Short-term disability leave fluffy rambles
Over the past couple weeks my pain has been flaring up again, driven especially by work stress. A few days ago I hit a breaking point and realized that this is something I need to actually take short-term disability leave for.
Fortunately, Moz has an extremely generous disability leave program, and management would much rather someone take it if necessary. So, for now I’m off from work until August, and we’ll see where things go from there.
Werner update fluffy rambles
After he’d finished his course of antibiotics and antacid, he was doing pretty well. But today he’s started having bile vomit again, and he seems to be losing weight again as well. I think I also caught him drooling a little. It’s all very mild right now, but during the last scare it also started out pretty mild until it suddenly wasn’t.
He doesn’t seem to be in pain, at least, but he might be on the way out after all.
One funny thing is that he’s got no interest in dry cat food at all anymore (he’s probably finding it too hard to chew what with his horrible teeth) but he’s become extremely interested in everything I’m eating… salads, macaroni and cheese, sandwiches, pretzels, that sort of thing. I’ll give him little tidbits of the stuff he’s curious about, which at least makes him really happy, even if it’s probably not very good for him. But it brings him some amount of joy and that’s what’s important.
4th of July barbecue? fluffy rambles
So hey, even though my birthday party got rained out, a bunch of people came and it was a good time. I suspect that an even better time will be had when it’s sunny. Anyone in (or able to get to) the Seattle area interested in having a barbecue at my place on the 4th?
Let me know in the comments!
Private, friends-only, IndieWeb stuff fluffy rambles
Yesterday I participated in the IndieWeb sensitive data pop-up, or at least the first half of it (I had to disappear for my refrigerator delivery). It was really great to have some further discussion about what people want out of this stuff and how we’re all going to agree to get it.
Authentication stuff
One of the biggest pain points that keeps on coming up is there being no support for people to be able to get private posts without having to log in or be notified about them in side channels. Lots of people are doing things like making pages with unguessable URLs and then doing side-channel notification, but that’s unwieldy; fewer folks are doing things with actual login mechanisms.
High temperature alert fluffy rambles
It’s pretty hot in Seattle.
First, advice from someone who grew up in the desert:
- Drink lots of liquids, but don’t drink just plain water because sweat loses electrolytes
- A good way to cool down reasonably quickly is to hold ice against a major artery or vein, such as your wrist or armpit, or against your sternum (but be careful about overdoing it in that case)
- A breeze can help but at a certain point you’re only blowing hot air around and heating it up even more
- Avoid caffeinated or alcoholic beverages
IndieWebCamp Popup: Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website
⭐️ Getting DKIM, DMARC and SPF to work with Postfix, OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC
The struggle Journal
Impossible burger update fluffy rambles
Turns out that Impossible Burger does, in fact, use enough methylcellulose to give me a bad time.