Always great when the team gets to train with Clear Creek Fire, and doubly so when they bring the ladder truck along!

I have finally found a task that the MacBook Neo struggles at - editing 4K video with fancy transitions (it's fine with simple cuts!)

Rode my motorbike to the spaceport today, which sounds a lot cooler than it actually is given the number of things that have actually gone to space from the spaceport is zero. Seems like it could be a good place to fly some small planes out of though!

Kind of wondering if I should start streaming occasionally. Some of the ability to talk about stuff without the structure of talks or YouTube videos, though the default content choice still feels like games (streaming projects from the workshop isn’t very doable)

While I ran video at @northbaypython.org this year entirely from the equipment I already have, the eternal problem with video work is thinking "well if I just got the $1000 vision mixer and that $900 lens things would be nicer"...

Heading home after a delightful weekend of @northbaypython.org - always lovely to see everyone (we always get a great crowd) as well as the cats, of course.

Finally put a CFP submission into an event after taking a break of a few years; hopefully will be adding in a few more this year. Mostly want to move to doing beginner-to-intermediate talks to give more junior engineers some guidance in this rather turbulent industry, I think.

Gotta love physical therapists. Within ten minutes of my first visit, she'd worked out that my left leg is currently a centimeter longer than my right (hopefully due to musculature and tendons rather than the bones)

Trying out iPhone for a couple of weeks (Android annoyed me a lot recently) and it's fascinating. Hardware is obviously great, apps are generally smoother and nicer, but wow do I miss there being a universal idea of "back".

Of course, from here the astronauts will go to the medical bay so the flight surgeon can give them the all-clear, and then from there they'll be placed in the Possession/Inhabitation Chamber where NASA's Chief Occult Officer will ensure they are not controlled by any evil Moon spirits.

Great job to everyone at NASA who made that mission go off apparently flawlessly. Now let's hope the next mission isn't too far away...

My other half pays basically no attention to world news and I am honestly envious of him right now.

Took my new-ish UV printer for a spin and made a little memento of the Artemis II picture from yesterday. Fits on the coaster really nicely!

When I find out that one of the only true 70mm IMAX versions in the world is being shown in the BFI IMAX, of course I'm going to see the movie again (much like I did with Interstellar at the SF Metreon)

After a request from both my partner and also (weirdly) my barber back in Denver, I took a trip to a random town in the Midlands.

Look, I like planes, but nothing beats sitting in the Eurostar as it glides past the Dutch countryside at high speed.

I am increasingly becoming fond of poster sessions as one of the best parts of conferences. The one at KubeCon is unfortunately too small, but still had some great chats with some of the presenters.

I know there's a big conference in town but I ran into someone I knew in central Amsterdam, kilometres away from the venue, within 20 minutes of arriving!

Woke up somewhere over the Atlantic to the news of AC8646. Just awful stuff. Crew seem to have saved the passengers at the cost of their own lives. Initially looks like ATC controller overload, which should be a big wake-up call given the underfunded state of US ATC for years, but we'll see.

I did not realise it was the end of spring break and I am already feeling for the gate agent as an entire queue of families are being rearranged so their kids are seated next to them.

Just finished watching Project Hail Mary and that is a fantastic film. It is going to trouble Contact for my "favourite movie of all time" slot, for sure.

Getting an MRI always feels like stepping into the future. "Don't worry, just lie inside this giant superconducting magnet and we'll bombard your protons with radio pulses to see what their spin state is like"

Got a MacBook Neo last week (as having a Mac is occasionally useful, and my old Mac Mini is basically dead) - and it's a perfectly good laptop. Great build quality, good battery, and barely notice the "low' specs. Only gripe is they need to design for "no touch ID" - like the Windows PIN option.

I have often said they should make another Pokémon game that doesn't involve fighting and, well, Pokopia is fantastic.

Doing my US tax return involves telling them how much money is in my UK pension, so yesterday I found myself driving 10 minutes to an area where Three UK has a tower with a roaming agreement just so I could receive an MFA code to log in and see the amount, to tell the IRS, so they can ignore it.

Lovely work Gorton and Denton, and congratulations to Hannah Spencer. Resounding win for hopefulness and sensible politics. #ukpol

Learning GDScript as I play around with Godot. I always love understanding a language that is designed very particularly, especially one with Python influences.

