background banner
user avatar
Eric McCormick
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]

Señor Software Developer, lover of coffee, 3D printing, and hand tool woodworking.

This is a static archive. This account is no longer active.
The user moved to @[email protected]
Website
https://edm00se.codes/
  • 34 Posts
  • 423 Likes
  • 0 Bookmarks
  • 33 Media
  • 0 Tags
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/26/2023, 6:33:24 PM

    My self-hosted mastodon experiment may be running its course out. I'm torn between moving it to a dedicated host I control and just moving my account (back) to a well maintained instance.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/23/2023, 10:24:47 AM

    The kid’s got a snow day and I wish I had one too. 😔

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/17/2023, 5:23:06 PM

    I was having a rough close to the week but I see my second BrickLink order has now shipped for a custom build, so I’ve got that to look forward to. Happy Friday all!

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/13/2023, 8:11:36 PM

    In more ways than one,
    Florida man has the dumb.
    So isn’t that fun.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article272474953.html

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/10/2023, 8:08:54 AM

    While it obviously, and they say so as well, is a bit of a case study into their platform offerings, the Wildebeest ActivityPub app from CloudFlare is intriguing. This is definitely a good blog write up on their part.

    https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wildebeest-the-fediverse-on-cloudflare/

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/7/2023, 8:40:16 AM

    I thought it was odd to see in one of my GitHub repos that I had a last commit date of "last year", which I was certain was last month. It turns out, I was right; strange things are afoot.

    /Screenshot in close up of a commit date abbreviation in a GitHub repository. Hovering over the "last year" text reveals that the commit date was approximately one month ago, highlighting the nature of the confusing text. It's like they say, there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/2/2023, 7:04:55 PM

    Has anyone else recently noticed people confusing PascalCase for camelCase? The world is strange and people get stranger over time it seems.

    alt text: I’m a grumpy old man
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    2/1/2023, 5:19:19 PM

    @sindresorhus

    alt text: Fictitious pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, from the film franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, giving a minor salute from the tip of his hate, while smiling
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/26/2023, 11:30:06 AM

    I got done with a replay of Brütal Legend last night and was pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/20/2023, 5:31:54 PM

    I've rolled a unified RSS feed that should roll up my various sources, including mastodon toots. It's an implementation 11ty/eleventy-activity-feed and is strangely delightful for how easily it can be set up.

    https://github.com/edm00se/feed

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/20/2023, 11:50:10 AM

    I was really happy to find that instead of needing to run to the store to buy more finish, I in fact have a can of spar urethane I can use ready to go and instead work on getting a project completed as a gift for tomorrow. There's nothing quite like cutting it a little close.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/5/2023, 5:58:50 PM

    Dang. I leave the angry bird app and still it’s a liability in my life.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/200-million-twitter-users-email-addresses-allegedly-leaked-online/

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/3/2023, 5:59:45 PM

    Does anyone have any tips on local host name resolution over WireGuard? I’ve got my router’s ip set for DNS, yet none seem to be discoverable by my connected client.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    1/2/2023, 12:03:27 AM

    After finding a key mapping that works for me, I started replaying Dragon Age: Origins. The visuals show some age but the story crafting and world lore are strong right out of the gate.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/31/2022, 9:45:08 PM

    We’ve hit the drink and watch Young Frankenstein portion of our New Year’s Eve. 🥂 🎉

    alt text: Gene Wilder starring as Frödrick Frankenstein with a highly animated expression, hair, and lightning
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/28/2022, 4:41:06 PM

    Today, for the first time since the before pandemic times, I found myself in an antique mall. I passed on the slightly pricey transitional jointer plane with fence and opted instead for the Lamson wrench. I’m a bit weirded out by the live edge slabs being sold in the antique mall, but that piece of ash was a decent price… 🤔

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/22/2022, 10:41:02 PM

    Why do I never buy the meyer lemons when they’re actually in the store?

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/21/2022, 6:14:08 PM

    Happy winter solstice everyone.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/16/2022, 7:36:37 PM

    Well, my blog has sat long enough to not build correctly on netlify on the new build image. Gridsome being slow to update doesn't help either, so I guess I'm migrating my blog format to something new... again!

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/15/2022, 4:02:13 PM

    @makerbymistake Just a for reference, it appears the @rpilocator account isn't updating on pace with the angry bird app equivalent.

    Thanks and cheers from the Fox Valley.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/15/2022, 1:46:40 PM

    I thought the former guy NFTs were fake. Sometimes the world can surprise and entertain me.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/4/2022, 5:39:22 PM

    @kwschnei yo apparently my follow request is pending.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/4/2022, 4:31:08 PM

    My self built NAS’s ZFS disk pool shows a disk as having degraded to the point where it needs replacing. Wish me luck!

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    12/2/2022, 1:44:28 PM

    Only downside of being off the angry bird app so far is that I can't as easily publicly shame UPS for just deciding to throw my address on someone else's package and delivering it here by mistake.

    As far as I can tell it should never have left Illinois, why send it to me? Freaks.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/30/2022, 6:28:18 PM

    What’s that? The swim class time is 15 minutes earlier now? Made it with 2 minutes to spare. Gotta change that meeting reminder.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/29/2022, 11:20:12 AM

    Another interesting 11ty project, tweetback that lets you build a static site backup of your tweets.

    https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/28/2022, 4:52:02 PM

    Good news everyone! The thinking on rss/atom/etc feed aggregation I did a while back was also apparently done by some excellent people from 11ty. Check out 11ty/eleventy-activity-feed for how to roll your own with none of the actual work.

    https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-activity-feed

    alt text: Professor Farnsworth, character from animated show Futurama, exclaiming "good news everyone"
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/16/2022, 10:39:30 AM

    I don't care what the updated button says, I'll still call them toots.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/13/2022, 3:26:50 PM

    Well, we came back from a wake + funeral with the 'rona. I was really hoping to squeak on by this one, but here we go.

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/8/2022, 11:02:38 AM

    @jesse Have you considered adding a relay to your instance?

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/7/2022, 4:10:34 PM

    Oliver’s main segments are usually good, but this one hits home in a more scary way. It’s worth sticking around to the end for the cameo by Nick Offerman.

    https://youtu.be/Y0LA7Ff2hgs

    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/7/2022, 1:01:21 PM

    @jesse

    alt text: Forest Gump, character from the film of the same name, waving enthusiastically
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/6/2022, 8:10:47 PM

    My cross post from tweet to toot is now a toot to tweet. Take that Gozer the Gozarian.

    alt text: character Egon Spangler from the movie Ghostbusters (1984) saying "we'll cross the streams"
    users avatar
    Eric McCormick @[email protected]
    11/6/2022, 2:21:15 PM

    Well, now I'm a crazy person who rolled his own mastodon instance. I did it partly for the vanity url, but the ability to migrate/move between mastodon accounts w/ aliases is kinda nice.

  • GitHub