Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social) People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I’m having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle’s Facebook posts, their friend’s medical advice, or literally anything Google’s top …
Archive
2025
I’m such an introvert I can’t even talk to myself.
A delightful calendar app by @cassidoo.co: PocketCal
He should have died, but he had a whiskey instead.: “Hi John” I received the WhatsApp notification on Monday from my dad. He never calls me John, so something was off already. I thought maybe somebody stole his phone, so I called. My mom picked up. She had texted me from his phone, he was at the hospital, waiting for the surgeon to come …
Practicing for my last day of work.
Jason Gorman What makes LLMs work isn’t deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
Getting a layoff notice as World War III starts dipping its toes in the waters was not on my bingo card for 2025.
P.S. Learnings makes you sound like a damn clown. Even if everybody says it — they all sound like clowns. nolearnings.com nolearnings.com https://nolearnings.com/
Liquid Glass:
This all day. I bust out into a cold sweat every time this screen pops up. Apple updated the Phone app. But the real question is: did they fix this? BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/114654572900627280
Allowing myself some space to slow down.
Currently listening: You can hear their friendship come through in their playing and trading of solos.
This clown car we’re all on definitely did not pass NHTSA safety requirements.
Years from now, someone will uncover that the selfie camera was the cause of society’s demise.
“Written without AI” is the new “Written on my phone, please excuse typos”
Airplane, with occasional cancer.
We should all double down on TACO. Just like we should have doubled down on “he’s just weird”.
I am salivating over these kits and fortunately they are local pickup only on the Reverb listings!
Two poignant pieces I’ve been reading over and over today: The Who Cares Era by @dansinker@omfg.town What if Collapse Has Already Happened? by Brian Miller Each piece a reminder of what’s important, and within grasp despite the bullshit surrounding us.
Clouds trying to get me while I was riding my bike.
My new Canopus (amazing drum company from Japan) snare drum arrived. 4 x 14 all maple shell with die cast hoops. It’s heavy and meaty. I hope one day to own a full Canopus set.
“Agentic” is something I want to see wiped, nay, obliterated… from all languages.
Today’s bounty.
Currently listening to the best movie soundtrack ever made.
First dust bowl like storms, now fuel shortages, it’s all fine.
Well, that was scary.
My son, when we’re putting him to bed:
Rice cookers are great, but one should still learn how to cook rice on the stove top.
Nice finish to a long ass day.
Matt Cameron breaks down his drum parts on Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun": This album is too good, and so is this song. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 50%; height: 50%; }
Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety: First shower heads and lo-flo toilets, now radiation standards offend these people (bold emphasis mine): Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety NPR has also seen a draft of an executive order “ordering the reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.” The …
Learning a stupid drum part for my stupid mental health and my stupid hands and stupid feet are being stupid: This week I have taken the plunge to learn WMA by Pearl Jam from their wonderful Vs. album. There isn’t much on the internet (footage or tutorials) on this song which is too bad, but also a little refreshing. I think I’m close in my pattern, I still haven’t figured out how to …
A reminder. It’s the Stupid, Stupid
Really good interview with Mike Bordin, drummer of Faith No More fame. The comradery of Bay Area musicians reminds me of my experience in Seattle in the late 90s and early 2000s. pca.st/episode/4…
Outshined, with occasional sunshine when she's gone: Soundgarden and Bill Withers played in the background today for most of the day… I can’t imagine what job seeking must be like these days. This article calls out that roughly 60% of CFOs at companies have pessimistic views of the economy (they believe we will be in a recession as soon …
TV is on while I wait for my car repair. I haven’t had cable or a tv in 20+ years. Of course they set it to Fox News. The kool aid is just… wow
📷 The HTC U11 had a good camera as well (still have mine from when I worked at HTC, beautiful phone).
Cleaning up my photos and found some shots taken with the Essential PH-1 phone I briefly owned. Kind of wish I hadn’t sold it. The monochrome shots were pretty good 📷 I miss Seattle.
The Light Phone III. A little box of moonlight, with occasional bugs: Becca Farsace’s review of the Light Phone III highlights its appealing design and photo quality but notes significant SMS and some software stability issues.
Man, Clem Burke. Rest in Peace.
Turned off all notifications, minimized my home screen. Going for that Light Phone vibe.
