I’ve been using kagi.com as my default search engine for about a week now. I’m working on several projects needing specialized search. Kagi is not a “revelation from on high” but it produces clean results and excludes the garbage factory sites. Also I haven’t once had to bail out to Google search. Definitely better than DDG. Planning to stick with it.

ht @cheribaker

Having failed to banish the succubus inhabiting my brain when I think of naming my new mini PC I have given up. But I’m going with “lamia”. This word is new to me and looking at Wikipedia wow, what a reputation!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia

I was trying to think of a name for the mini PC I ordered and “succubus” came to mind for some reason. And now I can’t un-think it🤪

From the “sounds great but ain’t” files. Urgent care said they could give my my Rx while there, no need to go the pharmacy. Sounded great. Turns out they have this vending machine that spits it out after you talk to a pharmacy tech and pharmacist. 30 minutes later my Rx finally came out. Could have gone to the pharmacy faster.

⚕️ At urgent care. Turns out I have an ear infection.

Thinking about getting a fanless mini PC to consolidate tasks from some RPi. Trying to decipher spec’s because there so many choices and clones.

🥐 Being tempted to get a donut…

I’m going to 3D print some more gridfinity bins for my garage drawers. It’s amazing how much space these have freed up.

Juniper, oh Juniper. Why do you hate me?

Allergy season has arrived and Juniper pollen is set to max. All those hay fever symptoms plus my brain enters a fog bank.

Seems like Manton buckled down and finally found the bug that has been screwing up my Micro.blog posting for months.🤞I was on the verge of doing my own thing so, hopefully, this saves me from that. Not how I want to spend my time.

💲 Finishing income taxes for two states

On the hunt for a bit of Python code to grab all image URLs from small HTML files🕵️‍♂️

😋 Guilty pleasure: Cinnabon. Nom nom

🌝 Eating far too many of the oatmeal raisin cookies my wife just made 🍪

These squares are very short but I don’t think this filament roll is gonna make it. Standing by to do a quick swap.

🍷

🥊 Wrestling with python🐍🤼‍♀️

I explored Jekyll and set up a test environment using GitHub pages. Took awhile because I made the mistake of looking at Github’s way too complicated instructions. Tinkered with a few scripts to pull my social posts automatically. I’m not sure what my destination is yet. It’s a journey.🚢

Github pages wrangling done. Now to do something more enjoyable.

Finally set up GitHub auth to use 1Password👍🏻

Now on to GitHub Pages…

🫥 Messing with GitHub pages

🚌 Cold and windy so driving our son to the bus stop today

I think I’ve found the love of my life. Her name is Mona. 😜

Mona is a seriously good Mastodon app that “gets me”. I would recommend giving it a try as I find Mona markedly better than some of the apps that seem to be darlings lately. Tons of capability and customization.
@MonaApp

I installed PrusaSlicer 2.6 yesterday and enabled Organic (aka tree) supports. The supports are really lovely in structure. And as advertised are very effective and trivial to remove. I printed this yesterday using the default supports and getting them off was a real pain.

The is for a Samsung T5 and enables me to hang it off the back of my iMac.

🙉 Just saw an old fashion flame fest break out on my Mastodon feed. Don’t miss those. Happy to be able to mute them.