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.

“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 fast and decent browser. I do appreciate the vertical tabs feature quite a bit.

The issue I was running into with Safari is that extension just wouldn’t load or save the password for a given site. Reinstalling the extension didn’t help any. I don’t necessarily blame this on Safari or Apple, I know 1Password made some annoying changes when they released 1Password 8, but it was working fine for months and then it just decided not to. I keep 1Password because I’m in some grandfathered plan from eero (back before Amazon bought them) that now I pay nothing for 🤷‍♂️

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

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.