Daily Journal 📓 October 2020

Shorter dated entries, links, and microblogs, plus GitHub & Tangled stars.

Oct 20209:50am

⭐️ Chocobozzz/PeerTube ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

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Oct 20201:00am

--- title: Oct 13, 2020 date: 2020-10-13 category: Journal --- Both Mac Mini and OWC Memory Upgrade kit arrived today. Don't have a monitor yet, going to temporarily use the 15" portable screen that R uses for her second monitor. Following the OWC Memory Upgrade video, step two is having a torx screwdriver. Hmmm. Sounds like a T4, T5, and T10 needed. OK, looks like Canadian Tire has a complete overkill 66 piece Mastercraft Specialty Precision Electronics Bit (adding notes almost a month later) Right in here is where I put in my 2 bike rides to Canadian Tire in Burnaby in one afternoon /…

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Oct 20201:00am

title: Oct 11, 2020 date: 2020-10-11 category: Journal

Ugh. Went to go for a bike ride first thing this morning and my tire was flat again. It pumped right up again and we went for a 25km ride to Burnaby Lake and back, but it’s clear that the root cause here isn’t fixed yet. I’m going to have to write this all down for Rad and get it fixed properly.

Oct 20201:00am

--- title: Oct 10, 2020 date: 2020-10-10 category: Journal --- Rachael's Rad Mini arrived yesterday. So now we have two Rad Power Bikes. The Rad Runner is a bit too big for Rachael, especially with the center console blocking the "step through". It was raining, so other than up and down the street a little, we didn't use it much. Today we got her out on the bike and she got used to riding it around the park, and then went off to go up and down some hills. She hasn't been a regular bike user for quite some time. We both had free / trashy bikes that got stolen from our building at some point,…

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Oct 20201:00am

--- title: Oct 8, 2020 date: 2020-10-08 category: Journal --- So I confirmed this morning that my Rad Runner bike wheel tubes are sold out even on the Rad website. I guess this weekend I need to get a patch kit and learn how to fix it myself. --- Set up my Social Co-op Mastodon account last night. You can find me at @[email protected]. And yeah, I didn't manage to get boris as a username! I'll write a full blog post about this. --- New to me: /nick lets you change your nickname on a Discord server. They also recently enabled "community" servers. Basically, Discord is used for sort of personal…

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Oct 202010:40pm

⭐️ 11ty/fetch Utility to cache any remote asset: Image, Video, Web Font, CSS, JSON, etc

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Oct 20201:00am

--- title: Oct 5, 2020 date: 2020-10-05 category: Journal --- Great lunch with @allbombs. He reminded me about the show Halt and Catch Fire, which many people have told me about but I haven't watched yet. Rather than doom scrolling for an hour, I am going to try and watch an episode before bed to chill out. Flat tire afterwards was less great. I've actually had a number of flats with my Radrunner. This time, I found the shard of rock or ceramic and it punctured the outer tire tread all the way to the inner tube. I forced it in with a screwdriver and was able to partially inflate the tire.…

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Oct 20201:00am

- I did end up ordering a Mac Mini as a new home desktop PC, so now I need to order RAM - I got the higher end model and bumped the processor to the 3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7, but everything else base -- 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD. - I had previously Sept 26th, 2020 looked up OWC RAM, and I can order direct from them. Are there local places in Vancouver? Listed as resellers, dmac don't list the 2018/2020 Mac Mini and Simply doesn't seem to list the right RAM either. - Why don't small businesses keep their websites up to date??? - OK, guess I order direct from OWC, Total cost was…

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Oct 20201:00am

- I had just "one more thing" to add to the site last night, and so ended up staying up way too late again. - I'm now trying out Obsidian for working with these notes. Again, the nice thing about "files" and some commonality around Markdown. - And it generates an impressive looking graph! - It doesn't fully understand Jekyll markdown notes -- I guess the spelling for wiki links has to be exact. - New notes it creates with Title Caps and spaces, which is easy enough to fix before publishing. This not-really-compatible-markdown-and-file-structures is where all the issues live in note…

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