Today’s progress.

They’re not wasting time.

We are converting the building (originally a garage) into an ADU. I’ll be posting progress here. But to begin with, I thought it might be interesting to show the history of the structure over the past twenty years.

We bought in 2000, and before long split the garage into two sides: the “garage” side (i.e., the storage side) and the “office” side, where I had a server rack, my work desk, and was the space where I did all my projects.

The flora around the building changed over the years. The original trumpet vine dominated the garden side for a while. For five or six years, grape vines covered a lot of the building. Later, roses grew in. The Senna tree near the back corner fell over and was replaced by another, which then later got moved elsewhere in the garden.

It turns out that I take a lot of pictures of the garden, but few of the garage itself. I guess that’s not too surprising. You can click on any of the pictures below to see them enlarged.

I’ve finally removed the Google Ads and analytics from this site.

Many years ago, I thought it mattered where people went on the site and which posts were most useful. I also had the delusion that there would be enough visits that the ads might help pay for the hosting.

Ah, to be young, naïve, and full of hope. That ship ship has certainly sailed.

Anyway, there’s no point in cluttering up the blog with surveillance crap. I’m just sorry I left it there for so long.

Here’s another of those “system upgrade moves stuff around” problems. My work iMac seems to be suffering a slow disk failure. It gets slower and slower as it tries to run.

Queue restoring TimeMachine backups onto a new iMac. A lot of stuff just works. But things like building xsendfile for the Apache development server under Mac ports threw lots of errors. The compiler couldn’t find the headers:

mod_xsendfile.c fatal error: stdio.h: no such file or directory

There are lots of suggestions out there to run xcode-select --install, but I’d already done that.

Turns out that XCode has stopped storing the SDKs in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs and moved them to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs. I spent a bit of time trying to figure out how to pass that path to the Mac Ports version of apxs2 to use the new include path, but eventualy gave up and just did the hacky thing:
ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs

Another issue, just so I rememebr next time, was that the web server and the command line were mysteriously running different versions of PHP. The key, of course, was that I had forgotten to run port select, e.g., for this project, I needed port select php php70.