Today, I was rubbing my eyes due to itchy allergies, when I saw what looked like little light dots swirling near the bottom of my field of vision.
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I beat Rescue Rangers (the NES game) with my brother.
Continue reading post "#1686"Happy Thanksgiving.
Feels nice to have four days off in a row. It’s rare, and needed.
I skipped lunch today, then celebrated by eating at Cilantro, a thai place downtown. It’s a bit pricey, but good. I especially like their pad see ewe, pork, spice level three.
Well, Firefox forced my hand by upgrading even though I had “Never check for updates” checked. So I now have Firefox ESR installed.
Continue reading post "#1675"Firefox 57 and Tab Groups: downgrading to ESR for now
The recent release of Firefox 57 is pretty nice in many ways, but the loss of certain extensions is probably going to keep my primary browser from upgrading until they’re updated or suitable replacements are found.
Continue reading post "Firefox 57 and Tab Groups: downgrading to ESR for now"Rsync incremental snapshots
I have been using rsync for backup and other things for a long time. It has a link-dest option that allows doing incremental snapshots similar to Time Machine on Macs.
Database inheritance: Postgres?
I’ve been unhappy with the inheritance provided by PHP ORM’s I’ve looked at. In looking for something better, I discovered that Postgres has built in inheritance, because it is an object-relational database.
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