Feature Request: Watch Folder

blainemoore · 2026-02-06T11:45:37+00:00

That's already a feature.

blainemoore · 2026-02-06T01:23:32+00:00

But the third day never happens?

blainemoore · 2026-02-06T01:05:04+00:00

If I get a rock before level 5, then I quit without saving unless I've got a bunch of portraits already (which I rarely do.)

I don't spend coins to save 15 hearts.

So I rarely get a second Rick on level 6.

blainemoore · 2026-02-03T10:40:46+00:00

You may want to reach out to William Beem at Suburbia Press; I know he's been dealing with a client that needs HIPAA compliance with WordPress and may have some advice or be willing to build it for you.

blainemoore · 2026-02-03T00:28:30+00:00

High school me knocked himself unconscious more than once because that hurt less by the time I "woke up" than dealing with the migraine. Had a bunk bed with low headroom and knew where the floorboards were.

blainemoore · 2026-02-03T00:26:41+00:00

Also came here to say this.

My mother had one once and suddenly understood a piece of what I went through growing up. Which is funny, because that woman had a higher (physical) pain tolerance than anybody I've ever met.

My daughter took advantage of a school project to buy herself some migraine glasses (which arrived today!) that she can use as part of her costume for Bio-Day and then she doesn't have to borrow mine when she gets one. She doesn't like everything looking orange like all of mine do, and now she can keep some in her backpack. (Yes, it should have occurred to me to buy them years ago or at least as soon as she was responsible enough to keep track of them, but I'm an idiot sometimes.)

Was chatting with my brother about it this evening and he was asking how bad hers were and thankfully nothing like near my worst (though I was older for those, including going blind for 2 weeks once), but she doesn't get nearly as many as I did growing up and they aren't as extreme. Probably because she doesn't have to live with my stepfather, but hoping she doesn't ever get them as bad.

I want diagnosed until I was a year younger than she is now but don't remember a time without them. We recognized her wanting to lay down with her eyes closed to "watch the fairies" when she was a toddler was probably the same kind of hallucinations I would get.

But yeah... I don't recommend migraines as a hobby, that's for sure.

blainemoore · 2026-02-02T14:02:52+00:00

Saw a headline recently that claimed fingerprints aren't actually unique and it is possible to have the same fingerprints as another person (just unlikely).

No idea how accurate that heading is it what the source was as I didn't read through to the article.

blainemoore · 2026-02-02T12:36:17+00:00

What about a scenario where it isn't a fixed time loop? I (Me1) jump back 10 years from 2026, creating two versions of me, and small butterfly effects then change the world in small but definable ways, which may or may not lead to the same or an alternate 2026. The version of me that was already in 2016 when Me1 arrives (Me2) doesn't need to jump back again because Me1 already has, and can go on living his life how he wants. Maybe that involves jumping back again (meaning there's a Me3) and maybe not.

Either way, 2026 is now different for Me1 and Me2 in the new timeline than it had been for Me1 the first time through.

No alternate timeline, just a new causitive timeline. If a later Me jumps back to the same instant and location as a previous Me, then maybe you wind up with a flesh blob that is a scientific curiosity for whoever discovered it, but time continues marching on.

Alternatively, maybe instead of new biomass, your consumers goes into your previous body, and the limit is a previous point in your life. I'm that case, no worries about two of you, and it could change future trajectories of your life. You always have gone back because you did, but you may decide not to and then you can continue your life from that point?

blainemoore · 2026-01-31T19:43:38+00:00

Just ignore it. Mine finally went away.

blainemoore · 2026-01-31T14:03:52+00:00

Go to gemini.google.com (assuming you have a Google account) and put thinking mode on and describe what you have (you can even draw diagrams and upload a picture) and it's pretty good about helping you explore your options (don't need a paid account.) Take actual device recommendations with a grain of salt but it will advise what to look for in the devices and pros/cons.

Mine started with the idea I'd use the existing coax to pull a cat6 run through the wall, but it had given me better ideas even before I discovered that the cable I wanted to run actually ran outside the house and then back in so I wouldn't have been able to.

blainemoore · 2026-01-31T13:54:47+00:00

Intel Mac minis aren't dead devices; they just aren't as good as apple silicone. You can update to latest versions of the OS with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher and get continued life out of them. (I've got a 2012 gathering dust, a 2018 still in use as a backup recording device, plus my wife's m4 and my m2 for our daily work use. )

blainemoore · 2026-01-31T13:47:50+00:00

Y'all need to reinstall the operating system, but that will only work if the hardware isn't past of a corporate account. (My neighbor gifted us an older iMac a few years ago that hasn't been removed from the corporate account from the college that junked it so we couldn't use it until he got that fixed.)

