It is absolutely gorgeous outside right now. Have a great day!
I spent the afternoon working on and testing Scott Hanson’s dockerized version of Feedland. I’ve written notes but I don’t have the time now to edit and post them, which I will do this weekend. The net is that like the other time I installed Feedland in my home lab, I could not get browser access via HTTP to work. The web browser just simply refuses to load the site and displays an SSL error message. The good news is that I did get access to work via my Nginx and duckdns.org configuration in the same manner as I have done with other apps hosted in my home network.
I have moved some equipment around in the home office so that I can use the adjustable/standing desk while standing. This is the first time I have experienced moving my Macbook between external monitor configurations and I am impressed by the fact that it remembers the different configurations.
I really hate how streamers create horrible user experience for the sake of commercials. I am watching the Olympics on Peacock and using the “Top Events” multi-view mode to watch a hockey game, when the period ends I want to check in on the other events but cannot switch because Peacock disables navigation during commercials. How do they think people use multi-view?
Tigers and Justin Verlander agree to one-year contract for 2026 season
Really glad to see Verlander return to where it all started for him. Who knows how much can contribute but he does have experience to pass along.
A benefit of retirement is that I am able to watch the 2026 Winter Olympic events live during the afternoon and because of that I am seeing much more of the Olympics than ever before. In addition to having the time to watch, technology, particularly Peacock, is helping by putting all of the U.S. coverage in one spot. To be honest, I am not constantly watching but I have it on in the background as I sit here at my desk.
Today for the first time in a month I took a walk outdoors in sweats rather than my full winter gear. Temps are already in the high 30s and could reach the high 40s. And, today pitchers and catchers report to MLB spring training.
Down The Drummer Rabbit Hole
Earlier today I noted that Dave had posted about the issue I encountered on January 30 preventing me from publishing my Daynotes using the “default” blogging tool in Drummer referred to as “Old School,” which is descriptive of a day based blogging format.
I started the process of making and testing the changes that Dave suggested, finding them to be more involved, but the net result is that the Daynotes site is now served by HTTPS rather than only being accessible via HTTP.
When the ability to build the blog from within Drummer broke I did my own work around by creating a new OPML file that is served by my instance of PagePark, which is Dave’s web server app that knows how to render OPML files for web browsers. For now I am going to continue using my “new” Daynotes outline file while using the Drummer blog for longer articles. My simple forwarding url for daynotes (daynotes.frankm.info) will go to single outline page while I have created a new forwarder for the Old School site (oldschool.frankm.info).
As I have been blogging more about tablets, particularly e-ink tablets, I added a Tablets category here and today I spent some time adding that category to related posts I have written during the last year.
Appears that Dave is now aware of the problem with the Old School blogs. He says the real issue is that the blogs are now served by https and the template they are based on does not support that. He provides instruction for how to fix, which starts by downloading a minimal template, editing it, putting the template html file on a public server, and then adding a header variable to the blog outline. Unfortunately at the moment Github is down so I cannot work on the fix, which for me will involve hosting the template file on my shared files host that is built from a Github repo. More details are in my Daynotes outline.