Hi! A couple of side-project updates: keeping my archival tool alive, ssh-over-web-browser tailored to my needs, and a slightly better dictation CLI. Archivist Updates I continue to use, and get a…

Interior, liminal, negative

I was sitting in the train home today, after a successful and generally enjoyable day of work, riding the first class, like a gentleman, taking a novel from my bag to start reading. At that moment,…

Breathing better, agentic browsing, cleaning up photo archives, and budgeting hacks + announcing something new...

Or a guy who got a Pendleton hat for super cheap?

Soccer (sorry, fútbol) is the only universal sport. So, like everyone else on earth, I am following this year’s World Cup, even if I only plan to watch a handful of games. Soccer is a great…

When I signed up, I did so without installing an app to my cell phone. I signed up with the website, email, and SMS texting only. I had two-factor authentication enabled, and all that worked well. I…

Things rush on. The move from my Palo Alto condo (which Jacques and I moved into almost 40 years ago) to an independent living suite at The Avant of Palo Alto is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on…

I am typing here while my spouse sleeps and I ought to settle. I’m finding it hard to let go of the weekend and accept the week ahead. Mondays in particular are input-heavy days with many stakeholder…

The career data nobody tells you to collect. The data that was sitting in my own office, the whole time. I was sitting in our accounting department, watching my manager accept an ad hoc task from the…

A rumour did the rounds claiming Liam Lawson was set to lose his VCARB Formula 1 seat to Red Bull junior Nikola Tsolov, with some reports even presenting it as... The post Is Liam Lawson Losing His…

Easy way to sniff out a bad leader: they use “I” language for accomplishments and achievements and “we” language for accountability and unfavorable outcomes. Literally the opposite of what you’re…

Much of the daily work of news product management is translating critical thinking into business answers. That means challenging unsupported assumptions while drawing both inferences and conclusions…

Ideas that spoke to me

my mother used to tell me she'd find me standing on the balcony in the middle of the night, simply looking out into the world. i was also told that when i was only two years old, i quietly walked out…

Two notable events today: The NYC Pride Parade and Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday. In my mind they tie together nicely. The Pride Parade was an hours long celebration, mostly of young people, that…

This week was a bit on the warm side wasn't it? This meant I didn't really have much energy left for things outside of work, and staying cool/alive... I think we got to the upper 30s last week and…

Bob Schroeder’s I-210 Hall Pass, helmed by 17-year-old William Schroeder, completed a wire-to-wire victory at the 2026 A Scow US National Championship on June 26-28, with 22 of the 38-footers racing…

Had a better time at basketball on Monday. It was a fairly low bar, so after a made a lay-up off the first possession I'd already surpassed my own expectations. Was slightly concerned that the sports…

It’s such an incredibly dull thing to have to comment on but holy fuck has it been hot. Our flat can handle a day or two of heat but by day three it’s a difficult-to-cool furnace. Our lads have been…

I hope that the people that throw wisdom, inspiration and support into my world know that they do - but if they are anything like me - they probably do not know. Some I celebrate in public - others…

DailyDogo 1675 🐶

Dear Dad, We're in the kitchen right now. I've brought my laptop here so I can sit with you. But you're not interested in me. The past few days you've been a fucking prick. You're starting to throw…

Hello and happy, um, Sunday! Last week, my week off from work, was a string of days blurred together by household chores: donate here, donate there, car repairs (which could be their own post),…

Writing this on a Beyoğlu day under siege again, sigh. The whole neighborhood is locked down just because some people want to celebrate who they are… We started packing today and I’ll be…

alphacrone:texas giraffe update:ALTALT💖 catch me if you can, suckers 💖

I enjoyed the Uni Kuru Toga Metal in Orange, but it won’t be my primary Kuru Toga, so let’s give it away! This is my review model Uni Kuru Toga, with an 0.5 mm mechanism. And the winner is: Congrats…

huzzah, meanwhile i was melting in the heat, i have taken an interest into minecraft tech mods.. sooooooooooooo. yeah. gonna try some out i guess. i still need to get readjusted to a laptop again its…

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Leadership the NASA Way with Coach BZ

Rest in peace, Om Malik.

In a recent digest I linked to Herman’s post post about resurfacing old blogs. In that entry, the posts he chose to resurface were the ones about his journalling[1] journey, and this inspired me to…

A few things raised by stuff we've looked at recently, and despite a slower than usual posting rate so far this year, we've covered quite a bit one way or another, and here are a few bits and pieces…

The post Fun family weekend first appeared on Joel Gross's Blog.

Grandson Louis. We gave him everything money could buy. What did we do that was wrong? We didn’t know it was wrong. He’s leaving home, bye bye. * * *

Yamuna's Incense in Kaunas , Lithuania's second largest city, is a marriage of Indian and Lithuanian cultures. Yamuna tells me that "Yamuna’s Incense is conceptualized in Lithuania, most of the…

Mythos gets reinstated, but we may be seeing the end of widely shared leading AI models.

Had such a wonderful day yesterday. Got up a teeny bit early for my partner and I to go to a local Pride event, which was mostly boring, but we got to enjoy food from our favorite food truck and try…

6/28/2026, 1:39:26 PM That's math, all right.

I pulled a rather dramatic move at the airport last night. 😱😅 Think General Hospital–level drama (if you’re old enough to remember). I was sending my guests—my ex in‑laws and extended family—off at…

"Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation…

Meta has new $299 smart glasses. I don’t want them. But, as I wrote for Stuff, I’d happily try some AirPods Pro for my eyes. Retroid released another retro doodad. It’s more or less…

A successful trip to Marikes beach, a failed trip to the cinema, a failed prime minister, a failure of a book, and a lot more food and football than expected.

puppy wants a tail so bad 😭

It never seems as if the academic stress will end, until suddenly, sometime in late June, it just does. The students disperse for the academic year like fluffy tree pollen on the wind. The final…

June winds down. Quick trip to Seattle to help my brother, a visit to one of my old employers, a lovely visit with my stepmom and her husband, World Cup fans, etc. On a quick trip to Seattle to help…

One of the pieces of bad advice I got while trying to diagnose the Let’s Encrypt problem was to reset my Nextcloud File Sync client connection. No big deal, they said, just recreate the…