Asides
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LOL at Joey Sneddon’s write-up on Vivaldi. “Furthering its unstated, but much evident ambitions to replicate absolutely everything in existence inside itself, the latest version of the Vivaldi web browser comes with a new productivity feature.”
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I’m starting to like Elon’s plan for Twitter more and more. Just get it over with already.
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I would like about 50% more money per year. I don’t need it. And, if I had that, I worry I’d want 50% more.
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NASA’s DART Mission was fun to watch last night. Waking up to impact observations from around the globe. So fun. Space stuff happens often now. It is great.
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I’m imaging the slide decks of cryptocurrency-related startups. Slide 1: Not a scam. Slide 2: Not hacked. Slide 3: Web3. Slide 4: Profit!
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🟥🟩 Stupid 263 2/0/2 I hope everyone who plays is enjoying the daily games.
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Switching Stripe Transfer‘s email services from Hover to iCloud+. Too many messages ending up in spam folders using Hover.
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Listening to a proper football (soccer) game live while at work. My grandfather would be proud.
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Have you ever scrolled down to the bottom of an article on a local news website? Thar be dragons!
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The crazy summer of work is almost over. I am hoping for a less stressful fall.
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Accidentally wrote some code that did 360 billion lookups against a database. Oops. My Mac processed it in 7 seconds. Computers are amazing.
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Apple One’s Family Plan should have more storage options. Currently you can purchase 200GB of extra storage for the entire family. Optionally, you can add additional iCloud+ Drive space for $9.99/month but that makes it more expensive than Apple One’s Premier Plan. 200GB for a family was enough in 2005. Today plans should start at…
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Moved all of my accounts from 1Password to, iCloud Passwords (is that what it is called? it isn’t KeyChain, is it?). Now to move Eliza’s and we’ll be done.
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There needs to be a dry cleaning service for AirPods.
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Does everyone feel more, less, or as anxious as I do all the time?
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I haven’t been blogging much. Work is super, super busy and that will likely continue through mid-August. And Stripe Transfer is busier than ever. No complaints! But I do miss my blog, shooting photographs, and making new projects. I shall return!
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I’m in a phase where I have an absolute ton of work to do and everything is working great on my computer. So, I don’t want any software to be updated for 60 days or so. I seem to hit this sweet spot about once a year.
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Twitter is down hard.
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I’ve been using Raindrop for several months. It is very good, aside from a glaring omission. But I think I’m going to export my bookmarks and go back to Unmark and start putting some time back into that project. I think I need to rebuild it from scratch though, the codebase is already 10 years…
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Haruki Murakami is incredible. I finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and, although I have no clue how to rate the book, I can’t wait to start another Murakami book.
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Old man peeve: when posts begin “this is going to be a long one” (or, similar) and are only a few short paragraphs. A Tolstoy novel is “a long one”. A blog post is probably not.
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I just added the generative art music project I’ve been working off and on for 6 months – Infinite Posters – to my portfolio. I’ll continue to add to it as the project progresses and I’m planning a behind-the-scenes blog post soon.
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Spring 2022: I’m super busy at the day job, six active customers for the side gig, a freelance project that could start any day, a ton of personal projects that I’d love to spend time on, our garden!, and a (much needed) short vacation coming up.
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Spoiler: Jurassic World 3 has CGI dinosaurs in it.
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Merlot lettuce from the garden.
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I’m considering the switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. It looks like I found an iOS Shortcut to move my Saved Places (from a Google Takeout JSON), though it is going to take a considerable amount of time to do it.
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Thinking of shooting some digital photos.
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It saddens me when I find a great personal blog that has been abandoned only to find that the person has moved all their publishing onto a social media platform. Go back to your blog! Syndicate your posts!
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A garden is the best anxiety med.
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Developing a few rolls of color and black and white film in the darkroom. Good way to spend a rainy day.
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I am “I was going to make a TikTok video but couldn’t figure out how” years old.
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Stupid tagline ideas:
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I have written code that has saved my employer thousands of human hours and countless dollars. I wasn’t hired as a programmer. You don’t have to be a programmer to write code. Everyone should consider learning to code.
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Yesterday.
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I’ve added Stupid to my portfolio. I’ll be updating it as I release new featured artists designs. I’ll be writing a blog post about its inception, development, and release soon. If you have any questions, please let me know!
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I’m beginning to think Tom Brady doesn’t know what retiring means.
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I would like to connect with more people that make stuff. Software, art, gadgets, blankets, music, it doesn’t matter. Please recommend RSS feeds, Twitter, Mastodon, Flickr, YouTube, anything.
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Instagram is the most popular thumbnail image network ever.
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Tulips bloomed a few weeks later this year. We are going to move these to a new spot for next year.
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RSS.
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🔙🟩 Stupid 121 1/1/2
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Working on a digital art project I started in December of 2021. Sometimes these things take time.
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Watching Avatar.
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Stupid only has 2 image files. Everything else is SVG. I’d like to make it zero.
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Stupid has no server-side component. It does not store any data on the server. And, it has no tracking or analytics. I have no idea how many people are playing. And I like that.
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Just added Tom Hanks to the portfolio.
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I have lots of content to clean up, but the beta version of my site’s redesign is now live.
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Everyone that runs a Discord server… ban @everyone mentions.
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Rather than live stream the redesign of my site, I’m going to update the comments on this post regularly as I make progress. This will likely take several weeks. So check back often.
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A sleeping porcupine.