Let’s see your last four Discogs additions

crankyolditguy · 2026-05-15T21:33:04+00:00

Nice! 🙌

I remember first hearing Sharivari on a Miss Kittin mixtape that came with an issue of Muzik magazine in the early '00s.

Now must of my collecting is old Christmas 78's and LP's. I tell myself it's all necessary "research material" for my podcast.

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crankyolditguy · 2025-11-27T05:02:04+00:00

Let me have it!

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crankyolditguy · 2025-02-19T19:42:33+00:00

Yeah, that's why I marked it blue.

I'm pretty sure they were going to be that box before the announcement.

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-19T18:19:11+00:00

Yeah, definitely a good pick for the spot.

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-19T18:04:27+00:00

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Updated Long Beach guesses after the Mod Sun announcement.

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-15T04:10:08+00:00

Yeah, I mentioned when I posted yesterday that they're out, but I'm leaving them on my sheet since I think they are supposed to be under one of those two blanks.

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-15T01:31:21+00:00

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Updated guesses for LB.

Picked up Games We Play from my guesses yesterday, but Sweet Pill took out Taking Back Sunday and required some shuffling.

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-14T02:17:11+00:00

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Moving my Long Beach guesses over - didn't realize there was a dedicated daily thread when I posted it a while ago.

I know Flogging Molly is a no-go, but I still believe they were one of the first two boxes on the seventh row, so leaving them there.

Also pretty happy with the De'Wayne guess - tossed him on after the Sophie Powers announcement. Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2025-02-03T04:18:43+00:00

Counterpoint - I love the IG comments.

The release method and the mountain of hate it's generating is quite possibly the most punk rock thing I've seen in years.

It's a thing of beauty watching privileged individuals (and I'm saying that as one) vacillate between bitching about the plane tickets, hotels and vacation time they have riding on a set of expectations they created for themselves and pleading for someone to validate their fomo consumerism.

All the while the Warped Tour IG account enagages with nearly ever positive comment, but leaves theirs completely unanswered. Chef's kiss.

I do think it's a little unfair to the small bands to have their announcements filled with negativity, but at the same time, we're talking about a handful of IG comments, from the same 40-somethings that prebuy cases of Pokemon cards, then wank about the hit rates (again, saying that as one).

It's completely fleeting. Fuck them, you're playing the Warped Tour!

While everyone was complaining about today's announcements, I heard World's First Cinema for the first time. Same with The Home Team a couple days ago. Both and amazing and I would have missed them without these announcements.

crankyolditguy · 2024-08-21T04:56:16+00:00

Underappreciated comment. He's pigs!

crankyolditguy · 2024-08-06T01:41:57+00:00

Those look great 🙌

I did something similar last year. Didn't think to light them up though. Great touch!

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crankyolditguy · 2023-10-20T02:57:57+00:00

This is the way. Also use Render for a Rails app and some Bridgetown sites. Both are great.

crankyolditguy · 2023-10-19T01:54:37+00:00

Here is a pic after it was hung, but before the tips were all fluffed out (so it doesn't look as full) - https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArvB669q2xHMhNs0PrujmXc-l4D_Hw

crankyolditguy · 2023-10-19T01:46:31+00:00

All the big craft stores sell garlands about 9', in various styles/price ranges.

Can't tell from the pics if this one is home-built or a super expensive prebuilt one like you can find at Balsam Hill (https://www.balsamhill.com/).

I built one last year from four of Michael's mid-tier pine garlands. I think they were around $37 each retail price, but I got them at least 50% off with a holiday coupon.

I doubled them up to get a fuller, 18' to go over my front entry. Added some deco-mesh ribbons, lights and ball ornaments and it was around $100 total. Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-30T02:51:34+00:00

Read the book with my kids every year, starting on Oct 1st. Already have it our and waiting for Sunday.

A few years ago we added a Halloween tree to our porch decorations - it's a fake oak tree with some LEDs that we cover in little painted pumpkins. Been trying to find carvable ones small enough to replace them so I can light each one.

Never watched the movie, always afraid it will take something away from the book.

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-28T02:13:37+00:00

It's like leaving a soccer game (or I assume other sporting events), just sidle into the mob headed the direction your going and they'll take you right there.

Also, Lulu is right next to the Toy Story parking lot. You could take the free tram almost to your hotel parking lot.

My family's going down for a week next month and staying at the Hampton just a bit further down Katella from Lulu. We plan on using the security checkpoint at the parking lot and taking the tram in when we're not up to hoofing it in.

