Events

I just finished a book that I've had on my nightstand for six full months: Markdig.Syntax.Inlines.EmphasisInline (2nd edition), by John Noble Wilford. It took me so long to read the book that Wilford actually died while I was reading it. (Why do I have the urge to pick up Hillbilly Elegy now?)

Alert that it's above freezing

The temperature at Inner Drive Technology World HQ has crept all the way up to -0.4°C (31.3°F), close enough to freezing that it would take hours to get frostbite. But you'd still get frostbite, so it's not quite where we want it. Officially at O'Hare it's -0.6°C (31.0°F), the warmest since 9pm on Friday January 16th.

Well, it looks like Jeff Bezos has decided to light the Washington Post on fire as he just can't seem to figure out how newspapers work. Josh Marshall, a 25-year veteran of online journalism, congratulates Bezos on getting to the "F this" part of the billionaire ownership lifecycle (also known as "Dunning-Krueger strikes again"):

For those who are curious, I've updated my media consumption list, and as a result, I need to review my Substack subscriptions. Maybe I should rotate them? I would love to see a new feature on Substack where you can just pay Substack and get credits to distribute to everyone you want to follow, or buy à la carte articles. If you know anyone who works there, please mention this.

I just released v1.0.9531 which corrected the caching issue that prevented anonymous visitors from commenting.

I figured out why comments broke for anonymous users: caching is hard. I spent some time yesterday after work digging into the caching code and realized that I was an idiot. I also found where my bad decision about what to cache caused unrelated things to work, which they wouldn't have done had I done caching correctly. I'll fix that tonight.

I haven't had a chance to work on the comments problem, because, you see, I have another job. I've also had a plumber and a carpet cleaner here today, traumatizing poor Cassie who couldn't show them her blanket because she got shoved into a different room. She's now on her bed in my office rather than on one of the couches downstairs. I expect she'll get over the soul-crushing exile she experienced for nearly an hour today.

I've just discovered comments aren't working for anonymous users. They appear to work, and the logs say they worked, but they're not saving to the comment index.

Happy February!