Add week 17 2021 weekchips summary

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+published = 2021-05-04T05:41:15Z
+title = 'Chips for week 17, 2021'
+type = 'tweet'
+tweet_id = "1389448863338094592"
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+favourites = 0
+source = "twitter"
+twitter_account = "cackhanded"
+source_url = "https://twitter.com/cackhanded/status/1389448863338094592"
+tag = [ "weekchips",]
+```
+
+Another week, and I’m still [stacking chips][chips]. Last week’s
+[chips][markers] looked like this:
+
+[chips]: /2020/06/19/my-week-in-poker-chips
+[markers]: /2020/08/22/my-weekchips-markers
+
+<p class='image'><img src='http://mnf.m17s.net/2021/05/04/E0hQXmbXsAAsaI9.jpg' alt=''></p>
+
+## Intention
+
+At the start of the week, I wrote down these high level goals:
+
+1. Fix partial generation in Flourish
+1. Another Ezio chapter
+1. Finish restoring old content into site
+1. Improve site navigation
+1. More Eurovision data
+
+I only did one of those.
+
+
+## Update
+
+Recently I discovered a bug in Flourish. It should be possible to generate a
+subset of a site with a command like `flourish generate /2021/?`, with the
+question mark being a wildcard. On this site as it stands today, that should
+generate 277 pages, but it was generating less than 10. I budgeted most of
+Monday to fix this, figuring it might be hard to track down what was wrong. I
+had it wrapped up and committed before lunch. I spent the rest of Monday
+recording many hours of game footage to assemble into the next two Ezio
+chapters.
+
+Unfortunately, when I loaded it up into Davinci Resolve Tuesday, it was all
+unusable.
+
+Until now, I've been recording this footage on an old (circa 2012) laptop,
+using a cheap (£15) USB capture device. It has occasionally caused problems,
+most commonly being a strange audio echo. A quick reboot fixes this, and I got
+into the habit of recording a few seconds and playing it back before a
+recording session to ensure that wasn't happening.
+
+But towards the end of recording Horizon Zero Dawn I had a couple of times
+where the audio and video would just slide in and out of sync. It was on some
+extra footage outside of the main storyline and only happened briefly so I
+didn't bother rerecording it. As usual I turned the laptop off and on again,
+and it didn't reoccur. Until now. Except now, even if I restart the laptop,
+the problem comes back almost instantly. So now my PS4 is up in my study, and
+hooked up to my newer, much more powerful iMac with a new (although still
+cheap) video capture device.
+
+As the chips illustrate, I spent most of the rest of the week not doing
+anything in my study. Our smol cat [Itsy][itsy] stopped eating anything,
+including treats, wasn't drinking, and was listless and acting uncomfortable.
+So she went off to the vet where she stayed overnight to get fluids and for
+them to monitor her temperature. She's back home now with a course of
+antibiotics and an appetite stimulant, and seems mostly okay. But that extra
+worry made it hard to concentrate or motivate myself.
+
+I spent the rest of the week achieving nothing, occasionally doing something
+with recovered old site content, occasionally just staring at the computer,
+occasionally playing Factorio.
+
+
+[itsy]: /tags/itsy/