New blog post: date warping in HLedger https://jmtd.net/log/date_warping/ #personalfinance #software

`stack-clean-old` is a handy tool to measure the size of, and clean up some old GHC versions installed by stack

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stack-clean-old

I was hacking on something and trying to reuse a date-parsing routine and the comment above read “this is awful but I’m just glad I got out of the date library alive”

Impatiently waiting to change broadband providers. All the prices advertised today are a fiction and if you signed up for a 2 year contract today you’d never once pay the price they are advertising, but 14% more from bill 1. This absurdity points to the ineffectiveness of OFCOM, IMHO.

@cstross @mildpeach @SteveBellovin I was given a yubikey a few years back to help a university test moving to 2fa and I’m embarrassed to admit I haven’t used it yet

@liw my Fediverse client truncated your poll options so i couldn’t read them :(

@cstross @mildpeach @SteveBellovin fwiw I’m pretty surprised you haven’t heard of FIDO2/yubikeys. Maybe my circles are more niche than I thought

@znoteer thank you. Got it from the Debian booth FOSDEM. yes it’s Debian tartan! Yep i3

@robinsyl an improvement on the old adage “roses are red, coding is pasta…”

the red hat fedora logo would actually be a perfect fit here

The Debian Diversity sticker kinda-fits after a bit of cutting

Time to choose a new laptop ornamental sticker! But which?

@knasman sounds neat! did you take/keep any pics?

Happily wrote my first hledger patch and it was merged! https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/pull/2000

Bonus question! I need to cover up this egregious Windows logo. What with? Debian diversity sticker too large :( approx the size of a US quarter.

oh yeah they probably all need re-orienting 180° from the pictures so they're upright when the lid is open

Time to choose a new laptop ornamental sticker! But which?

@pwaring that’s a good willl question. There’s still stacks of stuff that doesn’t - and will never - work well on wayland.

Idly wondering if those interested in the continued existence of xserver-xorg (me) need to step up to ensure it lives on

Advice requested. Trying to help model financial scenarios for my career-pause wife: i die before retire, separate after, made redundant etc etc. anyone know of a good flow chart or article etc exploring the scenarios to consider? TIA!