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Great read as always

Watching the new SpongeBob movie, pray for me. Kid likes it tho (source)

There was an awesome animated ninja turtles short before the movie about how AI sucks and steals everything

Watching the new SpongeBob movie, pray for me. Kid likes it tho

This reminded me it’s been a while since I reviewed my backup plan. This is a horrible situation, and not totally surprising unfortunately (although still shocking). Some of the worst support I’ve ever received was from Apple.

Mood

I’m planning to catch up on the last few seasons of Stranger Things, but decided to restart from the beginning. Currently on Season 2. It’s so good.

I made this tonight, seems useful.

Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card!

Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).

I love this “Mom, my business is fine” chart from Emmett Naughton, just in time for the holidays 🤣

I can’t wait this long for pluribus

High desert landscapes

Some window frames from the road last week

So how much did those turkeys pay for that presidential pardon?

6*7 = 42 (source)

Having just introduced the kids to hitchhiker’s guide for the first time we were recently discussing this. 😆

Finally we’ve arrived at the enshittification of trust 💀

So Oath Keepers who stormed the capitol get pardons but oath keepers who uphold the constitution get gallows. Got it.

I’m in San Francisco for SF Ruby and I’m already making friends

Is it just me or do half of the films available for purchase through Apple TV no longer have trailers

Can we all agree that tapping out emails on your iPad makes you some kind of criminal

PLUR1BUS

Another take on autumn street lamps

A few more street lamps

I love when street lamps illuminate the autumn leaves at dusk.

The cool girls for capitalism must be absolutely gutted

damn dude

Washington is alright I guess.

Chipotle cut its growth projections for the 3rd quarter in a row, citing the fact that it bet big on appealing to younger customers and they’re now broke. The stock is down -22% following earnings. (source)

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the awful food and service. We used to love Chipotle but quit going because it sucks now.

New from me: I wrote about Application Performance Monitoring and why developers should embrace observability tools.

perg

I like the new unknown senders UI in Apple Messages on iOS. Now if only they had a block + delete + report spam combo.

If you don’t want me to like all your posts you should stop posting photos of your dog

I have zero interest in signing up for sora, who is even using this?

“kitchanery — that’s chicanery in the kitchen”

“Fact-checked by Grok” 💀

This is leadership

Hiked Angel’s Rest with Josh Price today and did not manage to stay warm or dry. That is to say, a classic Pacific Northwest adventure!

This is a great read about how current tech coverage favors money and finance over the builders who actually innovate and create new technology (and often for free).

SNL should do a sketch where Kenan Thompson explains the Department of Homeland Security’s social media content to Andrew Daly as Benjamin Franklin from The Office

Explaining the Department of Homeland Security:

“So there’s a mythical place called hyperborea”

Nicotine subsumes basically all my other compulsive behaviors in one neat little addiction and as a bonus makes my brain function. Always a bummer when I’m reminded of this.

I photographed #NoKings today in Vancouver, WA. This was a particularly fun one. Current events may be dire, but you would’t know it from the joyful thousands in the streets. This feels like something different.

Full photo set here.

My $2,200 TV just interrupted my movie to make me accept some new terms of service. Wtf are we even doing.

Naturally I couldn’t find the remote.

Watching the Addams Family and after the scene where Wednesday fires a crossbow at Pugsley while he holds an apple in his mouth, I’m like “never do that kids” — to which my youngest (7, the Pugsley of the two) exclaims, “we don’t have a crossbow!”

I really wish Robert Reich would stop texting me.

Maybe I’ll just drive my 2004 Wrangler for the rest of my life (was pretty much already planning on it)

“I was still able to steer and brake with power steering and brakes for maybe 30 seconds before those went out too”

I’ve been using Zen Browser today, and it’s very nice so far. It seems to have most of the features I was missing from Arc, without the junk that I don’t miss (AI features mostly).

I appreciate the nuance in Robby’s take and if Ruby Central was acting in good faith, I want to see them work to make it right with the maintainers. Actions speak louder than words.

This was a good read from Jean Boussier, I agree that more companies should contribute to open source directly.

“So, that’s why the frogs are important”

Just here me out..

Basically the frogs stand between America and the Insurrection Act.

In case y’all were wondering, Portland has always been this way. Here’s a pic I took in 2021.

This was a particularly violent day in which the Proud Boys hosted a rally, originally scheduled for the waterfront but then moved to northeast Portland. Someone ended up shooting at antifascist counter-demonstrators downtown, and PB attacked people and destroyed several vehicles in a brawl.

This after the current president had told PB to “stand by”, and five years later pardoned many of them. Now the same president calls Portland “war ravaged”. It makes you wonder who created that impression in the first place.