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Today is the United Nations' International Day of Peace, calling for an end to war and violence.
Tomorrow is also an equinox---autumnal for the Northern Hemisphere, vernal for the Southern---so plan your daylight hours accordingly...
Anyway, this was a fairly light week as I dealt with some non-code issues and a possible "secret project." If you want more information on secret projects, you should sign up for the newsletter, which is worth every penny it costs.
Entropy Arbitrage
As mentioned [last week]({% post_url 2020-09-14-democracy %}), it started to bother me that the search page doesn't auto-focus the entry box. That should now work, unless you're deliberately working on an outdated or non-production web browser.
As pointed out in [yesterday's post on personal pronouns]({% post_url 2020-09-20-pronoun %}), I also updated the blog's about page to reflect my own pronouns. That shows up as part of the site's "code," even though it's just text. If I set the template up correctly, that information should also show in my GitHub profile. I try to keep my hands off the actual profile, since it auto-generates the page every night.
Miniboost
Yes, Miniboost has gotten some attention, though probably not much of actual interest. It took a couple of tries to get all the libraries up to date. I updated the documentation, since a few pieces were out of date. And I added emoji to the buttons to (ideally) make what they do clearer.
Uxuyu
Similarly, Uxuyu needed some updated libraries. It still needs one, but since I can't figure out the dependency tree (and neither can Dependabot), it'll need to keep for a bit.
I also updated the README file a bit, here, but probably not enough.
Other Library Updates
There's also a (mostly never touched) Rails project that was meant to store copyright renewals. I update those packages, too, even though I don't think that I ever wrote any real code. I should probably kill the repository, at some point, or figure out how to parse the OCR'd renewals.
Next
Mostly, just copy [last week]({% post_url 2020-09-14-democracy %})'s upcoming tasks to this week, since this week didn't accomplish much of substance.
Credits: The header image is Gold Olive Branch Left on the Moon by Neil Armstrong photographed by an unknown NASA photographer, so released into the public domain by NASA policy.