BOOM! X-CLASS FLARE HAPPENING NOW from an un-numbered active region (AR) on the Sun's northeastern limb. This is ex-AR 4274 which gave us the G4 storm earlier in November. Apparently, it still has some juice left for more fireworks.

#heliophysics

Lights are out, Anchorage!

Hardest part of getting back on a day shift schedule: remembering how to sleep at night.

Alaska, Canada, and other northern latitude friends - aurora viewline is looking good for tonight!

Finished my BSCS capstone (and trying to ignore my intense desire to refactor it) BUT that means I am down to ONE. LAST. CLASS.

KNBA really is my happy place. (Today it was Talking Heads but it's really their entire approach to music, news, and community.)

Today is a good day: got a great haircut, KNBA playing a favorite song, finished a class, and now get to spend a few hours reading my Computer Architecture textbook. Love it here.

Today's accomplishments: working on more knitted scarves for donation to a local elementary school after finishing up some training for work. And also absolutely (totally) working on my overdue project for one of my classes.

So @goshrx.bsky.social reminded me that I haven't promoted my Aurora app over here. Built it because I don't like having to remember to check KP index, cloud cover, and moonlight so I pulled API data to put all of those in one spot.

anchorageaurora.netlify.app

Still need to add BZ data, though.

Yesterday I way, way overcomplicated printing a list in reverse. (There was a tmpValue & index-swapping involved.) Eventually, I remembered I could start at the END of the array and work backwards is an option.

Let's see if I can find the simple way to do today's Java exercise.

Hanging out with Orange Cat, Potato Cat, the other human, and a Java textbook because low-key Saturdays are good days.