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I had a very unique podcast experience recently. I was listening to the regular edition of The Vergecast and the show roughly followed this flow. As always, it was a good episode of a good podcast and I highly recommend it for your weekly tech news. Directly after listening to that, I listened to a … Continue reading “Finding the Joy”

Something I’ve noticed is that lately (perhaps the past ~5 years) is that I listen to far less music than I used to. The easy theory is that podcasts have taken their place but I don’t think that’s true. I’ve been listening to podcasts since 2008, and subscribe to fewer now than I have in … Continue reading “Music”

I spend a lot of time doing markup and CSS for emails. Obviously the capabilities are more limited there than they are on the web. One thing I wish we could do more of are transitions. Here’s an example of what I mean. On hover, the gradient transitions. See the Pen Button with CSS Hover … Continue reading “Button Transitions”

I was looking at my subscriptions and noted I have the Apple One Premier plan. I don’t use Apple Fitness Plus (tried it but its not for me), and I do use Apple News a bit but think I could do without it, so I knocked down my plan. What is nice about the Premier … Continue reading “Storage”

In case you missed it, Mastodon released an official way to add “Share to Mastodon” to sites. Here is the blog post which summarizes the feature. It’s nice that we have this on Mastodon and I can appreciate it’s not an easy problem to solve given the unique domain nature of the platform/protocol. I’ve updated … Continue reading “Share to Social on Mastodon”

A relic of a time-in-internet past, is forums. My personal opinion is that Reddit centralized forums but given the upvote/downvote nature, is open to a lot of problems social media has. For me, it’s the negativity pile on. I just don’t need more grumpiness in my life. However, I stumbled upon an old forum I … Continue reading “Forums”

Well look at that. One month into 2026 and it felt like a decade. I sense that’ll be a theme going forward, with 99% of the issue being the current administration’s inability, or desire, to properly govern. I don’t want to spend a ton of time on this but it’s worth noting that every day … Continue reading “January Vibe Check”

I think what would be a great movie, is if a small handful of talented ball players decide they needed a smaller place to be. They decide to transfer to a midwestern university with a bird of prey mascot. Through the power of friendship, they do the impossible and beat their old teams on a … Continue reading “College Football”

I never hear the sad trombone in my brain like when I force a stalemate in a very…very winnable game of chess.

I wrote a post last year that this is the time of year where things go back to normal. I think I summarized the feeling well in that post but thought I could expound upon it more.  Quickly revisiting that summary, Thanksgiving through New Year’s is a weird time warp that doesn’t exist at any … Continue reading “Back to Normal Revisited”