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I got out for a paddleboard session early one morning this week. The water was perfectly calm and the air was hazy from wildfires, but had improved some from the day before.
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I really like this piece by Graham Smith at Jank: “ Tinkering with games is as good as playing them ”. Having spent so many hours working on my own Destiny 2-related data and stats tools, there is something very resonant in the notion that the computer is not just the vehicle for playing the game, but for doing things about the game: I’m defining tinkering broadly here as…
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Iris does some really nice things for unifying catalogs, but IMO this key feature is nearly worth the price of admission all by itself.
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I know I’m ostentatiously late to this understanding, but boy, Tailscale is pretty cool. I had been tinkering with making Navidrome available via Synology’s reverse proxy, kept failing to get it working, and finally just installed the Tailscale package. I logged in on the Synology, logged in on my phone, and — just like that — can reach my server from the grocery store parking lot on…
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Doing some cable accounting in the network cubbyhole, I found that the previous homeowner here had run a cat5 cable with an ethernet plug at one end to a phone socket at the other end — my office! One RJ45 jack later, I have wired network at my desk.
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Today at Crucial Tracks : Monster Ballads, by Josh Ritter I have a live version of this song from Josh’s 2020 Hell Yeah! album that’s so deeply searching and beautiful, with Sam Kassirer performing this delicate piano part that just lifts me up.
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Today at Crucial Tracks : Sabotage, by Beastie Boys What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning? This is more of a gotta go, gotta go now kind of song, but it’s definitely right for some kind of mornings.
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I got into a Destiny 2 raid with friends for the first time in a while, last night. We pretty much breezed through Garden of Salvation until the final encounter, which took quite a while of trial and error, as we are all a little rusty with it (some of me rustier than others). It’s great to hang out for a few hours together, and finishing the raid (eventually) was a really nice bonus.
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Today at Crucial Tracks : Across the Wire, by Calexico Share a song that sounds like your favorite weather. What a provocative prompt. I think one of my favorite weathers is a clear sky in pre-dawn light, a cool morning before a warming day.
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Alternative photo apps haven’t really stuck for me, but I am really appreciating a lot of what No Fusion does, so far. The interface feels pretty good, allowing for fairly natural feeling adjustments, and it has a nice set of film-like modes. It also claims to have a unique processing pipeline that improves detail and color. Does it? I don’t know; I’m not making direct…
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I’m impressed by Iris , an elegant and clever Mac app that does a bunch of delightful things. I have an array of photos sources: Two Photos libraries from different eras of Mac and pre-Mac computers; more than a decade of flat file storage that make up my Lightroom libraries; and a big file tree of imported mobile phone photos from prior to when I began syncing everything through iCloud…
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Listening Post is such a great scrobbling solution. I’ve been listening to a lot of radio and am really happy that it works so well to capture that listening and mark favorite new tracks.
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TIL that Fuji’s raw studio software has perfectly nice support for saving and editing film simulation recipes. It’s been there all along! I exclusively used Lightroom when I primarily made raw images, so I never thought to explore it. The software isn’t so much for full raw development, but rather for editing, applying and saving the C1-C7 film preset modes that the camera uses…
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My Playdate was always pretty fiddly, registering d-pad presses unreliably, and it made for a poor experience, such that I never really got into gaming on it. This weekend I finally opened it up, realigned the buttons over their contacts on the board, and – with some struggle – got it put back together. What a difference! This thing is so much fun!
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Quick question, when people post about their “homelab” they’re just talking about another computer, right? Like this is giving a nice credential to “dicking around on the computer?” Gotta get a new VM on the homelab so I can tailscale it from the Center where I run a Lab.