: 🎵Bound Stems, “The Family Afloat” #nowPlaying
: 🎵Gen-Ik, “Just Add Dope” #nowPlaying
: 🎵Last Lungs, “Look at That Old Grizzly Bear” #nowPlaying From back in the days of …
: 🎵Lorenzo Feliciati & Pat Mastelotto, “Portal” #nowPlaying
: Look, I am generally a happy go lucky guy with regard to holidays. But it is time once again for me …
: My sister and I at our Apple ][+, circa 1980.
: Installed new porch lights yesterday. Oh, do I hate working above my head; frustrating, exhausting, …
: 🎵VAST, “Visual Audio Sensory Theater“
: 🎵Pitchshifter, “Infotainment?“
: The 11yo’s self-made costume (w/ some stitching help yesterday from mom and sis to make the …
: 11yo: “I’m having a mental breakdance.” … 17yo: 💃 11yo: “…BREAKDOWN!”
: 🎵 Classic prog nerds: Apple Music has a “Canterbury Scene Essentials” playlist. (Consider myself …
: 🎵 Alex Haas / Bill Laswell, “Nowstalgia”
: The last Friday of (this cycle of) unemployment. New job starts next Wednesday. 😁
: I should have read “Ballad for Sophie” much sooner, such a beautiful melding of story and art. …
: “Indefatigable” is such a weird word. Looks like someone rolled dice to look up a table entry for …
: I imagine these images will get crushed even more, but I had to make an attempt to capture the eerie …
: Spent the week in Oregon with friends, playing games, relaxing, taking turns making dinners, and …
: 🎵 Ron Miles, “Quiver” Had not realised Mr. Miles passed earlier this year. Dammit. Fuck cancer. 😢
: 🎵 Rain Tree Crow, “Rain Tree Crow”
: Been a long time since I watched something that made me think, “WTF did I just watch and why did I …
: Raptor on the front porch this morning. Looks like a Cooper’s Hawk.
: One Pissed-Off Ant Flashback to a late night discovery on late-’90s Seattle public access: Guy with an ant-head mask …
: Model Snake, “Business Lights”
: 22 years ago today, I married my love. I wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am today, nor as happy, …
: This was a welcome sight to see when planning our route this morning. 3,779.5 miles in three …
: This is my last week at Included Health thanks to layoffs. Need to take a bit of time off to …
: “Mad Madam Mim” original Hal King sketch for my recently-departed mother-in-law, whose nickname was …
: Finished listening to “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements”. Longtime fan of the band …
: Approaching 3 weeks away from my wife while she’s been dealing with her mother’s passing, which is …
: Currently re-evaluating what I want in a role. I know I need it to be remote (not interested in …
: My Father’s Day gift from the almost-11yo: A canine and feline sketch collage, their most realistic …
: 🎵 Billy Joel, “52nd Street The first commercially released CD: …
: On Memorial Day, my MIL fell, injuring her head, and still hasn’t awakened in two weeks. Today her …
: 🎵 Elton John, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
: 🎵 Hooray, Bill Rieflin’s “Birth of a Giant” has been digitally re-released!
