Came across this: Can Drupal Developers Come to the Aid of American Family Farmers?. The Drupal aspect might not be a necessary part of the equation, but it got me thinking.

In trying to think how I could spend open source Friday in a way that helps people affected by COVID-19, at first I looked for projects on GitHub directly related to the virus.

The first part of my treatment was six weeks of radiation. First, I was fitted for a mask, the job of which was to hold my head in precise position each time I received treatment. To create this mask, the technicians heated a piece of mesh plastic and then used an x-ray and lasers as guides as they pulled it to form over my face. It then cooled into a rigid shape suitable for keeping me in place, like so:

I’ve had quite a few people asking lately how I’m doing health-wise, so Laura suggested I write a post about it.

I’ve recently been migrating an existing bbPress forum to Discourse, and ran into some trouble. There are good instructions for this on the Discourse meta forum, but once I got to the step of actually running the import script, it would fail on me:

It’s easy enough to find the version of MySQL you’re using if you have command line access, but that’s not always the case.

This post describes an OS X solution to a problem I was having with my Markdown editor. If you’re a Mac user, you might find it helpful.

My birthday was a few weeks ago, and I got some thoughtful gifts in the mail. As I was making coffee this morning, I remembered that I still have several thank you cards to write, and I thought about my classic thank you note formula, which consists of the following three parts:

Laura and I have felt so much love from you all in the past few weeks. I want to thank everyone again for your support.

Laura is planning to update this page with surgery progress throughout the day, for anyone who’s interested. Hopefully this will make keeping folks updated easier on her.