@mikesusz social feed.

i love it when i open Chrome Dev Tools to Console and they put a Console under my Console i call this Xzibit Dev Tools

@andybaio this is getting in-tents!

@annika lol i have similar thoughts when i drive by a business near my parents house "Arthurs Executive Cleaners" i bet they have quite a lot of work available

@jerzone i had donated all my dotcom bubble startup swag to the mission in Seattle. i hadn't considered the irony of that.

@annika i wish i’d been able to get out there for any of them. i will be watching the videos intently.

@annika wow that’s a heck of a flight. have fun!

@hotdogsladies i think Alvvays should tour with Chvrches

not sure why i have to say this out loud, but one incomplete sentence is not a ‘user story’

Neutral/Good vs Chaotic/Good

@fox i have seen @jsnell do some deep-dives on e-ink readers, https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/two-e-readers-that-made-me-reconsider-why-i-use-e-readers/

❯ git checkout main
Switched to branch 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

this really, really needs a timestamp of the most recent fetch, e.g. “up to date … as of Monday Aug 12, 2:34PM”

@revmem i don’t know if they designed it that way, but i figured it out and it’s the easiest way to remember that it’s closed on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday.

@revmem i always see your updates and think “oh i need to go to the transfer station” except ours is closed on days with an “N” in their name.

@annika @LexPendragon … eww

@LexPendragon @annika this. i’m wondering if literally or figuratively

@jerzone this is awesome. my two boys would probably handle this very differently. my oldest is quite … content? to let others handle arrangements and logistics. my youngest wants to be in charge and already is testing the waters with independence (e.g. how far can i ride my bike? can i ride to the grocery store? the next town?)

also kind of a sad statement on our rail infra and reliability. when i had to work in NYC i drove in. which is nuts, but i couldn’t rely on amtrak to be consistent.

everybody needs one of these. or two.

@marcamos oh that’s a mini golden retriever i guess

@revmem this time i was surprised, we actually got an ETR from eversource (11:30). and surprise again, when i shut down the gen for the night and flipped back over, we had grid power. no idea how long it has been back.

power out again. it must have heard me talking about getting a really good generator this week. (haven’t gotten it yet, but about to spend a lot of money from my phone)

@m750 consulting. back in the day, i had great friends who were well connected and shifted a lot of fun WP work my way. this was probably the biggest/most complex one that combined WP Admin screen customizations and theme work.

in an old notebook i found my first notes on building Evernote’s “Announcements” system in 2012. it was all driven from their WordPress instance, since they had an int’l team of writers already using it. they wanted announcements to be targeted to any combo of: Product, Sub Level, Platform, Country, Geo Region (e.g. Latin America), interface Language.

i built it with WordPress taxonomies and created a theme that output articles in an XML feed, filtered for the above input criteria. (also: RIP)

@jerzone it seems attached to the physical plant, i’m guessing boilers and a steam distribution system.

was your son a preemie? mine was 14 weeks early.

@jerzone i always admired how many antennas they crammed onto that stack (my son spent 3 months in the ICN up there after he was born)

“Hey Siri, what size is my Apple Watch?”
“I'm sorry, I can't do that."

excellent. very useful.

if you get a mouse and you name it “mouse” that’s eponymouse

@film_girl i'll just check in on my employee stock purchase plan then... oh no

@jerzone maybe some terrifying combination of the two

🤔what if H. R. Department was more like H. R. Giger?

@irafcummings i didn't know Minnie Driver had a sister

@jerzone ooh i could certainly start doing that!

when i turned 50, i resolved that i would not behave like a “typical” person who was turning 50.

this was, in fact, something that a person typically tells themself when turning 50.

on my last night alone* in the house, it can be heard: https://youtu.be/fSKQRDq3RkM

* the dogs are still here, and subject to my terrible singing. poor guys.

i am “oh no, there’s been a post to the facebook group for my high school graduating class!” years old. 🙁

@briandigital already working on another that won’t require much research. it will be refreshing to just screed & post!

@marcamos git blame myself

🤔am i the only one who creates PRs against my repo on my personal site, to review them before approve/merge/deploy? it just feels natural to me.

"at some point, i'm going to have to stop drinking coffee and talking to myself.”

... i said out loud. while refilling my coffee.

being alone in the house is weird for me.

@sarajw https://sqd.co/_/love-this-post.jpg

this was a tremendous amount of nostalgic fun to write and research. I now have a list of four or five other posts that I want to make.

@akahn thank you! fixing

My Origin Story. I give to you:

Don't Forget, You're Making Web Pages https://mikesusz.dev/blog/dont-forget/

@threetonesun none of those Communist gummi 'bears' in this house!

my mobile carrier keeps offering me the opportunity to add a second line to my phone for $10 a month. Does anyone really want twice the spam calls to their mobile?

after about a month of using Scroll Reverser ( https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/ ) i'm hooked. (hat tip: @gruber )

my brain has always thought of using a mousewheel and a touchpad gesture as two distinct types of interaction:

my mouse scroll wheel is manipulating the scroll thumb, which slides inversely to the movement of the content.

when i use a touch gesture to move something, i'm interacting with the content directly.

being able to separate these is awesome! tip sent to pilotmoon, well deserved.

i think i've figured out the source of a problem i've been having, i just don't know how to solve it (or report it).

i have two macs and an ipad. i try to use Universal Control. it mostly works. but.

if i have a mechanical keyboard or a small macropad keyboard attached (non-apple keyboard), or a gaming mouse (which has a keyboard device to it, so you can program buttons to keystrokes), then on the remotely-controlled machines, modifier keys don't work. shift/cmd/alt/ctrl. it's ... maddening.

@jerzone when they say ‘become one with nature’ i don’t think this is the way

@hotdogsladies in the 90s when i first signed up for BMG i ordered 12 CDs of (various grunge and pop and pop-punk music) and instead of the Green Day disc i had selected, i received Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. i now realize this was probably a frustrated BMG employee who was trying to teach me something, and i very much appreciate it now.

@revmem trying to sleep, def. if you end up succeeding, 💯

today i drove the Ford Flex to (fill it with gas and) get donuts. then i drove the Ford Ranger to the transfer station and to get propane. then i drove the Ford Focus to get wood-fired pizza. i call this “the trifecta”