: Just returned to drizzly Seattle from a road trip to sunny Sonoma County, where we had rented a …
: I managed to grill 10 New York strips to a solid medium-rare last night despite some really nasty …
: 🎵 Srdjan Ivanovic Blazin’ Quartet, “Finding a Way” 30% off MoonJune downloads until June 2 w/ …
: 🎵 Mask of Confidence, “Mask of Confidence”
: 10yo found some line art of interest, printed it out, then colored it. Pretty stunned by the control …
: Daughter found the first (and only) cards for “Candy Wars”, her game idea from when she was ~10. 😁
: Today’s surprise discovery of a film unavailable to stream: “Cocoon”. 😢
: The Return of Summer Toes (and Hobbit Feet) 🥳
: Cleaned up the grill so we could have our first grilled steaks of the year. 😋 Followed it with a …
: 🎵 Tidehouse, “Some Hearts Are Abandoned”
: 🎵 Kite Parade, “The Way Home”
: 🎵 Stephan Thelen, “Fractal Guitar 2”
: 🎵 Material, “Hallucination Engine“ Almost 30 years as a go-to album for chill grooves …
: 🎵 Subsignal, “A Canopy of Stars (The Best of Subsignal 2009 - 2015)“
: Wife was told she no longer needs tamoxifen after 7yrs. Guess that officially makes her a breast …
: Finished reading Jon Reid’s “iOS Unit Testing by Example,” a wonderfully clear and no-frills …
: 🎵 Sparks, “In Outer Space“ TFW you realize one of the albums you hold as a pop gold …
: You still have time to watch “Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist” (which we watched tonight and thoroughly …
: Introducing the kids to “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”. After hooking them on “Castle” (still …
: “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda” was beautiful yet semi-tragic. Plenty of sorrow, incl. talk of his cancer, …
: Introduced a published comics creator to the Crossbar I Rule last night. Still feeling particularly …
: “Mask of Confidence”, Mask of Confidence “A Song of Spring”, Tiger Moth Tales White Knight Records …
: Unsure whether she’s happy I’m using her as a pillow or not. I think she’s purring but she is a …
: Finished watching “Schitt’s Creek” last night, loved it. Such a great cast of eccentric characters, …
: Sorry, did someone say “Buddy Guy documentary I hadn’t heard of whose free PBS viewing period I have …
: Then I remember what my sixth-grade English teacher told me: “You can’t use the Necronomicon for …
: TIL my wife had never seen “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” 😱 Had. 😆
: TIL “groma” is an actual word.
: The cats are absolutely pissed that we are changing their food. They keep herding us over to the …
: I expected my kid learning violin would be a horrorshow. But they came back from school today with …
: Retiring our 16yo! 42” plasma tv. Still totally usable, but replaced w/ a 48” LG OLED in the same …
: 🎵 Sting, “Dream of the Blue Turtles” I’ll scroll past this album months—even years—on end, thinking …
: 🎵 The Crimson ProjeKCt, “Official Bootleg Live 2012” Free (PWYW) from the Euro label: …
: 🎵 The Grassy Knoll, “The Grassy Knoll“
: 🎵 Lunatic Soul, “Walking On a Flashlight Beam”
: 🎥 Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Blu (Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra)” Start your day with a bit of beauty.
: “Next subject: Kowalski, Leon. Engineer, waste disposal.” Introducing the younger kiddo to OG “Blade …
: 🎵 Nicky Skopelitis, “Ekstasis Live”
: To whom it may concern: Please make all episodes of “SCTV” available to stream/download. I really …
: 🎵 TILT, “Million Dollar Wound”
: Let the annual “you are not in our health insurance provider system yet” wild rumpus begin! 🤬
: Hell yes, what a way to end 2021.
: I have a stack of novels that has grown unread for years and it just occurred to me I should just …
: Finding independent artists you love to support is such a joy, sometimes with bonus notes and …
: Starting to suspect I’ve taken enough days off this month (and once again, shoveling snow …
: Fascinated by AppleTV+ “Calls”, a Twilight Zone-ish radio play with visuals (CW: sometimes flashing) …
: Christmas gifts from Minnesotans. 🤣
: If you’re a fan of Rat Pack-era(-ish) Christmas music but have grown tired of the four albums …
: 🎵 livehuman, “elefish jellyphant“
: 🎵 Tiger Moth Tales, “Story Tellers Part Two“ Turns out clever prog tunes based on …
: May you all have the opportunity to be greeted in the morning with a message like “Your chest …
: 🎵 Missy Higgins, “On a Clear Night”
: This month’s spread of Bandcamp Friday variety: Ambient electronic, heavy rock, and unabashed …
: 🎵 Galerie Stratique’s “Nothing Down-to-Earth” is “pay what you want” this month. I still listen to …
: Medical waiting rooms: Not one of these people want to be here, many are dreading what the visit …
: 🎵 Steve Rothery, “The Ghosts of Pripyat”
: 🎵 Leggo Beast, “From Here to G“
: Once again, I wake up to a coding insight that had been eluding me and can start the day with a win. …
: 🎵 Chroma Key, “You Go Now” TIL Kevin Moore is now a practicing psychiatrist in North Dakota. 🤯
: One of those mornings I remember too late that, as beautiful, stunning, and iconic it is, Pink …
: Bob Seger’s music is one of my happy places. Sometimes I need to be reminded of that.
