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  1. Woke up. Ignored the world. Spent the morning chopping, slicing, dicing, mincing and assembling a vegetable soup to feed us for the week.
    As a request from one of my long-time fans, a new ingredient enters the pot: kale.

    Glad I'm always working within the constraints of a ~1 gallon pot. I could easily see myself ad-hoc'ing my way to a 5 gallon concoction. Which would be silly when there are only 2 of us to feed.

    #TinyVictories #Cooking

  2. Even one papercut healed, can be a reasonable cause for celebration.

    Let's celebrate. 🎉
    Happy Friday!

    #TinyVictories #Positivity

  3. Well that went better than expected.
    My politely declining their offer to work on one of the issues was met with equally polite understanding. #TinyVictories 🎉

    The last time this happened (IIRC >2 years ago), the drive-by user tried to get argumentative with me and I ended up, unfortunately, blocking them. Not today Satan. Not today.

  4. Started my end of year digital cleaning/account & key auditing early with a surprisingly concentrated vengeance today:

    Acheived Inbox Zero on all three of my active email accounts:
    - account 1(emails going back to 2014)
    - account 2(emails going back to 2020)
    - account 3(emails going back to beginning of this year).

    Scrubbed, archived, deleted, unsubscribed from dozens of lists. Spotless. A ghost town. Empty.🎉 Feels good.

    #TinyVictories #email #DigitalHygiene #Motivation

  5. After nine years, my cat Anu is _finally_ willing to eat treats out of my hand.

    I am a patient man. I wait. I wait. I wait.

    #TinyVictories

  6. Nifty! Was able to get the :xfce: emoji added into #Hachyderm

    :xfce: Happy Tuesday! 🎉

    #Xfce #TinyVictories

  7. In the middle of July, it's a pretty good week to only have one fan cooling the house.

    Definitely appreciating the absence of brain-melting heat while it lasts.

    #TinyVictories

  8. Migrated my #RSS feed reader from liferea to RSS Guard last week.

    I've been a bit frustrated with liferea for a while now: slow and not terribly responsive. As a result, articles have been piling up, unread. Along with the teeny anxiety in the back of the mind feeling like it's falling behind on a daunting, ever-growing reading list.

    Been using RSS Guard for ~week and it feels light & responsive(even as a flatpak app, no less!).

    I'm comfortably spending more time reading my subscriptions & gently sloughing off that tiny bit of dread. 🎉

    #PaperCuts #TinyVictories

  9. Catching up on a backlog of a few long reads _and_ managing to not get distracted by external links, footnotes, or otherwise ratholing and never finishing the original article.

    Mission: Accomplished 🎉

    Gooood night.

  10. @canadaduane

    Indeed. Posting the wins and celebrating the where I can.

  11. Many, many moons ago (~1988), I first learned about and and did a very, very tiny amount of work/#activism around the campaign.

    Am quite surprised to hear today that his sentence has been commuted.

    apnews.com/article/leonard-pel

  12. Last meal of the year made. My people ate well this year.

    Glad I got a chance to learn how to be a better cook this year.

  13. I recently picked up a used infrared-only converted Panasonic GH2 #MicroFourThirds camera. It came with one battery, but figured I should get some more.

    Turns out the GH2 takes the same battery as the GX8, which I have, along with like, six batteries, so: that’s sorted.

    Taking Ws where I can get them nowadays.

    #TinyVictories
    #InfraredPhotography

  14. Very satisfying & productive day working on my little learning projects.

    Sucessfully upgraded the first(of ~16) of the apps to Django 5.1.1 & migrated to 3.13. All of the tests (nox, linting, coverage, GH actions) passed. Docs updated.

    While I've been in a bit of a motivational rut lately, all of the learning & work put in over the last year has make this a really seamless & error-free process.

    Feels good.

  15. Argh. Discovered today that a drive has been plugged into the wrong USB port for the last several months.

    Also today: Wow! Everything is soooo much speedier now!

  16. The heat wave finally broke here, and we're slowly getting back to doing more than whimpering.

    Today's tiny victories include getting rid of a contractor sized bag of trash that was a floorpile and being halfway to moving a dresser upstairs.

