Weekly, Monthly? Wrap Up (2026.02.21)
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Weekly, Monthly? Wrap Up (2026.02.21)

Yeah its been a hot minute, whatever. Lets do some catch up. Maybe I will secretly slip those old posts in as if they were always there at some point. In general life stuff, I had a fun Valentine's day going to a local Ice sculpting show. I should throw together a gallery for that. I had the pleasure of spending $1300 $1600 on car repairs, it was just, maintenance needed for a 100k+ miles vehicle. Breaks and rotors, some leaky oil stuff (ended up also needing to replace the fan). And just to top it off, the van goes…
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Code Project – Python – Flask Microblog Fixes

Claude is pretty great for creating code, but sometimes you have to actually look at the code. I have blogged quite frequently about my Microblog project. It started as a simple script that just ran on a timer with a manually filled queue, then it pulled from my shared RSS reader feed, and now its basically a full on blog platform. One hang up, it has been double posting posts, but not always. I asked Claude, several times, to comb through and figure out why this is, and each time it "fixed" the problem, but didn't. So I took a…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.01.10)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.01.10)

Part of the point of these dumb little entries is to be a bit motivating to you know, actually at least pretend to give a shit about things. But Jesus fuck its hard these days. I mean, have you seen the state of, just everything. Ten days into 2026 and the fucking gestapo thugs are murdering people in the streets. Its really hard to give a shit about stupid video games and toys and music when the whole fucking world is going to shit as the biggest fucking assholes propped up by the biggest fucking idiots run rip shod over…
Fixing my Chevy Sonic Climate Controls
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Fixing my Chevy Sonic Climate Controls

I had a little unexpected project recently with my car. And one that went better than fixing the window, which just failed and resulted in a returned part and a window that no longer functions. I was adjusting the blower setting on the air conditioner and there was a stiff turn before it just, stopped working. The knob still turned but the blower was stuck on "blow out the main vents." I would have been less worried if it were any season except winter, but its winter, so eventually, I will need the defroster. After checking online to confirm that…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.01.03)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.01.03)

Ok, lets start the new year off running, so I can sputter out in a day in classic fashion. This year is going to be great. Right? Right? ... Ok, its, very very likely going to be terrible. I had a fairly productive Saturday today, I swapped out the ancient bathroom fan for a nicer, quieter one.  It need some trim added to cover the leftover hole, because it's smaller than the previous one, but it's in.  It's not as easy as it seems, but not super difficult.  Remove the old fan from the housing, which means removing the discharge…
Weekly Wrap Up (2025.12.20)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2025.12.20)

Kind of feels like an odd line up this week, and I am trying to "encourage" myself to post more individual posts on some things, like gaming. Gaming I actually have been playing the LEGO Fortnite a fair bit. Primarily with some sandboxy elements on, so I can quickly build little villages, but still fight things. I doubt this lasts very long sadly, the game play loop is just... not that deep. Especially with the material grinding removed. Anyway, I hope to post more detail on it later. Truck Sim has its Christmas event going on. The mechanics are very…
Weekly Wrap Up (2025.12.06)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2025.12.06)

Normally this time of year I would be doing Advent of Code. This year they changed the way its run, no leader boards, less exercises. The leader boards thing seems to be somewhat in retaliation for people using AI. It removes the incentive to get done super quick. They also kind of sucked depending on your time zone. I already quit on Day 1. I got stuck on part 2, I tried, I changed things I rethought what was happening, I even maybe sort of found a problem, but I couldn't work it out. I even did my usual method…