On a happier note, I went out to watch a Hindi movie for the first time in many years and had a blast!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33014583/

RE: https://androiddev.social/@msfjarvis/115738641970581999

Ended up reviving an old Discord server which is a bit "out of the frying pan into the fire" but there have to be some baby steps before the inevitable march back to IRC :P

Woke up to discover my #Telegram account has been suspended overnight for ToS violations (I cannot imagine which terms specifically), so just like that I no longer have access to most of my friends. What a beautiful day to follow up one of the best evenings I've had in a while :)))

#LinkedIn and #Salesforce occupy the same position in my head where I know they must do some specific thing extremely well to command their popularity but I will simply never know what that thing is.

#Kotlin 2.3.0 is out with a *ton* of new features for Kotlin Multiplatform, we're eating good tonight!

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew23.html

> Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post

Me reading this at 1:36 AM: Who could they be talking about?

IndieWebClub Bangalore tickets finally went up for sale! I'm gonna be there, and may my rust old website finally get some love </3

https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-16-with-ankur-and-tanvi/622

@kiranrao I knew you weren't in Bangalore but I had underestimated how long the trip was.

Either way, let me know if you find yourself in Bangalore again and wanna meet up!

RE: https://androiddev.social/@msfjarvis/115717823447859331

Was able to whip out Dataview again and retrofit this into my Obsidian journaling workflow without any major changes

https://msfjarvis.dev/notes/collating-entries-in-my-obsidian-journal-for-week-notes/

@kiranrao dang it :(

I'm planning to go to at least one local meetup a month going forward so if you make any plans, let me know and I'll see if I can be there.

Finished my 2025 reading goal just in the nick of time! 24 books this year, with a near half and half split of physical versus digital. As much as I love physical books, the convenience of a Kindle (and the Kobo I replaced it with later) has just been unmatched and partly why I was able to hit the goal.

https://bookwyrm.social/user/msfjarvis/goal/2025

Publicly committing to things is working out so I'll continue the trend: I will be setting up something in Obsidian today to mark out highlights in each day's journal and have it all get collated on Sunday so I can start posting weeknotes as a regular thing to my blog.

Wrote up my experience attending droidcon India 2025 yesterday!

TL;DR It was fun! I've clearly been doing myself a disservice by not visiting more meetups and cons :D

https://msfjarvis.dev/posts/my-experience-at-droidcon-india-2025/

#dcIN25

The journaling habit is coming in real clutch for the #dcIN25 recap, this would've been a painful memory exercise in 2023 😅

Posting here to keep me honest: I will be recapping my experience at #dcIN25 in a blog post

Droidcon was super fun, lots of incredible talks and got to catch up with a few friends I hadn't seen in forever #dcIN25

@pundir bummer :(
Will be on the lookout for another meetup :D

I've yet again found myself unable to sleep on time for a day where I need to be up early, if I meet you half dead at DroidCon I would like to apologize in advance.

Anyone else coming to Droidcon India? Hoping to meet some people tomorrow!

More sites need the YouTube-style moderation option of letting blocked people comment but simply never showing it to anyone.

@arnold I'll be there, hopefully I can come say hi :)

I keep getting reminded about the threat of being perceived when I shitpost in the work chat after hours and the first replies to it are sincere questions from Engineering Managers from the US side of the team :thisIsFine:

@Bel_tamtu I finished reading the Murderbot series (and got absolutely hooked) a couple months ago but I'm gonna buy the bundle anyway to help out the cause. Thanks for sharing this!

Long day ahead of me and only 4 hours of sleep, save me entirely-too-large can of Monster Energy...

@jcoglan yeah that makes sense, don't really have any other suggestions that would not surprise people if they're meant to be consuming the action as an external thing. Hope you figure something out, and do share if you can!

Apparently I also used to do it at not-work, convenient: https://github.com/msfjarvis/compose-lobsters/blob/dbddbfc5bc0153a322b7e4cd0636b271e047d581/scripts/deploy-snapshot.sh

@jcoglan obviously not the most convenient option out there but pretty easy to put together overall and can be tested outside CI (bless)

@jcoglan have a tag named ignore_me and attach the SQLite database to it as release asset. Download at the beginning if it exists and at the end of the action delete + recreate the release with the updated version /shrug

Can be done entirely with first-party tooling that ships in Actions (https://cli.github.com)

I do the latter half of that at work to have a fixed "latest" tag that contains the binary built from tip-of-tree every day.

@jcoglan doesn't https://github.com/actions/cache do exactly that? Afaik it can hold up to 10 gigabytes

shoe fish!

@neil I've rebooted my PC instead of a remote server more than once! Had to train myself out of it by having a different shell prompt on servers vs local machines :P

@adityabhaskar @botteaap this has been the situation everywhere I've worked including on cross-platform stuff. The only solution that has worked is to just be shameless about it, if we're doing something on Android that I think is interesting I'm throwing that onto the weekly sync agenda myself and doing a demo.

Insanely good clickbait, props to LWN lol

@iximeow There is no AI discourse, only "this is the future" and "you are a villain"

Putting these two next to each other in #Firefox has to be Mozilla's idea of a joke.

@fasterthanlime function coloring solved forever, by bathing the whole codebase in blood.

Mildily horrified at how many bugs I'm finding in my code by just running a common flow in a loop.

@jakehamilton realizing now this might be trauma dumping so just let me know and I'll get out of your mentions.

@jakehamilton being in the same boat for a while now I've thought long and hard about why this is the case, and come to conclusion that it's more voluntary than the internet would make one believe. I genuinely believe I have too many flaws to subject someone else to, and my time's better spent working on myself than worrying about the FOMO of my friends dating and getting married. I'm still not there but I can see the improvement year over year and that's enough for now.

@wander1236 I've had similar issues with older Raspberry Pi devices as well, I assumed it was a thermal issue but not even active cooling could salvage mine. Seems like there are batches of defective units.

Hopefully this gets fixed soon and I can switch over our SDKs at work to be published as a Fused Library instead https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/466503466

Rather unsurprising that I am still learning new things about #Bash

https://msfjarvis.dev/notes/til-bypassing-aliases-in-a-bash-script/

@Sh41 seems to be the same combination as me? Probably a rare bug rather than something just fully broken.

Played one game of #Megabonk and got one-tapped into an addiction, roguelikes continue to run my life.

@shinmera perpetual state of being :thisIsFine:

Netflix's acquisition of Warner Brothers also includes a 6 billion USD termination clause that they will pay out to WB if the deal falls through for any reason, which is how confident they are in the US anti trust enforcement's ineptitude. What a time to be alive.

Shipped an embarrassing enough bug today that I had to work after hours to get a fix merged, not my proudest day.

RE: https://androiddev.social/@msfjarvis/115650763897393482

Looking back at the Grafana dashboard it's pretty obvious I was slowly building up to the problem right until it fully filled the disk and then everything started breaking down leading to that small gap in the metrics. Should've had disk space usage alerts :P

Was not expecting to find myself excitedly immersed in tracing and Perfetto at 1 in the morning but you don't really get to control when inspiration hits.

@crystal I thought I had disabled the repo archives setting but now that I checked closely, I had the boolean flipped the wrong way :thisIsFine:

I've fixed that and also run a manual purge of the generated archives so hopefully that'll be the end of this mini disaster.

Thanks for the help!