Updated 03-Aug-2025 W22/2025: Monday 26 May - Sunday 01 June 2025 Caption: Mid-may look (pre-chop) Cooking Standards, nice and healthy. Work Lots to do and not much getting done. Tech Discourse not Discord. The latest theme I've been seeing is quite Discord-like in terms of the left-hand menu. Discourse is not likely worse than Discord, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W17/2025: Monday 21 April - Sunday 27 April 2025 Caption: Peanut butter on toast mmmm. Work Not much done, see health. Tech Some renovations to the kitchen included a new toaster oven (replacing a 15-year-old beast whose timer stopped turning off the burners after the time was up). I've added a second induction ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W16/2025: Monday 14 April - Sunday 20 April 2025 Work Ah well, can't win them all. Tech Some stuff on golang Stop using their stuff (work in progress) Health The big boy has been sick for more than a week. We've changed the medication. He is not getting worse, and the lungs check ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W15/2025: Monday 07 April - Sunday 13 April 2025 Caption: Think Think Think Work Trump is killing me with a 36% tariff. Whoever thought this senile criminal is a mastermind should be forced to light all their money on fire. It's what he is doing. Tech This approach to developing a PWA using ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W14/2025: Monday 31 March - Sunday 06 April 2025 Caption: midnight snack Work Managed to distribute a lot, though this depleted much of our stock. Paid the printers. Trump's stupid tariffs are going to make it impossible to ship goods to the United States, as we have less than a 37% profit margin, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W13/2025: Monday 24 March - Sunday 30 March 2025 Work Ah, so much. Tech What about Phoenix as a web framework? Uses Elixir and LiveView instead of Javascript abominations. See more here. Maybe overkill (or simply too different), and something like Svelte (which can also be used to build things like Obsidian plugins) ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W12/2025: Monday 17 March - Sunday 23 March 2025 Caption: Which one of these is white? Hint, the one on the left is cream, the one on the right is not silver. The one in the middle is light gray. Note, these BYD Dolphins are the best selling BEVs in Thailand in 2024, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W11/2025: Monday 10 March - Sunday 16 March 2025 Caption: Ben is now (age 9) nearly as tall as his nanny, who took care of him from 1-2.5 years Work Still working out the switchover to new products, and trying to get a large distributor to reorder. Tech Updated page on budget Android ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W10/2025: Monday 03 March - Sunday 09 March 2025 Work Figure out how to learn Japanese (and Thai), put together basic outline of what is needed, what is different Produce IPA comparisons between English and Thai, English and Japanese, Japanese and Thai Tech Need to get serious about getting RSS feeds organized and ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W09/2025: Monday 24 February - Sunday 02 March 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Tech Still figuring out how to de-DRM Kobo and/or Nook, so that I do have somewhere to buy ebooks, that I can read on my ebook reader (currently a Kindle Paperwhite 2018), and ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W08/2025: Monday 17 February - Sunday 23 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Not much accomplished, sadly, not unexpectedly. Tech Still finishing up rebuilding my Debian 12 Stable desktop. In love with all the open source (and a few proprietary) apps I use. Great article ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W07/2025: Monday 10 February - Sunday 16 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Some progress, though much left to do. Tech EMF blocking clothing? Great idea. Horrible prices. The venerable Kiwi Browser is no longer getting updates, and it is no longer in the Android ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 06/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Started changing metadata and organizational information across distributors. First things first, one at a time (Drucker, Effective Executive). Bookshop.org now has ebook distribution, and a 10% affiliate program. Health Feeling better, ramping up activity Able to run 3.5 kms ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 05/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Actually this note also accounts for the previous week, which is without a note. Four things impacted me at once which took away most motivation and a lot of energy and inertia, and it took a week to get back ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 No notes this week, see Weekly Notes 02 Feb 2025
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 02/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Stalled on a number of things. Did a one trick thing that worked again and quadrupled sales. It won't last but handy nonetheless. Health Better mental health through tidying and doing spring cleaning (ongoing, and progressing). Doing things I ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 02/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work To be honest, too many outstanding issues for both research and implementation. I have corralled all the scattered notes (e- and p- based) and am compiling and compressing them into something actionable. The week as the unit of effort ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 01/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Well, we publish this first weekly note two days late, hopefully not a harbinger. Work To be honest, too many outstanding issues for both research and implementation. I have corralled all the scattered notes (e- and p- based) and am ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Correcting some basic accounting issues. We keep making mistakes and need better QA. Using Antennapod, to try and better understand podcasts, which I don't really like or can get into. I do read a lot, for work and pleasure, and this ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Lot of research into the audiobook market, something I let slip over the past x months. Turns out this is still a fast-growing segment of the publishing industry (~27%). Need to finish this up! Health Started up the daily jogging, including ... Read more