Another #neovim release (v0.12!), another refactoring of my config and extracting part of it out into a plugin. Roadtrain highlights columns over given size.

For a novice, neovim's lua API and plugin writing sure is easier to get a handle on than vimscript!

https://github.com/smlx/roadtrain

Had to dip back into the #python world today. Cannot believe that requirements.txt still seems to be state of the art in python dependency management. Happy to be corrected if #pip does actually support cryptographic hashing and verification of dependencies.

1. There is no single "root cause". IMO this term is harmful because, while it makes for an easily graspable concept, the metaphor encourages identifying a _single_ cause. There is _never_ a single reason behind an incident. Instead there are always several "contributing factors".

I see some common ingrained misunderstandings around "Incident Reviews" / "Post Mortems" in technical orgs.

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Disappointing to see the #cybercx person on ABC news 24 namechecking "digital interconnection of the modern world" and "cascading failures" instead of the monoculture of #microsoft and #crowdstrike that means a single company's automatic software update can take down a decent chunk of the economy. #auspol

Anyone else using #neovim with the noctu colorscheme will know it broke with Neovim v0.10.0.

I rewrote it to fix compatibility with Neovim.

https://github.com/smlx/nocte

Listening to the podcast series "Who screwed millenials?" and hearing advertisements for private health insurance, which was on its way to extinction after the introduction of Medicare before being propped up by handouts from John Howard starting right around the turn of the millenium (and successive governments since).

Thanks for the laugh and the screaming-in-your-face irony @guardian

#auspol

#Microsoft allowing valid credentials to just sit around in the mail spool is so on brand. I feel like I've fallen into a wormhole back to the 90s.

What a line. 'This is why I’m super skeptical of current approaches to artificial intelligence, which seem to imagine that if you just cobbled together enough thermostats, then you get a person.' (Ted Chiang)

https://www.publicbooks.org/developing-ai-like-raising-kids/

h/t to @dcro for the earlier work

Finally got around to writing up how I reverse engineered the encrypted metrics protocol of my solar inverter and smart meter
https://smlx.dev/posts/goodwe-sems-protocol-teardown/

#hack #reverseengineering #solar