Frankly it's a crime against ergonomics that touchphones don't come with a charging dock. Like what are the two things everyone with a desk job wants to do with their phone? Charge it, and have the screen visible so they can see if they get a notification while they're working. A dock would fix both issues. Instead I have to supply my own stand, use an app that rotates the screen 180° when it's plugged in, and have the big honking charging cable awkwardly sticking out of the top. A dock would be so cheap. Some plastic, a strategically placed USB connector and a passthrough. But companies can't even give you an AC adapter anymore. What a sorry state for electronics.

✫ Aug 21, 2026 09:03 EDT

09h00, start the computer! Just trying to earn a basic salary [![image0-2](https://mataroa.blog/images/e30ed4b6.gif)](https://mataroa.blog/images/e30ed4b6.gif)

✫ Aug 21, 2026 08:56 EDT

Nearly 9H of sleep. I'm not cured, but it's a noticeable improvement.

✫ Aug 21, 2026 07:09 EDT

😴

✫ Aug 20, 2026 21:53 EDT

Okay, I lied. I looked at some code. Then I shot lightning at it until it blew up. [![Shooting lightning at an SPU in the Matrix in Shadowrun for the Genesis](https://mataroa.blog/images/06ca743d.png)](https://mataroa.blog/images/06ca743d.png)

✫ Aug 20, 2026 21:36 EDT

Long mutual crying sesh with the spouse about poverty, illness and our gestapo healthcare system. Now I'm gonna stuff my face with post-dinner snacks and watch comfort youtube (Cathode Ray Dude). Aiming to go to bed around 22h00.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 20:24 EDT

Not looking at any code tonight.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 19:11 EDT

Reward system hacking is scary. A guy in our neighborhood is a chain-smoker, and there's no smoking allowed inside these apartments, so rather than quitting he's arranged his life such that the thing he spends most of his time doing is standing in front of his apartment smoking. He's literally a "smoker", as in that's the activity that defines him. We have horror stories about fungus taking over people's brains and turning them into zombies, but we have a real plant that does that, and it's the plant where cigarettes are made. The tobacco industry owes this man a life.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 17:41 EDT

Yabba dabba doo 🤜🕟

✫ Aug 20, 2026 16:41 EDT

Thank god the job I get paid to do isn't nearly as hard as the jobs I make myself do for free. When I get overwhelmed I can start slacking off and it gets me in the opposite of trouble.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 15:56 EDT

Okay just sat here doing pointless troubleshooting for like an hour because I forgot that text files you make on windows can't be used on linux. Time for a break ⚰️

✫ Aug 20, 2026 14:35 EDT

Woke up and immediately started working on my archive script. Doesn't bode well for my sleep tonight, but I'm excited, I really think this could help. People desperately want a commonsense way to archive their posts, and this could be it.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 08:51 EDT

Bed.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 01:32 EDT

Well my "no thinking" plan was a complete bust. I'm learning that I can channel anger into useful programs and that's a dangerous thing. I didn't want to get sucked into a programming hole again. Since I got home so late after errands, it feels like my day just vanished. Going to try to get to bed in about an hour. Don't feel good about it.

✫ Aug 20, 2026 00:01 EDT

It works!! [I have a text dump!](https://bluelander.neocities.org/output.txt) Take that, industry standard enterprise search engines. Elastisearch? Pssht, my `Ctrl` and `F` keys work just fine, thank you.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 23:14 EDT

Downloading a text dump of my mastodon account... twenty posts at a time...

✫ Aug 19, 2026 22:41 EDT

Good song: *Shed* by Geggy Tah

✫ Aug 19, 2026 19:30 EDT

Paradoxically, *everything* seems to be cheaper when you get it at the hospital vs. retail, even the OTC stuff. Like the US health system is famous for hospitals charging $10 for a single tylenol when you're a patient, but if you could go downstairs to the pharmacy, they'd happily sell you a thousand for the same price. Very sane and normal.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 19:21 EDT

To be fair, it *might've* been because I'm cu—because the hypothetical person in this fictional scenario is cute.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 18:43 EDT

Apparently you can just walk into a hospital and buy food from the cafeteria. You don't have to be a patient there or anything. Also, if you happen to be wearing your lanyard and badge from a different hospital you happen to work at, someone might not pay that close attention and give you the employee discount. I'm just stating information.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 18:39 EDT

Got way into the weeds about Mastodon's god-awful post management. Now I need to make another bash script. Very mad. But that's for later. Clocking out and walking to the pharmacy. Wish me luck.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 17:06 EDT

A footbath is the opposite of gloves.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 13:52 EDT

Ended up having some actual work I needed to think about at work today. So much for plans.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 13:43 EDT

Actually yeah, this is way too ambitious a project to try to start on my phone. Back to not thinking. Hopefully I'll have some time to work on it this weekend.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 11:44 EDT

I suppose I could just make it look for "begin status" and "end status" comments in the HTML... 🤔

✫ Aug 19, 2026 11:30 EDT

Trying to figure out if it's feasible to make a version of the status client that would work with a free neocities account. The neocities CLI will let you upload a single file, but the only download option is "sync the entire website". Annoying. I could probably fetch a "status.html" page with curl, then patch it and use the CLI to upload the patched file. The only way to embed on neocities without js would be an iframe, and I'm struggling to make it look right. Annoying that they don't just support SSI. Why don't more static sites use SSI? It's awesome. Anyway, so much for not thinking today.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 11:17 EDT

Gonna try not thinking today as much as possible and see if my brain shuts up at a reasonable hour. We'll see how it goes. It's times like these I wish I liked any of those "you just have to turn your brain off"-type shows.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 09:07 EDT

6h17m of sleep. Gonna need a real night's sleep pretty soon. It's catching up with me.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 07:09 EDT

Going to bed now for real.

✫ Aug 19, 2026 00:26 EDT

Just made 3000 nuyen from a simple Matrix run so I'm gonna recruit Walking Bear. Ugly Squad assemble.

✫ Aug 18, 2026 23:43 EDT

Really really off-kilter today.

✫ Aug 18, 2026 22:35 EDT

I have eaten the hot dogs that were in the fridge and which I was probably saving for hot dogs Forgive me they were hot dogs so beef and so mustard

✫ Aug 18, 2026 20:47 EDT

Making some hot dogs.

✫ Aug 18, 2026 19:27 EDT

Trying not to be too disheartened by this. All things are fleeting

✫ Aug 18, 2026 18:57 EDT

Important bug fix in [Matabash 1.🐬](https://bluelander.neocities.org/matabash.txt) 😢

✫ Aug 18, 2026 18:38 EDT

Oh my god, I just remembered, there was an internet hiccup when I posted "Yabba Dabba Doo". I need to make sure if it's not able to retrieve the body text, it doesn't do the append. I can't believe that happened. Thank god I caught it this early.

✫ Aug 18, 2026 17:56 EDT

Oh my god why did it erase all my old statuses??

✫ Aug 18, 2026 17:41 EDT

Yabba dabba doo

✫ Aug 18, 2026 17:00 EDT Status page generated with Matabash.