frozen octopus

I saw in a blog post somewhere about a search engine Kagi Search where you pay $10 a month and it is completely ad free. They offer a free trial version so I signed up to check it out.

I used "1000s of cats" as a test search in Kagi Search, Duck Duck Go, and Google to compare the results. It was very jarring...very jarring.

With Kagi Search, I got a ton of links I've never seen before or haven't seen in a long time. Felt like I was  doing a search on a library computer.

With Duck Duck Go, I got a lot more links I haven't seen before or in a while. Felt like Google of old.

With Google...yeesh. Felt like I was in a shopping mall after searching with the other two. Not a good experience when you compare it to the other two at the same time. It's just missing the random smell of pretzels, cologne/perfume, and some generic dance music.

A client who has multiple locations needed an Appointments contact form where people can select a location. The form submission then needed to go to that location.

We had luck getting it to happen with our Drupal sites. Not sure if this is the best way but it worked for us.

We have a Place content type with an email field with a unique email address for each Place. We set up a View with an entity reference with all the Places. In that entity reference, the two fields are Title and Email (which is hidden).

In the Appointments contact form, you need to set up a new contact email (/structure/contact/manage/appointments/emails). There is a selector for Recipient Type which should be set to "The value of a specific field in an entity reference". There will then be a selector for Recipient Reference which you set to "Place: Email (field_email)" or whatever you named your Email field.

Your forms should now send to the correct location.

I just turned off auto-capitalization on my Macbook. It is wonderful.

I got a count working on the tags for the genres and labels happening this morning. As I add an album I listen to the genres and labels automatically sort themselves.

It isn't a contest to see which genre or label is winning. For me it's the opposite actually. When I see a genre or label in "last place", it makes me want to bump it up in the list. Kind of like music guide rails.

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Two weeks into my New Year's resolution to get my head around Jazz bop drumming. The hi-hat on the two and four is happening. I had to raise it up about 3-4 cm higher than usual to make it sound good.

A thing I noticed today is it is a lot easier practicing Jazz drumming alone than Punk, Shoegaze, or Psych drumming. It might be because it is new for me. It might be the swing thing is easier to play for a longer time.

Triplets are slowly starting to happen. I am rushing them but that is correctable for sure. When I do get a loop going, it's really satisfying. I've also been filling in a calendar I got at the ¥100 store with what I practiced. If I miss a day, it's no problem but having to write in "got nothing done" on a day is a kick to get something done tomorrow for sure.