sudofox's journal

Austin Burk's journal, where I share little snippets of my writing, code, and dreams.

Entries from 2021-07-01 to 1 month

Seem to be losing my focus.

This entry is for July 30th, 2021. I seem to be losing my focus lately. I have a lot of stress coming from various different sources, mostly financial at the moment. I still haven't had my roof repaired because it would cost more money tha…

Back to work with a vengeance + Hatena Star confirm() tempfix

I tackled the pending work (for my job) with a firey passion today and got a ton of stuff done. It felt good and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out. But for the rest of the day, I didn't really do too much. Hatena Star There may b…

Friend troubles (maybe?)

Friends So uh, if you recognize yourself here, keep in mind that almost nobody reads my blog and the people that do are mostly Japanese anyway so they probably won't know you So there's two friends of mine that I'm going to talk about, let…

Thoughts on my attachments to the world

Attachments and possessions When you hear that someone has been "thinking about their attachments to the world" or talking about things that sound nomadic, you might have a response similar to "hey now, don't get ahead of yourself". I'm no…

Let's end the old normal.

This entry is for July 26th, 2021. Loss, and a better normal It's the first day following ERC, and...there's a feeling of loss that I'm all too familiar with. Campmeeting is a community unlike any other. Love for your neighbor is on full d…

Reflections: The final day of Eaton Rapids Campmeeting 2021

This entry is for July 25th, 2021 Campmeeting I've been attending ERC for most of my life. The short time each year where I've come has lit a fire in my heart, and in the past five years, has emboldened me further. I find healing, reinforc…

Do not quench the Holy Spirit

This entry is for July 24th (backdated) Code I continued to look into what led to the changes that broke Hatena Star. I started to argue for the update of the iframe sandbox attribute to add a new value (or modify an existing one) to speci…

Hatena Star is dead in the water

Entry for July 23rd (backdated) I've fallen behind in writing my blog entries, so I'm going to be writing them from day to day and backdating them. Hatena Star There were recently changes to browser standards that have negatively impacted …

Candles on the River: The Galilean Service

I spent time today working on a new little web application that I've been tossing around in my head for a while. I also went back to campmeeting and I'm really glad I did. This evening we went out to the riverside near the normal end of ta…

I spent a long time talking with a friend

July 21st Friend There's an old friend of mine who I've recently started talking to again and we spent about 6 hours chatting. They weren't doing really well so I wanted to see if I could help. Because of that though I missed out on going …

CRAZY day. I got locked out of my house!

I'm not sure if Hatena Blog is showing the dates correctly but this entry is for Tuesday, July 20th, 2021. Picking up my car So this morning I got a call that my truck's rotors had been replaced again and it was ready to pick up. I had to …

Got a pretty painting for my house 🖼️

Car I took my truck back to the shop and they said they'd get it taken care of. So that's good. House decoration My mom came over and brought a really pretty picture over! It's hanging in the tiny hall thingy between the living room and th…

My car's brand new rotor snapped in half at high speeds

Holy cow! Luckily I didn't crash. Have you ever seen a rotor break like this?? It was very alarming. My brake caused my car to veer into the right lane because the left one didn't work (obviously) and it pivoted around the right one. Thank…

Felt like I wasted my day (mostly)

Waking up from my nap, that was fun My head popped off my pillow, "Oh no" "I had all day to do productive things and did nothing" Language lessons I didn't waste the whole day, but I wanted to go back to Eaton Rapids and just.. didn't. Not…

Thinking about redesigning my blog, and some cable management

Web design I kinda avoid updating the design of my blog, but mostly because it's very difficult to use Hatena Blog's built-in theme editor. You have to click to expand it and you lose your place whenever you want to click out. The most eff…

I feel really tired out and I'm also stressed about writing things

Today I fixed the trim on the side of the family cottage and power-washed the siding and steps. I'm really tired out from it. Using a power washer will make your entire upper body sore if you're not used to it. I was also recruited to fix …

Got a set of shelves, trying to push better XInput 2 pressure support for browsers on Linux

Shelves My mom got me some shelves as a gift. We assembled them together :) There are two units, totalling eight cubes. Trying to get better native XInput 2 support for tablet pressure I've started working on figuring out why browsers on L…

Hijinx with the WebUSB and WebHID APIs

Trying to get pressure data in the browser on Linux I've been working on trying to implement a driver for Wacom tablets using the WebUSB API, but it seems like HID devices are blacklisted. So I tried using the WebHID API but it seems like …

One month of Sudo Haiku: in retrospect

One month later... (Copied and pasted from this entry) It's been almost one month since Sudo Haiku opened! Hurray!!! Since June 13th, new users (289 total): Since June 13th, posted entries (7,713 total):Other statistics️ 2,344 uploaded i…

I got a good deal at the local market today

We have this place called Horrock's Farm Market and one of my favorite places to go. It's a bit of a drive away but they often have really good deals on meat. I got a lot of chicken. I think I'm going to use it to make a bunch of soup or m…

Released a big update to the paint tool!

Code I really should give it a proper name, but I'm not sure what to use. Sudo Oekaki?h.sudo.ne.jp Hatena Blog issues I'm kind of annoyed by the lack of feature parity in Hatena Blog. in the mobile Android app I can't backdate my posts, in…

Super ready for the weekend

Code This week is felt pretty long and I'm very ready for the weekend. I got the drawing tablet that my amazingtastic friend Purin sent me and used it to fix a lot of bugs in the Haiku art tool. The fixes aren't live yet but I'm hoping to …

This week on Reply All... (Twicarus)

Podcast This week on @replyall: I join Alex Goldman on a journey into the weird and wacky workings of Twitter accounts to discover the identity behind the Twitter account with no name. Listen to it today over on Spotify and Google Podcasts…

Got my car back from the shop

I finally got my car back from the shop today. It came with a hefty bill of over $1,150. But I'm happy to pay any price for my safety. There's a saying in Spanish, Lo barato sale caro, or "cheap is expensive", that I'm well aware of. I've …

Hey look, it's a water-damaged ceiling

Costs are rising for the upkeep of my house and my vehicle. Today I worked hard and looked into a database deadlock condition for my employer. I work as a testing engineer and figure out how to make things break in the development environm…

Hey look, it's a boring ceiling

You ever have one of those days where you can think of stuff that you want to get done but you've had such a busy week that you're just not really feeling it? Cuz that's what today was for me. Like, sometimes you just open YouTube and skip…

4th of July: Commence house cleaning!

It's a holiday in the US. But I spent most of the day organizing and cleaning and stuff. My mom came over and helped me with it since I'd gotten a bit behind. I love her so much I got these velcro cable ties from Amazon and honestly, I don…

Helped my mom out today

Sometimes I have such a long day that it's difficult to write a blog post I helped my mom all day with fixing up our cottage :)I fixed up the stairs to the deck and also called the power company because the electricity wasn't working corre…

Finally got the touch pressure calibration working

function pressureSizeCalc(force) { let minDrawSize = 1; if (force === 0) return minDrawSize; let deltaX = this.maxTouchForce - this.minTouchForce; let deltaY = this.maxDrawSize - minDrawSize; let slope = deltaY / deltaX; let intercept = mi…

Oops, all sourcemaps!

Reverse engineering hey look, it's GETTR's uncompiled source codehave fun!https://t.co/E6BjkPR53x — ’Austin’ (Sudofox) #はてなハイク (@AustinSudomemo) July 1, 2021 Yeah, it's a pretty badly done Twitter clone by some ex-trump administr…