Hanging out with Dolly Parton at the Aristocrat Lounge

Gowalla!

One of the many entertaining things about the extremely slow process for getting repaid for my long lost Mt. Gox Bitcoin holdings is the continued use of the original Mt. Gox logo, unchanged since the Web 2.0 era.

You know it’s a new year when a change to how you handle time in your tests that you wrote eleven months ago starts breaking your build.

Twitter Sucks is now live again, after migrating it from Heroku’s discontinued free plan to Fly.io.

In the last thirteen years of running Twitter Sucks, I can’t imagine worse timing for extended downtime. At least it’s over now!

I was watching a YouTube video about Baby Jessica (after listening to the excellent You’re Wrong About podcast), and I found this:

The editors accidentally exposed that they used a random YouTube video for B roll footage. Here’s the original video for comparison

🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #8

🌟 Length Score: 93%

🚀 Letter Score: 65

🔗 Play Wordiply: https://www.wordiply.com

🎬 Today’s starter: 🅁🄴🄳

Got some prescription sunglasses for the first time in my life. Gonna take some getting used to. 😎

Just watched a video about Jotai, a minimal state management library my team uses with React. Pretty amazing to see a very full-featured drawing app created with not very much code.

I just migrated my Mastodon account to nertzy@ruby.social. For now I think I’m going to try out keeping my micro.blog and Mastodon feeds separate, but we’ll see…

Is there a paid service that I can point a DNS record to, and it hosts a private Mastodon instance for me?

I’m feeling like that is closer to the future. My micro.blog account is partway there but not “full Mastodon”.

Ghost Line X at Rosewood Park #dada

Oh, I get it. He’s “sinking” Twitter.

Another week, another playoff. Looking good so far! ⚽️ #austinfc

Let’s go Austin FC! ⚽️

Phoenix at ACL Festival

Arlo Parks

About to see Phoenix at ACL Festival for the third time.

🎸

Daily Duotrigordle #199 Guesses: X/37

0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 🟥🟥 🟥🟥 🟥🟥
🟥🟥 🟥🟥 3️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣

duotrigordle.com

Real Salt Lake 0 - Moussa Djitté 3 ⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ #austinfc

Seeing Stereolab for the fifth time.🎹🎺 I was able to get a new red laundry bag at the merch table to replace my trusty green one from 2008 that the laundromat lost last year.

RIP QE2 👑

Compiling a Linux kernel by hand for the first time in about a decade. Wish me luck!

Oof that was a tough loss. A lot of fun to watch! #austinfc ⚽️

Going through my vinyl collection. Found this “club reaction” form in a promo copy of an early Chemical Brothers remix.

I solved Semantle #41 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 69.32. semantle.novalis.org