: Well, that explains why our sink stoppers have been troublesome. I had no idea lift rods could …
: I will (eventually) die having never tasted a McRib sandwich and I am so much more than fine with …
: 🎵 Wishbeard, “Live from The Banana Stand”
: Spent much of the morning finally learning just enough about Gmail’s filters and tags to route …
: Goodreads sent me an email saying I was at 49 of 70 books in my 2021 Reading Challenge even though …
: 🎵 Alex Haas & Bill Laswell, “Incidents
: I had not seen any warnings that installing iPadOS 15 would scramble my home screen to show me demo …
: All the “treasure” found under our low deck. Only the Nerf darts are ours. (And yes, a perfectly …
: Just finished clearing out a bunch of old shared Dropbox folders that I no longer even had added but …
: Turns out it’s a good time to reserve items from the library because I’m no longer behind 30 other …
: 🎵 Gear Daddies, “Let’s Go Scare Al“
: It’s too bad you’d probably get sued if you named a spam blocking service “Tigger”: “Because …
: 🎵 Tina and The Total Babes, “She’s So Tuff“ Start your morning with the snotty girl pop …
: 🎵 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “So It Is“
: 🎵 The Qualitons, “Echoes Calling“
: 🎵 Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu, “Miles_Gurtu“
: 🎵 Martin Zellar and The Hardways, “Martin Zellar and The Hardways” Really wish I knew why the Zellar …
: 🎵 Come to Roscoe’s / for delicious food 🎵 This is why I always thought chicken and waffles was a …
: I was not prepared for another leap in the kiddo’s artistic skills. The color/shading on the head …
: This is Artemis. The only regular time she leaves the side of our daughter is in the afternoon to …
: Family was flipping through episode listings and daughter reads off a synopsis that ends “her name …
: 🎵 Supreme Beings of Leisure, “Supreme Beings of Leisure”
: Just bumped up my iPhone font size another notch because I’m tired of needing my reading glasses on …
: I have iPhone shortcuts for entering my weight and blood pressure in the morning. Yesterday I hit …
: Of all the dark Internet rabbit holes for my 10yo to fall down, “starting a business making …
: My graphic novel reading backlog. I have already read all but two of these (some more than once) …
: 🎵 “Upon a wave of summer A hilltop paved with gold We shut our eyes and made The promises we hold A …
: Listening to Neil Peart’s “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road” during my morning walks, …
: 🎵 “We can circle around like hurricanes Dance and dream like lovers Attack the day like birds of …
: Kiddo is aggravated that not only is this cursive handwriting workbook using a font instead of real …
: We are looking for a Sr iOS Dev with mentorship skills to backfill my position as I move on to the …
: 🎵 Shineback, “Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed“
: I like the rules and playing of Hearts, but as soon as someone says “you should have played it this …
: So glad we had air conditioning installed after the “80°F+ indoors because you need to keep your …
: Kiddo: “I’m almost 10; it’s going to be my birthday and I’ll be one year closer to …
: 9yo (almost 10!) has been churning out her original characters. She is very proud of this one: Kib, …
: 🎵 Tina and the Total Babes, “She’s So Tuff“
: Intriguing article about transitioning “tiki” to “thoughtful tropical” and leaving behind the …
: TFW you realize your clever reference to “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” is itself an anachronism now…
: 🎵 Cruzados, “After Dark” One of my favorite rock albums of all time.
: I think it was the Felix Comic Art podcast had the great advice to get commissions and original art …
: WA coast, our first trip in over a year. ❤️
: Returned home from vacation to these wonderful Chrissie Zullo prints and sketchbook. 😍
: What the heck put “Spishak” in my head this fine morning and set me off on a MadTV nostalgia run?
: Today I explained to somebody what to expect for nil-messaged return values in Obj-C—and why—and …
: Good morning, Pokémon GO medal! 😁
: Tri-tip skewers straight off the grill.
