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  2. <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>sixohthree.com</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="https://sixohthree.com/feeds/atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>https://sixohthree.com/</id><updated>2022-07-27T21:15:00+00:00</updated><entry><title>Marshall Turner Moulton, 1928-2022</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/marshall-turner-moulton" rel="alternate"></link><published>2022-07-27T21:15:00+00:00</published><updated>2022-07-27T21:15:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2022-07-27:/marshall-turner-moulton</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rest in peace, Grampy.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;January 3, 1928 - July 22, 2022. Rest in peace, Grampy.&lt;/p&gt;
  3. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Marshall Turner Moulton" src="/media/2022/mtm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category></entry><entry><title>Introductions</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/introductions" rel="alternate"></link><published>2022-04-26T18:37:00-04:00</published><updated>2022-04-26T18:37:00-04:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2022-04-26:/introductions</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Mastodon&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Is Elon Musk buying Twitter? Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;
  4. &lt;p&gt;Is the Fediverse hoppin'? Definitely.&lt;/p&gt;
  5. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="introductions" src="/media/2022/introductions.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Social"></category><category term="mastodon"></category><category term="twitter"></category></entry><entry><title>Hollybank Road</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/hollybank-road" rel="alternate"></link><published>2022-03-31T12:03:00+01:00</published><updated>2022-03-31T12:03:00+01:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2022-03-31:/hollybank-road</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;What I want to remember&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Air thick with the smell of spring onions.&lt;/p&gt;
  6. &lt;p&gt;Cool beers and good craic over the garden wall on any night of the week.&lt;/p&gt;
  7. &lt;p&gt;That's what I will carry with me.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category></entry><entry><title>ACNH: Removing a Deleted Profile's House</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/acnh-removing-deleted-profiles-house" rel="alternate"></link><published>2021-11-13T14:32:00+00:00</published><updated>2021-11-13T14:32:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2021-11-13:/acnh-removing-deleted-profiles-house</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;A new profile can claim an abandoned house. This took me a while to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt; To remove the house of a player whose profile is deleted from your
  8. Switch, just start up ACNH has a user who does not have a house,
  9. and link them to the deleted profile.&lt;/p&gt;
  10. &lt;p&gt;A while back my kids got ahold of my Switch, and created a profile (not linked
  11. to a Nintendo account, in this case) and made themselves a house (or tent) on my
  12. island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I deleted this profile but to my
  13. surprise, the house stayed behind. The normal process to delete a resident and
  14. their house is to launch them game with their profile, press the "minus" key on
  15. the title screen, and request to delete your data. This was no longer possible
  16. because I had deleted the anonymous profile.&lt;/p&gt;
  17. &lt;p&gt;The fix is actually pretty simple, if non-obvious. This took me a bit to figure
  18. out so I'm writing it here for posterity.&lt;/p&gt;
  19. &lt;h2&gt;Claiming the house with a new profile&lt;/h2&gt;
  20. &lt;p&gt;In short, if you have deleted user data on the island, and launch the game with
  21. a new profile (that doesn't have a house), you'll be asked if you want to link
  22. the abandoned resident with the new profile. Once you've linked them, you can
  23. use the regular process to delete the resident data from the title scree, and
  24. then delete the profile (if you created it just for this purpose).&lt;/p&gt;
  25. &lt;p&gt;There are a few warnings and prompts along the way. The whole process can be
  26. seen in the screenshots below.&lt;/p&gt;
  27. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Notification of existing resident data not linked to a user account" src="/media/2021/11/01.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  28. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Prompt to play using existing resident data" src="/media/2021/11/02.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  29. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Notification of number of players with unlinked data" src="/media/2021/11/03.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  30. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Prompt to select user to play as" src="/media/2021/11/04.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  31. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Warning when user does not have a linked Nintendo Account" src="/media/2021/11/05.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  32. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Warning that Internet-related features will be reset" src="/media/2021/11/06.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  33. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Confirmation to play as selected resident" src="/media/2021/11/07.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  34. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Account linking screen" src="/media/2021/11/08.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  35. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Notification that data was updated" src="/media/2021/11/09.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  36. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Notification that profile will now play as the selected resident" src="/media/2021/11/10.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  37. &lt;!-- links --&gt;</content><category term="Games"></category><category term="acnh"></category><category term="animal crossing: new horizons"></category></entry><entry><title>Kingswood 2461</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/kingswood-2461" rel="alternate"></link><published>2021-03-20T22:13:00-04:00</published><updated>2021-03-20T22:13:00-04:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2021-03-20:/kingswood-2461</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;My Mom's childhood phone number.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;My Mom's childhood phone number in Rockport, Massachusetts was Kingswood 2461.
