@mikesusz social feed.

@threetonesun thank pythagoras

@threetonesun also this trick if you have a sheet of paper handy.

@marcamos it may have been a stunt butt

quick project today. old insulation was original, 19 years ago.

good god i made my first “homepage” more than thirty years ago.

@Meyerweb i eventually got used to it saying “it’s up to date” (as of the last time i checked) but if they could literally put that time in human-readable format in the message, that would be keen

imagine being the richest person in the world and you choose to destroy a social network instead of making Portal 3

@danielleganza i would encourage folks to give feedback to their colleagues who use these terms also. my CEO used to say “maniacal focus” frequently, and i heard it repeated by my department head. so i asked them not to, explaining that “mania” is a medical condition. they thanked me for the feedback. i never heard them say “maniacal” again.

If I had a dollar for every time I launch the Microsoft Store instead of launching Slack... I could buy something nice at the Microsoft Store.

@annika yeah i’d like to think game designers didn’t make it as sisyphean as software development, but no promises.

(my son, playing a game called “Flashing Lights”): “I’m fighting a dumpster fire!”
me: relatable.

@Meyerweb imagine being in your late 70s and feeling it necessary to ‘look tough’

@annika i apparently missed a whole transcontinental journey, i need to read back maybe

@spacehobo i am forever grateful!

is there a … Mrs. Coffee?

@shanselman did you get to complain about how this would be better with LEDs except CANBUS?

i’m working on getting approval for a plan to start a writing workshop for inmates.
to be fair, the idea has its prose and cons.

@threetonesun ceiling tiger is watching you masticate

random: if you or someone you know has SSD (Single-Sided Deafness) and have trouble finding good monopods (single headphone) try this: search ebay for “airpods missing” and you will find plenty of people who lost one of their airpods and are selling the case plus the other one.

@searls having a large, uncached image on your error page is also an excellent strategy

i’ve always asserted that Google’s promotion and then destruction of widespread RSS adoption was purposeful on their part (seeing RSS as an existential threat - it literally cuts them out of the loop in discovery) but this demonstrates it so much more eloquently (and in detail) “embrace, extend, extinguish” https://mastodon.online/@ixi/110898662624632294

i know, speedtest is not a proper network diagnostic tool. i am also not a professional network technician.

i guess i remembered how to do ethernet.

today’s task: T568B. lots of it.

TOO SOON

@jerzone oh neat, thanks. i’m interested in this for small PC building parts but also getting back into CAD for house plans and stuff. also looking at stuff like LibreCAD

trying to remember the last time i had to use ‘sliding doors’ in CSS/HTML.

@jerzone what do you use for modeling? i have long-ago cad experience (architecture school, early 90s lol) and when i looked up all that stuff it’s wicked expensive

Kiwi Recall!

yeah! go back to New Zealand!

…

wait what?

https://www.health.com/zespri-kiwi-recall-listeria-2023-7571618

@zachleat but seriously this always sounded like a guitar amp or something to me

@beep

remember swing music in the 90s?

@jerzone “but dad, isn’t that what a DMZ is for?”

this is an enormous city and it’s filled with so many people and if you witness them you see them experiencing joy and sadness and wonder and confusion. if you pay attention, you will see the spectrum of human experience and emotion.

and dogs sometimes. lots of different dogs.

my client engagement is wrapping up so this is my last work trip to NYC for a while. i celebrated it by doing something a bit different.

in every trip (including this one) i’ve stayed in or on the fringes of Midtown. the outliers being near the UN, or in the top fringe of Chelsea (where i am tonight - flower district. hello!) in the evenings i would go out and walk, to the rivers and back, to central park and back. the high line.

but tonight i took the subway to Battery Park and walked back.

@jayroh also sometimes if there’s nothing outward that you have to worry about, there’s something inward that you really have to worry about.

new york city really is magical when it’s 74 degrees in the evening.

the weather has cooled off enough that we can comfortably have the windows open and feel the breeze and hear the birds X-ing

@sarajw looks a bit like Edvard Munch to me

@hbuchel this is DJ.

@threetonesun @marcamos i know right? like hey, relax, go take a walk in the parc

@marcamos they’re all good texts maerc

@marcamos ducking autocorrect!

@jerzone wow this looks like a Sheeler painting

@jimmynotjim @irafcummings i have read that freezing stock in an ice cube tray and then dumping the cubes into a bag means you have portioned amounts of stock to throw in when you’re cooking and also try not to confuse them and put them in your cocktails

don’t judge a woodworker by the number of clamps they have. instead, judge them by whether they think they have enough clamps.

(the correct answer is no: you can never have enough clamps)

@threetonesun “do you enjoy your work?”
“meh.”

woodworking ABC’s:

Always
Be
Clamping

tonight my kids watched the Linkin Park concert from Madrid in 2010 with me. someday i’ll explain why dad was crying a little by the end of it but not tonight.