Notes – Page 4 – David Shanske

I’ve been updating my servers to slightly less old and slow ones. It started with just one…but it seems like there is a knockon effect as now I want to get rid of all the bottlenecks I have.

I had stopped watching the Daily Show regularly and only looked at clips…but I’ve been tuning in on and off to see if any of the hosts are people I’d want to watch regularly. I have been surprised who I liked, disliked, and for what reason.

Enjoying the overture for NYGASP’s staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers. Never seen this. Love that they’ve started airing these a few months after the live performance.

Was busy on Thursday, so finally got around to my traditional Groundhog Day movie watching. I forgot the late Willie Garson had a small part in the movie.

My mother told me she hired a handyman named Julio. Thanks to Paul Simon, I keep asking her if she found him down by the schoolyard.

Over the last day, I continued to add little features to enhance my new venue feature. One of the features was to display images on venues attached to checkins at that venue. In order to take full advantage of the feature, I’ve decided to add more photos to my old checkins that I took at the time, but never posted. Went back to the end of 2020.

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First Night of Chanukah

Why do flight attendants always tell you the local time when you aren’t changing timezones….?

Listening to an Irish folk singer sing a Chanukah song written by a legendary American folk singer. Multiculturalism at it’s finest.

Decided to upgrade my network infrastructure. For the first time since the early days of my home network, I’m going to give using a full computer a try. I’ve ordered an inexpensive mini PC that has two ethernet ports, and am thinking of trying OpnSense.

I’m back from my vacation, where I spent a lot of time field-testing my venue code. As far as I can tell, it is working perfectly, but field-testing is what allows me to figure out the tweaks I need to make the experience better, so there will be some point releases over the coming weeks as I make the experience better. Here is an example of one of my venues…I tried to use some code to import old checkins at venues and create new local venues replacing ones I’d linked to remotely. However, it did create some duplication, so I will need to spend some time cleaning it up. Also, if I want to classify my venues and provide descriptions, I’ll need to add those.

I keep trying to sing four part harmony by myself.

Working on introducing venues to my site….URLs that represent a specific place, as opposed to location, which I already have at /location, which represents posts in a city or town. Hoping to have it done before I go places on the 8th.