Finishing The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix for the… third time?

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster … and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

The series is awesome but a massive departure from the Shirley Jackson book. But that quote appears in both. And beautiful little chimes like that ring through the series over and over that make it worth the rewatch. The first time it was unsettling and creepy, but rewatches are an opportunity to bask in the extreme excellence of that production.

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After 2 days holiday-time development using AI to build an agent to manage my email (bane, the very bane of my existence) everything is working and I have an inbox-zero robot which I love and the final, insurmountable hurdle once I ‘go live’ (a tmux forever session): Google API resource constraints. An unshaveable yak. What worked yesterday does not work today. I can only wait.

I must wait until a time in the past! UTC of course. That time is 15 minutes from now. 15 minutes is not enough. I must wait again. Creating a new GCP app is not sufficient. The entire account is constrained now.

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Like, it’s been stuck on ‘Wibbling’ all day long.

I have days like that too. Of all the things that would engender empathy with my AI assistant, it’s wibbling.

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