Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

The reason I'm looking for this is that I'd really like to set up a system where I can easily capture small snippets of information about my day, like a journal with a bit more structure.

There are a bunch of numerical things that I track in sort of haphazard and idiosyncratic ways — I measure my weight and body fat % and track it in Google Calendar, I have a "Track and Plot" app on Android for my Uric Acid levels, and I use paper and pen to track my weight lifting.

I'd love to be able to have a free-form journal that can include voice/audio or text, plus numerical, boolean or structured data entries at specific points. Ideally something that uses an open format and can easily be synced between an app on my phone and something on my computer.

I vaguely recall that I listened to an episode of @talkpython or Podcast.\__init__ or something where the guest had some sort of elaborate system for documenting everything about their life. Might be some sort of quantified self thing. Anyone else remember this and can track down the link?

For anyone who is interested in how my quest for a perfect rice container went, I ended up going with these, which seem pretty much perfect: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMTDZ39

They've held up just fine through multiple cycles of dishwasher and microwave, and they stack perfectly.

It seems amazing to me that apparently no one has made a voice recorder / voice memo app that works with Android Auto. The built in assistant is... extremely limited, and will only do voice-to-text for very short recordings.

It seems like a lot of people (like me) want something where they can press a button and it starts a new audio recording, but I haven't found any audio recording apps that even *show up in Android Auto*.

Given how simple this kind of app is, and how common I'd imagine this feature request to be, I wonder if there's a technical limitation, or if I'm just terribly bad at searching for these types of thing...

#android #app #apps

Pro-tip: When you are done eating your Lucky Charms, these packing materials are actually edible, and can be used as bird seed or compost!

#lifehack #stpatricksday

This kind of thing, by the way, is one of the main reasons that I am so bad at getting anything done in OSS anymore. My free time is at an extreme premium, and whenever I steal half an hour to try to merge an uncontroversial PR or something, it gets eaten up fixing bitrot. ☹

Anyone know what versions of windows and mac runners I need to pin to in GHA to get Python 3.6?

With Ubuntu I know it's 20.04, but I don't know how to divine from [this](https://github.com/actions/python-versions/blob/main/versions-manifest.json) what the right invocation is.

[Here's](https://github.com/pganssle/zoneinfo/actions/runs/4332355398/jobs/7564784291) an example of it failing.

Also, to be clear, anyone who tells me to stop supporting 3.6 will be immediately blocked. ☺

#python #github

It is amazing that this is a disambiguation page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Wisconsin

In fact, I'm kinda, busy apologizing to the people who I sold on Signal with the line, "Oh it's great because you can use it as an SMS client that just upgrades you to a better protocol when the other person is using Signal, too!"

"You will no longer be able to send SMS messages from Signal soon. Invite <x> to Signal to keep the conversation here."

Lol. I'd love to keep using Signal, but this move doesn't exactly inspire me to try and sell it to anyone else.