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

Absurdle 6/∞

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Donovan Keith live at the Domain NORTHSIDE

Put on a spare tire for the first time.

LA FC at Austin FC ⚽️

⚽️➡️🥅 ¡Verdes Listos!

Rainy week in Austin. Hoping for some good thunderstorms! ⛈

About to go get a haircut for the first time in months. 💇🏻‍♂️

I just used Hey to block someone from sending me an unsolicited Ruby on Rails job posting.

So, thanks to Basecamp for building: a technology that makes me attractive to recruiters; and a technology I can use to ignore them.

Just started “The Mystic Maze” by Magic Puzzle Company

I had fun today helping out the Archive Team with their quick-turnaround project to archive all of Parler. Good to get everything stored off somewhere for future historical analysis before it is shut off for good at midnight. Good riddance.

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Checking out nb, a pretty cool tool for keeping notes on the command line and syncing them between machines.

I’m reading How do the COVID-19 vaccines work? by @fancycomma

At Jester King brewery 🍻

@Chris Aldrich Sort of like a hyper-modern version of purple hyperlinks. It would also be fun to be able to see public likes and mentions from people I follow.

I’ve just updated a couple of my old personal project websites.

• Twitter Sucks! - Upgraded all Ruby gems and got it working again. Updated CSS and picked newer fonts from Google Fonts.
• Flittr = Flickr + Twitter - Upgraded three major versions of Rails and got it (almost) working again. Switched from the fleakr gem to the flickr gem. Right now, every tweet falls back to a lolcats image because the Yahoo! Term Extraction API no longer exists.

Both applications are currently running on Heroku’s free tier. Once I get them modernized enough I may move them to the “Hobby” tier. I also upgraded both from their ancient Cedar-10 stack.

I’m catching up on MacStories’s “iPad at 10” coverage from last month.

I keep coming across mentions of the original argument that the iPad is “just a bigger iPhone”. I always find that argument to be so strange, because the iPhone was a blockbuster category-defining device. I have never thought of the fact that an iPad is similar to a large iPhone as negative in any way. I also appreciate viewpoints like this one focused on accessibility that make it obvious that being like a bigger iPhone is an incredible advantage.

It’s funny how aggressively people in the tech media will dismiss something just because it’s not completely novel.

Anyway, 10 years later, I have finally gotten to the point where I don’t own a laptop and use an iPad for all my mobile computing tasks.

Been having fun the last couple days working on some Rails jobs that download multi-gigabyte gzipped tarballs via SFTP.

It’s been a fun challenge to avoid using a lot of RAM and disk space so that the jobs can easily run on our Heroku workers.

My wife and I have been having fun staying in this weekend and watching season 1 of The Outsider.