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Friday(ish) Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Sat Jun 27 00:53:20 2026

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

When we went to the coast last week I took a couple of pictures of Dust Mite chatting with a banana slug. Alas, my camera can switched to manual focus and all the pictures came out blurry, so we did a reenactment of that fateful meeting with our wooden slug acting as a stand-in for the banana slug and our living room floor acting as a stand-in for the trail out to the end of Cape Lookout.

—orc Fri Jun 19 22:04:52 2026

Cape Mears panorama

—orc Fri Jun 19 21:27:43 2026

New Code!

Discount has been pushed up to version 3.0.1.3 after a few trivial fixes:

1. I updated the published interface (“API”) documentation to more correctly reflect how callbacks work,
2. I went back in to my implementation of “fenced code blocks” (a creeping feature that a lot of markdownish software has implemented) to make it less ugly, and
3. I continue to chase the ongoing dumbification of the C programming language standard by, ugh, having to hand-declare a prototype for memset() because macos ventura no longer has it and the C compiler there loses its shit when it encounters an external function that doesn’t have a prototype.

I have not yet reached the point of software completeness that Markdown.pl is at, but at least these days the primary changes I need to make are around chasing the standard and keeping the documentation up to date.

So, New Code!! Try it out, see if your computer eats itself, and enjoy!

—orc Sun Jun 14 06:12:33 2026

Friday Saturday Dust Mite Blogging ™

Yesterday, SWITCTBN & I walked out to the western end of Cape Lookout, and we brought Dust Mite along. It was an arduous trek, so Dust Mite & I had to pose for a picture before we came back.

—orc Sat Jun 13 14:43:46 2026

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Jun 5 23:18:25 2026

Sundress season

—orc Tue Jun 2 17:23:45 2026