test please delete

[ladymuck]

I have to say, I am enjoying the weekly payments from gig3.

[ladymuck]

ooh a little bit more waffle...

[ladymuck]

and... a pali

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^

[NickFitz]

and... a pali

The finest pali in a very long time!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

This morning has been largely given over to new forum stuff, specifically, the whole business of preserving the original thread IDs

Luckily, it’s pretty straightforward to override the bits that need special treatment, as they built their vBulletin 5 importer as an extension to their vB4 importer. This means there are already specific methods for getting the relevant data from the database, and I just have to override and adjust them appropriately. I’ve also put together test infrastructure that lets me run parts of the importer in isolation, down to the level of individual methods. So I can create a test for the specific bit I need to modify at each stage, run it under the debugger to see exactly what’s going on in there, then make my adjustments and confirm it’s working as required

Once this is working, it’ll be the posts, the IDs of which need similar treatment in order to preserve the palis!

[NickFitz]

Right, that’s quite enough of that for the day. Import of threads with their “correct” IDs (i.e. the ones they got in the old forum software) is now working, including important details like keeping users’ thread subscriptions pointing to the right place

I just spent absolutely ages getting confused about why the oldest threads when viewing the forums weren’t the first ones in the database table, before remembering that admin imported stuff from the previous (pre-late-2005) board, but not until a while after the original vBulletin version had launched. So the old stuff comes further down in the database but has earlier timestamps

Even once I’d worked that out, I spent a while puzzling over the fact that the oldest thread in General wasn’t showing up on here, the live site. But I haven’t got the import of posts done yet, and threads are ordered by the date of the most recent post, then by start date. As there are no posts imported, they just go by start date. And good old BrilloPad, presumably bored during lockdown, had replied to the oldest thread in 2020, thereby bumping it

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s TTD slow-cooked lamb kleftiko with little roast potatoes, and it was very nice

They wittered on the packaging about cooking new potatoes with it. Instead, I cut some spuds small and chucked them in the casserole with the lamb and the sauce, then started it off with the lid on and at a lower temperature than recommended. This allowed the spuds to cook a bit and also to absorb some of the fat and juices. Then I took them out and returned the casserole to the oven on a higher temperature, and stuck the spuds in the air fryer. I wasn’t sure this approach would work, but it turned out just right. And there’s a few spuds and some of the kleftiko left over for lunch over the weekend

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Vault (2021), mainly because Netflix have emailed me repeatedly to tell me that it was leaving Netflix today (yesterday now) so I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about. It turned out to be an OK film in the “bank heist requiring ingenuity” genre and I found it sufficiently entertaining, but I’m still not sure why they sent the emails

Feeling the need for something with more justification for its existence, I then rewatched Control (2007), the biopic about Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Excellent music, obviously, but the very realistic depiction of life in Manchester at that time also makes me wonder how my life might have turned out if we’d stayed up in Liverpool during the 1970s rather than moving down south. Not the same, for sure, and probably not as well

Finally, the next episode of S2 of Hijack which is chugging along in a reasonably entertaining way

It’s raining again

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy, wet but no active precipitation. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 10 expected. Barometer still at 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:49; Sunset 17:40 GMT

HWMBO and I are off to KRK via AMS and CDG Back tomorrow evening.