Toby's Log

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Done with another tax year. I was hoping to get it done a little earlier, but at least it wasn’t right up to the wire like it has been sometimes.

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We got quite a bit of rain the last couple days. I went by the Cuyahoga River today and it was really flowing. There was also lots of ponding all over the place, in yards in in the park.

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Trump: the act

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Sometimes it feels like Donald Trump’s whole political career is an act, as if trying to prove his acting prowess after struggling in TV / movies. So much of what he does seems like over the top political satire, pulling bits from dystopians, dictators, authoritarians, oligarchy, mafia, corrupt officials, immoral business men, buffoons, and any other sort of powerful villain in that broad genre. He just keeps pushing at the edges of what he does. He was a Democrat for longer than not, and once said he’d run as a Republican because they’re idiots. Part of me hopes one day he’ll say “Gotcha”. Whatever the case, he does not seem to care how much damage he does along the way and will gladly collect as much money as he can along the way.

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Stranger Things

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I finished watching the final episode of Stranger Things tonight. I had watched through the first four seasons over the years. Sometime before season five was released, I decided to watch through the first four again. Thinking they might like it, I invited my mom and dad to watch through with me. My mom wasn’t interested, but my dad was, so we watched a few episodes a week, however long that took, from the beginning through the end of the new season. It was a long journey, but it was good.

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Rollup Strip plugin for dev code

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I use JavaScript modules to organize my JS code. I use Rollup.js to package and minify these for distribution to reduce HTTP requests and transfer size, and to provide support for older browsers. So in development I’m using the modules directly and in production I’m using the built files. I was looking for a good way to have some extra code in for development purposes, but removing it for production. This could be used for a lot of things, including testing some code that runs on certain dates for dates other than the current one. I didn’t find a way to do this built in to Rollup, but there is an official plugin called Strip that allows removing specific labelled statements.

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F-droid basic

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I’m switching my Android devices from F-Droid to F-Droid Basic. They’re both made by the F-Droid team, but the Basic version is simpler, lighter weight, and most importantly for me, with fewer permissions. I don’t need any of the sharing and the like the non-basic version has. I use F-Droid to install some open source software on my phones / e-readers: Aegis AntennaPod, EinkBro, Fennec, GadgetBridge, Thunderbird, VLC. So far I’m happy with the switch.

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For a couple weeks there it didn’t get above freezing and there was some fairly deep snow on the ground and sidewalks. I had to tromp through it even just walking through the neighborhood, as some people never shoveled the sidewalks.

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