I went to the baseball (Guardians) game with the family last night. My parents got us all club seats for my brother’s birthday.
Continue reading post "#4639"Toby's Log
Sequel Ace
I finally moved from Sequel Pro to Sequel Ace. Sequel Pro hasn’t been updated in years. It mostly worked but did have some annoying problems. During a recent OS and app reinstall, I found that Sequel Pro was no longer available on Homebrew, so I went for Sequel Ace, a fork that is still maintained. It is very similar but improved. I like it.
Continue reading post "Sequel Ace"I had a stressful end of workday yesterday. I accidentally deleted the database on three live sites, including our most important e-commerce site, and had to scramble to restore from backups.
Continue reading post "#4622"I went to a Guardians game last night with my brother, sort of. It got rain delayed and we left and ate at a Japanese noodle place instead.
Continue reading post "#4619"Recently, I gave in and set up my work email on my phone. I had gone the first 15 years at Cogneato only getting my email from my work computer, wanting to separate my work and home life.
Continue reading post "#4616"Yesterday evening I went to Blossom to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform Carmina Burana (Orff) and En Saga (Sibelius). The former is one of my favorite classical works and I think this was my third time seeing them perform it. As usual, it was done quite well, and powerfully.
Continue reading post "#4611"New phone: Minimal Phone
I got a new phone, the Minimal Phone. It is an e-paper phone with physical keyboard, both rarities in current smartphones. My Samsung S24 is a bit over a year old, pretty much new for me, but I’ve been wanting an e-paper phone for a long time and the S24 was somewhat disappointing in some ways. I’m hoping the e-paper display will reduce eye fatigue, reduce screen time, and help with sleep issues. I haven’t switched over and won’t until I get a case for it, plus there are some issues that I’m hoping get fixed with an upcoming software update.
Continue reading post "New phone: Minimal Phone"Ideas: Library after-hours lockers
Lockers would be installed outside of a library facility, accessible after hours. If a patron can’t get to the library during its open hours, but wants to take something out, they could request after-hours pickup. A librarian would get those items and put them in a locker. The locker would have a scanner based lock that would be set up for the patron’s library card. At any time, they could come, scan their card, open the door, grab the materials, and close the door.
Continue reading post "Ideas: Library after-hours lockers"Openrsync issues resolved (I hope)
I think I have finally worked through and fixed the issues caused by Mac OS 15.4 switching from rsync to openrsync. With the switch, many of my backup and other rsync scripts broke, throwing errors and not finishing the sync. As of that last post, I had gotten things mostly working, but had to disable incremental snapshotting and still sometimes had failures that I had to deal with.
Continue reading post "Openrsync issues resolved (I hope)"Got a smartwatch: Bangle.js 2
I bought a Bangle.js 2 smartwatch from Adafruit. I haven’t ever owned or played with a smartwatch, and haven’t even worn a dumb watch in 15 years or more. But I got to thinking that I look at my phone a lot for time and notifications, and this could reduce phone use and simplify that behavior at the same time. An e-paper screen could make it less like looking at a mini phone on my wrist. It also could do some other things like step counting, sleep monitoring, and heart rate monitoring that might be useful, and timers, alarms, and stopwatch so I don’t need to reach for my phone for those either. The Bangle is open source, lightweight, and seems feature filled enough to fit what I’m going for, cheap enough ($89) to not worry too much if I want more later.
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