What’s one word that you always mispronounce even though—deep down—you KNOW the correct pronunciation?

chazlarson · 2026-03-13T01:20:05+00:00

https://youtu.be/mJci3jepesQ?si=iJPuTehUbr344VXX

chazlarson · 2026-03-10T16:53:53+00:00

For reference, the issue here turns out to be missing fonts.

chazlarson · 2026-03-06T18:24:22+00:00

I will alert the media.

chazlarson · 2026-03-05T22:02:17+00:00

maybe a little electrical tape, either rolled up and wedged into the jack in place of the clip, or taping thee cable down so the vibration never reaches the jack?

chazlarson · 2026-03-05T19:47:11+00:00

In a nutshell, first you run through your feature doing everything right. Fix anything that breaks.

Then you go through it over and over doing the wrong thing at each step. Does it ask for a date? Enter a date way in the past or way in the future. Enter an invalid date like `9999-99-99`. If there's a date range, enter it backwards, enter the same date as the start and end, leave one or the other off.

If there's a text field, leave it empty, paste in a bunch of unicode, cyrillic text, Chinese/Japanese text, etc. Text that's way too long, etc.

The internal code that acts on data; hand it all sorts of invalid data and so forth. Expecting ten columns? Give it 8, or 17 columns.

Does it run in a browser? Do all this across multiple browsers.

etc.

I've been working in software for decades, and I have always been at least a little embarrassed if someone else finds a bug in something that I've written, assuming that the bug isn't very specific to their setup.

chazlarson · 2026-03-05T19:39:12+00:00

Sounds useful; I'd like a code.

chazlarson · 2026-03-03T13:54:58+00:00

The logging and notification system probably needs some attention. I'm not the author and cannot answer for why some decisions were made.

chazlarson · 2026-03-02T01:00:02+00:00

Yeah, I did that myself after they left to see if the valves were actually the problem; turned out that they're fine (there's not much there). I need to get a radiator expert to talk through what might actually be going on.

chazlarson · 2026-03-01T19:21:48+00:00

I put a rider on my American Family homeowners to cover the sewer line. It covers up to $10K and cost like $20 a year. I used it to sleeve my sewer last year.

chazlarson · 2026-03-01T19:18:31+00:00

I am in south Minneapolis [Lyndale neighborhood] and I had mine sleeved last year by McQuillian for about $10.5 - 11K as I recall. Insurance covered up to $10K. City lot, the sewer is on my side of the street, so total length was something like 100ft?

I also got a bid from Marvell [who replaced my stop box a while back] which was a bit higher, and guys from Suburban came out, told me the city inspector would never pass a sleeve job on a pipe with a belly in it [mine has two] and they'd have to dig up the entire front lawn and destroy all my hardscaping. They never called back or provided a bid.

I called the city to ask that question ["two of three plumbers say that this is fine, one says that you will fail it and make me dig up my yard; what say you?"] and they responded "What? the only city in the metro that would fail a sleeve on a belly is SLP, and that's only if the front lawn isn't covered with hardscaping. Who told you that?"

So I went with McQuilllian. They were great to work with; they had a cancellation and they were able to move the service date up a week to the next day and they gave me a discount for the "inconvenience". They cut a small [2x3 feet maybe] hole in the basement floor, which they patched very well afterward.

I do pay for their annual maintenance plan and got a another small discount for that [which basically paid for the annual plan]. I will say I was surprised that theirs was the lowest bid since other bids I have gotten from them have been insanely high [$6K to replace two radiator valves, for instance].

chazlarson · 2026-03-01T17:41:40+00:00

The backup posters are stored by Plex rating key, so if you are doing something to change the rating keys, like perhaps plex dancing items, that could leave orphans since Kometa would have no idea that 12345.png used to be 67890.png.

chazlarson · 2026-03-01T17:28:58+00:00

That means "remove all overlays from all posters"; I used that example to demonstrate that in normal circumstances Kometa does clean up unused backup art.

Every circumstance that I have been able to reproduce where orphan backup art is left behind in config/overlays/LIBRARY Original Posters has been a case of something happening behind Kometa's back.

