Lately when I wake up in the morning there's a 50/50 chance that the internet has died during the night and I need to reboot the modem.

This is not good when you're self-hosting stuff from home.

Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.

I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.

Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.

Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.

Just received an emergency tornado alert recommending to take shelter in a basement.

I live in an apartment. We don't have a basement.

I hate it when I make an official release of a program with an ugly snippet of code that I can't figure out how to write more cleanly, only to come up with a solution 10 minutes after pushing the release. I just make the change in the dev branch so it gets incorporated into the next version.

In my defense, the thing I was overlooking was that #Haskell's Maybe type is an instance of Foldable. It's not the kind of data type that exactly screams Foldable, is it?

Side note: I should use Hoogle's search by type signature feature more frequently. I needed a function that looked like this: Monad m => (a -> m ()) -> Maybe a -> m (), which is literally just mapM_.

FFS.

There's a notice posted on the front door of the building. Apparently the landlord is bringing in an exterminator tomorrow and we have ~24h to empty out all the cabinets, pull appliances away from the walls, etc. in preparation for their arrival.

Welp, I did have other plans for today, but I guess not any more. ಠ_ಠ

!Haskell Users Group (unofficial)
So, I created a #Haskell #TUI program using brick. I wanted to have it support cursor keys, as well as vim and Emacs-style cursor movement, but for whatever reason I can't get it to register C-n and C-p keypresses. C-f and C-b worked fine though.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?

The repository is at: git.fingerprintsoftware.ca/jla…

hamming

utility for experimenting with Hamming codes

^{Fingerprint Software Git Repository}

So, my partner who's "not into anime" and insistent that she dislikes the fantasy genre may or may not have spent the past three days binging on Frieren.

Now she wants more anime recommendations.

Weather report for today said no chance of rain.

I should not have left the car windows rolled down...