Cool Things - August 2, 2026
It took me 6 months to catch up with my mail. And just 1 week of a new job to start to lose control of it again….
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Cool Things - July 31, 2026
Welp, my flight home from Laracon US is now delayed past the point where we should be landing, so this is the stuck-in-the-airport-first-world-problem edition of cleaning up tabs.
Cool Things - June 3, 2026
There is a mystery tab on Safari causing it to just burn through battery. So lets close some tabs. (Ended up being the 1Password helper that needed a restart.)
Cool Things - May 13, 2026
Let’s clean up some phone tabs. We’re finishing up 2023 and 2022 here.
Cool Things - May 6, 2026
Avoiding testing something that is going to be rather tedious to do…
Cool Things - April 22, 2026
Had a process lose its mind, and then tabs started dying in Safari. So before I force quit the process, here’s the open tabs that pass ‘yup, this is cool’ test.
Books - Wednesday, April 21 - Dead Trees are Important
Greg linked to an article the other day I’m never buying another Kindle, and neither should you which has at its core a thesis anyone paying attention to anything should meet with ‘well, duh.’ And given where it is published, there is more than a little bias showing through.
Art Thursday - Thursday, April 16 - Hera
I’m unabashedly a Star Wars fan. I was raised on it. We lived in Grand Cayman and had a pirate video copy of A New Hope that I must have watched 100 times. And while I do think, in general, the novels are better than the actual movies or shows, I still watch them as soon as they are available.
Joyful Thing - April 15, 2026
In lieu of the normal ‘Cool Thing Wednesday’ post, we have a ‘Joyful Thing’. While this post could be about Mike Monteiro’s How To Die (And Other Stories), which is great and you should get it, it is a collected edition of his mailing list which I have covered before.
Books - Stand The F*ck Out
Verdict*: Buy at full price