  38. This would have been some time in the mid to late 1950s.&lt;/p&gt;
  39. &lt;p&gt;This is not useful information. It's just a funny thing she told me once, and I
  40. wrote it down. Now I'm writing it here, where maybe a bunch of robots will put
  41. it on a bunch of hard drives and remember it forever.&lt;/p&gt;
  42. &lt;p&gt;That's all.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category></entry><entry><title>Hades: There is No Escape</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/hades-there-is-no-escape" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-11-15T22:56:00-05:00</published><updated>2020-11-15T22:56:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2020-11-15:/hades-there-is-no-escape</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;After just over 80 hours, I've finally reached the epilogue in Hades.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;After just over 80 hours, I've finally reached the epilogue in &lt;a href="https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/hades/"&gt;Hades&lt;/a&gt;. As a
  43. &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike"&gt;roguelike&lt;/a&gt;, you maybe never "finish," but the epilogue is a pretty
  44. significant milestone. It feels especially signifcant for me, as I don't have a
  45. great track record of sticking with games these days.&lt;/p&gt;
  46. &lt;p&gt;I picked Hades up on the Nintendo Switch after its 1.0 release in September.
  47. After a few very satisfying runs, I bought the game on Steam on September 25. My
  48. first clear on PC was October 23, I finished the main storyline on October 25,
  49. and it took until November 15 to reach the epilogue, 82 hours in.&lt;/p&gt;
  50. &lt;p&gt;Hades checks a lot of boxes for me: the characters (and voices) are great, the
  51. combat is fast and fun, there's lots of variety available in each run, and I can
  52. feel myself improve with practice. I'll probably keep playing for a while yet:
  53. there are still a few achievements left for me, plus a whole lotta heat to push.&lt;/p&gt;
  54. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://sixohthree.com/media/2020/11/hades.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Hades &amp;quot;win&amp;quot; screen showing victory in 42 minutes, 58 seconds" src="https://sixohthree.com/media/2020/11/hades.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  55. &lt;!-- links --&gt;</content><category term="Games"></category><category term="Hades"></category><category term="Roguelike"></category></entry><entry><title>Vim Template Files and :keepalt</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/vim-template-files-and-keepalt" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-11-07T10:32:00-05:00</published><updated>2020-11-07T10:32:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2020-11-07:/vim-template-files-and-keepalt</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Using :keepalt with Vim template files to preserve the alternate-file setting.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Today I learned about Vim's &lt;a href="https://vimhelp.org/editing.txt.html#%3Akeepalt"&gt;&lt;code&gt;:keepalt&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which fixes &lt;a href="https://vimhelp.org/editing.txt.html#alternate-file"&gt;&lt;code&gt;alternate-file&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  56. in my use case when I'm also using &lt;a href="https://shapeshed.com/vim-templates/"&gt;Vim template files&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  57. &lt;p&gt;Vim's "alternate file" is changed to the previous "current file" any time the
  58. current file changes. &lt;code&gt;CTRL-^&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;:b#&lt;/code&gt; switch to the alternate file, and are a
  59. quick way to toggle between two files. I map this functionality to &lt;code&gt;,b&lt;/code&gt; and it's
  60. one of my most frequently used shortcuts:&lt;/p&gt;
  61. &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;let mapleader=","
  62. map &amp;lt;leader&amp;gt;b &amp;lt;C-^&amp;gt;
  63. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
  64. &lt;p&gt;I also use &lt;a href="https://vimhelp.org/autocmd.txt.html#template"&gt;&lt;code&gt;template&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; files to populate new files automatically:&lt;/p&gt;
  65. &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if has("autocmd")
  66.    augroup templates
  67.        autocmd!
