Kent Quirk

@kentquirk.bsky.social

Staff Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io. Former gamedev, into bikes and making things (mostly woodworking and code). I’m probably too much of a generalist. Very much on the progressive side. Opinions are mine.

I put a pork shoulder in the smoker at 9AM expecting a 10-hour cook time. It’s going to come off after 13 hours. We had crackers and cheese for dinner. Pork will have to be reheated tomorrow. Sigh. (But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

After the election in 2016, I was motivated. I spent a year putting in 30 to 40 hours a week volunteering as an act of resistance. I don’t have it in me this time. I need to tune out. I know that’s what they want, but I’m sad and don’t have the energy right now.

Genuary 1 - only h or v lines. It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.

A sunset rendered using vertical lines of color only

I started Advent of Code again today. I wanted to use Deno and learn more about TypeScript but Deno is in the awkward transition stage to 2.0. I spent 1hr trying to read a text file into an array of strings and ran out of patience. I decided to switch to go for today. Maybe tomorrow.

Today was the first time in probably 20 years that I’ve had a rotten egg. PHEW! I had gotten out of the habit of breaking eggs into a separate bowl, so I had to throw out the sugar and butter from the recipe too. Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.