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Shoutout to Apple Maps. It’s got a lot smarter about rerouting during the last few months!

 

Things I learn: APFS encryption is not FileVault. The former asks for a password at a time when the iMac doesn’t recognise the Bluetooth keyboard!

 

Today I put together a service management cli application together with templating using the click and jinja2 packages. Python ftw.

 

Protip: It turns out logrotate configuration files that are just using the rotate option do not delete older log files, only the logfile that is rotated out. This distinction matters when the rotate option is reduced and older log files are left around.

 

Installed Mojave: kept light side, decluttered recent items from the dock. Unsure on stacks. Everything is faster, delay in spotlight is gone. No finder actions in list + icon view is a bummer for automation. Still, an improvement to High Sierra. Some memory pressure on 8GB.

 

It turns out turning off all the retweets on Twitter improves my timeline massively: no longer does it get polluted by less relevant discussion and the tone is more balanced as well. I’ve also taken to replying instead of liking which is more meaningful.

 

For some reason OpenSUSE gave me a 25GB root logical volume, and left the other 150GB disk space unallocated. Partition Manager was happy to resize the volume while I was working on it. Thank you LVM.

 

Kwallet should really link to Kleopatra to clarify you need to create or link a GPG key to your keychain.

 

KDE’s ability to remove all panels continues the long-standing Linux tradition of shooting yourself in the foot.

 

opensuse progress: very nice guided partition setup, but was a bit taken aback about the text based WiFi setup prior to installation. Teaches me for trying the minimal install.

 

Had problems with software compatibility with Antergos so trying OpenSUSE tumbleweed now. RPM is a better supported format.

 

I'm taking the opportunity of Dropbox no longer supporting the Ubuntu 18.04 recommended file system (?!) to try out Antergos with KDE.

 

I miss having tildes in username URLs!<p>#status </p>

 

So I’m trying to make a tool that also happens to post to twitter but the way they want things to work means every user needs to apply to become a developer or I have to run a man in the middle webservice. Makes no sense.<p>#status </p>

 

Wagtail on , on top of Django 2.1. Static files fixed by ./manage.py collectstatic!<p>#status </p>

 

Policing by numbers, a great podcast: https://castro.fm/episode/rPNfrV applies to all automated reporting.<p>#status </p>

 

<p style="text-align: left;">There’s a great deal on for <a href="https://flyingmeat.com/store/">Acorn</a> my favourite macOS image editor.</p><p>#status </p>

 

Close second gem of the day is PythonAnywhere this might just make it so trivial to start this music related project I’ve been thinking of.<p>#status </p>

 

Super find of the day: <a href="https://cryptomator.org/">cryptomator.org</a>. Great tech, happily supported the iOS app.<p>#status </p>

 

It turns out I was trying to reinvent Trello with my todo list + notes mashup. But self hosted online, so instead signed up to Trello gold.<p>#status </p>