  68.        autocmd BufNewFile */sixohthree.com/content/*.md 0r %:s?content/.*?templates/article.md?
  69.    augroup END
  70. endif
  71. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
  72. &lt;p&gt;I've always had a minor annoyance with templates: the template file does not
  73. show up in the buffer list &lt;code&gt;:ls&lt;/code&gt;, but it does become the alternate file, and
  74. gets picked up by &lt;code&gt;CTRL-^&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  75. &lt;p&gt;I finally set out to fix this today, which brought me to &lt;code&gt;:keepalt&lt;/code&gt;. Prefacing
  76. the &lt;code&gt;autocmd&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;keepalt&lt;/code&gt; keeps the template from becoming the alternate
  77. file, so you don't toggle back to a file you didn't actually edit.&lt;/p&gt;
  78. &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;autocmd BufNewFile */sixohthree.com/content/*.md keepalt 0r %:s?content/.*?templates/article.md?
  79. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
  80. &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;,b&lt;/code&gt; is safe again!&lt;/p&gt;
  81. &lt;!-- links --&gt;</content><category term="Technology"></category><category term="Vim"></category></entry><entry><title>ACNH: Starting my Garden</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-starting-my-garden" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-05-05T11:50:00-04:00</published><updated>2020-05-05T11:50:00-04:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2020-05-05:/animal-crossing-new-horizons-starting-my-garden</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;First 5V on my new garden!&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Murphy was crafting the &lt;a href="https://villagerdb.com/item/ironwood-diy-workbench"&gt;Ironwood DIY Workbench&lt;/a&gt; last night, so I had a bunch of
  82. visitors from the XOXO community. They were nice enough to water my new garden
  83. beds, getting me to max sparkle (5 visitors or "5V") and an 80% reproduction rate.
  84. Contents of that garden as follows, mostly using "interleaved diamonds":&lt;/p&gt;
  85. &lt;ul&gt;
  86. &lt;li&gt;White roses (10 pair, from seed)&lt;/li&gt;
  87. &lt;li&gt;Yellow and red tulips (10 pair, from seed)&lt;/li&gt;
  88. &lt;li&gt;Blue pansy (0-0-2)&lt;/li&gt;
  89. &lt;/ul&gt;
  90. &lt;p&gt;Here's the layout, via &lt;a href="https://nubleh.github.io/flowerplanner/"&gt;AC Flower Planner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
  91. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Garden layout" src="/media/2020/05/13x10_diamond_layout.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  92. &lt;video controls&gt;
  93.    &lt;source src="/media/2020/05/bigsparkle.mp4" type="video/mp4"&gt;
  94. &lt;/video&gt;
  95.  