Unfortunately, while I got to the hotel quickly, it turns out that the hotel aggregator that my company's travel agency made a hotel booking through took the money but didn't actually make the reservation due to a "system error", and now they are arguing about who pays for it while I wait.

I do love the feeling when you peel away from the hordes of people going towards Lyft/Uber at SFO, walk onto the BART platform, get on a train and it leaves 30 seconds later. Already in Daly City before I would even have got picked up.

Just found some game design idea notes of mine for an automation/factory game and the top two notes are "should be optimistic" and "anti-colonialist". Not bad.

I am supposed to get a lot of personal admin done this weekend and it feels like fiddling on the roof as Rome burns. At least the cats are happy and snoozing without a care in the world.

Finally got a chance to stay in one of my favourite examples of brutalism, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. As the front desk clerk joked when I asked to check out - "Why would you want to leave?"

"Spend company money like it's your own", says our expense policy. So you're saying the company should buy five 3D printers, import lots of British chocolate, and acquire a series of increasingly esoteric laptops?

I have had the Lenovo Yoga Book 9 for just two days, and I have already solved the bottom-touchscreen driver issue in Linux with some terrifying C code: github.com/andrewgodwin... I should probably go submit a hid-multitouch patch, but this gets things working immediately for now.

Did I need the silly two-screen laptop? No. Am I delighted with the build and OLED screen quality, surprised how useable the touchscreen keyboard-and-touchpad Lenovo wrote for it is, and happy that a decent amount works in Linux out of the box? Yes. (Also, what a way to play Factorio)

Went to a lovely local bakery/brunch place this morning that had "Croissants and Gravy" on the menu and I am torn between this being a food crime and being actual genius.

Passed my EMR exam so I am now certified to give oxygen, splint things, patch up bad holes, and mostly go "oh yes, you really need someone much more qualified than me". Will probably go up to EMT at some point but that requires quite a bit more hands-on training!

Pictured: One cat, shortly before he realises that now there are presents under the tree he can avoid the anti-cat spikes and try to climb it

Nice long break means I can finally get around to rewriting my travel checklist app properly (and add on the house regular-maintenance items functionality I want). Past me would have added users and stuck it up for everyone; now I'm instead thinking "what if I didn't go through all that hassle?"

In rather excellent news, we're now at the point where a light aircraft can detect its pilot being incapacitated and successfully land and then shut the engines off fully automatically. My hat is off to the Garmin engineers who built this system. avbrief.com/autoland-sav...

For reasons known only to myself, I documented and reviewed nine different Christmas sandwiches on my trip back to London. Please, maybe, enjoy. (Mostly I wanted to get practice at lower-effort single take filming!) youtube.com/watch?v=cF2-...

Took delivery of an extremely 2000's VR glove in the pub. Yes I am on the bus. I have no shame.

The new V&A East Storehouse is fantastic. Not only is it the most pure, channeled form of the V&A's eclectic collection, but the big pieces on display are great, including an ENTIRE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNED OFFICE.

Popped into Hamleys (the world's oldest toy shop, and something of a dream destination when I was little!) and while it is definitely still delightfully packed with toys, wow is it smaller than I remember. Though I guess I'm a lot bigger now as well.

Lost my Google TV dongle a trip ago and decided to try a Roku stick in its place. I'm quite impressed - power still works off a TV USB port, you can Bluetooth your phone to it, you can have it send audio to your phone (and headphones), and it asks if you're sure when you press the Netflix button!

The biggest difference I'm noticing since my last trip back to London so far is that they've seemingly changed the cadence on the "sorted" announcements from 61-01-6 to 6-101-6.

Always nice to see the standard UK weather from the other side.

Rideshares to the airport were $45 one way today. Parking in the "economy" lot is $20 a day. But it turns out that parking at my local train station, which has a train direct to the airport every 15 minutes, is just $2 a day. Feel a bit silly I didn't do this before (it does take slightly longer!)

Spent a little bit of time tonight working on a tablet mode (hinge angle) service for this delightful little machine - the Chiwu Minibook X N150. Was just taking someone's existing Go project and changing a few things, but it _did_ involve udev rules so I think that at least counts as Real Work.

Now OpenAI has bought 40% of the world's DRAM capacity and prices have shot up, starting to wonder when the 384GB of RAM in my basement server will outpace my house's value...