Semper fudge.
I came down with something nasty this weekend and quarantined myself away from my partner, who s neck deep in finals and, frankly, can t afford to catch whatever I ve got. Now, there s no working TV in my office. So after far too many hours of watching videos on my laptop, my brain started looking for a [ ]
I ve been tired of Substack platforming white supremacists, Nazis, neo-confederates, and so many of the worst people on the internet for a long time now. So I made a browser extension for all of us. Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link you click and redirects it to the web snapshotting site archive.is. The request [ ]
Today would have been my friend Jeremy Kitchen s 43rd birthday. He died back in March, due to complications from colon cancer. Kitchen was my best friend. Even when he was on the other side of the world, we texted each other almost every day. He was my emotional sounding board. My rubber duck. My rotten [ ]
So I’ve been keeping an eye on the WordCamp US 2025 ticket sales report, mostly out of a morbid sense of curiosity. With a month left on the clock, just over 500 tickets have been sold. If you add the 130ish comped tickets for volunteers, speakers, and sponsors, we’re hovering at right around 650 attendees. [ ]
Starting a few days ago, whenever I d run a Homebrew update, the whole process would end with this warning message: I started out by trying to uninstall HandBrake in Homebrew before using the new package name (handbrake-app) to reinstall it. That didn t work tho. The warning persisted. Then, I tried using the zap flag during [ ]
TBH, managing your blog s comments can sometimes feel like a second job. You want engagement, you love the discussion, but it can also be kind of a drag. For me, especially as I ve started regularly posting here again, I wanted to maintain some of my off-hours peace without keeping comments off entirely. My solution? Setting [ ]
Well, damn… Pocket is heading off into the sunset. For those of us who saved articles there, this stings. The internet s a goddamn firehose, and Pocket was a decent enough bucket. So, what now? Panic? Freak out? Declare reading list bankruptcy? Nah. There are still ways to hoard your digital treasures. When a beloved service shutters, [ ]
So, y all know how it is sometimes… You go digging through GitHub repos looking to see if anyone s already made a tool to do a specific thing that you need to get done. Something simple and fast that doesn t do a bunch of extra stuff. Lately, I ve been wanting a quick way to peek at [ ]
After spending close to twenty years clicking around the WordPress dashboard, I m finding Automad s whole “minimalist CMS” vibe deeply refreshing. I played with a demo of version 2, goofed around a bit with the extensions on offer, and not once did I have to dismiss a dashboard notification or suffer through a premium upsell offer. [ ]
If — by some minor miracle — you re still following this site in your favorite RSS reader, you might ve noticed that I ve been a busy little beaver over the last several days. What ve I been up to? Well I migrated some archival content over from a couple of side projects that stalled out. gomi no [ ]
Even though it s complicatedWe ve got time to start again Teenage Fanclub, Start Again
And it keeps coming and it keeps comingAnd it keeps coming til the day it stops LCD Soundsystem, Someone Great Sometimes, you get overwhelmed by life and let things fall by the wayside. You don t mean to do it. It just sort of happens. Eventually, you make it to the other side. But then you [ ]
I wish weekends felt more like weekends and less like days where I m not financially obligated to sit at my computer. I need something relaxing, but everything rn is stressful and weird. Usually, when I m feeling stressed, I take a few days off, pack the dogs and Sarah into the Jeep, and head out to [ ]
We ve got a war on our hands, people. The springtime gophers that have taken up residence in our back yard have been going off this year. When I woke up this morning, I found at least four new mounds of varying sizes scattered about. Last year, a heavy blanket of Uncle Ian s all over our [ ]
We ve got a big one today. The next post might suffer for it, but why should I sit on all of these tasty morsels and end up get scooped by the likes of Kottke and Waxy? 😄 Epidemic Lofi Let s kick the day off on a chill note. This Soundcloud playlist from Epidemic Sound has [ ]
Hrm. Today s edition ended up being a bit rona heavy. Sorry about that. 😬 It wasn t intentional, honest. I just went where the currents took me. If I could ve posted about the ginormous bumblebee that s been going HAM on the flowers outside of my office window since this morning, I totally would have — but [ ]
Fetch the bolt cutters — and happy super 420 — it s time for some links! Star Wars Videoconferencing Backgrounds If whatever y all are using for videoconferencing allows you to load virtual backgrounds, the official Star Wars blog has released a metric crapload of great ones. I popped into a work meeting from the Millennium Falcon [ ]
While I didn t get to cut out of work early yesterday, I did get to drink a beer by the pool. And it was everything that I thought that it could be. Maybe I can do it again today, before I start whipping up dinner. 🤞🏻 P.S. I decided to try something new with the [ ]
It s 82° F and clear in Bakersfield today. The sort of day that, TBH, we don t see all that much. Late spring through early fall is, usually, oppressively hot, and late fall through early spring tends to be right above freezing. So days like today are a treat. I probably ought to cut out of [ ]
It s been one of those lowkey overdo it on CBD, listen to white noise for five hours, and try to get work done sort of days. Y all have those too, right? 😬 Zooooom.us A macOS screensaver that simulates an increasingly absurd Zoom call. I ll stick with Brooklyn — lest I give myself an anxiety attack [ ]