Hong Kongban

January 27, 2018
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Anno azért találtam ki, hogy Hong Kongba megyek az új évre, mert volt vagy húszezer lejáróban lévő mérföldem a törökökkel, és mivel eszemben sincs soha többé velük repülni, gondoltam, elhasználom mindet. Amiből végül nem lett semmi, mert a (különben kellemesen olcsó) repülő, amit találtam, “code share” járat volt (vagyis több légitársaság közösen üzemelteti), és ilyeneken nem lehet osztályt emelni utólag (amiről persze nekem senki nem szólt előre). Sebaj, majd legközelebb. A török mérföldekből meg rendeltem táskát-satöbbit szüleimnek, hogy legalább kárba ne vesszen.

Elvileg a tél közepe volt Hong Kongban, de ettől nekem még pólós idő volt. Kivéve talán új év éjszakáját, amikor azért a vállamra vetettem a pulcsimat. Helyiek párszor meg is jegyezték, hogy annyira azért talán nincs meleg (de igen).

Wan Chai

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人と

January 12, 2018
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人に行動合わせるのはめんどくさいし、一人の方がずっと自由。だから「食事は一緒にした方がおいしい」とか、「ライブ一人で行って何が楽しいの？」とか言われるとなかなか理解に苦しむ。

人と一緒に時間を過ごす前提なら、人と一緒にしかできないことをしたい。それはおもに会話。あと、ゲームやスポーツも人と一緒にしかできないものがある。

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About certs, for version control

January 7, 2018
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Version control in the sense that I haven’t made any Ansible (or similar) scripts to deal with this, so I have to keep writing blog posts not to forget what I did and managed.

For ages now I’ve had Apache crashing (at least so it seemed) at regular intervals. I had no idea what was causing it, so I just added a crontab entry to (try to) start the Apache service every 5 minutes. That solved the issue of 502 Bad Gateway errors, but not the cause for them.

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Subcomponents in Vue.js lists

January 5, 2018
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In my winter break I’ve been working on a Vue.js client for Mastodon. I’ve got two big reasons for doing it: I want link/video previews on my timeline and I have to get familiar with Vue for work.

I’m not very familiar with Mastodon’s API, nor with Vue, so I think I’ve been running into lots of problems that I shouldn’t have. For example, I added card (that’s the Mastodon name for link or video previews) autoloading to the timeline and I noticed something weird.

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Wizard of Earthsea

December 10, 2017
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Yesterday I set a bit of a stretch goal for myself: read a whole book. There are still plenty on my shelf that I could read in (half) a day, but in the end I went with Wizard of Earthsea, that just arrived yesterday too.

I didn’t know much about the series, only that it was adapted into a Ghibli movie (that I haven’t seen) criticized by the author. But it’s youth fiction, so I supposed it was  easy (and quick) to read, and I wasn’t wrong.

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Todos

December 10, 2017
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I was afraid I would forget something I wanted to do today, so I used a TodoMVC demo to keep track of what I wanted to do today. I have a bad habit of “wasting” weekends just playing games or idly staring at Twitter and Mastodon – not necessarily wasted, actually, since that’s plenty of recovery and mental idle after the tightly paced weekdays.

The point is rather that I often do that and not do things that I’d want or need to do, and that’s where the list comes handy. Actually on Mastodon I was pointed to Habitica for the same purpose, and I did register too, but at first glance it felt a bit too much for what I needed (an absolutely minimal todo list) and also counter-intuitive with its game-like system.

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上井草ご無沙汰

December 8, 2017
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そうでもないけど。数週間に一回は通る。でも今日は本当に久しぶりに前職の作画さんと前行ってたお店行ったら結構楽しかった。

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Dual screen workspaces in Ubuntu 17.10

November 11, 2017
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I expected the aardvark to break a couple of things. They switched back from Unity to Gnome, so even more than usual, I feared the system might not even start.

Compared to that, things went quite smoothly. One problem I ran into is how Gnome devs apparently never used a dual screen setup, and thought it would be a good idea to only switch workspaces on the main screen, and keep the other screen static. Needless to say, that’s not how workspaces are supposed to work.

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Decaf

October 22, 2017
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It was almost a running joke among my coworkers that I’d sooner than later die of a heart attack due to a caffeine overdose. Apparently my body needs at least 8 hours of sleep to function properly, if not more – at least so I thought. Since getting 8 hours of sleep would require me to either cut down on working out or go to bed right after eating, and neither of those sound like very good options.

As it always is with substances, resistance builds up, so on bad days I’d need 3 cans of energy drinks just to remain functional (and still far from optimal). I got fed up with that eventually (and judging from the signals, my body too), and I decided to go no-caffeine on my birthday. I didn’t decide how long I’d keep it up, but the bare minimum is a month.

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28

October 22, 2017
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Hi, I just turned 28 two weeks ago. Not much has changed since, so I thought I’d do the unusual and sum up what’s been up the past year. Interestingly enough, it was right last October that I decided to leave the anime business and accept a friend’s invitation to working as a programmer.

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