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After bottoming out at -21.3°C (-6.3°F) around 8:30 this morning, the temperature has skyrocketed to -18.7°C (-1.7°F) a few minutes ago. I decided to walk to my optometrist appointment, 12 minutes there and 13 minutes back thanks to a red light, which wasn't too bad in my swaddling. When I got back, Cassie lasted just over 4 minutes before bolting for my front door. Smart dog.

The temperature at Inner Drive World HQ has slid down to -20.9°C (-5.6°F), the coldest temperature we've had in two years. O'Hare shows -23.9°C (-11°F), which is colder than the low temperature in January 2024; the last day it got this cold was 31 January 2019, when it hit -29.4°C (-21°F).

In my last post on how the Daily Parker blog engine works, I talked about the fundamental abstractions that I built it around. Today I'm going to talk about the code some more, but more concretely, by explaining how the application decides who can see or do what. I'm a little proud of this design, to be honest.

The longest cold snap in years is right now descending upon us from the northwest. It's still a tolerable -5°C at Inner Drive Technology WHQ, but this forecast, man... It looks like temperatures will dip below -17°C (0°F) around 2am tonight and stay there until 7am Saturday, bottoming out around -22°C (-7°F) right before dawn tomorrow.

I've just had a lot to do today and I'm not feeling particularly creative. So, nu, maybe Friday?

I just released a new production version of the Inner Drive Journal (the software the Daily Parker runs on) with 7 bug fixes, 9 new stories, and a technical task. Most of these Jira cases took me less than 15 minutes. Yesterday, though, I wound up spending 5 hours on a new system configuration management tool because (a) it's complex and (b) I changed my mind about the interface after I ran it a couple of times.

Exactly one year ago this hour, the worst administration in American history took office. One hopes they will always be the worst administration in history (though I can see some ways that becomes true for some pretty horrible reasons).

Before I throw my chicken soup in my slow cooker, and before I take advantage of this holiday from work to release a package of minor improvements and fixes for bugs I discovered using the new Daily Parker blog engine for a week, I need to mention the latest clear and convincing evidence that the OAFPOTUS has lost his mind and needs to be removed from power.

Cassie will not get a lot of walks today. Just now at O'Hare the temperature hit -18°C (-1°F) with a wind chill of -29°C (-20°F); here at Inner Drive Technology World HQ it's -15°C (5°F). Of course, this is nowhere near a record: on 19 January 1985 it was -31°C (-23°F), and the next day, 20 January 1985, Chicago hit its all-time coldest temperature of -33°C (-27°F).