  96. &lt;p&gt;From that layout and watering, the flowers produced these offspring:&lt;/p&gt;
  97. &lt;ul&gt;
  98. &lt;li&gt;6 white roses (0-0-0-0 or 0-0-1-0) and 3 purple roses (0-0-2-0)&lt;/li&gt;
  99. &lt;li&gt;7 yellow tulips (1-1-1) and 3 orange tulips (1-1-0)&lt;/li&gt;
  100. &lt;li&gt;1 blue pansy clone (0-0-2)&lt;/li&gt;
  101. &lt;/ul&gt;
  102. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Watering results" src="/media/2020/05/5v_watering.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  103. &lt;p&gt;The white roses and yellow tulips get vendored so they don't pollute the gene
  104. pool. I'll attempt to clone the purple roses (for BackwardsN blue roses) and
  105. orange tulips (for purple tulips).&lt;/p&gt;
  106. &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cloning layout" src="/media/2020/05/hybrids.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  107. &lt;p&gt;The tulips don't really need this much attention but I'm doing it anyway. It's
  108. helpful and low-stakes as I build a system for tracking my gardening.&lt;/p&gt;
  109. &lt;!-- links --&gt;</content><category term="Games"></category><category term="animal crossing"></category><category term="animal crossing: new horizons"></category><category term="garden science"></category></entry><entry><title>PC Build March 2020 Edition</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/pc-build-march-2020-edition" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-03-08T23:30:00-04:00</published><updated>2020-03-08T23:30:00-04:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2020-03-08:/pc-build-march-2020-edition</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dipping my toes into Ryzen Gen 3.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Time for another PC refresh! I upgraded &lt;a href="/pc-build-december-2016-edition"&gt;my last
  110. build&lt;/a&gt; from an Intel Core i5 to an AMD Ryzen 5.
  111. Same case, new core. Here's the bulk of the parts list:&lt;/p&gt;
  112. &lt;ul&gt;
  113. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Vpdqqs"&gt;NZXT S340 Mid Tower (White)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  114. &lt;li&gt;*&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/LcYQzy"&gt;Gigabyte X570 UD motherboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  115. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/TkfFf7"&gt;Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 8GB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  116. &lt;li&gt;*&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3WYLrH"&gt;AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  117. &lt;li&gt;*&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hmtCmG"&gt;Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  118. &lt;li&gt;*&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mcH8TW"&gt;G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  119. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MFs8TW"&gt;Intel 600p Series 256GB M.2 80mm SSD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  120. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/yzfhP6"&gt;Samsung 860 Evo 1TB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  121. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ"&gt;EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold (Modular)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  122. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/sqp323"&gt;Acer XF270HU 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  123. &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/game-capture-hd60-pro"&gt;Elgato HD60 Pro 1080p HDMI Capture Card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  124. &lt;/ul&gt;
  125. &lt;p&gt;* &lt;em&gt;Indicates the current upgrades&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  126. &lt;p&gt;Here's that list (and a couple more things) &lt;a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XpL627"&gt;on PCPartPicker&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/25310999"&gt;here's
  127. the UserBenchmark&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  128. &lt;ul&gt;
  129. &lt;li&gt;UserBenchmarks: Game 102%, Desk 94%, Work 81%&lt;/li&gt;
  130. &lt;li&gt;CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X - 93.8%&lt;/li&gt;
  131. &lt;li&gt;GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 - 110.6%&lt;/li&gt;
  132. &lt;li&gt;SSD: Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB - 125%&lt;/li&gt;
  133. &lt;li&gt;SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB - 114.6%&lt;/li&gt;
  134. &lt;li&gt;RAM: G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB - 87.9%&lt;/li&gt;
  135. &lt;li&gt;MBD: Gigabyte GA-X570 UD&lt;/li&gt;
  136. &lt;/ul&gt;</content><category term="Computers"></category><category term="pc build"></category><category term="gaming"></category></entry><entry><title>Recovery</title><link href="https://sixohthree.com/recovery" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-02-16T15:25:00-05:00</published><updated>2020-02-16T15:25:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Annika Backstrom</name></author><id>tag:sixohthree.com,2020-02-16:/recovery</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Marking the passage of time.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I'm writing this from a bed in Philadelphia, which is where I've spent the past
  137. week and a half.&lt;/p&gt;
  138. &lt;p&gt;I won't go into the details. I just want to mark this point in time, which I've
  139. been thinking about and working towards for many years.&lt;/p&gt;
  140. &lt;p&gt;One more thing crossed off the list.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category></entry></feed>

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