Daily - Feb. 20, 2026

Previously…

Today’s recap

In lieu of writing a daily yesterday I wrote about letting tech go as a hobby. It is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I mean, I’ve been struggling with it lately.

Honestly, I don’t have much to write about anyway. We are working long days to get this job done while the weather is somewhat reasonable. I haven’t been doing anything else other than working and resting.

There are two things that are happening that are bogging me down, in addition to work. First is managing my allergies. I have a full blown grain allergy and it is disrupting my entire food life. I get severely punished for eating wheat, corn, and yest. Man, that shit is in everything. It has completely upended all of my diet and eliminated almost all of my favorite foods. Its hard. Really fucking hard to deal with. I don’t have a bright spot or a good ending to this paragraph. I just fucking sucks.

Next is the van needs even more work and I can’t afford it. Before heading to work I topped off the rear tire so Wife could go to The Dollar Tree with the gorls. They go every Friday for a snack and a drink, costs us $6. Wife went to leave and the van won’t start. I had a feeling its the battery and when I got home I found its the battery. Gave it a jump and it starts. But, the battery is definitely dying and needs to be replaced. That’s another $150 ontop of the tire issue. Don’t even fucking think about saying, “Stop going to the dollar tree and use the money to fix things.” Yes. Yes, please, can I cut out everything fun out of my life? Can I remove something that actually makes people happy? If I saved that $6 a week by not taking my kids to The Dollar Tree I could save that money for… Checks notes… 37 weeks to replace the battery. We are just cool without a vehicle for 37 weeks, right? Fuck off.

In good news our job is going extremely well. We are ahead of schedule and should wrap by EOD Wednesday next week. The customer has been great and the weather has been cooperative. Now, it is supposed to pour rain all week next week. But, we are past the majority of the digging and clean-up. Most of next week will be the odds and ends.

WWE Friday Night Smackdown tonight and then finish watching Back to the Future 2.

Projects

Tried out perch, A TUI Mastodon client with offline cache. I ran into an issue and submitted a issue on their Github.

I’ve received a few messages about the series I started about offline apps. I think there is some confusion from folks as I keep getting recommendations for applications that are specifically designed for you to be offline. Like, if you plan to go hiking or go on an offgrid vacation. These are times where you plan to go offline, not find yourself offline. Its hard to describe. For example, a recommendation was for Trail Sense. FWIW this is an awesome app and I’m just diving into it. But, the reason for my series about offline apps aren’t for touching grass. I am frequently offline, but I want my apps and data to continue to live without needing internet. I want my Mastodon client to cache posts so I can read, regardless of my internet connection. I want my RSS reader to cache my feeds so I can read while on lunch at a jobsite with terrible cellular data. It feels like this is hard from some folks to understand. I want my apps to work both offline and online and not care about the difference. I need to think about this more and explain better in the next post.

Although, I am super grateful for the replies I’ve received and have some awesome apps for my prepper kits to test out.

Daily gratitude

• Grateful my son isn’t embarassed to be seen with his dad.
• I am so glad I have a good battery jumper kit. I use it all the time.

Tomorrow’s big thing(s)

Taking my son to downtown Seattle. We are parking outside the city and then taking the Link light rail in, then on foot. I do enjoy these trips with him.

Loose thoughts

I hate that languages have their own package managers. I already hated using pip, but now there’s fucking go and cargo plus others I refuse to use. I want to test out a TUI client for Mastodon and its only available via cargo. Install it from my distro repos and its too old. Go to rust-lang.org and the recommended install method is fucking pipe to bash copy pasta. This is fine. Totally fine. Not representative of how these package managers keep getting supply chain attacks that spread to all their users. Just pipe to bash. ITS FINE.

A great quote from this post about using bare git repos:

“For years, I’ve been using a social media site as a glorified file-syncing service, but I don’t need pull requests, an issue tracker, or a CI/CD pipeline to move a few macros between my machines – just a place to put my code. As with so many digital things, files and folders are all I need.”

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