Shallow Thoughts : : Sep

Apache has decided websites shouldn't have their own /javascript

Someone sent me an alert that my Galilean Jupiter's moons simulation and SatSat Saturn's moons simulation pages weren't working.

Sure enough, they weren't. The error console said Loading failed for the script with the name of a calendar widget I use, along with the CSS it uses, both loaded from a directory inside /javascript on my website, the same website where the moon simulations are running.

I checked the logs: sure enough, references to those files were returning 404 in the access log, with nothing at all in the error log. The files were clearly there, and world readable, so it wasn't a permissions problem.

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Decoding a Specialized E-bike FIT file

My Review of my Specialized Turbo Levo Kids ebike mentioned that the Specialized phone app had some fun features, but also some annoying problems. (I'm using it on Android. Dave doesn't use the app on his iPhone, so I don't know how the iPhone version compares.)

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Operation Snakeweed Reseed is a Success

We don't get as many wildflowers here as I'd like, but one reliable bloom every year in late summer was the snakeweed.

Terrible name. In fact, it's quite a nice plant, which around early September explodes into a carpet of yellow flowers.

Until 2023-2024, when a severe drought managed to kill it all.

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