A quiet day outside with my wife and kid.
American Brexit: American Brexit (members only article) from Taegen Goddard’s excellent Political Wire. This has been my main source of political news for the past few months and my mental health is grateful for it. Highly recommend the subscription. And Britain, according to independent estimates, is now 10% …
Priorities.
I finally feel liberated from my retirement account.
The likelihood of my pre retirement years succumbing to a “lost decade” in the markets has dramatically increased.
Vultures: Yes, we seem to be surrounded by them these days don't we? I'm not referring to those vultures, but instead the John Mayer song from his 2006 album "Continuum". The drummer on the album is the great Steve Jordan along with Pino Palladino (gosh if there were ever a bass player that I wish I could jam …
✅ Groceries ✅ Food for the week prepped and cooked ✅ Playtime w/ 4 yo ✅ Realization that tomorrow is Monday ☑️ Rest
The Light Phone III is the most interesting phone design I have seen in while. I’m seriously considering it (but that price though 👀). I’m also a sucker for working within constraints. Phone, Text (SMS), Podcast, Calendar, Contacts, Directions, Camera and super clicky buttons.
Per my previous post, you can pretty much validate this at every tech news site.
Joan Westenberg captures a lot of what has been on my mind over the past couple of years in this wonderful piece, The Future is More Stuff: This, right here, is why labor-saving devices haven't saved labor, why communication technologies haven't created more connection, why abundance hasn't given us …
Today I played with my boy. Puzzles, racing, matching games, hide and seek, reading stories. All day, my only focus. Do One Thing | dansinker.com
Apparently ssa.gov website is only running during set hours. This is what shows up when I try to log in (to see my social security contribution statement). I decided to check it out after reading about this poor gentleman, whose benefits are suspended for no good reason.
Shutting down the government would have just accelerated Trump’s plans and power grab. It’s a tough pill to swallow, I get it. The perceived leverage Dems seemed to think they had around the shutdown appears misguided and reactionary as far as I can tell. They don’t have a plan yet, plain and simple
The news ping pong cycle is the definition of insanity, whether the subject is eggs or Trump’s next bit of stupidness.
Playing drums to a Peter Erskine drumless track : Peter Erskine, famous jazz drummer from the likes of Weather Report and other, put out some drumless tracks that are available for purchase on iTunes. I purchased a handful of them and have been enjoying coming up with parts.
The political equivalents of this tragic headline are both of these a). GOP states wondering why the guy they voted in is creating instability in their neck of the woods and b). Dems wondering why people aren’t donating money to their txt campaigns.
Nothing new, the GOP are cruel, full stop. Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students.: propublica.org Dave Winer https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-transgender-students-email
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Currently listening: .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
Deleted: Realized I am falling into the trap of propagating unnecessary negativity.
This, so much, this. Hello non-technical people. Just a heads up. Musk isn’t a programmer, a systems architect, or anyone with experience building or running large systems of any kind. However, he’s taken credit for others building large systems which makes him think he’s That Guy. He is not. Scott …
Some geese, on a frozen pond.
More of this please New “WikiTok” web app allows infinite TikTok-style scroll of Wikipedia. arstechnica.comDave Winer https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/
As a music listener, I want to press play on a purchased track in Apple music that says “downloaded”, so that I can…successfully listen to the song I had purchased and downloaded. Apple music management just keeps getting more and more terrible. I just want to play the tracks I …
Think I will take the train next time. Trump Vows ‘Great Computerized System’ for Air Traffic politicalwire.comPolitical Wire https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/06/trump-vows-great-computerized-system-for-air-traffic/
The amount of attempts being made to sign in to my Microsoft account is pretty wild.
Dan Sinker explains why we have to write it down. Part of the design of of all this is to overwhelm you and the other part is to deny that you are seeing what you’re seeing.
Never heard of this service but seems like a clean and easy way to blog, directly from the notes app in iOS or macOS, blog.montaigne.io
I decided months ago to really shore up our emergency fund. I’ve been recommending the same to friends, family, and strangers. Saving is hard, it can feel impossible, but even $10 a month is better than zero. Cheeto Prez is lighting his matches.
RIP Marianne Faithful .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
Learning basic baião patterns on the kit. Content or trigger warning: photosensitive folks should not watch. My lights started flickering during recording and flashes throughout the video. Apologies for that.
