@mikesusz social feed.

@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.

@jerzone had my first acorn of the season bounce off my sunroof while driving the other day. it's probably one of the most alarming things you can experience outside of an accident.

@jerzone yep. i see it when i’m playing or shuffling my new music playlist most. i think for continuous album playback it may not activate? that could be weird

one interesting feature to watch out for in OS26 on Apple devices is AutoMix. i’ve been enjoying it on ipadOS26 beta. it does pretty deep mixing, especially for EDM and techno. sometimes 30-40 seconds deep into or at the end of songs, it will adjust tempo/beatmatch before cross fading. it’s wild.
watch for “Mixing…” under the progress bar.

@RecDiffs my sony tv sits just high enough to fit a ps4.

@fred catch a man a fish, cut down the oak trees. something like that.

seeing acorns dropping in the yard and contemplating which tool to reach for -- the nut roller, or the chainsaw?

“the existence of LactoJoy suggests the existence of LactoHate”

wait yeah. that’s accurate. i’ve had lacto hate for years.

i know i did a lot of things today but i can’t really list them or point to any one specific thing. i’m really tired.

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.