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I just got so frustrated at a piece of code for work I took 20 minutes and rage cleaned my windows. Then I made a cup of tea, sat back down, and immediately saw the issue. So now I have working code and clean windows 😎

screenshot of an arctic hex-map for a rpg game

I made some progress on my little solo rpg quine idea this weekend. I’m using the hex generation rules from the welshpiper.com. I also picked up the icons from the HPS Cartography Kit. I’ve gotten as far as marking the major and minor encounters.

This weekend I’m thinking about building a html quine (like Tiddlywiki) for a hexcrawl inspired from the dungeons and dragons expert rulebook. I envision something to play solo and explore 🤔

I did set the alarm for 2am, hoping to see the lunar eclipse… but clouds had other plans. The kids were disappointed.

Today is a sneak off to the office day. I love my kids and homeschooling them but man… their pre-teen attitude(s) is making everything 10x harder than it needs to be.

Last big swim meet of the season for my daughter! 🏊‍♀️

Board displaying swim meet times

Small work rant.

The non-profit I work for has six people working for them (including me)

Why on earth do we have 92* projects in Asana?

🤯 Why… just why!?! No wonder I can never find things…

*That’s just the number I have permission to see… there are even more I’m sure….

Made some progress yesterday on my blog/game hybrid. I’m thinking that the blog post will be represented by the broken tablet and you’ll need to find the key to unlock and read it, thus gaining gold and XP. The game change-log has been updated. Onward! 🐉⚔️👩‍💻

A pixelated game interface displays a character navigating through a maze-like environment with inventory options and navigation instructions on the side.

🐸 Lillihub (an unofficial web/PWA client for Micro.blog)

Here’s what’s new:

  1. Rename/delete notebooks
  2. Move notes to different notebooks
  3. Copy notes and export to Markdown/HTML
  4. Optional note auto-save
  5. Auto-save on new posts and editing existing blog posts

This morning I’m practicing some tai chi forms, teaching my son to use an encyclopedia for his research paper, and waiting for fresh homemade donuts to finish rising.

Auto-generated description: Two people are sitting at a wooden table, reading books in a room with wooden floors and a staircase in the background.

Today’s exercise is a three ton pick up. Three tons of pellets for the pellet stove need to be moved into storage.

Auto-generated description: Pallets covered in shrink wrap are stacked outside a building surrounded by trees.

Yesterday I was out clothes shopping and two hours in I noticed my wedding ring was gone… vanished… poof…

So my “cheer myself up” outing from a rotten morning turned into tears, backtracking, and feeling dejected.

Sigh.

But a turn of luck saved me. It had fallen off in my car.

Relief.

🎊🥳🐸 Lillihub Update 🐸🥳🎊

Besides bug fixes, here’s what’s new:

  1. Private notes can have titles and tags (Lillihub only)
  2. Access private note versioning
  3. The timeline now mimics Micro.blog by default (this can be changed under settings)
  4. Links to notes and bookshelves in the slide out menu

screen shot of lillihub ui showing the private notes edit ui with instructions on how to add titles and tags.

screen shot of lillihub ui showing the private note in the previous image displayed

Enjoy!

Android Studio and gradle. Please, I beg you. Give me something useful in the console when you fail to build.

-heyloura, day three of trying to get an old Cordova app for work working on a new system.

Phew, finally finished backing up all my photos. One backup on my Linux machine, and one on my Immich server I’m self hosting with Pika Pods. Next step, delete everything off of google, onedrive, and Amazon photos and finally start cancelling accounts.

First time in a while that I have friends coming over to play Dungeon Crawl Classics. I hope they enjoy and survive “Perils of the Sunken City” ⚔️🐉

So… 1:00 am one of the kids burst into our bedroom with stomach bug symptoms… and that’s how my new year is going 🤣

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. For those that don’t, I hope you have a wonderful day. For those who celebrate, and it’s complicated… I’m right there with you and I’m wishing you the best. 🎄

Everyone is out of the house… It’s time to wrap presents 🎄

Two days in the office this week, I’m not used to that anymore 😆. Plus I feel like the cold my husband and the kids have passed around this last month is finally catching up with me. I can’t wait until Fridays is over and I have a whole week to relax.

Awwww, he tolerated his festive scarf for a whole minute 🐈

Finally feeling like decorating for the Holidays 🎄

Just testing things out. Will delete 🐸😄

Hello CORS my old friend
I've come to find errors again
Because browsers and servers trusting
Left its colors red while logging
And the answer to set valid headers with request
Still remains
Within the chains of preflight 🎶

I love watching my kids at swim meets… but the heat, humidity, and noise of the pool room tends to trigger a migraine.

Also, my phone’s camera struggled with the motion but the blurred effect is rather neat. My son is the one in the middle.