Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste
Full Stack Developer and Digital Packrat

Post: Micro

  • I don’t think I played enough video games this year… 🤣😅🎮

    Screen shot of Nintendo's 'Year In Review' showing my gaming trends, along with my top three played games by hours: Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Zelda Breath of the Wild, and Animal Crossing New Horizons.

  • 🍿 One of my favorite holiday movies, While You Were Sleeping always brings happy tears. 🎄
    ★★★★☆

    Alternative movie poster for While You Were Sleeping

  • I was going to spend my lunch break working on creating a single-page app, to bulk-upload photos to Micro.blog but…I ended up throwing in the towel and just wrote a C# script instead. It still makes me happy Microsoft open sourced .Net and it runs natively on the Mac. 🤓😀 #HappyGeek

  • Someone is very upset they’re not allowed to eat this morning before going to the vet… 😹

    Grey cat sitting (half on grey tile, half on cherry-red hardwood) in front of an empty feeder, looking back to the camera.

    Alex is making his displeasure known, to everyone in the house. 🐈 📷

  • My Partner and I went out to dinner with my little brother and his girlfriend tonight…and it was the best sushi of my life. 🍣📷

    Roll of tuna sushi, horizontally cut, next to a stack of spring rolls on a different plate. Roll of fried sushi, coated in an orange sauce.

    So full and so happy. 😄

  • Follow-Up: My @atpfm@mastodon.social pint glass finally came in the mail today, after years (it was my own fault, I always put off ordering their stuff until the last minute…and then things are out of stock… 🤣). 🎉🥳

  • Follow-Up (Part 2): I was trying to listen to some Holiday music this morning, only to realize none of my Sonos speakers worked with AirPlay. After digging online, it turns out the only way to get a Sonos speaker back into HomeKit after the home is deleted is to factory reset the Sonos. 😱😅

  • Follow-Up: I think my HomeKit set up is mostly back to normal. I was a little stupid and didn’t take backups / exports…so I lost some historical data (mostly temperature / humidity / air quality) but at least my Holiday automations are working again. 🎄😅

  • We went to see the lights at the local botanical gardens this weekend, it was a fantastic evening and the lights were gorgeous; will be posting photos in a day or three… 🎄📷

    Glowing sign (it says 'GLOW') behind a series of shrubs and in front of trees and light posts.

  • My HomeKit set up has been rock-solid for years but the minute I added a Matter plug (the “Meross Matter Smart Plug Mini”), everything breaks…and as it’s Apple land, where everything works perfectly until it doesn’t, fixing it is going to be…unpleasant. 😱😭

  • 🍿 Decided on a second movie tonight: The Holiday Sitter. 🎄 It’s a silly Hallmark holiday movie but it’s rather adorable and kinda nice to see my people represented in the genre. 🏳️‍🌈 We’ll be adding this to our Holiday movie rotation.
    ★★★★☆

    Movie poster for the Holiday Sitter.

  • 🍿 Full of mac ‘n cheese, in honor of Kevin’s meal during the movie. This is my Partner’s favorite movie, even after more than 30 years, it has reviewability. 🎄
    ★★★☆☆

    Alternative movie poster for Home Alone

  • Finished reading: Second Hand by Heidi Cullinan 📚
    ★★★☆☆

    This was a re-read, from many years ago (it was one of the first e-books I bought, this story is light and fluffy with a predictable ending…and an adorable puppy. 🏳️‍🌈 Book cover art for Second Hand.

  • I walked into the bedroom and he turned around to glare at me; evidently interrupting his bird watching wasn’t the best of ideas… 🤣 📷 🐈

    Grey cat, with yellow eyes, on a bed, looking at the camera.

  • Follow-Up: The IKEA Sonos speaker is working perfectly (which is more than I could ever say of the HomePod Mini stereo set up) this morning; holiday music is flooding the room whilst I’m debugging some legacy Java code. 🤓🎄 (Yes, I had a spare speaker lying around… 🤣) 📷

    Christmas tree with lights and one ornament at the top (a photo frame with no photo for privacy purposes), in front of a record player, with the end of a lamp on the right side of the photo. An IKEA Sonos speaker is on top of the record player, with an 'Ella' record in the middle and a series of objects is on the left side of the record player: three Nintendo amiibo figures (Link, Bowser, and Bokoblin), a Lego penguin, a Jesus stature, and a N64 Lego cube. On top of the cube is a HomePod mini, along with two of the amiibo, and a dried pink rose.