Microblog

This is a collection of 19,757 things that my ADHD mind has puked out over the last 18.64 years.

Check out my latest entries below, some of my top remarks or some things that I love or wish for.

@broox

My Apple Watch recognized my Covid by noticing that my wrist temperature and breathing rate were elevated in my sleep. Kinda cool.

I rebuilt the front end of my website (with Nuxt 3). It’s not a whole lot different, but should be faster and less buggy… or at least differently buggy. Give me feedback!

derek.broox.com

Critics of social healthcare often talk about wait times for care and to see specialists.

In the US, my partner with a chronic condition waits weeks to months for specialists to diagnose worsening symptoms and often gets no answers.

Our healthcare system isn’t better. It’s actually quite terrible.

"Also, as a style note, you might want to consider removing or changing that log message (8=====D) to something more professional."

... Claude AI does not approve of my log line visibility hack.

I put together 2,651 legos today. The new set kinda consumed me… so anyway, Merry Christmas or whatever.

Went to get a Christmas Eve bloody with Kari and someone at the bar just tested out their bottle of mace.

Now we’re all just chillin, randomly coughing with the doors wide open for airflow.

Anyone still using RSS readers? If so, what are you using? What are you subscribing to?

My website has been slow as shit. My DB, along with many of its definitions are literally 20 years old, so I revisited it. 95% of the issue was poorly defined indexes and a couple bad query patterns that haven't scaled with my data. Duh.

So, remember to revisit your indexes every once in a while.