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                     JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 18TH MARCH, 2024
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SUBJECT: Bugs of the viral kind + dead Pi
   DATE: Mon 18 Mar 20:12:18 GMT 2024

Last week was the worst. Beginning of the week I caught a flu/cold type bug.
Typical runny nose, aches, headache and brain fog. Still suffering… bleugh! :(

Then my Raspberry Pi 3B, used for testing, died. Actually the power supply
seems to have died — it’s an old one branded “Mod My Pi” before they became
“The Pi Hut”. Just hope the power supply going on the fritz hasn’t killed the
Pi in the process. I have spare USB-C power supplies for the RPi4 but not a
spare micro USB. An official Raspberry Pi 12.5w supply is £9 + £2.99 shipping.

I do prefer the official Raspberry Pi power supplies. Not sure why I was using
the “Mod My Pi” branded one? Maybe the on/off switch seemed handy at the time?

On top of all that, I’ve had some major issues to deal with at home. Not going
into details here, I like to keep things private and you’d just get bored.

I have managed to get some more Google skill badges, that’s 9 and I’m working
on adding more.

After grumbling about Go’s new FOR loop changes last time, some people are
worried I’d rewrite WolfMUD and switch away from Go development. Big problem
with that… switch to what? Mere is not ready for prime time. Who said Python?
You! Stand in the corner, face the wall and repeat “white-space should not be
semantically significant”, and yes YAML is just as bad… yes, I know they are
both popular *sigh*

If I was to rewrite WolfMUD, yet again, I’m not sure what language I would
pick. It would have to be something I’ve not used before. WolfMUD has always
been a learning platform for me. Hrm… maybe Rust? It looks quite interesting…

I was never a big fan of Go swanning off to the internet and bring home some
dependency it found. It seems Rust’s package manager does a similar thing.

No, honestly I’m not sure what language I’d pick to learn next.

I’ll stop babbling now. Must be the flu taking control as I feel terrible :P

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Diddymus


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