Being sick has completely thrown off my sleeping schedule and my energy is limited. I'm about to go lay down and try to sleep again, but I just put in a solid bit of writing on a project that, aside from a little work a few days ago (which included cutting a large segment) I hadn't touched in over half a year.
But, it feels good to be writing again. Even if I am coughing and sniffling through the entire writing session.
April 26th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-5
Net Elo Change: +7
Games Played
- perspolis6666 - LOSS
- Yura64 - WIN
- anefkit - LOSS
- reinkovic - LOSS
- kinkin01 - LOSS
- scurmoredave - WIN
- Elephant25 - WIN
- alex297765 - LOSS
- dragan1957 - WIN
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April 25th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 9-0-6
Net Elo Change: +13
Games Played
- Ik_chih - LOSS
- SingularityISnear - LOSS
- Dantika - WIN
- Badhonhara - WIN
- Kayence - LOSS
- sekerdoktor - WIN
- Aslanzh - WIN
- samrat1 - LOSS
- Acelocks - LOSS
- MichW89 - LOSS
- rignatov1953 - WIN
- PawnHubber96 - WIN
- CASCAJAL - WIN
- Qurashhj - WIN
- edogawa1995 - WIN
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 24th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -11
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April 23rd, 2024
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Wallabag Additions
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Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-3
Net Elo Change: -17
Games Played
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- 1 year ago (2 posts)
April 22nd, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 7-0-5
Net Elo Change: +13
Games Played
- Sportik1000 - WIN
- kobis - WIN
- MagnetBarlson - LOSS
- gutinhochess - WIN
- Pernelho - WIN
- Muffin_Top - LOSS
- pepew - WIN
- gabrielette-l9020 - WIN
- shadishp - LOSS
- zagor73 - LOSS
- SpartakMoskowRUS - WIN
- mitchlldvs - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
April 21st, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-2
Net Elo Change: -6
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April 20th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-7
Net Elo Change: -21
Games Played
- HeinzS - LOSS
- Bek1986Bek1986 - LOSS
- adouber11 - LOSS
- Alcore72 - WIN
- FabianMachuca - WIN
- stj007 - LOSS
- Hattermann - LOSS
- clorofilla - LOSS
- Rudyard - WIN
- sad9 - LOSS
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April 19th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-1-2
Net Elo Change: +6
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April 18th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-1-2
Net Elo Change: +2
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April 17th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-7
Net Elo Change: -30
Games Played
- Muffin_Top - LOSS
- RameshSM - LOSS
- SilentBlink - LOSS
- DinoWilliam2015 - LOSS
- mateocon21 - LOSS
- Zicko10 - LOSS
- ZG2144 - LOSS
- anca1976 - WIN
- MKuziseltr - WIN
April 16th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-1
Net Elo Change: +6
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The MV Kalakala
I came across this piece of Seattle's history earlier today. Obviously well earlier than my time, but I find the design and application of art deco to a ferry ship fascinating.
From it's Wikipedia entry:
Motor Vessel Kalakala (pronounced /kəˈlɑːkəˌlɑː/)[1] was a ferry that operated on Puget Sound from 1935 until her retirement in 1967.
MV Kalakala was notable for her unique streamlined superstructure, art deco styling, and luxurious amenities. The vessel was a popular attraction for locals and tourists, and was voted second only to the Space Needle in popularity among visitors to Seattle during the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. The ship is known as the world's first streamlined vessel for her unique art deco styling.
After retiring from passenger service in 1967, the ship was beached in Kodiak, Alaska, and converted to a shrimp cannery. In 1998, the ship was refloated and towed to Puget Sound with the owner hoping to restore the ship. During this time, the ship continued to deteriorate, with the Coast Guard declaring the ship a hazard to navigation in 2011. Unable to raise the funds required for restoration, the ship was scrapped in 2015.
A raspberry pi cluster hosting websites
I always love projects like this and it definitely makes me think maybe this little blog of mine should move to a Raspberry pi cluster soon.
April 15th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 6-0-8
Net Elo Change: -10
Games Played
- i_got_scholared - LOSS
- AlexPlaymaker - WIN
- machineworks - LOSS
- ghellen - LOSS
- machineworks - WIN
- Chilledwine - LOSS
- Judleyuu - WIN
- leandro20233 - LOSS
- beerhauer - WIN
- harma1 - WIN
- zakareya-omran - LOSS
- mfrg1962 - WIN
- nitramon - LOSS
- Jordiboc - LOSS
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April 14th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-3
Net Elo Change: +13
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Sunday Baking
Pineapple Banana Bread, fresh from the oven. Letting them cool some before removing from the pans.
PS - I discovered this morning that Good Eats is streaming on Max.
April 13th, 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-9
Net Elo Change: -29
Games Played
- django1963 - LOSS
- Muhammad55 - LOSS
- tareq1 - WIN
- Yapana_Rayata - LOSS
- boryo84 - LOSS
- V-Deek - WIN
- KANYANTAM - WIN
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - LOSS
- VeryChessNewbie - WIN
- sqipe765 - LOSS
- Mongezi - LOSS
- fsonaglioni - LOSS
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- 1 year ago (1 post)
"Old CSS, new CSS"
Oh this blog entry could have been written by me. I also learned to make webpages in the 90's before CSS. So much nostalgia and memories of our version of "walking up hill in the snow both ways."
Let’s say you wanted all your [h1]s to be red, across your entire site. You had to do this:
<H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1>…every single goddamn time. Hope you never decide to switch to blue!
Oh, and everyone wrote HTML tags in all caps. I don’t remember why we all thought that was a good idea. Maybe this was before syntax highlighting in text editors was very common (read: I was 12 and using Notepad), and uppercase tags were easier to distinguish from body text.
Keeping your site consistent was thus something of a nightmare. One solution was to simply not style anything, which a lot of folks did. This was nice, in some ways, since browsers let you change those defaults, so you could read the Web how you wanted.
A clever alternate solution, which I remember showing up in a lot of Geocities sites, was to simply give every page a completely different visual style. Fuck it, right? Just do whatever you want on each new page.
That trend was quite possibly the height of web design.