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This past week our dryer stopped working. Our dryer came with our house and is easily 30 years old, thought probably older. We had repaired it before, but this time around, my father in-law, my wife and I could not salvage it. We might have been able to jury rig something, but it probably wouldn’t hold for that long. It was time to replace the dryer.

This past week at work we ran into a weird bug. It was one of those bugs where everyone’s trying to replicate it with mixed success. Most of the time it works just fine, but every so often it fails with no clear indication as to what’s different about the failure case. It took a while, but we were finally able to identify the cause and it presented us with a slight headache.

Five years ago, the US and much of the world shut down to the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the beginning of the pandemic. At the time, I and pretty much everyone else had no idea what to expect in the coming weeks, months, and as it turned out, years.

Shortly after the new year, I made the decision to take a break from social media. I deleted the apps off my phone, logged out of my accounts on my laptop, and just stopped visiting all of them. No Mastodon, no Bluesky and no Pixelfed (I actually deleted that account). There are days I consider opening them up, but for the moment, I just don’t think I’m going to.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around some of the latest features of CSS and now they’re introducing custom CSS functions in Chrome Canary...wowzers. With the caveat that it’s still early and they’re nowhere near production status, Juan Diego Rodríguez has a good write-up on them.

For those unaware, 18F was a digital agency within the US Federal Government to help with technical services and products. Recently, it was in the news as Elon Musk and DOGE came in and as they are apt to do, ruin a good thing.

February was kind of a busy month for me. Work has been a little hectic, we’re making sure to put in the time training Tess, it’s just sometimes felt like a blur. Thankfully it’s not a bad busy.

I was catching up on my RSS feeds recently when I saw something about Stephen King assisting with a Dark Tower TV series by Mike Flanagan. I hadn't heard anything about it, but was intrigued as I enjoyed the Dark Tower book series by Stephen King. Well as it turns out, Stephen King is not helping with it after all, but it got me thinking about adaptations of our favorite books and more recently video games.

I've seen this floating around the blogosphere and figured I'd chime in.

I've seen this going around with people talking about why they blog and figured I'd share my thoughts for me.

So watching the Philadelphia Eagles lay the hurt on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs last night to win Super Bowl LIX was a real pleasure to watch. And suffice it to say, it's not a result I saw coming.

My week notes for the week of February 2 through February 9.