A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
June 11
I am back on the coutch-to-5k merry-go-round. Tonight was Week
1, Day 2.
(DVD ripping continues)
June 10
Well, that was slightly embarassing: email to this site has been
broken for a number of days due to a slightly full disk, caused by
a certain cloud provider's management software downloading all
possible versions of a component of itself into a non-standard
location instead of, you know, using package maangement tools and
repositories and what not. Anyway. Repaired. If you got some
species of 4XX error when trying to send me mail it will
eventually get to me.
June 9
Last episode of The Sweeney S1. Again, this being of its time, I
guess there was a presumption that there'd be a S2 without any
real need to do a cliffhanger; it's just a regular
episode.
DVD ripping continues. Currently ploughing through Doctor Who (the
Ecclestone year) and still finding bugs in my
code.
June 8
Offline network actually looks to have been some fight between
the mesh network and the macintoshes, since it affected my laptop
as well as the jumpbox, and simply bouncing the network connection
in some way fixed it.
Last of season 6 of George Gently. Another great story,
beautifully made. I did note that all the period cars are in
immacualte condition, even the delivery lorries, which you just
know would've been battered hulks in
reality.
June 7
Got a "internet is offline" alert overnight. Assumed it was down
to the irregularly-scheduled mesh network update (over which I
have limited control) and drove off to a location 200km away only
to discover it's more likely that the jump box that I use to get
into the home network, which is also the canary for "internet is
offline", has likely crashed and of course I can't do anything
about it until I drive back.
June 6
I could've sworn I'd seen Fracture
before but no. And it's pretty damned excellent, with the minor
plot hole around Why The Trick With The Gun Would Not Have Worked
In Practice (IMDb nitpickers identify one reason, but I'm pretty
sure there's an entirely other one as well). The other thing that
nagged at me throughout was whether Crawford targeted Beachum for
a reason or because he was a useful idiot; it seems like the
latter, but it definitely felt like the former while watching. Oh,
and Hopkins' accent was all over the place for some
reason. Still, pretty damned excellent.
June 5
Invoked backchannels. Undoing The Thing may be less
onerous than we thought.
June 4
Work stuff: we Did A Thing that shouldn't have been possible and
now we need to Undo The Thing. The annoying part is that it's
blocking some work that's been in flight for while. "For the want
of a nail" territory.
June 3
Discovered that the ... fiends at Prime Video have
stiffed us on individual episodes in The Sweeney, i.e. all
four seasons are present but some episodes within the seasons are
missing. Whyyyyyyyy.
June 2
DVD ripping resumes: I've now got a reasonable pile of crap to
convert TV episodes into a series of mpeg files. Of course I'm
still finding bugs.
June 1
Another excellent George Gently.
Found the SQLite problem I mentioned a couple of days back. It
wasn't quite what I thought but is now fixed.
Also Doctor Who season finale. It was a bit ... all over the
place, and the ending was unexpected, but ok, let's see what's
next - I presume in December.