 year olds with sharpened sticks…

@brainwane Thanks! Everything went well! I have learned that the first-person experience of having your eyes surgically altered is a lot less freaky than the third-person experience of watching it done on Youtube.

Laser eye surgery was a qualified success. The eye doctor says my vision is 20/20 already, but I still can't seem to resolve any of the features of the sun when I stare at it.

Maybe a few more hours of staring will help the recovery process?

Giving my glasses a valedictory tour of the house before they shoot me in the eye with a laser tomorrow, presumably changing my prescription.

Who wore it best?

Oh no, my muscles are all feeling sore after my booster shot! Almost like I've been doing a bunch of new exercises in the gym these past few days - oh wait nevermind that's exactly what happened. \*closes VAERS tab\*

This is the true spirit of the web - every article is a gateway to 10 other articles.

"Oh man I've got 40 tabs of stuff to read later open, I should read some so that I can close them."

10 minutes later: "Oh man I have 43 tabs of stuff to read later open!"

@lynne When using ipython I configure it this way: https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/blob/a4340fa2a7fadd99b1d1d874cf865d0748bd7f15/dotfiles/ipython_profile_default/ipython_config.py

That's an arbitrary python file that ipython executes at startup time, so you should be able to add your desired imports there.

The last post (at least for now) in my series on xfail is now live: "xfail and code coverage"
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/12/xfail-coverage.html

#python

RIP Baron Noodles von Pasta (a.k.a. Noodles)

We'll miss you buddy. 😿

@bagder An Easter egg that actually caused some problems that sound kinda annoying to debug: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/405783

`man -w` used to print `gimme gimme gimme` at 00:30, as a reference to the ABBA song.

Seems like that just caused someone's test suite to fail and not like a problem in production, but it is indicative of how unexpected behavior, even if a fun idea, might not be fun for all your users...