Shaving a yak, and the yak just keeps getting hairier. :(

#coding #yakShaving

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.

So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.

Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.

Well, I could not publish that lib any more so I had to migrate that project to "uv" to do so. Finding out how to do that ...

Lib was working. Next, I rewrote my blog generation script which took me four hours or so with heavy help of Claude AI.

Also moved this to uv.

Some unit tests were failing. Partly because of the pandoc upgrade, partly because of classic bugs.

Debugging one by one and FINALLY, after maybe six hours, I could actually publish that article.

A classic #yakshaving Saturday. 😜
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

#publicvoit #PIM #rant

The current levels of #yakshaving:

* I want SDL2
* SDL2 configure needs a gsort that has the -V option
* Coreutils 9 needs a newer gmake
* gmake-4.4.1 doesn't seem to want to build on 2.95.3

#retrocomputing

Why is it spelled "Yak Shaving" and not "IaC Shaving"?

#Kubernetes #K8s #YakShaving #IACShaving #IaC #InfrastructureAsCode

In an EPIC bout of yak-shaving I have reduced the build time for this static site infrastructure running on a puny VPS by a factor of 5. Come along on this undiagnosed journey.

Anatomy of a yak-shave:

• See what had happened was...
• I wanted to put animated snowflakes on my site
• Learned about CSS animation, nice
• Learned how to not bork screen readers
• Remembered I barely got my CI/CD working with Forgejo runner
• Remembered it takes for ever to deploy
• Realized most of it is just downloading and setting up dependencies
• How hard can it be to bake all that into my own image?
• Oh Forgejo supports a container registry too, nice!
• If I can't quickly build and push an image then this will have to wait
• Oh wow, that was really easy
• False sense of how well things are going
• All the freaking examples are for using public forges with public container registries
• Fall down several totally wrong rabbit holes due to lack of knowledge
• Have not stood up, eaten, drank, blinked in hours by this point
• Things are kinda working, yay! Noooo version mismatch
• I barely know Nix flakes, how do channels work, how do you pin them?
• Realized my tools have been broken but flake.lock has been saving me, nice!
• Fatigue related silly errors and utter faith this attempt will work so I don't need to make a quick test setup and test on a much faster setup
• Revert back to how it was, drink water, oh wait silly me...
• Victory
• Should probably write a blog post, it'll be SO fast to deploy

#Forgejo #CICD #ForgejoActions #NixOS #YakShaving

Oof, deep in some #yakshaving here, time to check in, let's see if I can even remember what I was trying to do...

Right! Okay, so we started with...
0├ I wanna do some morning guitar-playing!
0├ Right, the best tab I found is still pretty subpar
0├ But I was doing some Sonic Visualizer to improve it!
0├ Let's pick up where I left off at 3am last night
0├ Hmm, sure would be nice to have my desktop Projects directory via nfs...
0└┬ Let's just ssh into my desktop and make that happen real quick...
+╒╧⇒ [PUSH: Playing Guitar]
1├ Oh, it's already in /etc/exports, lovely!
1├ Okay, let's mount it
1├ Ugh, right mount point doesn't exist...
1├ Ya know, I wonder if there's a flag to create the mount point...
1├ Let's just try it and see if it creates it first
1├ Argh, I wish I could use vi mode in zsh to copy/paste scrollback
1└┬ Hmm...could I??
+╒╧⇒ [PUSH: Mounting Projects]
2├ (General web searching, with no great success)
2├ Looks like there's zsh-vi-mode, does that do it?
2├ Hmm...cool stuff, but looks like it still doesn't copy scrollback
2├┬ Still might be useful tho...LATER
3├─ Oh, this reddit thread has people a year ago disappointed that zsh-vi-mode doesn't interact with the system clipboard, but the readme now says it does! I should reply and let them know!
2├ Hmm, looks like the best way to get what I want is tmux
2├ I like tmux well enough, can I just run tmux as my shell?
2├ Looks like it, just put this in my .zshrc...
2└┬ Oh, I should finish getting my dotfiles repo up to date real quick
+╒╧⇒ [PUSH: Tmux As Shell]
3├ Okay, now is this submodule out of date or is it actually newer
3├ Okay it's newer, I should commit it
3├ Wait...nope, never mind, I was wrong, revert and update
3├ Okay, gonna add the other accumulated changes...
3├ Merging was easy, what are these other files laying around
3├ Oh, my wallpaper changer!
3└┬ I should really split my wallpaper tools into their own repo at this point...
+╒╧⇒ [PUSH: Updating dotfiles]

Um. Yak shaving. Here's my story.