Marketplace has been my go to news show since 2006 and here’s host, Kai Ryssdal, answering why they didn’t pause their regular programming to respond to everything Trump has done, and I love his answer.
Had mine since April, 2010. It doesn’t turn on anymore, on my list of to-dos to try and revive it.
Yeah, a resolution condemning things Trump does, that’s going to make him pause and reflect. Keep on winning, Dems. Democrats Move to Condemn Trump for January 6 Pardons politicalwire.com Political Wire https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/27/democrats-move-to-condemn-trump-for-january-6-pardons/ …
A small hike yesterday to close off a highly bizarre week.
Netflix sent me notice about my rate increasing. While I could absorb the cost (and normally didn’t pay attention to the increases in the past) I decided on a whim to just cancel my account. They are clearly baller because there was no attempt to retain me (member since 2009), just good luck and …
Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow When tech critics fail to ask why good services turn bad, that failure is just as severe as the failure to ask why people stay when the services rot.
I’m in Kansas City helping out a relative recover from a health issue. My wife sent me this awesome video of the kiddo trying his ice skates for the first time.
Also a Cymbals wiki.
Cymbalsmiths of the world
Regardless of what happens to Tik Tok, a large number of people are taking a well deserved detox from the platform today.
From @gruber@mastodon.social: Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript The web would be better off if browsers had never added support for scripting. The web would be much faster; much better for its original purpose of delivering content to consume, not software to …
Immigrants drive Nebraska’s economy. Trump’s mass deportations pledge is a threat The town I live in has two primary employers: Tyson beef packing and a Walmart Supercenter. Trump (unsurprisingly) got north of 70% of the votes in the area. Last January, the state’s economic …
RIP David Lynch. I hope that he, every day, once a day, gave himself a present. Like Agent Cooper said.
I’m visiting a relative who is battling a health issue. She has cable tv, which I haven’t watched or had access to in 20 years and there it is: a commercial with Tony Hawk peddling a supplement to combat the side effects of statins he is on.
It has been an Anthrax kind of day. youtu.be/XphUURIAx…
Monday is the first day back to work after a couple of weeks off. Naturally the little one can’t sleep (he hasn’t been feeling well to be fair), so he and I are hanging out on the couch. Gonna be a rough morning for both of us.
Little guy is kicking off the new year with heavy congestion, cough, and sore throat. Bringing out the big guns to make a canja de galinha.
2024
Beautiful day spent outside with my family.
I fell asleep in a bad mood on the couch and woke up at about 2 am. I just spent the last couple of hours listening to the latest The Talk Show episode with Kagi founder/CEO Vlad Prelovac. Kagi has been rock solid for me and this episode confirmed a lot of my assumptions on their product approach.
Greetings from central Nebraska in December.
I am truly fortunate to have amazing co-workers. The environment we work in has been challenging in the most unhealthy of ways but this week I got to spend the week in Austin and have personal connections with people I have only known via Zoom.
Frost, with occasional child at the window
I clearly haven’t reached gen z with my YouTube drum videos.
Decided to start watching one Bruce Willis movie every night through the new year. Starting off tonight with “The Jackal” (1997). Saving Hudson Hawk (one of my top 10 all time favorite movies) for the turn of the new year.
The Weekly Notepad: Dec. 1 - 7: Counting the days for Christmas/New Years break. I am taking a little over two weeks off of work. No travels really but lots of play with the family, and much needed rest. After seemingly months of not playing, I managed to have some time with the sticks and recorded a cover of "Between Two Points" …
My hopes were pretty low on trying this NA bourbon but I was pleasantly surprised. Worked well as a whiskey sour and straight, on the rocks.
Finally played a little today. I started listening to David Gilmour’s new album about a week ago. This song (Between Two Points) is something else, had been something like 20 years since I first heard it and Romany Gilmour just shatters and cyclones through all emotions with her performance.
The habanero is the perfect pepper.
The Weekly Notepad: Nov. 25 - 29: It’s a short week this week due to Thanksgiving. The 12 plus hour days I’ve been putting in regularly for the last 3 months has made it difficult to wind down (I woke up today at 2 am, granted I think I fell asleep at 8pm). Lot’s of reflection on finances. While I would love to be in a fuck you …
One reaps what one sows.
