We decided not to get a whole home battery backup. Basically, we would have to spend about as much if not more money to do all the electrical work to only have half of the house powered. They're still coming back on Frid to look at installing a 220 port in the dining room where ham radio […]

We got to talk to Adobe Engineers and we did confirm that there's a regression, in other words, There's a problem that was fixed and now is broke. If you have 2025.01.20982 or later, I'm afraid you're screwed. I'll work on steps so you can maybe roll it back to version reader or acrobat 2025.01 […]

Friends, if you use Adobe to fill out forms with assistive tech like JAWS or NVDA, do not update to the December Reader or Acrobat version. made life at work a freaking nightmare. Turn off auto update or try to get a previously working version to manually install.

re last: I doubt this pilot really wants to know what's on board that's perarishable except for the crate of unclaimed bodies ready for soul implantation at a very secret fictional place on the planet Zargon 8

@Meepercat Ive been programming junk and reading wandering inn on the web lately and got way behind on The Fall books. Book 15 was like 3 bucks last week so when I finish the book I’m reading now, book 13 14 and 15 await. Kinda looking forward to that world. Man I have so many books. Meep

News Audible library stats, total time I've added (most books bought), 25937 hours, 1646 books. Guess I'm another in a long line of folks who love to collect books, mine are digital though and I don't have to keep buying bookshelves.

I have a shipping notice and associated tracking number for my radio. It'll be a bit before we put together an antenna, but not forever for sure.

Yeah! Great way to use a hugely expensive Flex radio, 1010 WINS. And they're still awake talking local news at 2:40 AM. Dude.

Oh holy freaking cool dude, finally, codex 5.1 max now available in github copilot. Sure it's at a 1x rate but I'll take it. I'm about ready to throw this code problem at something better than codex 5.1 mini cause we're not getting anywhere, and I'm about to go throw something else at it.

My work is based in multiple bases, but Richmond is my closest base. They just closf due to weat Here we don't have much going on in Memphis..

[Flex musings] Been playing with web SDRNESS today. Starting to realize how it'll be with my radio. Probably will implement either a way to change your keystrokes, probably the best way, or find a way to change flex keystrokes by selecting a template like websdr and then changing from there […]

We had some help moving the bed away from the head board which is mounted to the wall. I'd had lots and lots and lots of flies dive bomb me, and have had them for at least two weeks. Didn't think anything of it since this house is cursed with plague-like fly infestations. I remember spilling a […]

I feel like junk for some reason. Also, damn ham radio outlet ships fast. Kinda wish I could visit one of those things one day. Candy store for ham radio operators indeed.

Turkey is about halfway done and the house smells amazing. I still need to make stuffing / cut up veg for said stuffing. It'll be yummy. Ordered modern power supply for my radio, man when I bought a supply last time I got away with spending $80 or so. Granted, it's more advanced and has more […]

[Flex radio time server? Why not.] Seems as if i'm gonna have access to a radio based as in my amateur radio will create a astra level I time server for my network. Why you ask, do I need this? No reason really except for if I need it at some point in the future, I won't have to send the radio […]

I've been bored and started listening to talk radio on Sirius xm. Amazing how many tax relief companies advertise, I'm guessing, to all there talk channels. Weid demographic.

My work on JJ flex radio continues. We think we have fixed a lot of the connectivity problems faced in versions that I wasn't involved with. Individualswho have working Flex radios are having problems remotely connecting to the flex produced software. More to come, but if we get it all working […]

Today was headache day. Sure was painful throwing up with a broken rib. Do not recommend, at all.

Having arm pain and swelling. that least rib pain is decreased. Probably did more than I needed to do yesterday.

I checked out Codcex 5.1 max today. What a neat little model. YUOu'd think it'd actually be bigger and more expensive, but it seems to run / solve solutions without prompting. It also compacts context more efficiently, allowing you to continue working for longer even though your conversation is […]

I didn't have breaking ribs on my biongo card for today. #myosteopetroticlife

[musing on the art of watching a robot screw up code] Seriously considering coding agents and ides while I lay here and try to sleep. I've ed thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours coding a complex web site using multiple languages, data architecture, and more aria accessibility junk than […]

I want to read way more ooks than I have time to listen to them or read them. I'm not super jazzed to listen to Harry Potter in atmos though. Some people don't read HP because of politics, some would rather read fan fiction based in the universe—for me, I'm just not sure about reading these […]

I need to test a GFCI to see if charging my in house battery will trip the GFCI or not.