I'm up in the middle of the night, and my iced tea glass is empty. I'll just run down to the kitchen and get some more. In the kitchen, I see some pretzels, eat them, and realize I'm kind of hungry. There's some cottage cheese in the fridge, so I'll eat that.

🧵 1/N

#YakShaving

I just wanted to change a few settings, and now I'm looking at how to send a PR into Homebrew.

#YakShaving

Now experimenting with the Zola static site generator. This was originally just to get timing information for my SSG performance comparison blog post.

However, inevitably, I am now impressed and considered Yet Another Blog Migration.

Similar to Hugo (single Rust binary and fast) but the docs are much easier for me to understand.

https://www.getzola.org/

#yakshaving #zola

It's Saturday afternoon; I had an idea for a simple mobile app, so I fired up VS Code w/Flutter.

I haven't done any Android dev since last year or so.

About 3 hours later, I'm still upgrading SDKs, packages, plugins, dependencies.

Now I'm upgrading Android Studio, even though I don't want to use Android Studio...

#YakShaving #AndroidDeveloperLife

NEW VIDEO: "Yak Shaving in D&D: Stop Endless Side-quests"

'Yak shaving' in D&D is when endless side-quests derail the main story. In this video, I break down what yak shaving looks like at the D&D table, why it happens, and how you can stop it before your campaign drags down into a state of tedium.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/WueSg1EHlyg

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#DnD #DungeonMasterTips #TabletopRPG #RPGTips #DMAdvice #RoleplayingGames #TTRPGCommunity #SideQuests #YakShaving

COMING SOON: "Yak Shaving in D&D: Stop Endless Side-quests"

I've got a new video coming out tomorrow (Thu 9/25) that addresses the pitfalls of your D&D game being overrun by side-quest after side-quest. This has great advice whether you're a DM or a player (it's entertaining, too).

Stay tuned!

#DnD #DungeonMasterTips #TabletopRPG #RPGTips #DMAdvice #RoleplayingGames #TTRPGCommunity #SideQuests #YakShaving

Goal: Start organizing some files for our light show. But first... - Move NAS to new physical and network location - Update internal DNS for new NAS IP - TLS cert refresh for NAS' UI - System update for NAS - Fiddle with new features/settings #YakShaving

Anybody need a hairless yak?
Every time i tried to use a longer option in #ag (The Silver Searcher) in Cygwin, it complained about _split_longopt.
So i spent like half an hour hunting down exactly which file defined the #bash completion for ag on cygwin.
It is /etc/bash_completion.d/ag.bashcomp.sh
For some reason bash completion are split between that directory and /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/.
Putting them in one directory would have been too easy.

#yakShaving #silverSearcher

So far Today in #yakshaving

I want to juice a load of pears to start to make perry.

First I had to go to work

I collected the pears

My trolly broke.

Riped down some scrap plywood to make new trolly sides. That was hardwork.

Fixed the bandsaw so I didn't have to make another manual rip for the other side.

Now to see if i can get home.

The yak is now bald, and I can print the labels that I need to tidy up my tools so I can load my new toolkit!

#linux #yakShaving

I am yak shaving the shit out of this one task that I should've finished 6 weeks ago.

#AcademicLife #YakShaving #Productivity

SO to recap:

* I was tinkering with a Max patch that essentially implemented something like Audrey II from Synthux
* what I made was nice but I wanted my own implementation of resonator and reverb to give me more control so I could put an interface on it
* I started making a reverb
* after watching Tom Erbe lecture decided I needed a granular delay for making reverb
* I should be working on my product and not this

Anyway - a granular delay patch in #max gen~ !

#yakshaving

oh, well, that explains my confusion... was looking at Liquid.js's _API_ docs, not their tags docs. I mean, "api" sure seems like it SHOULD be the interface of how to use it, but... lulz? >.<

me: why does this not tell me how to make a for loop?!?! https://liquidjs.com/api/classes/ForTag.html
my buddy: oh, oh dear...
me: oh. heh. the docs aren't labelled api, are they...
https://liquidjs.com/tags/for.html looks MUCH more like what i was looking for!
#yakShaving #websiteBuilding

I... I think i've stood up a new digital ocean droplet, installed and configured a firewall & webserver, and successfully updated my DNS. #YakShaving #ThankGodIAmNotAProfessionalSysadmin