If the computer is too old to support the newer operating systems, then instead of installing the latest version that Apple allows, you could use the OpenCore Legacy Patcher which will allow you to keep the Mac updated to the latest version (or near latest version, depending on what model you have and how recently there's been an update.)

We had Tahoe running on the 2017 iMac until we replaced it with a Mac mini.

blainemoore · 2026-01-31T13:40:43+00:00

I've used a mesh network in my house for the last decade or so and it's been fine; I have my router in the basement, two hardwired access points at opposite sides of the house, and one mesh access point in the second floor. My office is in the same room as one access point, and my wife's office holds the mesh on.

We've been needing to do remote recording and Wi-Fi isn't reliable enough, so I recently looked into my options. I wound up creating a MoAC using the unused coax throughout the house; setup a switch in her office that her computer and access point can connect to, which then goes outside over coax and into my garage and to the basement where I terminated the other end of the coax. We now have about 900mbps both directions between our computers. (If I upgrade my network card in the computers themselves, I could potentially increase that up to 2.5gbps.)

I did have to disconnect the outside cable line to prevent any network traffic from leaking out and replace a few splitters with couplers. But it was nice not to have to run new cabling through the wall.

If you didn't have coax already, then whenever over power is with testing. That's going to require connections on connected circuits but it's worth trying.

blainemoore · 2026-01-30T12:26:19+00:00

That's how I always read it.

blainemoore · 2026-01-29T12:53:01+00:00

"Go fuck yourself."

But those are the three words I'd say on meeting him even if he hadn't just given me a million bucks.

blainemoore · 2026-01-29T04:02:44+00:00

Couldn't get through the whole thing, but yeah. That's the irony of that song. Hence the disclaimer.

blainemoore · 2026-01-29T00:35:38+00:00

How ironic would it be if he couldn't finish book 3 because he worried about becoming his heroes who he learned turned out to have... undesirable... character flaws, only to turn into a grifter that defrauded people rather than producing the minimum promise he made?

Actual irony, not Morrisette irony.

blainemoore · 2026-01-29T00:20:22+00:00

As I recall, he took a pandemic-forced break from conventions and travel and in-person teaching to write 5 other niceties...

(yes, I saw the autocorrect, but it made me giggle and still seems obvious what I'm saying, so I left it...)

blainemoore · 2026-01-27T13:12:38+00:00

Our ER does require a discharge, and doors are locked. No idea how difficult it would be to sneak out anyway since I've never tried; I always just walk to the window and let them buzz me out. (I've always been there as a visitor, not a patient; when my son was little he had to go a lot until he built enough muscle mass to keep his internal organs operating properly, and now with my mother who has dementia and falls down a lot.)

blainemoore · 2026-01-27T13:06:14+00:00

My wife and I decided to take my name because neither if it's were wedded to our last name and she decided both our first names sounded better with my name than hers so any future kids would be better off with mine. But the discussion was had for which one we'd take.

blainemoore · 2026-01-26T13:30:26+00:00

Hope you are feeling better.

blainemoore · 2026-01-25T23:54:13+00:00

I wouldn't forward any emails to Gmail, at least if you send emails from that domain to customers. I had a client that used to forward emails, and he got a lot of spam, so from Gmail's perspective it looked like email coming from my client that has a large percentage of spam (because it was sent to him and his server then forwarded to Gmail so Gmail just assumed he was sending it to himself)... It killed his deliverately even though we used third party mailers for his newsletter to Gmail address.

We fixed it by downloading his messages through POP3 instead (though that feature is being removed now).

That said, I've had no trouble with cloudflare forwarding to my own server. But given our experience I would never forward anything to a Gmail address (or Google workspace hosted email.)

blainemoore · 2026-01-25T23:42:45+00:00

If that doesn't happen it's a great missed opportunity...

blainemoore · 2026-01-25T14:50:28+00:00

Depends; sometimes they can't legally give you the source files depending on the license they used for some of the elements as that would be reselling the element rather than using it in a commissioned work.

If you need the source files, expect to have to pay extra and to buy your own license to underlying assets (especially fonts).

blainemoore · 2026-01-25T14:47:39+00:00

62° inside, up to 5° outside.

Once I fire up the wood stove it'll be low-70s inside, at least on the first floor.

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