Status 2024-01-29
Friday is my day off from work, as usual. So when I’m typing this I’m
in front of the hackstation (not a battlestation, obviously) with my
third cup of coffee, writing an update again.

I’ve been doing these status updates on my Gemini log, but I’m
increasingly aware of the dropping amounts of traffic, so I’m thinking
about doing them on the blog instead, but see below for some thoughts
on Gemini.

In which I speak about an intense week, feeling good(?), spending … ⌘ Read more

Scroll Through Every Mac Desktop & Laptop Ever Made
The Mac turned 40 this week, and if you’re still on an Apple history kick, there’s a fun website that’s worth exploring called Mac40th. Mac40th.com showcases every desktop and portable Mac ever made by Apple in a continuous stream of Macs, displayed in random order. But it’s not just Macs, interspersed with tons of photos, … Read More ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/22 to 01/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Another tea party: how a US chemist’s salty theory sparked a diplomatic row between the US and UK
Professor Michelle Francl stirred the pot this week when she asserted that, scientifically, tea should have salt in it. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/15 to 01/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Jetway Unveils 3.5” SBC with Dual 2.5GbE Ports and Triple 4K@60Hz Display Support
Jetway unveiled this week the JF35-ADN1 which is a 3.5” SubCompact single-board computer powered by the Intel Processor N97 CPU. This new embedded device aims at the field of industrial robotics payment systems, machine vision and beyond with its DDR5 memory support and extensive I/O interfaces. The product announcement highlights that the JF35-ADN1 is configurable […] ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/08 to 01/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/12/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Muscles are made in the kitchen
This Christmas, I got a cool gift – a door pull-up bar. I wanted it because I do (Freeletics) workouts two or three times per week without any equipment (except some resistance bands I got a while ago), and I thought pull-ups would add some variety. Plus, I heard they’re good for working out different muscles like the back, arms, and grip. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 01/01 to 01/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/05/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

** New year **
The last weeks of 2023 have been very enjoyable. Other than having to deal with a cascade of car issues, there’s been a lot of time to hang out with the partner and kids, wander around outside, and poke at fun personal projects…and I mean, work, too, but…you know.

The other evening I pulled together a fun Markov chain toy. It isn’t anything fancy, but I wanted the ability to feed a madlib style script to the program and have it use that as a template to fill in. The resulting program is beak and … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/25 to 12/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/29/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

After losing crops to floods, banana famers now face an even greater risk
Queensland growers are on high alert this week with devastating floods increasing the possible spread of Panama TR4 fungal disease — the greatest threat to banana production worldwide. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/18 to 12/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/22/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

MC in the US: OSFC, SF, Seattle, Microsoft

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I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) on Oct 10-12 in
Sunnyvale, spent a long weekend in San Francisco, took a very long
train ride to Seattle, spent a week in the Seattle area, and held an
intimate talk at Microsoft. Managed to meet friends, drink some nice
beverages, and even see a show but came home with a heavy heart. Then
tried to relax in the cottage.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/11 to 12/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/04 to 12/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/08/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

The Untitled Nerdy Chat Show kicks off next week! Be a part of it!
Buckle up, Buttercup. The Lunduke Journal has one heck of an announcement for you: Starting one week from today (Wednesday, December 13th at 12pm Central Time) a new, weekly, live chat show will kick off — the aptly named “Untitled Nerdy Chat Show”. ⌘ Read more

Beyond the deadline: What I learned from a recent taskforce experience
The taskforce I was part of the last weeks is finally done! The deadline for the production deployment was met and today also a knowledge transfer took place. I’m happy to not have to fear weekend work or do overtime in the evening anymore, and hopefully return to a more regular workload again. ⌘ Read more

Amiga Week Begins!
Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - Dec 6, 2023 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/27 to 12/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/01/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Геймдиректор следующего «Ведьмака» о начале второй саги: «Это будет хорошая входная точка для новых игроков»
Геймдиректор четвёртой игры в серии «Ведьмак» Себастьян Калемба посетил итальянский ивент Milan Games Week 2023, на котором поговорил с изданием Lega Nerd о своём проекте.

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Ignite Realtime Blog: More Openfire plugin maintenance releases!
Following the initial batch of Openfire plugin releases that we did last week, another few have been made available!

Version 1.0.1 of the Spam Blacklist plugin was released. This plugin uses an external blocklist to reject traffic from specif … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/20 to 11/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Another work week just flew by.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

Starlink and Natural Monopolies
A couple of weeks ago Elon Musk tweeted (or Xed, or whatever it’s called today) that Starlink has broken even and congratulated its team. The company has been offering fast satellite internet access through its own Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of more than 5000 satellites. As part of SpaceX, it’s the first company of […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

At $14 each, price is ‘no barrier’ for Aussie mangoes in the US
It takes two weeks for these Aussie mangoes to go from a farm to a US supermarket shelf. But for Manbulloo Mangoes it’s been worth it. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/13 to 11/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Completed my second Freeletics Hell Week and with it my second training journey! 💪 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 11/06 to 11/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/30 to 11/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/03/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

The last week was really rainy, so I didn’t leave the flat much. And now walking at sunset time, everything looks so pretty. ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Fartlek: 6.11 miles, 00:09:01 average pace, 00:55:09 duration
surprised i felt as good as i did on this. after a bump in mileage last week and a descent long run the day prior. all in all felt pretty springy.
#running

Fancy fungi business takes off for tradie still learning the secrets of edible mushrooms
A Pemberton electrician is supplying up to 20 kilograms of fungi a week to shops and restaurants in a mushroom-growing side hustle that has been a process of trial and error. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/23 to 10/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/27/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

a week away from now

Pinellas County - 5 mile progression: 5.02 miles, 00:09:42 average pace, 00:48:41 duration
kept it easy since it was the first week. the first couple miles took a bit to keep locked on but the rest were fine.
#running

Highlights from DockerCon 2023: New Docker Local, Cloud, and AI/ML Innovations
DockerCon 2023 celebrated 10 years of Docker. We round up event announcements, including Docker Scout for the software supply chain, Docker Build, Debug, Docker AI, GenAI stack, OpenPubkey, a Udemy partnership, and more. Videos are available on-demand now on the DockerCon site and will be added to YouTube in the coming weeks. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/16 to 10/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/20/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Pinellas County - Base: 7.03 miles, 00:09:16 average pace, 01:05:07 duration
not much of a base run. did not feel rough at all, but my HR was higher than i wanted. pretty much standard quo these last few weeks.
#running

Text Adventure Week Begins!
Listen now (8 mins) | (Because Text Adventures are cool.) ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/09 to 10/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/13/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

💻 Issue 386 - This week in #Scala (Oct 9, 2023) ⌘ Read more

mwehehehe I’m on the verge of fixing a bug that’s been blocking us for weeks now. wish me luck, peeps! ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/02 to 10/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/06/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 09/25 to 09/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/29/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/18 to 09/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/22/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 09/11 to 09/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/15/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week