Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste
Full Stack Developer and Digital Packrat

Update 📰

  • I have a complicated relationship with Valentines Day. 🤔 No, it’s not actually complicated, I just hate it. 😅

    So, I was shocked to see what my Partner left for me this morning. 📷

    A metal bucket filled with ice and green bottled beverages on a countertop with a note, with heart stickers, reading: A Bucket* of goodies just for you on this Hallmark Holiday (*its pronounced 'Bouquet')

    He really is too sweet. 🫶🏻

    (In my defense, we did go out on Monday to “celebrate” the fake holiday.)

  • Well this is an interesting turn of events…it looks like Google has completely blocked my IP address from watching YouTube videos. 🤔😳

  • It’s the very definition of a first world problem but I’m unable to rent / reserve skis for an upcoming vacation because someone didn’t check to see if the latest deploy didn’t contain breaking javascript changes on the site. 🤣😱😭 #ScreamsIntoTheVoid

  • I can’t believe it’s been a year since we said goodbye to Russell. The pain has faded a little but it feels like it’s been both an eternity but also just the blink of an eye since we said our farewells to our little puppy-rabbit. 💔

    Lots of tears today… 😭

    A tan fluffy dog rests on a blue quilt and beige cushion, looking directly at the camera. The watermark reads 'lostinhaste.com'.

    We miss you, we still miss you. 🐶🐕 📷

  • Finally got around to installing an “extender” SATA card into my media server, to add more drives…and of course, it doesn’t work. 😤 💾 📷

    An open computer case displays components and wiring. A spinning fan is visible on a motherboard lit by blue LEDs.

  • Trying to update the SSL certificates our Kafka consumer / producer uses and it’s driving me to drink more coffee. ☕️🤪

  • …and I only just finished my first cup of coffee. ☕️🤪

  • Someone created a Github issue for my Justified Swipebox Micro.blog plugin…and I’m so excited to know someone out there is at least looking at my work, much less using it; it’s not really ”my work”, I just enhanced / joined two other libraries so they’d work with Micro.blog…but still, I’m excited!

  • 📞 I was cleaning up voicemail on my lunch-break and found some old ones from Grandma; for the first time since she passed, I didn’t instantly burst into tears at the sound of her voice. 🥰 I still miss that beautiful soul every day, especially the sound of her laugh, but the pain is easier now. 💔❤️

  • The “view” from inside the front door this morning. 🥶🧊📷

    Ice obscure the view through a window, hinting at an outdoor scene with blurred colors.

  • Went skiing earlier, the first time in seven years. We had a great time but good grief, I’m sore…where is a hot-tub when you need one?! 🤣⛷️📷

    (Not pictured: the massive amount of beginners on the slopes, they were everywhere, crashing into everything. 😮‍💨)

    A red snow groomer with a front blade is parked on a snowy surface, near pine trees and a clear sky overhead. A snowy ski slope with skiers and a chairlift, surrounded by trees under a blue sky with wispy clouds. Skiers descend a snowy slope with trees and clear skies. Skiers disembark from a chairlift atop a snowy hill. A snowy landscape with skiers on slopes and a chairlift, amidst leafless trees against a cloudy sky. Ski lift chairs ascend above a snowy slope with skiers; textured clouds and a setting sun provide the backdrop.

  • Thai food with some friends for lunch. 🥢🍛

    Two spring rolls sit on a detailed blue-and-white patterned plate with some dipping sauce, on a restaurant table. Stir-fried dish on an ornate plate, surrounded by silverware, on a pink tablecloth.

  • My Parter and I went for a walk last night, in the falling snow (it’s a tradition of ours, to go for a walk during the first real snowfall) and had a great time…right until the very end: I hit a patch of ice and went down hard. 🤕 Woke up today feeling like I’ve been through a clothes press. 😂

  • Playing around with the updated Micro.blog categories, decided to add emoticons, just for fun. Have a bit of an odd bug with repeating categories but the feature did just come out today, so I’m not too worried about it. 🤣

    Tag buttons with emojis and text such as 'animal', 'apple', 'audio' on a webpage titled 'Lost In Haste' under navigation links like 'Books', 'Photos', 'About Me'.

  • Years ago, I set up a self-hosted Gitea, as a backup solution for my Github account. I didn’t think much of it at the time but I used MS SQL as the backend for it, without realizing the Docker version doesn’t work with encrypted Synology volumes. 🥴 I finally took care of that, now on MySQL. 🎉