Zompist Bboard Again

I am reminded of, at my father's funeral, being asked by strangers if I was his younger brother.

I once mistook the mother of a woman I knew for her older sister.

Lazuli has gotten a lot fluffier. This cat remains a chaotic bundle of fur and gremlin energy, but also lovable and unbothered.

Is that cat named after this band?

No, never heard of them. It was the eyes.

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Meow! That's a great kitty! The floof! And the expression!

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2026 4:14 pm Meow! That's a great kitty! The floof! And the expression!

Yeah, that's quite the kitty there!

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2026 9:36 am No, never heard of them. It was the eyes.

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[reaches into the screen to pet the kitty]

Happy for today: I picked up my Luxembourgish ID card and passport. Really is sinking in, and it feels quite nice. (I can also put my passports away and not need to carry either of them on trips to Germany and France!)

lëtzeshark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 2:37 pm
Happy for today: I picked up my Luxembourgish ID card and passport. Really is sinking in, and it feels quite nice. (I can also put my passports away and not need to carry either of them on trips to Germany and France!)

Congratulations!

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:40 am

lëtzeshark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 2:37 pm
Happy for today: I picked up my Luxembourgish ID card and passport. Really is sinking in, and it feels quite nice. (I can also put my passports away and not need to carry either of them on trips to Germany and France!)

Congratulations!

Seconded!

In some rare positive news on the AI front, OpenAI has pulled the plug on their AI video generator Sora. When this service first dropped, there was considerable fear that it and similar AIs would eventually take over film making. Hopefully this marks the first of just many victories in the struggle against AI taking over the arts.

malloc wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:58 am In some rare positive news on the AI front, OpenAI has pulled the plug on their AI video generator Sora. When this service first dropped, there was considerable fear that it and similar AIs would eventually take over film making. Hopefully this marks the first of just many victories in the struggle against AI taking over the arts.

May it be the first of many, indeed.

My big project at my day job, which I have been working on since 2024, got merged today. There is still work to be done, but we're definitely in the home stretch now.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 1:33 pm My big project at my day job, which I have been working on since 2024, got merged today. There is still work to be done, but we're definitely in the home stretch now.

Congratulations!

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 5:09 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 1:33 pm My big project at my day job, which I have been working on since 2024, got merged today. There is still work to be done, but we're definitely in the home stretch now.

Congratulations!

Yeah, I'm quite happy about it, even though I ironically didn't want it to be merged (I'd marked it as 'draft' to prevent it from being merged but I was overruled and one of the reviewers removed the 'draft' marker, and they and another reviewer approved it, and then the other reviewer merged it) because there is an outstanding use case that is currently broken (not in my own code, but in someone else's code that my code works with) that I wanted to be fixed and tested first, perhaps out of an excess of caution on my own part.

In retrospect, I think they made the right decision, as from my own testing, including automated tests that I had written, it was already clear that it would work when the other people's code is ultimately fixed, and this removes a major potential blocker for the schedule, allows my code to become part of future builds (one less thing to patch!), and allows us to claim that we completed the big code promote in our 'agile' processes (which provide the metrics that management cares about). (Yes, not all the code promotes are complete, as the other people need to fix and promote their code, but, unless there are future bugs found, mine are.)

At the same time, part of me is still slightly nervous that we will find some outstanding bug in my code, somewhere. The big bug that needs to be fixed in my coworkers' code was found only in the last 48 hours, indeed. Also, I was finding small bugs here and there up until shortly before the promote, largely because I'd put working on automated tests off until the end, and the automated tests shook out some bugs that hadn't been fully tested for before. Also, I'd just stumbled across a minor bug in image counts that turned out to be due to an oversight on my part (this wasn't caught by the automated tests either). Yet at the same time, I should be more confident about it, since now the automated tests do pass and are now pretty exhaustive.

Anyways, if any more bugs are found, that really only means much smaller changes will be needed than the big pile of code that went in today, and which will almost certainly be much quicker to go in than the greater-than-a-week-long code review that was the case for this code, so I really should not worry too much about it.

I got some good recording done at the studio this evening.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:54 pm I got some good recording done at the studio this evening.

Getting something creative done after not having gotten around to it for a while can be great. Congratulations!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:54 pm I got some good recording done at the studio this evening.

Congrats!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:54 pm I got some good recording done at the studio this evening.

Congratulations!