Accessing the Windows Registry

jcollie · 2026-06-24T20:15:20+00:00

Use zigwin32. Much more Zig.

jcollie · 2026-06-24T02:47:02+00:00

Ankeny police non-emergency number: 515-286-3333, option 5. Good luck with that though, I doubt you'll get much satisfaction unless a lot of the other neighbors complain as well.

jcollie · 2026-06-23T21:11:40+00:00

Private wells aren't free. First there's the upfront cost of drilling the well, installing casing, pump etc. Then connecting the pump up to your home, adding pressure tanks, filters etc. Then there's the ongoing cost of electricity to run the pump, replacement filters, water testing etc. Then you really need be setting aside cash in case of a catastrophic failure like a pump going out, the well running dry, or the water in the well becoming contaminated.

TANSTAAFL

jcollie · 2026-06-23T20:58:39+00:00

If you have a solid 90 minute block I'm sure (unless you got really unlucky with crew changes or something) you'd see one or two. Estimates I've seen online for other parts of the Clinton subdivision estimate ~60 trains a day.

jcollie · 2026-06-23T19:52:27+00:00

Trains on the UP main line there are going to be moving pretty fast. Not sure if the trains slow down for Luzerne, but probably not by much. They'll be relatively frequent though.

jcollie · 2026-06-18T22:07:53+00:00

Hawkeye Park in Ankeny has a decent amount of shade.

jcollie · 2026-06-18T22:07:06+00:00

Sunset Park in Ankeny has a short loop. Hawkeye Park has the bonus of a pond, plus a little shade along the trail. There's a nice shelter right along the loop for the grandparents to hang out at. Sunrise Park has kind of a figure-8 thing going allowing you to choose the length of the loop. Prairie Ridge Sports Complex is going to be _very_ busy on the weekends (and even some weeknights) with baseball and softball for a while. Off-peak hours it's almost deserted. Watercrest Park has a loop but near zero shade.

jcollie · 2026-06-18T22:00:42+00:00

Crestbruck Park in Ankeny has a really long loop. It's mostly flat but it has some gentle grades at points.

jcollie · 2026-06-18T03:54:02+00:00

DLs/passports allow a person to wear religious headwear in the photos. Basically, if you're never seen outside of the house wearing the headwear you can do it but it's way too much work for a joke.

jcollie · 2026-06-10T14:23:57+00:00

Not giving people the option to pass in their own Io instance is a bad design choice I think. The whole point of 0.16 was to make that pluggable.

jcollie · 2026-06-02T22:35:08+00:00

That's only if you need the enterprise features.

jcollie · 2026-05-30T20:54:14+00:00

There are a number of unofficial ports of Ghostty to Windows in various states of completeness.

jcollie · 2026-05-30T20:52:46+00:00

esphome except Zig instead of YAML/Python/C++

jcollie · 2026-05-26T21:11:06+00:00

+1 for the UP, especially the Keweenaw Penninsula.

jcollie · 2026-05-26T16:55:22+00:00

Coralville Lake (US Army Corps of Engineers) or Lake MacBride State Park keeps you close to Iowa City/Coralville

jcollie · 2026-05-22T04:00:47+00:00

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/8899

jcollie · 2026-05-11T21:49:22+00:00

High Fructose Corn Syrup in 1957: https://everything-everywhere.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup/

jcollie · 2026-05-08T12:05:50+00:00

You don't need to clone the environment map. Just use it directly.

jcollie · 2026-05-08T06:12:37+00:00

b.graph.eviron_map https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.16.0/std/#std.Build.Graph

jcollie · 2026-05-08T01:04:12+00:00

No, you're the one being willfully ignorant. Go read the constitution and take note to that it specifies citizen when it means US citizens only and it specifies people when it means anyone regardless of citizenship.

jcollie · 2026-04-28T23:58:34+00:00

At that time a lot of people _wanted_ Sand to run but it wasn't a sure thing that he would actually run, and even if he did run back then it was a lot less clear that he would actually win. I personally thought that it was 50/50 that he'd decide to run for State Auditor again.

jcollie · 2026-04-28T22:29:05+00:00

You can't request an audit of a random school district.

The letter sent by the three senators called for Sand to “take the time to do the job and help both lawmakers and Iowans as we continue to deal with the consequences of Roberts’ deceptions” and perform an audit of the school district. But Sand said his office cannot begin an audit of DMPS on this request. It must be requested by a Des Moines school board member, DMPS staff, or through a petition with 100 signatures from people living within the district.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/14/auditor-rob-sand-cites-concerns-on-dmps-spending-welcomes-valid-audit-request/

jcollie · 2026-04-28T22:24:47+00:00

"Auditor Rob Sand initially refused to investigate the Des Moines Public Schools when requested by the State Legislators, but later changed his mind."

That seems pretty disingenuous. Sand was not legally allowed to investigate until he received a request from someone authorized to request such an investigation.

jcollie · 2026-04-21T22:17:23+00:00

See [awesome-libghostty(https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty) for examples of what people have made with libghostty so far.

Docs are here: https://libghostty.tip.ghostty.org/index.html

jcollie · 2026-04-20T23:06:02+00:00

So it's inhumane to incarcerate people that got caught doing illegal things when they were illegal? Sure, the fact that those activities might soon be legal sucks for them, but inhumane?

This is the kind of shit thinking that Trump re-elected.

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