The pie photography tonight is on point.
The Daylight DC1 arrived! Excited to put it through its paces during the holiday. Digging the screen so far.
It’s not even December yet but my mind is taking me to New Year’s, when I make my one Manhattan for the year, sip and reflect on the past year and think about next year’s possibilities.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
My friends made a nice song, I think you’ll like it.
I appreciate that Bluesky is growing. I occasionally skim it and find the vibe in general to be good. I still prefer owning my feeds and posts via micro.blog and cross posting from here as appropriate. I did request Openvibe devs to consider micro.blog support (it’s just a nice app).
I’ve been fairly introspective over the election and not seeking out too much online around it, I’m glad I came across these gems: Jon Stewart has an excellent interview with Heather Cox Richardson on the election. John Gruber’s writing is on a whole new level
I’ve resorted to just have the election live updates from Apple News on my phone home screen instead of watching live. Gave the kid a bath, brushed his teeth, set him to bed. Only checked now where we are at. Now back to figuring out a movie to watch and not looking at my phone until snack …
Moving to a small town in Nebraska after so many years in Seattle makes voting (in person!) feel extra special. Hearing the folks around me hanging out after voting, talking about dinner, family, how young so and so is doing, absolutely no contention or anger. Community is where it’s at.
So…The Home Depot has a life sized animated Buddy the Elf for sale…
Things I’ve Been Doing This Week: Not paying attention to the polls. Working too much. Play with family (must do more). Preparing for winter. So many leaves! Reading Into the Uncut Grass with my son.
At the end of the day… Eradicate this phrase….please
No, the machinists did not make Boeing a piece of shit: Boeing has been shooting itself in the foot since the early days when they decided to move their HQ from Seattle and “innovated” by outsourcing shit. But sure, let’s blame the workers in Seattle, who produced high quality airplanes up until leadership changes decided that quality …
Twice in one year.
A single site was responsible for 60% of our IV fluid supply. It’s bananas that we allowed this by virtue of being ignorant of its existence. Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country’s IV fluid supply arstechnica.com Ars Technica …
2024 continues to be…weird.
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
I look at my 4 year old boy and I find it incredibly heart wrenching that I cannot figure out a way for him not to have to go through this. From Dan Sinker Asked the kid what his highlights from school were today and after kickball at lunch and gym he said "and we had a lockdown drill today, which …
Saturday, September 14, 2024 →
I had no idea that UsaFacts.org was a thing nor that Steve Ballmer was behind it until I listened to Jon Stewart interviewing him. I’m impressed that he took this on and I love the format of the site.
Thoughts on the iPhone 13 mini after two days: bloody amazing. Time to sell off the 13 Pro Max I’ve carried these past two years.
Summer Top 5 NA Beer List: As we ease into September, I can feel autumn making it’s way to our trees. The light already feels different from just a week ago. I’ve been enjoying the hot Nebraska summer days and nights since we moved here. In particular working outside and enjoying some ice cold NA beer after yard …
I am first in line to celebrate the demise of twitter and I have a hunch it won’t be long. This situation in Brazil though, is not the blessing that people believe it to be. This sets a bad precedent for Brazilians and internet availability in general. Ok, I get that there are layers here, but …
Man, this hits hard. Arstechnica and AnandTech were the primary drivers for me in my tech education in the late 90s. RIP AnandTech End of an era. I literally started reading this site in middle school. RIP. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell …
I haven’t recorded in a bit. Was futzing around with tuning, it can be meditative at times to tune a drum and other times it’s the most frustrating thing one can go through.
Glad to see Apple are finally selling the refurbished iPhone 13 mini. Just placed my order to downsize from my 13 Pro Max. Portability, music, reduced screentime, and texting. Those are my goals. No YouTube, minimal web browsing (probably just NetNewsWire and micro.blog feeds).
During these next few weeks my focus is going to be staving off burnout. Balancing crazy work hours and making sure I’m available for family has resulted in very little rest or pursuit of hobbies and such. I’m not really stressed but can feel my body starting to reject the status quo I’m in.
Poser.
Dave Abbruzzese, Pearl Jam drummer for the Vs. and Vitalogy albums dropped a comment in one of my YouTube covers.