: OMG WHAT HATH HUMANITY WROUGHT!? graftedvegetables.com/wp/
: And now she is walking around repeating “You get the ankles and I’ll get the wrists” over and …
: 9yo daughter is asking me to explain Soul Coughing lyrics. 🤣
: 🎵 “It is 5am / And you are listening / To Los Angeles”
: 🎵 Sorten Muld, “Mark IV - Lånt tid”
: My favorite tiny bit of code I wrote this week: extension DateInterval { init(start: Date, duration: …
: 🎵 Banco de Gaia, “Big Men Cry (Special Edition)”
: Finally requested a refund for a concert from last March 18. 🙁
: Chicken thighs fresh off the grill. 😋
: This is taped to my office door. I couldn’t be prouder of my kids. ❤️🩸
: 🎵 Just leaving this song here for anyone who could use it. “You Gotta Be”
: It has been exactly one month since our (double) oven died and we’ve been waiting on …
: Sweet, these “total calories” monthly challenges are usually hardest for me to attain—last …
: 🎵 Steven Wilson, “Routine” 😭😭😭
: Finally evicted the clutter atop and beneath my desk.
: 🎵 “I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar / That much is true” Almost 40yrs later, and I …
: Well, that’s the extent of my overseas travel but there may be other photos dug out. 😕 And …
: “Pants are for the weak!” -my 9yo
: It still frustrates me greatly that on iOS the iTunes Music Store is filled with banners for Apple …
: 🎵 Johnnyswim, “Diamonds” So. Good. 🥰
: The true mark of adulthood is knowing how toilets work, and how to restore them to their normal …
: Me: Damn, I am accumulating way too many Kindle books I haven’t read, just like I do physical books. …
: Last night I had a dream of maskless mixed company and for the first time it only caused some …
: 9yo did a cartoon drawing of our doofus cat, Apollo. Other than the tongue, it’s pretty …
: Wife found a baby bunny in the house, hiding behind the wood carrier next to the fireplace, at 5pm …
: 🎵 Future Folk, “Live on Earth”
: Desire has been rising to just delete my LinkedIn account. Nice to find current status on former …
: 🎵 Genetic Drugs & Jasmon, “Spacecake”
: 🎵 86 The Band, “True Life Songs and Pictures”
: RIP My Mac mini No. 2, 2012–21. 🪦😢
: 🎵 Galerie Stratique, “Nothing Down-to-Earth”
: Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare Revisited 🎸
: 🎵 Laika, “Good Looking Blues“
: 🎵 Mathematicians, “Level One“ True nerdcore. 🤘🤓
: Watching “Groundhog Day” on Daylight Saving change day, hope we don’t open our own time loop as a …
: 🎵 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, “B.L.U.E. Nights”
: I know of no better (and easier) way to continue growing as an iOS developer than by making a habit …
: Today I got to say “I used up all my wrong software opinions 10 years ago, and now I’m only right” …
: One of these years I just might remember the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies make me cry almost as …
: Strange how when I pronounce it PROG-ress it has positive connotations but pro-GRESS carries a sense …
: 🎵 Listening to Asia’s “Omega” and thinking how much I miss John Wetton’s voice. 🥲💜
: 🎵 the JeepJazz Project, “Digital Flavor on the Sonic Frontier” Dang, I think I got this way back in …
: 🎵 Richard Barbieri, “Under a Spell“ Brand new! 😍
: Signed up for Ridwell last night. Hopefully now we can legitimately keep Amazon mailers and other …
: Looks like some fool didn’t fully plan out his workout this morning. 🤪
: Back in the ‘80s, if you had told me I’d be loving progressive rock made (separately by members of …
: 🎵 Public Service Broadcasting, “The Race for Space”
: Pro Tip: You know that UnitTests.swift file in your testing target that you probably ignored? At the …
: I’m going to call this “The Dynamic Type Song”: Arrogant Worms, “All I Want’s a Larger Font”
: That feeling when you realize you accidentally bought a bag of already-ground coffee. At least I was …
: Yup, I still love “The History of Future Folk” so much. That quiet, tender yet absurd humanity hits …
: Time to get your wishlist in order for Bandcamp Friday.
