Notes

Short updates, links, and thoughts that do not need to be full blog posts.

I started changing the tyres on my bike today. It was 30°C and took me nearly 2 hours just to get to the stage where the old tyres were off the wheels. I was sweaty!! I’m waiting on new valve stems so it’s still in progress.

#motorbikes #motorcycles #yamaha

Motorcycle wheels stacked on both the old tyres and new tiresA blue Yamaha motorcycle with its wheels removed. It’s balancing on the center stand and a jack stand. Beneath the bike is a large piece of oil stained cardboard.

The guy I bought it from was 72. He’d owned the bike from new and used it to run a deliver service when he was younger. He was a lot of fun to chat to. He still regularly rode it on local trails. #BikeTooter #bicycle

After a little bit of work, I got the #yamaha #xs650 up and running pretty well. It carried me 50 miles on a local loop up over some of the eastern Oregon mountains. I definitely fell off once on a gravel road doing about 3 mph but the only thing that got hurt was my ego. Not bad for a 50 year old bike.

#motorcycle #motorcycles #motorbikes

I bought a 1978 #Yamaha XS650 a few weeks ago. It has sat in a garage for 20 years and was in insanely good shape. It still needs some love though. Started this weekend by pulling the carburettors off.

#motorcycle

A blue motorcycle sitting in a field of pink wild flowers. The sky is mostly cloudy but there are patches of blue.A work bench with various tools and carburettor components laying on blue paper towels.

I've been playing games on a #linux #nixos gaming pc for a while now and there is no way I can see myself ever going back to console. Sure there is a little more tinkering involved, but there is so much freedom.

Here is a screenshot of #TheLegendOfZelda Twilight Princess. It's running at 4k and at 60fps using frame generation. There is just no way to do this other than with a PC.

A screenshot from the game The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. Link is facing the screen. In the background is Lake Hylia and a house with a cannon built into it. Link is standing on grass. In the background cliffs are rising up to the sky.

I think I’m going to stop using my #Apple Watch and get a real watch. I don’t want to have to replace it every few years. I’ll miss the health and fitness data though. Has anyone else made a similar switch?

What kind of evidence would it take for you to change your mind? If you don’t ask this of yourself you don’t have beliefs, you have an ideology.

Changing your mind when you get new information is what you’re supposed to do, even if you don’t like the new information.

Now that #GitHub is starting to fall out of favour when we’re building replacements can we move beyond the pull request? I want single commits as the reviewable unit of work. They can be stacked, but reviewed and merged independently.

I just fell for a pretty convincing scam. I’d been looking a some Darntough socks online (https://darntough.com). A few days later I saw an instagram ad claiming they were having a sale. The url was https://darntough-socks.com and the website is identical.

The bastards got $60 out of me. Well they would have but thankfully I used a credit card and issued an chargeback.