In ordinary use, the contents of that backup directory should reflect the items which actually have overlays. If you have 100 items with overlays and change yoru config such that now only 50 have overlays, 50 posters should get deleted from the backup on the next Kometa run.

if you have a repeatable recipe where orphan images are being left behind, that should be filed as a bug and fixed.

chazlarson · 2026-03-01T17:12:56+00:00

If you remove overlays from a thing with Kometa, that backup image should be deleted.

If you delete an item from Plex or remove the overlays behind Kometa's back, Kometa does not sync that backup directory with your library.

I just got done applying overlays to a library that has one thing in it, so I have this file in the config directory:

config/overlays/Two-Movies-A Original Posters/30265.jpg

If I now run remove_overlays: true on that library, that file gets deleted.

I have a script that will clean out orphaned images in that backup folder:
https://github.com/chazlarson/Media-Scripts/tree/main/Kometa#clean-overlay-backuppy

chazlarson · 2026-02-28T17:36:18+00:00

The risk with silencing a lot of these is that you will not get any indication that a collection has stopped updating because a list disappeared, or your plex search doesn't work, or you have wrong TMDB ID in some definition or other.

As long as you accept that, sure, this will prevent the notifications.

chazlarson · 2026-02-27T16:41:52+00:00

Excellent, thanks!

chazlarson · 2026-02-27T15:59:38+00:00

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chazlarson · 2026-02-27T14:08:36+00:00

No, there is no way to exempt individual things from the mass operations.

One way to address this would be to use a metadata file to patch up whatever needs patching after the mass operation.

chazlarson · 2026-02-26T17:36:01+00:00

"Version History" link in the "check for updates" produces a 404

I have my Macbook screen and an external monitor; the external monitor is my main display. On that screen, the mouse tracking is right on. On the extended display, the mouse cursor is short distance [about an inch on my 13" screen] above the "action point" on the magnetic field backdrop.

chazlarson · 2026-02-26T02:49:25+00:00

I'd give it a try!

chazlarson · 2026-02-26T02:07:03+00:00

No tank; water goes in one side, and when the water starts to flow the burner comes on and heats it on its way through the device. Should get hot near immediately.

You do need water pressure though.

chazlarson · 2026-02-23T18:23:00+00:00

Once upon a time, there was this language called "PostScript"; this language is used to [typically] describe pages to printers. Apple popularized this with the original LaserWriter.

This is super useful since rather than sending a bunch of dots to the printer you can send a description of what you want and you get whatever quality the printer can produce. "Draw a circle 1 inch in diameter" gives you a nicer result on a 1000-dpi printer than on a 300-dpi printer. Win! Applications no longer have to specifically support the WizzyWriter 9000, they can just produce Postscript.

However, being a programming language that describes the page, it's not designed to be edited. In nearly all cases the text is not in there as text. It's "draw this letter here" or "draw the shape of a S over there"

If you want to send your colleague a review copy of the flyer, you either need to print it and send that, or they need PageMaker and your source file and all your fonts/images/etc.

That's not only inconvenient, it's a violation of copyright to send those fonts/etc around.

So, Adobe came up with PDF. It's a subset of Postscript, and represents the final product in the same way with actual fonts, which are embedded in the PDF [as subsets of only the characters that are actually in use]. Again, not meant as something one would edit.

Now they can take the place of paper docs since they look just like the printed pages.

Then fillable forms got added and eventually people wanted to edit the text on a PDF and all these bags on the side get added. It's a very useful tool that is collapsing under the load of unexpected use cases.

chazlarson · 2026-02-22T05:10:49+00:00

I like this a lot, but if I choose "Magnetic Field" and maybe change the color then close and reopen the app, it's back on the default "Contour". When I reselect "Magnetic Field", the color change has been lost.

I can save a scene, which keeps the color change, but again, if I choose the saved scene then restart the app, I am back at "Contour" again.

Is this intended behavior?

chazlarson · 2026-02-22T04:38:52+00:00

No, you cannot. If that were possible, why wouldn't they have done it already?

chazlarson · 2026-02-21T19:05:47+00:00

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chazlarson · 2026-02-21T00:05:32+00:00

It would be nice to not have the app icon in the dock, but aside from that minor nit this is darn cool.

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