: 🎵 Kevin Moore, “This Is a Recording“ “Nora” makes me melt every time. ❤️
: I need an interlock on my coffee grinder so I can stop accidentally grinding double doses.
: Two movies in one day! “Galaxy Quest” and ”Moon”. I hereby declare January 30 to be national Sam …
: Weekend coffee = Weekend coffee mug ☕️
: You still have a couple hours left to stream “Kodō: Legacy”. Always amazing percussion, musicality, …
: 🎵 For a Minor Reflection, “For a Minor Reflection - EP“
: It’s 2021 and I still reflexively respond to someone saying “Okay, so…” with “Here’s the Earth.” …
: 🎵 Hammerbox, “Numb“ One of those albums I just can’t listen to at a …
: This house will never be ADA-compliant without a studs-out remodel, but at least now two of the …
: 🎵 Amel Larrieux, “Infinite Possibilities”
: I still have to pause every time someone asks me “what’s your favorite color?” Because not …
: Graphic Novel Tsundoku I read most of my comics/graphic novels digitally these days. It helps that they tend to be cheaper …
: 🎵 John Hiatt, “The Tiki Bar Is Open“
: 🎵 Suba, “São Paulo Confessions“
: 🎵 OSI, “Office of Strategic Influence“
: 🎵 Brass Against, “Brass Against“
: Health insurance is such bullshit. In what other industry can they just refuse to provide you the …
: Diamond Fist Werny Started reading Axel Mundi’s “alien at the door: Diamond Fist Werny and the Seattle Music …
: Was about to throw out some annoying closed-cell styrofoam when I realized I could use them as …
: The 9yo made a 35-page comic over holiday break, leaving me feeling like I have accomplished …
: Never forget that month 13 is out of bounds. (I’m looking at you, 2020. 👀) …
: 2021 Resolution #21: Remember more often that I can filter the variables pane rather than dig …
: FYI, if you used “YYYY” in your date formatter, it’s already 2021. 😲
: I should be surprised when I realize the data management system I’m designing/implementing is …
: 🎵Bob Mould Band, “LiveDog98: The Forum, London UK” Yeah, I’ve really been in the mood for raw …
: TIL you can still buy ringtones from the iTunes Store. 😳
: Curse you Smoketember for breaking my year of monthly challenges streak. 😡
: 🎵Strontium 90, “Police Academy”
: 🎵Bound Stems, “Appreciation Night”
: 🎵Bob Mould Band, “Live at ATP 2008”
: Ordered a “take and make” Christmas dinner from www.ethanstowellrestaurants.com . Pretty sure we …
: Do me a personal favor this holiday and double-plus love your loved ones. Hug them tight if you can …
: Been look into safety bars for our bath and toilet area and now I am angry at myself for ever …
: Subscribed to apps and media services in the App Store? Go review your account’s subs in the App …
: 🎵 I love to sing-a About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a 🎵 I actually want to believe …
: We are on the… sixth?… play of “Running with the Wolves” from the “Wolfwalkers” soundtrack because …
: 🎵 Sweet! Cruzados’ “After Dark” is available in iTunes and Apple Music. The last time I …
: I miss double-tap to zoom on web pages. 😫
: Wife last night: “Why do you have glitter on your face?” Me: “Strip club.” Wife: “Ha ha. Really, …
: OMG shipping this holiday season is madness. 🤯
: Never try cancer, kids. Not even once. 😢 Fuck cancer. 🤬
: On the plus side, it’s actually a bit of a relief to not have a string of office and other …
: Turns out we don’t have Xmas cookie cutters, so the kids ad libbed. Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear; …
: Dammit, I am already planning to watch “The Fountain” and ugly cry again this holiday season. …
: Dreamed last night of finally being able to get together safely with close friends; we immediately …
: It never ceases to amaze me how many times I can spend a full day fighting to implement something …
: Another weekend, another bandaid on my finger. Two, in this case, so I guess I was more “productive” …
: New pro tip: If upgrading a family member’s iPhone for a gift, double-check the billing info …
: 🎵 “This concludes a gentle and discreet album that doesn’t require the validation of being …
: Received our 5 decks of Queeng cards this week, earmarked for gifts so haven’t played them yet. Want …
: Played “The Pharoah’s Tomb” as a family today and enjoyed it quite a bit. Well-designed puzzle …
: Sorry, just realized I didn’t remember what either “JVC” or “VHS” stood for and had to go look them …
: 🎵 Therapy?, “Greatest Hits (2020 Versions)“
: 🎵 Sugar, “File Under: Easy Listening“
: 🎵 Frost*, “Falling Satellive - Live 2017“
: The Annual Christmas Light Troubleshooting 🤬 has come early this year.
