Rumination
I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall.
Finally fixed login
Login on this site has been a bit flaky for a while since in my never-ending fight against AI bots I had switched to a multiprocess configuration to give the site a bit more robustness, but which had the side effect of most logins only having a 50% chance of working due to fiddly details inside Publ (or, more precisely, Authl, which defaults to only being safe for single-process configurations).
So, Publ finally implements multiprocess-safe token storage, which is something I’d been meaning to add since approximately forever ago (although it seems I never opened an actual issue to track it, oops), and this should make user login reliable again.
Thanks to Spud who finally lit a fire under my butt to fix this annoying issue.
The state of the fluffy (late December 2025 edition)
Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post1. Thinking about the end of the year and what’s coming up for me.
This isn’t my annual aspiration wrap-up post; that’ll come later.
The state of the fluffy
I’ve not been doing super great lately. I’m trying to get better, but I don’t know how.
Superpositional mood
I’m simultaneously doing great and not-great.
Doldrums
I got very little done this week and I’m feeling pretty bad about it.
life going on
Whoops, it’s been a little while since I’ve posted here. Well, okay, here’s some of the stuff that’s going on.
Come on baby, light my fire
Some thoughts about lighting fires, both literal and metaphorical.
Taking a break from stuff
So yeah I’m deep in a pain flareup right now. I made sure that all of the critical bugs in bandcrash are, to my knowledge, fixed, but I just am not in a situation where I can really work on stuff right now due to a massive pain flareup.
I was just starting to work on some music for a game jam game and Novembeat but I don’t think that’s really in the cards for me this year.
And of course now that I’m in agony, suddenly a lot of folks want to interview me for engineering roles that I’d normally be very interested in, so, thanks for twisting the knife on that one.
At least choir is going pretty well and gives me stuff to look forward to.
Everything feels awful
Today I went to Bartell’s to pick up a prescription there for the last time. Because Rite-Aid bought them out a while ago, and after making things there worse and worse, they’ve decided to just shut down all the Bartell’s locations that are near Rite-Aids, which is most of them, and I suspect their next plan is to convert whichever ones remain into Rite-Aids as well.
Whenever I walk to a store here I just see all the boarded-up storefronts, half of them from places going out of business, half of them shut down because of crime. Lots of shops have been hit by repeat burglaries, or arson, or who knows what else.