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.

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 www.nytimes.com/2024/01/0…

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 Product Manager, developing analytics applications for contact centers and social media engagement teams. I have been doing this now for almost three years and it has been one helluva a ride so far. Prior to working in product, I spent 20 years in contact center/customer support strategy, operations, and technology, primarily in the mobile data space.

Music, in particular drums, are where I would ideally spend all of my non-family time. I played for many years in Seattle with multiple bands and projects. My career ultimately led me to pause all of that for a bit (10 years!) and I only recently started playing again now that I have a 24/7 space and no neighbors to be concerned with.

I was previously on Micro.blog under the @withoccasional handle. At the time I was testing the service out, I don’t think I knew what I really wanted. I was sitting on the fence with regard to Twitter at the time and had stopped posting there for a bit. I treated Micro.blog as a twitter replacement, I don’t think I realized at the time how tired I was of social media in general (this was probably 2018 timeframe).

Long story short, with Twitter falling apart and Meta seemingly looking to support some openness with Threads, it made sense to me to sign up again and truly use the service as an aggregator for people and blogs I follow across the internet as well as a place to publish long-form writing in the hopes that it is interesting enough for my son to read sometime in the future.

After two and a half years, Covid strikes the household again. How to keep a 3.5 year old entertained is beyond me.