Joe Hart

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Short-form thoughts, links, and updates.


Pulled the trigger on a pebble watch pre order. If that comes and then I can find a least dodgy as possible e-ink android phone I can be fully e-ink.

New workplace quality barometer:

How many days until i add the cry_party emoji to the slack.

First time I’ve ever listened to Freddie’s solo stuff, and tbh it’s fucking great.

Screenshot of music player player the album Mr Bad Guy by Freddie Mercury

Fascinating Sunday afternoon playing around with Windsurf Agent AI stuff. Some times it was like reading my mind and being magic, and then it would completely lose the plot and forgot stuff it’s already done and miss off previous requirements.

Ok just about squeaked in a second blog post before the end of the quarter.

Just some thoughts about the journey I’ve been on to try and find the perfect eink device/devices.

joehart.co.uk/blogs/2025-03-22

Ok I’ve settled on an old M1 Mac mini as the go go brains of the home server, synology nas for storage. Docker everything. Migrate stuff over from my current raspberry pi.

Just waiting for the Mac mini to be delivered now.

My kingdom for the hardware of the Remarkable Pro (Gallery 3 eink display) but with support for Readwise Reader and Newspaper Apps.

It’s finally happened. I’ve ordered a proper NAS. Feels like a big moment graduating from ā€œraspberry pi with a dodgy old external hard drive plugged in" to ā€œraspberry pi connected over the network to an overpriced box of hard drivesā€

AI tools I actually want that I haven’t managed to get working on existing tools:

  • Here is a giant PR i have, please split it into N smaller PRs that are easier for my team to review.
  • I want to turn this typescript setting on e.g. no unsafe array access, turn it on and fix all the errors

Disclaimer: this pun only works with terrible pronunciation.

Why did the chickpea call in sick to work? Because he falafel. (read as felt awful but in a kind of slurring way like felawful).

Finally, 25 years too late I have finally finished Final Fantasy 9. What a game.

Been using tailwind at work for the first time and am still in the ā€œgrumpy old man doesn’t understand why the kids love this" phase of using it.

perhaps that will change, perhaps not.

Todays the day, I’m trying to put a Noctua Fan in a wine fridge. Let’s see how this goes.

I don’t really know how or why. But for the last 5 years at least the profile picture of my 1password vault has been a meme image of Bones saying ā€œhe’s dead jim" and at this point it feels weird to change.

A screenshot of a 1Password window displaying the lock icon at the top and a small profile picture of Dr. McCoy from Star Trek with the caption ā€˜He’s dead Jim.’

Goes online to see what a physical guide for FFV and FVI could cost:

Oh my fucking god.

Screenshot of a used book retailer with prices ranging from £78 to £450

Web react folks, how do ya’ll manage keyboard shortcuts in large sprawling react apps? There’s the basic tinykeys stuff, but do you just have a huge messy global file somewhere? Or is there a more elegant solution?