2025–W43 #
I have temperature graphs (again! with a new stack, as it is almost every year). Fascinating to watch the rise and fall of temperatures and how being above or below ground and having insulation (or not) affects both heat gain and loss. This stack is Grafana + Prometheus + rtl_433. It is in many ways absolute overkill, especially the radio receiver, but also I ... just have this stuff so why not?
The RTL-SDR dongle causes my headless Chromebook to lose Internet connectivity (although not to crash -- when I removed the dongle from the USB port then it came back on the network with its uptime intact). Weird. So anyway I connected it to a proper desktop machine instead of one of my very-low-power managerie (a Pi400 in a rack mount case and the aforementioned broken Chromebook).
I've gone on a read siding about getting sway working. Well, sway does work, but Gnome Keyring is so-so (getting it to unlock, especially, and not having to pass parameters to Signal/Chrome to force them to use libsecret). The main part that I'm having trouble with is using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to share my screen.
Partially this is inspired by my GPU occasionally crashing in Gnome (although I've no solid reason to believe it won't just crash in Sway anyway) -- and partially it's some jealousy over minimal-aesthetic things like Omarchy. I really like PaperWM (the extension from Gnome that gives me an infinite canvas) but there's a lot of eye-candy in there and it's a bit of a hack on top of Gnome's compositor and not its own thing.
(Also maybe Scheme and Rust but I'll write more about that later).
Helix as an editor is working okay. I found that making vim an alias for hx made things worse because I'd type vim and expect to be able to use my old muscle-memory.