    Time for coffee to power the lifting bit.

    #TinyVictories
    #ThisOldClownHouse

  17. I did it, I touched the old man 🤭🤭🤭 #TinyVictories

  18. In the land of lowered expectations, if I end the day with fewer open browser tabs then when I started, I consider it a win.

  19. Pretty happy with getting a handle on generating reports with the badge & publishing them with GitHub actions.

    Probably pretty basic stuff for most folks; but, I like that I've built up a muscle memory for the process & it's not _really_ dull repetition. Not terribly unlike learning a simple scale pattern on a guitar.

    It's rewarding just to space out & know that you are able to do it properly without thinking.

  20. Most excellent!

    Instead of cascading failures, I'm getting cascading successes tonight.

    Love it when the pieces to one puzzle come together to resolve a couple others that had you stumped/blocked.

  21. Got to celebrate the where I can get them.

    Today is for me!

    Finally was able to pick up a new pair of boots to replace the ones that over-stayed their welcome for...a year(?). Too long.

    Looking forward to starting daily walks again this week.

  22. After a week of self-imposed lockdown & feeling like an utter idiot & imposter the entire time, I think that I've finally managed to build up a Poetry solution that can run as a non-root user.

    After using Poetry for a year+, I _really_ don't like/have a grasp on how it deals with venvs within Docker.

    But, the setup works & the tests pass!

  23. Back when I worked in IT, I was strictly on software duty (the shop was a bit different than typical IT departments - I wrote more software than I troubleshooted) - the other people in the office largely did hardware stuff like making Ethernet cables and running/chasing them. I was always a little bummed that I never learned how to do any of that - until a couple days ago!

    Finally made a 50-or-so CAT6 cable and ran it through three garage to the basement and it worked! Phew!

    #TinyVictories

  24. Ahhh. Wonderful! for a Friday afternoon

    Was struggling with being unable to update package to 0.0.291 from within Poetry from "raise RuntimeError(f"Unable to find installation candidates for {package}")"

    But, I could add via a local file path. Also adds/updates were fine outside of Poetry.

    Odd.

    Turns out I need to "poetry cache clear PyPI --all" Never had that issue with Poetry before.

  25. Spent the day:

    writing tests
    breaking tests
    adding tests
    removing tests
    cleaning up tests
    forgetting everything I know
    breaking more tests
    cleaning up before dinner

    I think I gained about 3% in passing test coverage. Yay!

    Outside of basic test , my strategies fall apart. Back to the docs!

  26. What a nice change of pace to start the day.

    Before I had even had my first dose of caffeine, my daughter hit me up on Discord with a problem. (Nothing too exotic. She just needed pointers to figure it out herself.)

    We got to spend the next 30 minutes working through it together & solved it successfully.

    ...and we all lived happily ever after. The End.

  27. In today's #TinyVictories: I learned how to renew and successfully renewed an #InterLibraryLoan.

    It's a good thing, because #CorneliusCastoriadis's writing is _dense_.

  28. In today's #TinyVictories: I learned how to renew and successfully renewed an #InterLibraryLoan.

    It's a good thing, because #CorneliusCastoriadis's writing is _dense_.

  29. In today's #TinyVictories: I learned how to renew and successfully renewed an #InterLibraryLoan.

    It's a good thing, because #CorneliusCastoriadis's writing is _dense_.

  30. In today's #TinyVictories: I learned how to renew and successfully renewed an #InterLibraryLoan.

    It's a good thing, because #CorneliusCastoriadis's writing is _dense_.

  31. No screenshot right now. Just celebrating the fact that phase 'AI.enemy.WanderState' is nearly complete. All it needs now is for the enemy to stay still for a moment before deciding on the next place to move to. #GameDev #TinyVictories

  32. In a burst of humanity (and possiby fueled by a half cup of real tea), I rose from my sickbed and baked! Ok, it was paleo scones for my own breakfast, but, having survived this, I know HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS ARE POSSIBLE! There will be delightful-smelling cookies, and wrapping of too many gifts, and OTHER THINGS NOT ON THE COUCH OF DOOM!!!
    🎉 🎈 🥂

    #tinyvictories #Christmas