Akkana Peck

That other baby cholla I mentioned. Plus, the spinystar in the driveway is blooming nicely, and one of the Fendler's hedgehogs is just starting.

#cactus #NewMexico

We have a baby cholla! Plus a slightly older one in the driveway that I'd never noticed before. It's smaller than it looks in the photo, about the width of my pinky finger.

#cactus #NewMexico

Baby rock #squirrels watching me as I put out the morning birdseed. Or maybe a single baby-squirrel-headed hydra?

#SilentSunday

Another interesting piece of measurement equipment we happened to notice while #hiking a few months ago. I guess they're measuring how much the stones in old adobe construction pull apart over time, and it's a pretty cool simple piece of kit. It's installed in a ruin that dates to about 1916, that was built with stones from an older 1100s ancestral puebloan #ruin. #NewMexico

I've been spending a lot of time this past week learning how to write unit tests for #Python #TkInter GUI apps, something I've been wanting for quite a long time. I couldn't find much information online about how to test a TkInter GUI, so I wrote up what I learned (part 1).

https://shallowsky.com/blog/programming/tkinter-unittest.html

#testing

Cavate in Pueblo Canyon with lots of petroglyphs carved on the roof. From last week's hike.

#hiking #NewMexico #ruin

This #chromium discussion also got me to look into the annoying misfeature that chromium on Debian always prompts at startup for a keyring password. I don't have a keyring, but I can't do anything in the browser until I click Cancel in that dialog.

Turns out running chromium --password-store=basic prevents showing the dialog. I have adjusted my openbox menu entries accordingly.

If that hadn't worked, I found another, slightly more complicated possible fix:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/tips-1.html#ID15

@hollie On Linux, if I need a chrome-based browser, I use #chromium, the open-source fork of chrome. (It's available for non-Linux platforms too.)

As far as I can tell, chromium doesn't have the AI download because the AI blob isn't open-source:
https://adsm.dev/posts/prompt-api/#which-browsers-support-the-api

But I'd love to find a way to confirm that for sure. Anybody know how to tell?

#browser #browsers

Hiked up #Frijoles canyon in Bandelier to see how the #beaver dams are doing. We hiked as far as the Natural Bridge in the narrows, where we had lunch. On the way back I counted 19 stream crossings (so *2 for the whole hike) and 11 beaver dams. None of the stream crossings were particularly difficult; someone has added stepping stones to some of the crossings that didn't use to have them, so we kept our feet mostly dry.

#hiking #NewMexico

Tired of using disposable paper filters for #coffee? Use a t-shirt! The bonus is, if you hike in it, you smell like coffee, not sweat.

https://shallowsky.com/blog/misc/coffee-shirts.html

#tiedye #maker #hiking

How to Re-initialize a Stuck #ESP32 (in #CircuitPython) -- something I needed when working on my particulate air quality #sensor but I'm sure I'll need it for many other projects:

https://shallowsky.com/blog/hardware/esp32-reconnect.html

#hardware #maker

Found this #rodent #skull in the front yard. I like how well it shows the two layers, hard and soft, of the front incisors. I have absolutely no idea why it's blue.

#Chipmunk! We rarely see chipmunks at the house (they prefer to hang out closer to the canyon edge, alas) so it's always fun to see one. This one made a vertical leap of about four feet up to the fence, then another 2.5-3 feet to the peanut feeder, successfully extracting a peanut. Now it's hanging out at the platform feeder eating birdseed. I hope it stays a while.

An unusual around-the-corner #petroglyph seen on a recent hike.

#hiking #NewMexico

#FensterFreitag #hiking #NewMexico #mesas

#Superb_Owl #owl #crochet

Took a quick trip down to the Overlook to check the snow -- very little -- and admire the view. The waterfall was running strong; the river level was low but the river was noisy, so maybe upstream got some precipitation. In any case, it's a good excuse to get out of the house on a chilly overcast tiny-bit-of-snow day.

#NewMexico #view #RioGrande

Visited a couple of excellent local #petroglyph panels this morning.

#rockart #hiking #NewMexico

What is it with companies and organizations sending 3-4 emails PER DAY around the holidays? Don't they realize that makes me want to unsubscribe and never buy from/donate to them ever again? Are there people who AREN'T annoyed by multiple emails per day?

#flame #grumble

#Hoodoo in Sand Canyon, near Cortez, #CO.

#hiking

Oops, I missed posting about the #solstice yesterday. But here's a photo of our Los Alamos solstice sun dagger from a few years ago, when I made a timelapse of it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ireRhurr6ZA
and blogged about it
https://shallowsky.com/blog/science/astro/solstice-sun-dagger.html

#Petroglyph #NewMexico #astronomy

A ponderosa that's had an eventful life, for #TextureTuesday

#WoodTexture

How did I not know that you can do multiple #shell expansions in the same line? Plus the extreme usefulness of ".." which I never remember to use. Just seen on a Python list (of all places):

$ echo {1..4}0{1..3}
101 102 103 201 202 203 301 302 303 401 402 403

#command_line #linux

I wanted a metronome for practicing #guitar. I'm sure there are lots of android apps, but I went looking for #Linux metronomes and discovered you can do a metronome with sox's "play" command. Neat!
More here: https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/command-line-metronome.html
#command_line

Nice #sundogs and 22-degree halo this afternoon. (With St. Peter's Dome in the background.)