@mikesusz social feed.

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.

@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?