I’ve been going down a Pearl Jam rabbit hole, especially the Vs. and Vitalogy albums with Dave Abbruzzese on drums (my favorite PJ records and all time favorite drummer). I’ve never really played along to or tried to learn their songs in my youth. I’m focusing on learning Vs. …
Purple corn, with occasional flowers.
How Far the Song has Fallen from the iTunes Tree: I have nothing against streaming music (I do so on occasion), but I prefer buying my music and downloading on to my device. iTunes used to be really great at this. In the last two or more years, I keep running into this glitch where 1) I buy an album from iTunes on my iPhone. 2) The tracks all go …
Man, I sure miss Bowie.
Today I posted a Stone Temple Pilots drum snippet and a lame attempt at playing samba.
My go-to beer is the Run Wild IPA from Athletic Brewing but it’s hit or miss finding it in the stores here (or any NA beer besides like O’Doules). Today they had Stella NA and I was skeptical but it tastes great!
Summer, signaling its beginnings.
I’ve been enjoying posting little short snippets of my drum playing on YouTube but I think I’m going to transition to hosting them here instead.
Frozen fruitcicles
Friday last week, we installed the pedals on my son’s balance bike and he didn’t skip a beat, was successfully pedaling on his first try.
I posted another drum cover short on YouTube. Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins) is a great drummer but I never loved the Pumpkins that much. This song is from Jimmy’s jazz/fusion/rock band Jimmy Chamberlin Complex and Billy Corgan provides the vocals. Wonderful song.
Trying this out, my first YouTube short playing drums.
Incredibly disappointed I missed Godzilla Minus One in the theaters but super happy it was released on platforms today. It was excellent.
My (other) tribe
I’ve discovered an excellent new blog, arun.is by Arun Venkatesan. Today I read a mini first impression of the Daylight Tablet Arun posted back in March of this year. Long story short, I ended up pre-ordering the device, as it seems to be a promising take on e-ink tablets which is something I …
I am this close to some day capturing a lightning bolt.
It’s so silly, but I love that Call and Oates is still active, many years ago I saved the number in my contacts and tried it today and it worked! For those not familiar here’s the npr story from 2011.
Lots of jumping and rolling in the grass today.
Wild asparagus, with occasional grapes.
Playing drums to a loop for giggles, it’s been a while since I did anything electronica-ish. The recording quality through GarageBand (on my phone) is remarkably improved over Yamaha’s Rec ‘N’ Share app. Going to play around with using my old iPhone SE as an overhead mic …
I appreciate marveling very much
The iPad I want isn’t here yet. But my complaint is not what the general tech pundits argue about. Still absent in this year’s lineup is an updated iPad mini. I find it to be the perfect size for “tablet” things. My one wish is that Apple would bring external monitor support …
Steve Jobs: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. Apple:
The clouds yesterday put on quite a show 📷
If the internet went away tomorrow, I think we would all be just fine.
Patience
Committed myself to using Arc browser on my Mac for 3 months. I’m one week in and slowly some of my old habits/muscle memory have been relenting and it’s sinking in. I still haven’t quite acclimated to the space and profile thing yet. Killer feature for me has been two tabs in a …
Day 6: Windy #mbapr
Day 2: flowers 📷
Kite, with occasional symphony
Watched “Dune part 2” yesterday. In honor of one of my favorite websites of years past Review in Haiku by @mgs@me.dm , here’s my own review in haiku: Lacks in gom jabbar. At 3 hours, story is rushed, Too abrupt, no vibe.
Not sure where I first saw this, I finally read through it tonight. Text editing on iOS and Android have been a source of frustration for me for many years and this is a great breakdown on thinking about the problem, from Scott Jenson: But most importantly, fixing text editing isn’t seen as …
This is still a great book and such a fun operating system back in the day. I spent many hours on BeOS, using it full time and learning the depths of what it did. Foundation for my entire career in tech.