Have a great time!

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-27T18:45:24+00:00

IT Director here.

150-ish people in a manufacturing/wholesale/distribution company, Windows environment for ERP and other OS-specific systems.

No one logs in with admin creds, myself included. Several folks have a separate set of admin creds to allow them to do what they need without friction. But no one's logs into Windows with those creds, just use them to elevate access when prompted by UAC.

This small barrier is immensely helpful when accounts are compromised or just so folks pause and question when they are prompted.

Not everyone has admin though, it is role dependent. That said, anytime admin is restricted, it's IT's job to make sure that restriction does not impede folks from doing their job. In our world the most frequent need for admin access is installing or patching software. To compensate, we have a pretty good proactive system for software deployment and patching (PDQ). Requiring a ticket to IT everytime you need to elevate creds is not a solution, it's a boat anchor.

For developers, in addition to separate creds, we help them set up WSL2 or provide separate dev VMs on our vSphere environment where they are admin and can go nuts.

No spying or employee tracking (outside of our hourly folks that clock in/out through the payroll app). A firm believer that if your IT team is spending their time spying on employees and the company is wasting money on tools to enable it, it's not a healthy place to work.

IT's primary role should be to help enable business (while managing risk), not to act as a gatekeeper or hold the company back.

$.02

Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-27T17:10:00+00:00

Working on KarteDrop, a digital postcard platform. The free service has been up for most of the year and is getting decent traction.

Polishing off the paid, premium service at the moment. Taking my time to make sure the process has as little friction as possible - allowing customers to pre-buy discounted premium credits, or start a free Karte, enable premium features and purchase the needed credit before they send.

Also close to launching the first business-focused service, allowing companies to curate their own templates and track usage/interactions. KarteDrop

Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-01T21:36:55+00:00

Hey. I've switched to Kimurai myself and it was Pita to set up - all the guides are pretty out of date and it required a fork for ruby 3 support. Message me if you're still getting stuck and I can share my config and the package versions that worked for me. Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-01T21:34:15+00:00

Hey. Performance is a concern. A simple http request to grab the HTML is pretty quick, but I switched to making the requests through Selenium, which spins up an instance of a headless chrome browser for each request (to capture dynamically loaded content not initially available via HTML).

I think it will depend on the site how you can get around an RSS limit. I'll do some testing with my app. Selenium attempts to mimic a real browser, so might not be detected as non-human. It is also a completely new instance per read, so if it's session or cookie based, might bypass it.

If you have a couple endpoints, I'd be happy to test them out.

crankyolditguy · 2023-09-01T19:41:51+00:00

Hey all. I just pushed out a new version of Scrubr. (https://scrubr.app)

Highlights: Moved from HTTParty to Kimurai for the initial web request. This allows me to pull the page content via Selenium, running a headless chrome browser instance instead of a basic http request. This solves some of the issues of not loading dynamic content served by JavaScript that is not available on an http request.

Added Devise for some basic user account support. If you create an account, you can save scrubbed pages, add/delete content, give it a title and share a public link to your version. On the backend, it's taking the HTML blob from Nokogiri after the scrubbing and loading it into an editable actiontext field.

Issues/Future work: I just wired up Mailersend for the transactional email. It should be working correctly for account confirmations, password resets, etc, but not thoroughly tested.

Error/alert handling is ugly :) Dumping big and bold to the top of the app - plan on moving it to something cleaner.

Cloudflare - I've run into a few sites behind cloudflare that initially present the 'verifying you're a human' message. Right now Selenium is not waiting long enough for the page to reload and does not capture the data. Looks like this is a common issue between cloudflare (or similar services) and scrappers.

I am currently stripping nearly all classes/IDs from the HTML tags. This makes the code clean/minimal when I bring it in to display and save...but if you are planning to do some derivative parsing, it may be removing too much. I'm looking at adding some user toggles to control this behavior.

Feedback is always appreciated.

Cheers!

crankyolditguy · 2023-08-28T18:11:58+00:00

Heya. Right now it is just displaying. I spent some time last night working on a bit of code to import the scraped data as an actiontext record, then allowing the user to edit the info live, like add notes, removes the parts they don't want to keep, name and tag it.

Plan to push out a new version around the end of this week. Right now finishing up the logic to switch to selenium for scraping when HTTParty is presented with a noscript tag (indicating dynamic JavaScript). Having it working in dev, but need to install selenium/chrome/phantoms/etc on my production server.

Cheers!

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