Since I started practicing Karate again in September of last year, I’ve been
constantly improving my flexibility. I have to. When I stopped training 20 years
ago, I already didn’t have great range of motion in my hips and legs. And the
following two decades of neglect, of just sitting in front of a screen, not only
caused unhealthy weight gain, they also let my muscles deteriorate. Especially
my hip and bum muscles have shortened to an extent that I can’t even do a side
kick at mid-height.
While updating my Now Page, it dawned on me that it would really help if I made my readers aware that this page exists in the first place! If you’d like a quick update what’s going on with me, this page is the place to go.
Obsidian has been my long-term memory for many years now, but only yesterday I realized how easy it was to also make it my blog editor and thus greatly simplify writing new posts.
One of the best things that happened lately was that I found a Karate club nearby. I have no idea why I didn’t earlier, because I wanted to get back into martial arts for years.
Today I’ve learned that the MAME emulator project did a cooperation with the
Internet Archive, Texas Instruments and HP to create software replicas of
historic pocket calculators. The result is the Calculator
Drawer.
Recently, I noticed an increasing frequency in which I get presented with Captcha requests. In part, this might have been caused by me switching browsers or reinstalling my laptop. But still, thanks to their annoyance factor, it felt like I was getting more of them than in the past.
When someone on Mastodon asked for help with a Ruby question, my friend and
business partner Markus kindly referred them to me, knowing that I’m always happy
to help other Ruby developers. Their question was about executing Mastodon code
from a custom script. In this post, I describe how I solved this problem using
the Rails console and a custom subclass.
It’s been a while since my last weeknote. This is a good sign that not only I
have better control of my tasks again, but also that there’s been events and
insights worth writing about in the first place.