[Wandering inn] I usually go in when new chapters are released to the wandering inn readers. I'm still behind by a lot. But, only based on statistics and work count' volume 10 is now over 3.1 million words, 600000 words longer than the previous volume 9. Audible fans, look forward to lots and […]

Never totally trust that AI is infallable. I was working on code yesterday and a feature was completely missing, gone, caboomey dead. Asked codex where it'd gone, and it told me that we hadn't fully developed it yet. I had to go back to a previous conversation, have it redo the code and then it […]

The kinda hilarious development note for today, yes, apparently you can calm down aria reagions, especially when they update every time you hit a key. I don't know why I find it hilarious that AI said that it'd calmed something down when I asked it to fix a particularly chatty edit field, but I […]

Power on of the massive server we calittle roar box which will run some really cool stuff that's never been done before in amateur radio is today. Accessible propagation forecasts and virtual amateur radio, here we come!!!

Solution to the alarm and many other apps and web pages that require slide, a gesture that is impossible with voiceover is the following. Go to settings, select accessibility, then select touch. Within the touch menu, simply enable the prefer single touch actions. In iOS 26, doing this allows me […]

Very confused. I got the typical "Slide to stop" alarm today. I could most definitely not slide the thing at all with voiceover. I ultimately had no way to slide. Double tap didn't work. Only unlocking. How do I handle these flide elements?

Maybe the future will be more bright given time.

Man, if I'd had the ability to search for and download books onto a device that I could easily fit in my bbackpack, man that'd have been revolutionary. I read spoo much that my lovely readers' advisor Linda probably got annoyed at precotious little ner reading att least 20 books a month, then […]

Man, when you run out of openai credits, it just sccreeched to zero.

My timeing is never great, but this caps it. I got a battery backup system for inside of the house. I might be able to run my whole house on it, but doubtful. Can still run a bunch of junk on it though. I got an email from Oupes pronounced Opis earlier this week. They're coming out with a […]

Aria is so dang powerful, used correctly. Wow! My pages are starting thato look more like apps, to a screen reader user. This is usually more apparent to a sighted web user. If a screen reader offers up your pages in the same verbosity and understandability as sthing written by corporations […]

I took two spectacular photos, one of Simba and one of Patches. Got errors when I posted, so I'm going to try again. The first photo is that of Simba, a gray and black tabby The second accessory is Patches, a calico with patches in her fur. Both cute, both great accessories worthy of bobble […]

Our two cats have air tags on their collars. If we want to figure out where they are, we simply say, "Ping the big bad cat, that's Simba, and "Ping the little bad cat," that's our callico Patches. We hadn't seen Patches in a while so we pinged her. We try not to do this often because the tone it […]

THis is gonna seem weird coming from me, the guy whose working on a compl,ex web site by using teh assitance of AI, but I just read the Freedom scientific annouincement about what's coming in JAWS 2026, and, though it will be interesting to see how navigating pages via AI will save me time, I […]

Hey cool, Can can kinda finally feel my foot. I had an injection to lessen nerve pain in my left leg. Pain levels have been less lately which is good, but I went ahead and had the procedure. I had a huge scare right after getting it done when I stood up. They always try to make sure your leg is […]

It took me maybe 30 minutes to change a password today. I swear, it should be easier everywhere to use pass keys, even after phone changes. Some web sites make it super easy. Some ... don't.

I'm spinning up web servers like it's 1999. Seriously, I should go to bed, but I'm so close.

Help! I'm trapped in my category creation tool and I can't get out! #nocontext

All this talk about a vapor chamber in iPhones and now in the iPad pro makes me wonder how they make absolutely sure that there's absolutely 0 bacteria in the DI water they use. Can't imagine what it'd be like to have algae growing in a sealed chamber near the heat syncs. Even a little CO2 as a […]

Wow, I have more followers than people I follow? Definitely not on purpose. This thing has been much more friendly as it relates to engagement and finding people that'll actually read or comment on your stuff. Y'all are awesome!

Has anyone tried out the Brava smart oven? Supposed to be quite accessible with controlling the oven by text. I still like my Tovala, but I think that though way more expensive, we'll be able to bake things better in this counter top thing especially in things like steaks or burgers.

[A love–hate letter to AI, insomnia, and ham radio code] I hate adding features that the average user couldn’t care less about or won’t ever notice. But I know that adding **this** particular thing will ultimately help me build and ship a more complete and useful product. I hate the fact that […]

I really don't appreciate my body waking me up at 2:00 A.M. I got stuff to do in the morning jerk.

I wrote my neighbor a text while I was thinking about it, thought about the fact that some folks don't turn off DND like I do, and realized that sending later is super easy to do in iOS. Write your message, click add, click send again and pick a sane time to send it. I'm using iOS 26. It's […]

[Lots and lots of power.] Still been playing with my power station battery system. Now that i the app and it's able to connect reliably, I've found a couple of things, both of which blow my mind. 1. UPS batteries suck. I have my nas and router connected to this device. 'At current load, most […]

Anyone else having problems using 1password with Windows? It says it';s a Chrome legacy window and just says unknown over and over again. I can get it to work with JAWS but that's not a cool deal. Haven't tried the beta / other version as of yet.