Stowaway is a really cool web-based application of publicly available, live fight information. I have been using FlightRadar24 on my phone for years. It’s a great way to answer “What is that plane?” Or “I wonder where they are going?” Stowaway creates a graphical UI based on what you might be able to see from the ground, which is different than the top-down view of FlightRadar24. FlightRadar24…
The problem isn’t the advertising you see. It’s the tracking you don’t. John PHI⑊PIN https://john.philpin.com/2026/08/13/the-problem-isnt-the-advertising.html You are correct, sir!
ADHD: Later that same day, go to a room to get something. Perform a secondary task in the room. Leave the room without the thing you entered it for. Remember when you return to the place you started from.
ADHD: Walking into the Men’s room at work and seeing something that you left in a previous visit, but weren’t missing just yet. I am such a mess. By which I mean I am so tired of me.
Ah. Today I learned that I can no longer mark a message as junk using the New Outlook on MacOS. But I can use the “Block” button to have a message and any future messages from a sender moved to the Junk folder. No need to rely on anything I have ever learned anymore.
I’m really appreciating the section linking in Notes for OS 27. For the record, I’m running Dev Beta 4 on everything that I can (MacBook, iPad, iPhone). From the early press releases, I knew that you would be able to link to sections inside of a single note. I have learned that, in practice, it’s an update to the current linking method in Notes. When you specify a note that you…
QA on fast food is terrible. It feels like a lottery win when an order arrives complete. It is every chain, it is almost every order. It’s almost like paying your employees as little as possible is ineffective.
Is a new browser tab, any any blank document for that matter, a liminal space?
Are there any downsides to installing custom fonts on an iPad? I went to edit a small file on my iPad, I have the correct app, but naturally the font selection on it was not the same as on my MacBook and the file I wanted to modify would not have the same appearance as a result
That thing where you open a new browser tab and the reason why escapes you completely
Short of saying “You’ve come to the right place.” Over and over again, in a reassuring tone. I’m not certain how to deal with a support situation I find triggering, which is having a person coming you for support, a person who you have worked with in that support capacity, tell me they weren’t sure who to ask for help. It’s triggering because I feel like I must be doing something wrong in a role…
Two things for the Animal Crossing folks: The official Ninten island is very normcore. I triple checked the DA address to be sure I went to the correct island. Also? There are many not official Ninten islands. The real deal was approachable but not impressive. Also was looking forward to custom designs and there were only two, today. None matching the official news article in the Nintendo Switch…
Have a coffee grinder on the fritz. In my opinion it died an early death. It was the same manufacturer of a unit that lasted more than 15 years, but this one lasted maybe one. Not going to buy the same device a third time. For those who grind, what is your best recommendation?
Deep diving on Hugin and Munin. I’m trying to process recent events. I spent 8 or 10 hours in Minecraft last night. I spent 3 or 4 hours writing my long-form piece.
CENTREX: I had a job working for The Safety and Security department at Mankato State University, in the late 1980s. I worked overnight, primarily. I was a radio operator trained on the job to log events standard and emergent, as well as occasionally reach out to municipal emergency services. I learned in those days what must happen in key contexts, and the mandate to roll out police, fire and EMT…
A few firsts recently: A recounting of a medical event I stood up after a crouch and a lean, I was killing time. No chairs where I was waiting, in a warehouse. The issue was a network test. There’s another story there, but it is not this story. Of course the crouch started to get uncomfortable, so I unfolded myself more painfully than I would care to admit. After getting up to a full stand,…
Implementing NIP-05 on my domain for Nostr was a few hours of struggle I will never get back. Deep, deep gratitude to David Coen’s NIP-05 Creation Tool , but even with this blessing I struggled. Now only to figure out SATs and ZAPs, and maybe I could pay back the kindness.
Do you ever find a turn of phrase that tickles you, amuses you, or otherwise makes you wish you had thought of it? I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Leet (I have to be me) and came across the phrase “symbolic word obfuscation” I may adopt that as a blog tagline in the future. You have been warned.
Running Dev Beta 3 everywhere. Cost me some time at work today understanding that the mandated Cisco AnyConnect VPN client (v5.x) on my work MacBook was interrupting my network connection. Fortunately I can quit the app. Unfortunately, it’s mandatory and gets re-installed if I remove it. I signed up for this. I’m the guy that runs the betas. There’s a group that hears about my…
In other news: I do not want to mow my lawn
TIL the lore of the wetsuit: So, in Animal Crossing, apparently one does not put wetsuits in storage. I used to always keep one in my inventory, but got out of the habit of diving, and I thought “I’ll just put them in storage.” But, today, I needed one because of Gullivarr. And the two wetsuits I bought were not anywhere. Then I read a Reddit post from 6 years ago describing a…
Playing with the HyperTexting app. It’s not ready for Micro.blog, today. The automatic linking of social media profiles is concerning. It’s linking to a service and username that I stopped using and had deleted the account. Someone else has adopted that user name but it’s not me. I don’t want it associated with me, but it’s in my HyperTexting profile. A few hours later: Looks like the issue is me.…
Today I learned Terry Gilliam was born in Minnesota. I didn’t believe the source but other locations on the internet seem to agree. Apparently he became a British citizen about the time I was born. The world continues to become more interesting.
Is there a thing I’m missing with the Lenovo docks and the flickering screens? USB-C dock? Thunderbolt 3 dock? Thunderbolt 4 dock? It matters not. Lenovo Dock Manager says dock firmware is up-to-date. Windows Updates say laptops are up-to-date. Lenovo Commercial Vantage says laptops are up to date. Cables replaced. Flicker. Flicker. Flicker.
In other news, we have adopted a stray cat. We keep watching various sites for rescues and reporting lost animals and to the best of our information she’s not there. We interacted with the cat, outdoors, on several separate occasions, and at one point while we considered opening our doors and we were researching those same sites. Based on a story from someone a few blocks from where we live,…