Got four out of 5 of the awkward screws out of my printer heat block. The last one could probably be cut if I can’t turn it. Assuming I’m sacrificing the heat block.
New blog post: Digital gardening
https://jmtd.net/log/gardening/
Where I ponder the notion of a digital garden, versus a blog, and point at some recent changes I've made to my homepage which are not blog posts. #meta #web
https://jmtd.net/log/gardening/
Where I ponder the notion of a digital garden, versus a blog, and point at some recent changes I've made to my homepage which are not blog posts. #meta #web
OpenJDK’s build tools have an auto tuning feature for setting parallel jobs. It caps at 16. I’ve found this both too low for builds (I have 24 cores) and too high for tests (I have 32G RAM, and test instances of Java are configured with 512M of heap by default).
That said the build tooling around OpenJDK is really well thought out. I think my machines profile is just not the right “shape” for the defaults
That said the build tooling around OpenJDK is really well thought out. I think my machines profile is just not the right “shape” for the defaults
Damn, I was trying out an iOS app that claims to be markdown editor with git support. But what it actually supports is only *github*.
@fraggle Tom Robinson still going strong tho. I bet our mutual is sick of that
Radio. 4 talking about John Dowland this evening. Always weird when tuning into that
I learned that the artist behind the artwork for the game Elite was none other than Philip Castle, the designer of the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, among others.
He passed away on February 20, 2026, at the age of 83 🙏
Oh, today I fixed a mail bug on a host within an IPV4 only network. And the problem was IPV6.
It's been a weird day. I feel kinda unfulfilled. I've actually had some good progress on work stuff, and some side-projects, but I've failed to progress fixing my 3D printer, and that's vexing me I think
A Gradle play in two acts.
Act 1:
WARNING: The property android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints improves project import performance for very large projects. It should be enabled to improve performance.
Act 2:
WARNING: The option setting 'android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints=true' is deprecated.