Making the final repair from the electrical storm: wiring up a replacement transformer for our sprinkler system.
N.B. I love my Hako soldering station.
It’s in the low 30F here so miso suru and sake feels great.
I love the snark of the CARROT app and it’s my go-to for weather on my Watch. They’ve set a new bar for useful complications.
Today just gets better (not) and better (not). Now at the urgent care clinic with the 14 year old due to a bad earache. At least we can still laugh at things.
The casualty list grows:
❌ One managed 8 port Gigabit switch
❌ One un-managed 8 port Gigabit switch
❌ The Ethernet port on one 4K AppleTV
After making repairs I decided to relax with a little guitar playing. So fittingly the attached happened… 🎸 📷 Thunder & Lightning
Thunder and lightning very very frightening… ⛈ A tale of woe wrought by nature
A storm woke us up last night and shortly after a very loud thunder clap & flash. I couldn’t go back to sleep so I got up early feeling rather groggy only to discover a rather odd 90% of our devices were offline but the router was on the Internet. Took me a long time to figure out what caused the strange collection of outages. A gigabit switch failed which knocked out WiFi for a lot of devices (because the WiFi extender backhauled over Ethernet through the switch) and also of course all of the devices, like AppleTVs, on that switch were offline.
I managed to get most things back online by plugging a few key Ethernet cables directly into the router in our wiring box. While finishing that up there was a loud flash, click and poof. The power strip in the wiring box shorted out one of the outlets and tripped our whole-house surge protector in the process. I was even more awake, and more irritated. Thankfully the now blackened power strip was the only casualty and not the devices plugged into it - otherwise we’d be without any Internet waiting for a new modem from AT&T.
Even with juggling Ethernet cables I still can’t get part of the house’s wired devices back online and I can find no cause for that. I’ll have to make a run first thing this morning for a new Gigabit switch and surge protector strip. Hopefully that will bring everything back online but if not I’ll have some trouble trying to track down the remaining issue.
Frustrating but nothing serious from a life perspective so grateful for that.
I have to admit I got quite a chuckle out of the juxtaposition of Jean’s note on the envelope and the cover of the magazine she sent me. @macgenie
Feeling unusually productive this morning. I already
✅ Debugged issues in my code caused by changes in Circuit Python 3.1.2 (on a CPx board)
✅ Helped someone with custom SNMP setup on a Raspberry Pi
✅ Prototyped REST code to fetch WX data from three new services
I’ve been using ProtonMail for over a year, having moved from Google. This blog post, by ProtonMail so a bit of PR to be sure, contains some of the key reasons I made the switch.
Waffles…….
😂
I press my thumb down on an app to delete it, causing all the other apps tremble with fear, and in this moment I am as great and terrible as a vengeful god of the ancient world, my cruelty both capricious and final.
Pondering this 🤔 : a lot of us use tagemoji. Is there a way to automatically generate a list of the tag emojis I’ve used that will bring up all the posts containing them? I’m also mulling over the idea of tagemoji vs categories. Is it better to use categories? WDYT?
If you work with JSON files and use iOS the new Jayson app is a blessing. Just saying…
Our 10 year old son had his first Micro:bit programming class tonight. It’s self-paced and he flew through the first few weeks of projects already. He loved it so much he is almost bouncing off the walls tonight. I hope he keeps enjoying it so much.
This sky….. it was gone in a moment. 📷 ⛅️
Apparently I’m an oddball. 16personalities says I’m INFJ-A.
The Advocate personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population
My lazy Saturday 🤔
We’re painting a couple of rooms today. Taping and other prep is done. Short break before the paint slinging begins.
Foggy drive this morning - but at least its warm (~50F) 🌫 📷
As usual Facebook says it did nothing wrong. It bothers me as I imagine 99% of users who to used the app don’t know what was really being collected.
Facebook has been … clear breach of their agreement with Apple
Big sky, puffy little clouds 📷
My Micro Monday is @herself. A kind, thoughtful person who also just had a short story published along side some famous authors 👍🏼
We love us some raw oysters. One of many rounds… 📷
Hmm. I was catching up on people’s Micro.blog posts from today and was thrown a 🧱 wall (No more posts) by the iOS app after only a couple of “load more” clicks. I don’t recall running into this before. I only managed to get back to 9:30am 😞
I love this idea - reuse is much better than recycling.
“Loop is about the future of consumption. And one of the tenets is that garbage shouldn’t exist,”
Tide, Clorox, PepsiCo and other big brands are thinking maybe the milkman had it right
My 10 year old son started reading The Hobbit last night and really likes it. I’m therefore a very happy dad this morning. 📚