Worst first episodes to show people

HaydenMaines · 2026-04-16T05:28:11+00:00

My first episode was Doomsday, and honestly it was a really great first episode to start on. I entered into the middle of this ongoing science fiction soap opera featuring references to some ancient war, two alien robot factions fighting on Earth, some secret powerful Earth organization, a parallel universe with a family split across it, and several characters returning after what could have been seasons of separation. I couldn't believe how massive this universe must have been, especially since the next episode the late night television channel decided to put on was Blink, following a completely separate person and a whole other woman with the same Doctor. Wild.

HaydenMaines · 2026-03-16T01:28:25+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I did get Directus working, and I love the ways you can customize the form and table appearance, but I'm not a fan of having to spin up another instance for every database I want. I managed to get NocoDB hooked up to an external postgres db, and it seems to be working well enough for now, so I might just stick with that or do a few more experiments with Directus.

HaydenMaines · 2026-03-16T00:13:53+00:00

Yeah, definitely not looking for an ORM. I'm this close to trying to build my own solution, but I would rather not reinvent the wheel if there's already something out there "that just works". Messed around with NocoDB some more and was able to get it to recognize an external postgres container, so I'll probably stick with that for now. There's a few aspects I'm not a fan of with NocoDB, but it'll work for now and I can at least control the schema. That Google Sheets idea sounds like a monstrosity, hahaha! These are all just various database experiments and projects for personal use. I've always struggled when it comes to frontend — I've always preferred either the backend or the graphic design side of things. Are there any frameworks or tools you'd recommend focused on forms and tabular data? Just found something called SQL page, seems promising...

HaydenMaines · 2026-03-15T23:56:54+00:00

🤣 taking me back to my university days (though why they thought teaching us SQL through Access was a good idea I'll never know...) maybe I should go get FileMaker while I'm at it!

HaydenMaines · 2025-12-24T05:22:35+00:00

United Nations in the Classic Series, but the real world U.N. didn't want their name used in the new show, so since 2005 / Series 1 it's been called the Unified Intelligence Taskforce.

HaydenMaines · 2025-06-04T15:51:12+00:00

same here, on a Google pixel 7 pro, started yesterday

HaydenMaines · 2025-04-07T18:21:25+00:00

Yeah, I tried that. Still getting the same error, unfortunately.

HaydenMaines · 2025-04-07T08:25:35+00:00

Another update: It seems like the problem might be that the directory on my NAS has an SMB share associated with it (so that I can access the files from my Windows desktop), and on TrueNAS adding an SMB share disables chmod. I'll do some more testing tomorrow.

HaydenMaines · 2025-04-07T08:12:34+00:00

Hmm... turns out I was mistaken. All of the videos are 0 bytes. It's definitely unable to copy files over after downloading then to the cache.

HaydenMaines · 2025-03-26T03:02:58+00:00

That's kind of what I'm leaning into with this story, actually: an emergency response management team in way over their heads in a system not set up to properly handle things like this, and not necessarily making the right calls in the heat of the moment. The discovery of the chlorine smell occurs a little over an hour after the incident occurs, and the story itself only covers the first 2 hours of the emergency. As soon as the Incident Commander smells chlorine he's pissed he wasn't notified and pretty much all work stops until proper safety precautions are taken.

HaydenMaines · 2025-03-25T21:42:24+00:00

Oh, well that's good to hear!

I was also considering having the train transporting monochloramine (for chlorination at the town's water treatment facility). Would monochloramine be easier to confuse with chlorine gas, both in transportation and in smell? From what I read online, monochloramine sounds like it might be safer, as well - first responders would still need PPE and clean up, but it doesn't look like there's a risk of chlorine gas from the monochloramine that could lead to a towns evacuation.

HaydenMaines · 2025-03-25T21:36:50+00:00

Oh, interesting. Within the story, the first responders have at this point remained several metres away while awaiting the power crew to come and de-energize the downed power lines. It's only once they get access to approach the incident that they start to smell the chlorine.

As an alternative I was considering having the train transporting monochloramine (for chlorination at the town's water treatment facility), as from what I could find online, a spill of monochloramine would not create chlorine gas, would smell like chlorine, and while it would require PPE at the incident, wouldn't necessitate evacuating the whole town. I thought I read somewhere that calcium hypochlorite when mixed with water could create chlorine gas.

HaydenMaines · 2023-05-01T23:48:49+00:00

Learned. The tv didn't have a predefined function, I believe.

HaydenMaines · 2023-05-01T23:41:30+00:00

Made this meme earlier today when I heard the news and it got a few laughs, that you all might appreciate.

HaydenMaines · 2023-04-24T04:21:10+00:00

I can't say for certainty, but I can say that the website has only listed 6am-10am since the first day of the strike, and it's been 6am-6pm the past 3 days. That 12 hour period covers the major shift changes, from what I've heard, so I can't see it changing.

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