: “Roof pig! Most unexpected!” -The Tick
: 🎵 Pitchshifter, “www.pitchshifter.com“
: Happy Birthday, Jeff. You are missed.
: Another COVID dream (luckily only my 3rd) where we’re in a large group of unmasked people and …
: 9yo noticed Railroad Tycoon on the shelf and requested we play. I figured it would be too involved …
: Holding my wife’s new iPhone 12 mini has me pondering exchanging my 12 Pro for one. The mini …
: 🎵 Kelly Joe Phelps, “Roll Away the Stone“
: 🎵 Gear Daddies, “Billy’s Live Bait”
: 🎵 Public Service Broadcasting, “Inform-Educate-Entertain”
: Looks like it’s the 9yo’s turn for her coloring skills to explode. 😍 (She admits she got a bit …
: ☑️ 8pm commemorative double(+?) of Woodford Reserve
: I really hate having to decide between “canceled” and “cancelled”, and trying to reconcile that with …
: Why haven’t we outlawed hold music that clips and distorts yet!?
: 🎵 Various Artists, “Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 1 Mixtape)“
: I really wanted to like “Archive” but it just didn’t add anything new for me. Some beautiful …
: 🎵 Jakszyk, Fripp, and Collins, “A Scarcity of Miracles”
: 🎵 King’s X, “Faith Hope Love“
: 🎵 Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, “At the Jazz Corner of the World (Vol. 1 & 2)“
: Art world advice, please: An original artwork I bought ~25yrs ago is not signed. I have contacted …
: It’s a weird mix of emotions to look through emails from 10+yrs ago discussing iOS projects …
: My parents gave my wife a “Carol Burnett Show” DVD set for her bday. Watching it w/ the kids and …
: 🎵 Missy Higgins, “The Sound of White”
: Allow me to introduce the newest Disney Princess.
: 🎵Triumph, “Classics” One of the greatest “Greatest Hits” albums in rock, yet seems almost …
: 🎵 Andy Summers, “The Golden Wire” Another great album that doesn’t seem to be available digitally. …
: 🎵 The Saturday Knights, “Mingle“
: 🎵 Slivovitz, “Bani Ahead” Just groovin’ to some instrumental jazzchaos while avoiding the …
: The 9yo’s new media: Marker applied with scotch tape. (actual size 3”x3”) 😍
: 🎵 Steve Jansen, “Tender Extinction“
: Just learned that if you say “preciseness” unironically, I will scream unironically.
: 🎵 David Sylvian & Robert Fripp, “Damage” Not sure when this was added to iTunes Store and Apple …
: Looks like Smokepocalypse has trashed my chance of hitting a full year of Apple Health monthly …
: Not usually an audience recording fan, but found myself discovering some old shows I was at via …
: No mobile user is glad to see your splash screen and I can’t believe you waste an image slot …
: Services whose account creation form has a password strength indicator, but an (unspecified, …
: It bothers me to know that I now own a Watch capable of 3D Touch but which does not use that …
: Taking a break from “what we need to do”: Thank you to the family of Justice Ginsburg for sharing …
: If an analytics company ever came up with a planning and spec UI for their events, we developers …
: reloadData in viewWillAppearshould a segfault, it would actually be less user-unfriendly.
