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Jon Gruber of DaringFireball.net made some noise this week with his blog post about how Twitter/X is better now than before. Here is a paragraph from the post that I think summarizes it well but I think it’s worth reading in full. “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a … Continue reading “The Whole “Twitter is Ok now” thing”

The Social Network is one of my favorite movies. The score, the visuals, the writing, it’s all fantastic. Are there parts of it I don’t love? Sure, but I do think it’s a great film. The context of when it came out matters a lot. The film came out in 2010. This was pre-IPO Facebook. … Continue reading “Thoughts on The Social Reckoning “

I’m getting to the point where I may just keep fediverse social profiles. The noise from “regular” platforms is just getting too loud. Add this to the pile of my social media complaints.

Every day is a holiday on the calendar of things. I came across a post from the Internet Archive that August 1 is World Wide Web Day. I couldn’t really figure out why the date has significance. The first website went live on August 6. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal at CERN is dated in March. … Continue reading “World Wide Web Day”

It’s a new month so it’s time for another check-in. I sense this one might be kind of quick but that’s ok. In June, I rewrote my goals for the year to set some more manageable milestones. Here is the overview. Starting with 1, Close Apple Watch rings daily. This goal was to make my … Continue reading “July check-in”

I’ve been a long time listener to podcasts. Well before the medium was mainstream. I’m a podcast hipster in that way, which might be the worst kind of hipster. The first one I listened to quite a bit was Major Nelson Radio which was the right amount of “just chatting with friends” and quality production. … Continue reading “Starting at 1 with Podcasts”

I’ve been in the workforce for about a decade. The first 4-ish years, I was pretty good about exercise. The best? No but pretty good. When we lived in Findlay, Ohio, there was a gym I went to that was basically unmanned. It had a key pad on the door and every month after paying … Continue reading “Orange Theory”

As a part of one of my goals, blogging more about the code I’m writing, I wanted to set up a public place to track some of the issues. This is not a complete list by any means but it’s enough to get started. I’ve added a repo over on my GitHub that’s just issues. … Continue reading “Tracking site issues on Github”

Alright it’s time for the June check-in. My last post was the May check-in, but hey the one before I think technically this is progress. It has been a busy month. They all are. That’s kind of a separate thing on it’s own but let’s just get into it.  Goal 1: Track exercise daily Well … Continue reading “June Check-In”

Can you believe it’s almost June? Summer is almost here. It’s my least favorite season to be honest. I don’t like to be hot, and even in Seattle it gets warm enough where I don’t like it. However this summer we have the World Cup, the Tour de France, and I’ve grown to like baseball … Continue reading “May Check-In”