This is her on one of our first dates 10 years ago. I guess it shows the potential of her weirdness: Our first photo in public together: A couple of months later...

SaaS companies feel the heat, Claude gets creative, and Robots come to the airport.

* Written clickbait articles. It’s harder to avoid than it may seem. * Cared for celebrity anything * Sent or engaged with WhatsApp university forwards * Believed in Astrology, Homeopathy or any…

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We have the kiddos for the weekend so let’s see how much of this I can get through before they wake up. My first cup of coffee is nice and hot and my…

I grew up not being great at giving compliments. This was because I often saw grown-ups around me deploy compliments in a fake, ritualistic way. This made me overcorrect by holding back my…

Everyone is status-seeking. Some are more status-seeking than others. Here’s a shortcut to happiness: hangout with people who are less obsessed about talking about their status and about preserving…

The book presents interesting ideas around early-age reading developments for babies. Physical activity Crawling (with tummy on floor) and creeping (on just four limbs) are both important for the…

Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Pay last weekend’s sunshine tax with a litter pick. A row of stationary cars builds steadily beside me as they wait for temporary traffic lights to change. I feel self…

Was that a typo? Well, quite the opposite to that.

Build a Boring Business0:00/232.4375831×I've been working in tech for close to 15 years and have founded several businesses during that time. Some were successful, but most were…

Today’s procrastination comes in the form of this post! But what is good non-writing craft work/thinking time/well refilling, and what is procrastination? The difference feels blurry at the…

The Spirit Airlines shutdown leaves behind more than empty gates. It’s a story of people, purpose, and a lasting impact on aviation. Today is a sad day in aviation. After years of uncertainty, close…

(Last modified 6 days, 15 hours ago ) whats happening The move back home! Bandcamp Friday!! The start of work back at my old store location what I'm doing Working, mostly Trying to keep up with…

Table of Contents Overview Why We Do It What We Do How Often? What Are They Like? Treats Is This Really Healthy / Safe? Downsides Warning Should You Do It? Overview We cook for our dogs. Not because…

toy: eat that sock! go there comments

i was just listening to the song Prairie Rose by Roxy Music which had come on shuffle and all of a sudden i wanted to be held down and fucked to it so badly that i almost cried. it was like 12% sad…

My progress had stalled on the two books I had been reading, until I remembered that I had other choices and could come back to these later.

Content that caught my attention all in one go!

Short one this week, because I’ve a.) finally started work, for real, and need brain space for that b.) have been writing a thousand words a day (give or take) as I race to complete my latest…

A US-centric week, bookended by blood

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I consumed The 2026 Steam Controller is on sale this coming Monday, May 4th. It takes a lot of the controls from the Steam Deck and…

I pay for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini: all the pro models. I have all the AI vibe-coding workflows set up. I create random POCs all the time.

I went to the seventh North Bay Python and am having feelings about it.

Favorites from April 2026

What I learned this week Software I like what Manus are trying to do here. It feels like they’ve got some good tooling/steering to have the LLM traverse the surface of the human internet. It’s a bit…

There’s a dead deer in the bin. The burial while unceremonious was not without a deep sadness for an animal that didn’t know I exist.

In the AI age, output volume is no longer a useful proxy for value. The new standard is signal quality: clarity, precision, and decisions that move work forward.

Roden Readers — Hello from Crazy Weather Town. Is it spring? Some days it feels like it might be, for a few milliseconds. And then other days, no. No spring for you. The floor heating was on this…

I’ve always been one to avoid confrontation and protect my peace, but there are some opinions I have that are not up for compromise. The following hot takes are going to sound very Old Man Yells At…

tag(s): #books #emacs #meta #link-post It's been a while since I did one of those "three links with commentary" posts. So, why not? And why not more than three. During the last couple weeks I…

This blog post is for anyone who is experiencing, or has witnessed people experiencing, AI-related burnout. I consider it a post-mortem of my own experience. For the first two weeks of April, I was…

on my stamp collection!

Most engineering ceremonies are panoptic: architectures of visibility that get teams to police themselves on behalf of the org. The Adlerian alternative isn't no visibility; it's separation of tasks.…

I love city life, great weather, and days where you don’t have a plan and just let things unfold.

Today was a really nice and sunny day, so I went out with some friends from uni. We went to a Café (no shops open on International Workers' Day) and decided to go to the museum next to it because…

I thought I'd do some light blogging last year. Nothing serious, just get my thoughts in order a little while I was in between jobs. It hadn't been a fun year. I lost my job -- not in the sense of…

As the sun comes out more, my energy rises slightly, but I'm still sleeping too much. I've been dealing with a lot lately, but there are some positive notes as well. Join me for this month's now page…

Number of movies watched: a pathetically low 13, but it's because I was too busy with life stuff and making art... so that's ultimately a good thing! (I guess! I miss movies though lol) Favorite/most…

On the 250th birthday of the founding of the United States of America, it's time for you to declare Independence...from China manufacturing. The post Best America 250 Gifts and Souvenirs Made in the…

A journey of self-improvement

Happy International Workers' Day! Go out and make your voices heard! Updated Media Log with media from March and April. In other news, there are only few weeks of schoolwork left. I wont make any…

Monkfruit Review - Indigo

Why I invest even though I know I can't beat the market.

You'll skim it at best. If you're kind, you might offer sympathy. If you're an asshole, you'll look for a comment form to go off on a rant devoid of any connection to the thing…

Last log I put in things on the month I started them since I grouped together 3 months, but from now on I'll do it as I finish them... which means no Stray Children for now. Books 📕 Otherside Picnic…

Keeping a Postgres queue healthy — PlanetScale Simeon Griggs explains the challenges and dynamics of queue workloads in Postgres. A job queue in Postgres is desirable because of transactionality, and…

This is a portfolio of research questions I’ve answered and the ones I’m still working on. The work clusters into three interconnected strands: education policy and data science, writing assessment…

The Checkout Counter #41 somehow i haven't had any hay fever symptoms this year, so i've been able to enjoy spring much more. sunshine and pleasant temperatures are nice to experience, who…

On the importance of being able to answer 'I don't know' when you don't know.