Listening to this Teresa Esguerra interview (drummer from Built to Spill) with Joe Wong from The Trap Set Podcast. She’s in a popular band and yet maintains her day job as an occupational therapist. Joe is a great interviewer and this is a lovely episode for anyone (non-drummers as well!)🎙️
Fixed my 1Password issues with Safari on mac OS by downgrading to 1Password 7 🤷
I’ve been keeping up with my drum playing regimen and challenging myself to learn a single song per week by listening to it for 5 minutes, jotting some notes on structure, feel, and potentially key parts. I record the performance in one take (mistakes and all) and spend some time listening …
Verizon: Your bill is due. Me: I can't log in to pay it. Verizon: You can click the "One time payment" link. Me: It won't accept my account number. Verizon: That's because you cancelled your account with us. Me: How do I pay my bill? Verizon: Online Me: . . . . .
I have a large phone, but c’mon Apple!
Waiting for the Sandhill Cranes to arrive
Tomorrow, Mario starts preschool. This milestone smacked me in the face tonight.
Summer can’t come soon enough. This was taken in August of last year. They are not shy and will permit close proximity.
When I was a kid, Ruben Blades was a staple on the radio and throughout our house. Love his music and his movies. Pedro Navaja
Improvisational duet between drums and gen AI: Jo Jo Mayer Me/Machine
Switched over all of my lines from Verizon to Visible. It was a very simple painless process through the app and I’m seriously going to save about $2400 a year for (seemingly) comparable service. Bananas.
I generally don’t download lots of apps on my phone or regularly try things but dammit, my mind gets twisted up over podcast apps for some stupid reason I can’t put my finger on and I cycle through using pocket casts, overcast and Apple Podcasts on a regular basis. Just me?
Make no mistake, Karen Carpenter was a master at playing drums
You know what? The sunflowers and the grasses are the creek’s popsicles… My son, having breakfast at the creek one morning in September.
When I first began my PM journey, I felt this immense pressure of needing to know everything. Over time I have transitioned into being curious about a given use case and amp up the empathy around the problem statement. So glad to not have that pressure anymore.
I setup Starlink in September of last year and I am genuinely impressed at how it has stood up to storms, high winds, heavy snow without missing a beat on performance ~160 Mbit down/ ~18 Mbit up. Only had one outage and that was while I was sleeping.
Bending Time: I’ve been messing around with my drums and mic setup and I think I’ve dialed in the sound how I want it. One of the things I’ve been practicing is taking a song with lots of space and introducing little snippets of tension in the time without losing the pulse. Super fun exercise, …
“What are all of those pipes?”
This is what brought me over to micro.blog from Mastodon, somehow on Mastodon I was always missing posts or conversation context, haven’t run into that here and worth the price of admission.
Japan’s Only Cymbal Manufacturer Such a lovely video. I often think about what I spend my day doing at work, it’s not a craft what I do (industry folks may disagree), this is pure craft.
Regarding 1Password and Safari, it definitely is working better using Edge. I suppose I could migrate to iCloud Keychain but I’m too lazy to go through that effort. Edge has been pretty good (certainly better that Chrome). Once you disable/hide all of the Bing and AI crud, it’s a fairly …
In praise of buttons www.nubero.ch/blog/009/
Lately, 1password and Safari have not been getting along. I can A/B with Edge (or Chrome or Firefox) and the extensions work so much better on them. Might be time to go back to Edge.
I just discovered that there is a text version of NPR and I wish more websites did this: text.npr.org
Is That a Drum Studio in Your Pocket?: It is bitterly cold today in central Nebraska. Wind chills of -38 degrees Fahrenheit to be precise. Absolutely gross. I could have chosen to binge watch a show or two in bed all day, instead I chose to play drums for 5-ish hours. During my teens, playing along for hours with headphones, to Pearl Jam …
The amount of hurdles Apple puts you through to buy a song in iTunes, download said song, and have it appear in your Apple Music library as a downloaded track is simply astonishing. They used to do this well.
The Evolution of the Trap Set lecture by Winton Marsalis Such great story telling in this video
Highs of -4 degrees in a few days. Painful.
I’ve been using my watch + AirPods as my “dumb phone” for the past few months with decent success. Going back to T9 would be a little much …
Icy fog
2024, with occasional introductions Hello, and thank you for stopping by. I’m John, married to wonderful Erin, and father to a lovely 3-year-young lad named Mario. I have been living in central Nebraska for the past year and half (relocated from Seattle) in a mostly rural community. I work as a …
After two and a half years, Covid strikes the household again. How to keep a 3.5 year old entertained is beyond me.