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1 My vague news

I really just want to get this post out there, so here goes…

I started writing this blog way back in January, so quite a bit has changed since then. Mostly life changing events. These days I'm just working at a desk and it's hard to have to see the pain people are going through. I don't want to do ride-alongs anymore but I've had to.

I think overall the social/news media have drained me. I'm tired of outrage. I know in the past I've commented about things in my blog, but for the most part I think I'm just done with the drama.

For me my politics put me in several camps. I don't consider myself a moderate at all, but I think to some extreme viewpoints that would be where some folks would place me if they really knew how I felt about things. I think other people think I have cognitive dissonance, but for that I'm not entirely sure. I am obviously biased, I given what I know about myself I put myself logically in a sound position. I think other people just expect joining teams, but I don't really want to play.

Anyway there's a lot of folks with differing opinions about things these days (not new just feels intense). I hope friends, family, and communities can keep things together in good faith.

Time to deescalate and just take care of the family.

2 Not going anywhere

A few months ago, before things got bad on the family front, I honestly considered going back. No one knows what I did and no one will remember. Everyone else is either retired or has passed on. And no one in my family really reads this to wonder what happened during certain years of my life.

I got the idea from two things, one was the lack of an age limit on the NOAA side. The commissions are there, and even with age limits there are always exceptions. The other thing that gave me the idea was watching a documentary short on a man who reenlisted into the army reserves in his 50s in order to serve with his son. I thought that was nice, though, given the things that have happened recently it wouldn't be responsible for me to go.

So there it is, not clear as crystal, but maybe like watered down coffee for those who want to find it. Life has been full of government para-service and corporate NDAs. And the rest is just academia forever.

3 .emacs

I've started to migrate from ac/autocomplete to corfu with cape and debbrev. I started having issues with completions in rust and I wanted to try something else.

UPDATE: That happened months ago and so far I can say corfu has worked out much better than ac/autocomplete. Thanks for the good times and I welcome the improvements.

4 State of the projects

I have written quite a few things in rust the last six months. At work I almost got one of them into operations, but the work was cancelled. I don't want to argue for a sunk cost fallacy, but that one hit me hard.

That said, I want to return to Fenris Punk. I like the world. I like where I was taking it. I want to share the story.

5 Data collection removal

Let's just say I have an account with a sizable archive of data that has been collected over the years. I still don't have a good transition plan for the account since it contains a lot of data that I need. I did go through and remove data I did not need. In order to remove each item in the web user interface, I wrote this little snippet to do it for me.


      function myClickButton(myname, dryrun) {
          const myitems = document.querySelectorAll(myname);
          console.log(myitems.length);
          if (!dryrun) {
              myitems.forEach(function(element) {
                  var buttons = element.getElementsByTagName('button');
                  for (var i=0; i<buttons.length; i++) {
                      buttons[i].click();
                  }
              });
          }
      }
      
      myClickButton("div[jscontroller]", false);

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