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Diary

I use this tag to label posts from my public diary, where I keep a record of things I've worked on on a given day, or write half-baked thoughts for my own sake that aren't worthy of sharing with the world in a normal post. These are hidden from the homepage by default and probably of little interest to anybody other than me, but they're not secret and can be viewed through this tag.

Diary - 2023-04-15

* I have way too many Chrome bookmarks. 555 of them, in fact, many of them not actionable. Time for a purge. I'll write down how many are left at the end of the day... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539595, today, is a fun AOE2 bug involving floating point

I wrote up another Ghost setup bug

Here it is: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/1760 That's as much as I'm going to do on this!

I found a tolerable workaround to Ghost's weird blockquote behaviour

Over at https://markamery.com/blog/i-set-up-a-blog-it-was-annoying/, I grumbled that: 3. Ghost's WYSIWYG editor should support headings inside quotes An annoyance I discovered in Ghost's editor: if you try to format some text as a heading inside a blockquote (either by selecting text and formatting as a heading via the

I wrote up the ghost-cli + MySQL bug

Over at https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/1759, I carefully wrote up the bug in the current Ghost installation docs and suggested how to proceed. I sniffed around in the code a bit trying to figure out how to fix it, but the untyped and comment-light code at https:

MySQL docs bugs weren't really bugs

I went to report the MySQL docs issues I mentioned at https://markamery.com/ghost/#/editor/post/643564502f17df1693fb95be. Damn, it was obnoxious that I had to create an Oracle account to do this and that they demand my address, employer, and "work phone" (WTF? I'm a programmer, not a sales

My first diary post

Today I made this blog. I also made this post, to test out the "diary" feature.