@mikesusz social feed.

this time of year, i contemplate “resolutions.” i timeshare between the camps that support and deride them. i think the most valid criticism is the mulligan factor built into trying something so absolute - “i’m going to do X every single day!” … “oopsie, missed a day. better luck next year.”

idea: treat building a new habit like a job. you can take vacation days and sick days from a job. but in general, you do it most of the time.

just try to do it most of the time.

@mescutia not this dark!

a 2 minute timelapse of shoveling my driveway.

https://youtu.be/x4-fogy0BaA

oh my. iPadOS26 Files app. Copy progress dialog. (no, it’s there, keep looking!)

so hungry. i feel like i haven’t eaten breakfast since last year!

i’m really tired y’all

b me. go to let the dogs out for the last time of the night. see 1/2 inch of snow nobody predicted. get irrationally angry at … nobody.

wherein I attempt to quantify my meager contributions to the world via code. don't call it a “Wrapped.”
https://mikesusz.dev/blog/2025-in-review/

@revmem whoa. what if Jessie's girl _is_ Stacy's mom? that means Jessie walked out on her and left her to deal with that creepy kid who mows the lawn

@mathowie ooh i've got my eye on an orange Maverick... but my 2003 Ranger just keeps going. maybe when it turns 25 i'll put antique plates on it and get something new to drive daily :)

my son’s drum area got a huge upgrade. furring strips and acoustic tiles (flame resistant felt with strips of MDF) covering the bare studs on this wall in the basement (much preferred to finishing drywall)

i can’t link to it this way directly, but open this link and change the playback speed to 2.0x https://youtu.be/tbNlMtqrYS0

@marcamos my Peel case ( https://buypeel.com/ ) is ridiculously thin and i haven’t had a problem with any magsafe mount/charger (i have one at my desk, and one in each car) or the various qi pads we have

the snow makes work, which is annoying. but it also makes this.

@jerzone 🎵it’s beginning to look a lot like … whoa dude 🎵

@jessamyn i understand this. i got my wife a 13 mini and i don’t think she’ll upgrade until they make a mini again.

@jayroh have i mentioned how long its taking me at work, going back and forth to get a $300 Figma dev mode license? in hourly wages alone, me and (the department i’m arguing with) have already burned through multiple licenses worth of money. it boggles me.

@sarajw i say to myself “now is not the time” over and over and sometimes it helps.

@akahn for us, it means everyone can keep working off of their laptops while i go out and fire up the generator :)

@akahn very cool! i have a “shadow” in my house (they insulated the stairwell from garage/basement to 2nd floor and they used foil-backed, i guess that’s all they had available?) so having more than one gives me good full speed coverage everywhere. and i put an older AP in my garage after i upgraded. bonus points - everything is powered over ethernet and the ethernet switch (and router) is on a UPS so my network never goes down

@akahn sometimes i want to pay someone to law to do that training for me, like i do for the annual Ethics training. /s

@sarajw they did this to me for squaredesign. i replied and told them i don’t care. they seemed … confused at that? then i ignored them.

@akahn very nice! i’ve got a few ubiquiti AP’s scattered around the house. solid.

@jimmynotjim your climate is downright fiery at times

cut my walk this morning short becuase it was 6 degrees (F) and breezy. maybe i’m getting too old for this stuff. or i need long underwear.

@caseyliss i have our family last name domain set up in google and i can’t use that to administer my kids chromebooks, i had to use my independent solitary google account and set them up with new accounts for their chromebooks specifically. it’s like these two things have completely different sources of record. ditto for adding them to my youtube premium family account - can’t add their family-last-name accounts.

i made a new little helper toy/app to show you the days between today and (a date in the past), and then the same amount of days beyond that. here's 1.0.

https://time.sqd.co/

@annika

@pipeGutierrez @atpfm Ultimate Bagel on Needham St in Newton, MA in the late 90s had amazing bagels, and IIRC their “Ultimate Dozen” was fifteen.

okay there are enough of these year-end “wrapped” things, i want in on the action. i'm gonna vibe code an app that connects to my Health data and gives me a year-end wrap up of the medications i've taken.

“your number one medication…

~~ Ibuprofen ~~”

@Eric_Neue cool idea! i didn’t write the library that generates the PNG but i can maybe figure it out. i’ve been trying to keep this really basic.

quick update to my QR code generator today, to add:

- a slider to select the size of the generated output image
- (a text box to pick your own size if you're really specific)
- error messaging and logic to the interface

https://qr.sqd.co
https://github.com/mikesusz/qr-sqd-co

@jessamyn the pellet stove in my great room plus a ceiling fan and a circulator fan keep my first floor zone comfortable and even gets up to the second floor if i position the circulator correctly at the bottom of the stairs. if my (24 year old… ) boiler goes, we’ll be looking at something higher efficiency for the baseboard heat and the hot water. being able to isolate rooms would be ideal (my wife works upstairs, has an electric heater for her office, no need to head the whole floor all day)

@jerzone :) indeed, pile-it twice, because i can only carry 1000lbs at a time in my Ranger.

@jessamyn every ton of pellets offsets about 240 gallons of heating oil for us. in 15 years the stove has paid for itself several times over! not to mention the carbon difference. “trees are a battery for the sun” is a phrase i’ve heard.

my semi-annual? post about how we did a ton of work yesterday.

@RecDiffs merlin! lead research!

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/caroline-fraser/murderland/9780349127521/
via
https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8
via
https://kottke.org/25/12/this-is-always-interesting-52-things-i-learned-in-2025

okay, NOW this feels like the twitter of old. i just typed out a complaint about something and then deleted it before i posted it. anyway, hi! i hope you are well.

@irafcummings is that number five in the series? did you start with All Systems Red?

@annika same! i think i’m level 48. will have to try and play a bunch tonight/tomorrow/friday (live event/new season on saturday!)

let’s all have a minimally productive short week before we deal with the US holiday.

@revmem it also factors in whether you’re hanging and mudding the drywall yourself. i kinda never want to do that again.

it finally happened. i grabbed my hat and left the house today, without realizing i had double- @atpfm ‘d.

@threetonesun what's maddening to me is... this could be a json file that only gets updated when you add/remove/modify your library. it's absolutely insane that it isn't cached, or even pre-generated on the host

on ipadOS 26.1, Apple TV app 'Home Sharing' attempting to load media library from my mac mini, from within my house. 322 movies. 322 jpeg previews. it's been more than an hour since i took this screenshot, it's still loading, slowly, one at a time. the UI also doesn't display the movie title in plain text, so this is all you get until it loads. it never caches any of this locally.

Apple continues to disrespect media you actually own.

@jerzone you got the whole kit -n- kaboodle there

@annika quoot makes me wish we would have called quote tweets 'queets'

... er maybe not

@jsnell it’s one of the things that made me optimistic about the future. and led to me entering IT/web development in the mid-90s. then i saw Hackers. i know it was ridiculous, but i also knew it reflected what was possible. and that was exciting.