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an excellent example of how the weld is stronger than the stock. unfortunately it’s the handle on my lawn mower.

today i put some work into making sure my site's feed looks good in RSS readers. and now it includes entire posts instead of just the description!

build the future that you want to see.

i'm having one of those days where i didn't sleep as long as i normally do/would like to, but either it was excellent sleep, or the conditions with which i woke up were ideal. i feel awake and productive and sometime mid-late afternoon i will probably run out of energy and fall over.

the most annoying thing about having apple’s digital assistant in the house is no longer being able to say the phrase ‘in theory’ without triggering it.

@jdarnold i have a big bin in my basement labeled “tech limbo” where i put a bunch of stuff with the idea that if i didn’t use it after a time, i could safely get rid of it.

that was two years ago. i can’t remember what’s in it.

how do i even report this bug. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
if razer gaming mouse is plugged into mac, modifier keys on external keyboard are ignored via universal control. i don’t think they have a defect priority low enough to assign to this. i’m just curious how the software can get to this state of dysfunction.

sad to say that my woes with external keyboards and universal control continue with ipados26b4. in this screenshot, the v- devices are the ‘virtual’ ones shared from the mac. nebula is a keyboard, proclick is a mouse, and kn01 is a scrolling knob. if i tap/click on any of them, i don’t get the interface to change the modifier keys.

additional annoyance - on the external keyboard, the modifier keys just don’t work if i have the razer proclick mouse plugged in. not even shift or alt or ctrl.

@irafcummings i like The Beths a lot. you may also. please report back :)

@irafcummings The Beths have a new album dropping next week so there’s probably a single from them today

@marcamos i’m surprised the british haven’t figured out a way to shove a “U” in there

this weekend i started a long-deferred project of replacing the deck boards on our deck (22yo house, they are pretty much cooked). i'm carefully removing the old boards, carefully aligning and spacing the new ones, pre-drilling, countersink boring and screwing down the new boards. it's tedious. i understand why everyone else just nails this stuff.

@annika can’t take the Eastern Time Zone out of the girl?

did some fun javascript to add interesting numbers to my reading website. https://reading.mikesusz.com/

PR: https://github.com/mikesusz/reading.mikesusz.com/pull/9

before & after attached

@cabel fun twist on that, my wife has SSD (Single-Sided Deafness) and she won’t let me buy her a full set of airpods just to ignore one of them. so i find them on ebay where someone lost the (one on her deaf side) and when i explain this to the seller they are usually really stoked that someone is going to get 100%+from the situation they have found themselves in.

working on a function whose name involves the word Anonymous and every time i type it i end up typing Anonymouse

@atpfm @siracusa fiero? ferrari? ;) https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3L66bXyY/1988-pontiac-fiero-mera-conversion

@caseyliss 🎉 well-deserved, Casey!

@fkinoshita :) can't tell if serious but someone wrote an RFC in 1995. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1855

@njf i've been loving it. i don't use it a lot, but what @caseyliss did was remove friction from something i instinctively want to do. before Callsheet i would think "what other movies was that actor in?" and then my brain would think of (that website) and then my brain would think "ugh ads terrible nevermind."

Callsheet means i can be curious and satisfy it without grimacing.

@mescutia good question! i'm lactose intolerant so if i want to update it i'd have to take a pill

i added a 'hamburger' menu to the mobile view of my website and it was more fun that i've had coding in a long long time.

and to think how much it may delight (or confuse) the user who is statistically unlikely to visit and/or discover the feature!

@shanselman

@heymarkreeves yeah mine right now seems limited to the engine-side but i’ve got an endoscope on the way to check out the heater core/dashboard side. if i have to pull the dash i guess that’s on my summer project list.
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my truck is 22 years old. i expect some problems like this. surely they have fixed it by now? in my searching for posts about this topic, i’m finding owners of the 2019+ model having the same problem.

today i began figuring out where the mouse nest is in the cabin-air system of my truck. i found the nest! er, i found _a_ nest. and i may have to disassemble my entire dashboard to disassemble the entire climate control system to find (more). ford could have solved this problem with a piece of wire mesh that costs $0.06.

i have a sneaking suspicion that my tires have been delivered

@atpfm @siracusa maybe your cold water pipes dripped some condensation onto the monitor? 🤔

this week i published a fun little project chronicling books i've read. currently i only list books since owning a Kindle (Amazon keeps track of every book you've purchased or borrowed from a library -- i scraped that info).

in the future i want to backfill pre-Kindle books & start annotating / commenting on entries.

looks super basic and for now that's kinda the point.

the site: https://reading.mikesusz.com/

the repository:
https://github.com/mikesusz/reading.mikesusz.com

@jessamyn privacy by default or developer omission/error? tough to tell nowadays

@jayroh @irafcummings @fred @threetonesun oh is the tv series just based on the first book? i read seven books

designers of grill pans should be legally required to use a grill at least once in their lives. #

my favorite part of this week was the end.

when it ended? that was my favorite part.

@atpfm listening to the liquid glass discussion - i found the intro video from wwdc to make well-reasoned arguments and i think if this is implemented as intended, it will be good. obviously we’re deep in beta territory right now https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219

@irafcummings @threetonesun i look forward to watching this soon since i loved the books so much. it's tough to get the family on-board with episodic television though, perhaps i can just say “there's this new youtuber called ‘Martha Wells’…”

that thing where you've been fretting about how to integrate a new feature/datatype into your existing site in a disparate technology and then 💡

i can just make it a subdomain

i call it “winning the Apple News lottery” when i open up the application and don’t see a photo of the president

a milestone quietly passed this week. 29 years ago, i started my first professional web development job. “Webmaster” at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

@RecDiffs @siracusa @hotdogsladies did you have a similar experience in school?

“michael refuses to apply himself.”

@fred @marcamos does this mean i don’t have to learn metric anymore?

fun exercise: viewing archives of my website on my 34" ultra-widescreen monitor. (inconceivable monitor sizes at the time, of course) https://history.mikesusz.com/

@atpfm @siracusa we've already done AI in a Potato, it was not good

@jsnell @sixcolors a few from my archives that you might like

@annika ooh that's a nice refresh. i went with a lenovo Y34wz-30 because of mini-LED backlight, but i really haven't used HDR much because the bright is BRIGHT.

@annika ooh neat, which one? is it widescreen? i had a monoprice 34" for a while, my wife took that one over and i have a lenovo legion 34" now. i love it. super useful to be able to split the widescreen between two different inputs, e.g. i've got the left half attached to a dock with my work Mac, and the right half displaying my personal Mac.

@irafcummings getpocket.com/export they sent me a link to a .csv of every article i have unread and archived

@_Davidsmith this is so cool and great to see this kinda tech come so far.

i had terrible flashbacks to the 90s & manually skewing and stitching images in photoshop to create 240x180 QTVR movies from my quicktake 100 camera.

@jerzone better yet, i never told the kids what we were doing. we just stopped at a weird parking area at the end of the road and i started walking. lol

@jerzone if you're ever in the area, it's quite a sight. https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/madison-boulder-natural-area

@jerzone okay i have to ask, have you taken the journey over to Madison? i stopped there with my boys on our way home from Mt. Washington and it was ... quite epic for a quick stop.

@annika i remember being blown away when The Flame in the Flood published a cosplay guide when they released the game. this stuff is so cool.