We’re having an honest-to-god thunderstorm in San Francisco! I’ve missed this so much.
I’ve gotten tired of struggling against Entware on my Synology NAS (and darned if I’m using its Chinese mirrors), so today I’m using synology-nix-installer to switch to Nix. This has been a learning experience.
My new Seiko watch with an 4R34 movement loses about 2 seconds per day. I’m pleased with that, especially for a mechanical watch.
It’s not possible to get the iOS Clock app to show you the current time’s seconds, except by looking at its animated icon, or adding a clock widget to your phone’s screen. Inside the app? No. No, you can’t see the exact time in seconds. That’s not something regular users want to do, or something.
Dress code in the Bay Area means wearing jeans and an OCBD shirt and having coworkers repeatedly ask why you’re wearing fancy clothes.
Dean is practicing to be a goalie.
Yesterday’s haul from Urban Ore was something I wanted so badly back when my C64 had a 300 baud modem.
(Never mind that our home Internet is 8,000,000 times faster now.)
I saw Frank Chu carrying his sign in Oakland’s Chinatown! This is gonna be a great weekend!
Sectigo, who signs about 25% of all SSL certificates, updated their root certificate in December 2025. Old versions of Android don’t have the new cert. This is making Mastodon apps running on those devices fail to connect to servers that have updated their SSL certs recently.
Update your phone or client to fix the connection. For instance, Tusky is working to bundle the new root cert directly into the app.
I saw a little hummingbird this morning and it reminded me of how much Mom loved them. I thought about texting her about it, even though she wouldn’t receive the message anymore. Then I thought about getting an “undeliverable message” reply, and I don’t think I could bear that.