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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.

@siracusa @jsnell @dmoren @cabel queue these up with the “you will” ads. have you ever sent a fax… from the beach?

@marcamos i kinda didn’t expect that to work so well

@marcamos nice. also maybe consider some fifteen52s, might match the truck better. :) https://fifteen52.com/collections/off-road-truck-wheels

@marcamos gonna modify the Tacoma for drifting?

@sarajw camman18, skipthetutorial, mumbojumbo, dream, mysticat, sb737

@sarajw ha! i remember those. did not have one myself, though. and i just listened to a podcast about them. https://www.omnibusproject.com/episodes/hypercolor-entry-611ge3703

pixel 3-wolf-moon from ROFLcon II. by @rstevens

i don’t wear it very often, possibly because if anyone asks about it, i have to set aside at least 30 minutes to explain every layer of reference including possibly starting with what a “meme” is.

got the other half of the deck stair railing done this weekend. i still need to install a handrail up and all the way around the deck, but this is a good bit of progress. and now it makes me want to replace the stair treads, four years have been unkind to them (and i neglected to treat them with anything, hesitant because we use these stairs to let the dogs out)

@pkw we call that being “the leaf fairy” and the neighbors don’t seem to appreciate it

@jessamyn glad to help. this is the “medium” size, seems perfect for acorns

@jessamyn get one of these if you don’t already have one :) Garden Weasel Nut Gatherer. maybe even loan it out?

@jessamyn oh wow! yeah not as bad down here. last year we nutrolled and disposed of at least 5 full 5-gallon buckets from within our fenced yard alone.

@jessamyn regional traditions. :) as tedious as this is, i’m glad we didn’t get the bumper crop of acorns we had last year.

it’s this time of year again.
(off to the leaf pile at the transfer station)

@akahn i remember giving up on Linux on the desktop when i couldn’t get lotus notes to sync to my palmpilot

for my online-school kids, i guess this is their version of a “snow day?” 🤔

got one side of the deck stair railing done and realized i didn’t have pressure-treated 2x4 i needed to continue the other side and the hardware store had just closed. looks like it will wait a few more days.

Dear Microsoft: how did this get through QA?

related question: where can i even grab the title bar to drag this window?

@RecDiffs not a british voice, not a woman’s voice? was @siracusa referring to one of my favorite movies??? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/

@jerzone fingers crossed. forecast is for 3/4” down here but i know y’all are in a lot bigger deficit up north

i guess my phone finally processed my lock screen photos so they could do that trick.

@marcamos oh no. well thankfully the critters who built the nest are far away. hope you can deter your local critters from discovering that sweet warm nest spot in the winter

@marcamos rodents love your truck, too? yikes. my pest control guy says Bounce dryer sheets are terribly offensive to them.

new tiny side project: i relied on google giving me a qr code generator inline, not just spammy SEO scam websites purporting to 'generate a qr code for free!’ (sign up for newsletters) but now they don’t?

this is a problem that smart people solved long ago with very few lines of javascript. https://github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs

so i just made my own qr code generator web page https://qr.sqd.co

and you can too! clone my repo, load index.html locally, or deploy anywhere. https://github.com/mikesusz/qr-sqd-co

as someone who is now quite firmly out of my 40s, i can say:

if you meet someone in their 50s (or 60s! or older!) who seems like they have their act together and are cogent and aware and witty — that is the result of a LOT of work, or a lot of discipline, or a lot of BOTH. you need to respect that.

i feel like i am at my intellectual apex and there is nowhere to go from here but to follow the diminishing parabola downward.

@hotdogsladies new Superchunk album “Songs in the Key of Yikes” in my “new music” playlist. awesome surprise!

this weekend i started building good railings on my deck. i altered the layout when we built a patio below, we moved the stairway (that was rotted beyond use) from the end to the middle. and made it 4 feet wide. i’ve had a ramshackle “railing” since then.

by the time I was my kids age, my father had been dead for half my life. I have no useful memories of him and retain no positive influence he had on my life.

I sometimes struggle with how unappreciative my kids are that I am still here and still trying to help them. But of course, they do not possess this frame of reference, so they can’t be grateful. And I have to be OK with that.

but when they’re particularly insolent, it’s tough. really tough.

@revmem my propane grille is about 12 years old and it already feels like the Grill of Theseus with how much i’ve already replaced

i grilled in the dark with a sweatshirt on but IT’S NOT AUTUMN YET

@jerzone before i got moved out of The Weather Company i almost submitted a rogue pull request to add dark mode. i really wish i did.