Tail -f of thoughts from Thomas Vander Wal
This morning on my coffee walk I was thinking I hadn t seen either the new Spiderman block buster that is out, nor The Odessey. But, big summer block busters are something I do, but my deep enjoyment is the late summer art house films. Thamara today posted about cinema (Cinema - Thamara Kandabada ) and frames the local cinema really well. Growing up I went to see films with my parents and saw many…
I m a fan of cozy mystery series, well British Mystery, and Grantchester (TV series) - Wikipedia has been a gem. It is a calm and cozy mystery series set in the 1950s / early 1960s Grantchester, England just outside Cambridge. It has been on PBS as part of PBS Mystery for 11 seasons. This has been a wonderful collaboration of a police detective who befriends the local parish priest (actually, a…
Last evening I went down an odd rabbit hole. I ve been doing two conflicting tasks with my bookshelves: 1) Taking pictures of them and converting that into markdown for titles and author lists of what is on what shelf and capture what I own; 2) Culling books that are vastly out of date, I didn t find interesting nor helpful, or poorly written (or produced). In doing this I ran across a book I…
HTML tasting menu - Yesterday in the Homebrew Website Club - IndieWeb, Ross A. Baker shared a gem, which is an HTML Testing Menu that is a naked (no CSS nor JavaScript) HTML listing of all HTML elements with an example of its use. I have long wanted something like this for two reasons: 1) Seeing HTML with no JavaScript nor CSS and how an element displays natively before anything is added; 2) Have…
Posting more of what I ve been only writing as notes for myself, but also things that start as intended posts, I ve been updating and adding some categories. One category I thought I have had for a long time is Thinking Tools, which is for tools I think in. I have a regular set of tools I write, think, and research in and many have remained the same over many years. Prior Thinking Tools Posts…
I ve been following along with this year s round of Apple Operating System updates (OS 27) and had jumped on the iPad and visionOS developer betas in the first round or two. With iOS and ipadOS 26 with Liquid Glass if I turned it down and turned much of it off it wasn t horrible, but it didn t seem like a finished product. Since some of the inspiration came from visionOS for Liquid Glass it was…
Moving to the Washington, DC area to start grad school had me arriving with my dad from a cross country drive from San Francisco that took 4 days and arriving in mid-August. We parked the car at my apartment complex and unloaded and went into Georgetown to get something to eat. My dad suggested Houston s (now gone) and my dad was a foodie and knew places with all types of good food most…
For a few decades I ve converted regular manual tasks into automated tasks for many things. I use short code keyboard conversions with TextExpander (TextExpander), Alfred (Alfred), Keyboard Maestro (Keyboard Maestro), Hazel (Hazel by Noodlesoft), Apple Shortcuts, and a couple other small apps and services. But, I also have quite a few scripts in python and Ruby, but a few pure bash scripts. I have…
As I ve been searching my site a fair amount before starting to blog, the small type (compared to the rest of the page and site) in the search form and search button were bugging me. So thinking of you, well from my perspective, I ve updated the Search page and Search Results. I also noticed the navigation for the search related pages the navigation still had Lab and it was selected. Fixed that.…
I was watching Vergecast this week, (Google’s AI shake-up: What’s next for Demis Hassabis and DeepMind | The Verge) and in it David Pierce brought up Google+ again. Pierce uses it as a call out when large organizations jump into things they don t fully understand. Google had some understanding, but the biggest problem was their going with Circles . Circles were akin to groups, but the Circles were…