Still some open water on Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis and the mallards are taking advantage of it as usual

stress testing after updating some hardware ; -j 32 build of stable/15 #FreeBSD in a VM hosted on #smartos

Saw a Waymo in Minneapolis on Sunday

TIL : Micro Center Powerspec pre-built PCs have "custom BIOS". I found this out when I tried to update my Gigabyte Z890 board. Not a huge deal, the Micro Center communities forum has decent info to help one and I just had to use the q-flash method to replace my BIOS with the

I while ago I botched a #FreeBSD current/15 era build which resulted in me accidentally removing various crypto, libmd and other libraries that ssh, curl etc depend upon. The system would boot multi-user with networking but sshd was non-functional among other tools. I am glad

Thanks for bringing awareness to some of the issues with d-bus. Glad @vaxryy is on it.

Thin ice established for the season.

Please Just Try Htmx https://t.co/m6FcoYU09A ( https://t.co/tqX1bIGy0P)

Winter is here in force now, Lake Harriet is starting to make its ice while the geese and the ducks take a few last swim sessions for the year.

I learned that Alan Turing read this book “Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know “ from the 1930s. Lots of cool little chapters like a mini encyclopedia. The chapter titled “Of sugar and other poisons” seems to still be good advice but I wonder how good @grok can read the

Lake Harriet is smooth like a mirror today

Excited to announce that TigerBeetle and @synadia have pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. https://t.co/rcweri9HpD

Fog lifting from the relatively warm water of Lake Harriet this morning

De-icing required before departure this morning 😀

Farm Aid 40 Begins

I asked Grok, it suggested I create local HTML/Javascript files with the App Texttastic and then “run” the app by using its built-in “preview mode”. This actually works so good enough for this trip :-)

The recent iPad Pro models are great and the keyboard is great for a tablet and even has an ESC key. But why can’t I write and build code on it without an Internet connection? Even Swift Playgrounds is crashing when I try to open an existing project. Would be nice to have a

For what it’s worth, I’ve been impressed with the robo-taxi service Waymo in Tempe/PHX area. Usually priced much lower than Uber/Lyft. The driving behaviors like right turns on red light, speed bump detection, and switching lanes while at a red light to a more preferred lane

The incessant conga line of Boeing 747 and 777 air freighters between China and Anchorage