Glub Club

Couch Potatoes

Thu, 28 May 2026 17:02:48 +1300

Chickens like to slob on the couch too.

iPhone update

Wed, 27 May 2026 12:22:14 +1300

iPhone update

Why

So, there is an update due for the phone. For work, I have product apps that we test on our phones, so updating is sort of needed.

Problem - phone is a little old and ‘only’ has 64 GB of storage. 13.4GB free required to perform the update.

First attempt

Unloaded a bunch of apps, dropped a bunch of downloaded music, cleared caches - got to enough space free. Quite a bit of stuff to re-enable once done, but that’s ok.

Celestia build

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:22:14 +1300

Building Celestia

Why

So I thought that for some project I wanted to play with, I could use images of the planets in the solar system.

Searching around for free sprite sheets or similar didn’t find what I wanted.

Asking tools to generate something also didn’t produce what I wanted.

Then I remembered Celestia, the virtual observatory program. It can take screenshots of any body in the solar system. Perhaps that would do what I wanted, and I can use image tools or scripts to build a sprite sheet of icon size images if I need to.

Cheese

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:02:48 +1300

Cheese

Strike a pose

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:57:41 +1300

Chicken trying to impress

More boot issues

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:22:14 +1300

Dual boot issue

Turns out grub has issues with the old Windows drive - on cold boot.

Using BIOS to select the windows drive and then restarting - works fine.

Answer appears to be disable ‘fast boot’ in BIOS, as well as the already disabled ‘fast start’ from Control Panel - Hardware & Sound - Power - choose what the power buttons do.

Image orientation

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:22:14 +1300

Incorrect image orientation

Surprise, something else behaving unexpectedly.

Photo from iphone in portrait.

In zed, views without using EXIF so is incorrect (on side) - or arguably correct as that is what is in the file. In rendered locally via hugo server, is correct. In image viewer, is correct. Deployed, view in firefox - on its side. :sadface: In chrome - same.

Now to learn how to strip the tags and rotate it properly.

Des

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:42:14 +1300

Des is not sure she trusts me

Github integration

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:22:14 +1300

Getting Github to connect

Firefox popup etc blocking made it hard to get/see the connection to Github work
Connecting in Chrome worked fine
Setting a previously manual upload project to use GH had a few problems - or maybe not?
LLM tools suggest options that cannot be found. Could be Cloudflare updates.
Setting output folder requires the wrangler.jsonc
At this point the original project appears to actually be building from GH
A second project set up with GH integration from the beginning is therefore not needed (added from scratch as expected settings like ‘Framework’ not seen)
Maybe RTFM rather than chat with a bot…

Can we come in?

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:22:14 +1300

I think they want what I’m making

In the beginning

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:22:14 +1300

I made a blog

Hallelujah, things are starting to work.

Tips:

the first couple of Hugo themes I tried were old/broken

About Glub Club

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

When we get together, we play Crawl.

When we play Crawl, we play Glub. At least the first round. If we’re feeling bold, we taunt Glub.