: “Outside looks like a movie flashback scene, and that is not good.” -The 9yo
: I really want to delete my Instagram account; I never use it and, well, it’s Facebook. But …
: 9yo has been dead-set insistent on s’mores this week, despite smoke and heat and burn ban. So …
: Welp, looks like I’m not going for my morning walk. 😬
: Saw an owl on my walk this morning. After I got as good a photo as I could and started continuing my …
: Employer gave everyone (compable) Fri off. Read Joyce Farmer’s heartbreaking “Special Exits” …
: Today's Bandcamp Friday Haul: Paul Haslinger, “Austerlitz EP” preorder and “Lost Signal” single Martin Zellar, “Many Moods of”, …
: Dangit, how do I keep finding more music to buy each Bandcamp Friday? 😆🎵❤️
: We had sushi from our favorite place for dinner tonight, couldn’t break our first-day-of-school …
: Thoroughly enjoyed the Go-Go’s documentary yesterday, and totally on board with “WTF do you mean …
: May 17 vs Aug 29. Some plants were added or moved, and the mostly-afternoon sun aspect has had some …
: So my wife is now technically a four-time cancer survivor. At least this one was the …
: 🎵 Martin Zellar & The Hardways, “Roosters Crow“
: 🎵 Bettie Serveert, “Attagirl“
: Balsamic glaze pork loin on the grill, with a side of King Crimson (“Elements 2014”) and glass of …
: 🎵 Queen Latifah (feat. Monie Love), “Ladies First”
: Yet another person telling me they’d prefer to get a new book as eBook over paperback because …
: Okay, I ❤️ “Palm Springs”. 👍👍
: 20 years ago today, I leveled up and married the woman who keeps making me better. I love you, …
: 🎵 Public Service Broadcasting, “Every Valley“
: The 7th (current) edition eBook of Big Nerd Ranch’s excellent “iOS Programming” is on …
: 🎵 Quantum Pig, “Songs of Industry and Sunshine“
: We have a family schtick of saying “The cat is dead!” whenever one of them is just crashed out in …
: 🎵 The Clumsy Lovers, “Still Clumsy After All These Years“
: 🎵 Alex Haas & Bill Laswell, “Smoke + Glass”
: 🎵 David Sylvian, “A Victim of Stars 1982–2012”
: 🎵 Lionrock, “City Delirious“ (pretty low-quality video of one of the tracks, but more …
: Really wish I could purchase an HD copy of Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall” right now.
: I was just asked by the 9yo to explain what pocket protectors are (were?). She responded with …
: Well, that was a “fun” couple hours wondering how I could be screwing up something as …
: Me: “Then I realized kids these days don’t even know Celine Dion!” 9yo: “You mean …
: “Double aloha” has entered the family lexicon for 🖕🖕”thanks” to “Locke & Key”. 🤭
: Well, that was interesting. 🤔 Watch periodically becomes unresponsive, seems to coincide w/ draining …
: Entering my last week of unemployment: Next Monday I start as Sr iOS Dev at Doctor on Demand. 🥳 Many …
: 🎵 If people could stop sucking If people could stop sucking If people could stop sucking The world …
: 🎵 King Crimson, “The Elements of King Crimson 2014”
: Watching movies has gone from “remember when we could meet people at the gate?” to “remember when we …
: A subselection of the cat crinkle balls fished out from under the fridge yesterday.
: Last night I realized I’d never seen “The Hunger”. Should have left it at that. 😬
: 🎵 Wishbeard, “I Don’t Care About My Hair (Live on KEXP)“
: Still bothers me I can’t set day variations on my Watch. “No, you can’t do 900cal just 5days/wk and …
: I bought “Fire in the Valley” quite a while ago but sadly left it languish on my digital bookshelf. …
: Some mornings are just too darn nice to go on my usual walk. Need to just sit here, do some reading, …
: 8yo daughter comes running out, says “Dad, quick! Water is coming out of the bathroom!” 😳 😆
: “Tuesday is no good for the Eradicator.”
: 🎵 The Spinners, “The Very Best of The Spinners“ Add some musical joy to the end of your day; …
: Wonderful NYT profile of MN restaurateurs Mateo Mackbee and Erin Lucas whose Model Citizen …
: ICYMI, I am on the hunt for a nicely-fitting lead/principal macOS/iOS engineering position. Would …
: 🎵 Kaki King, “Legs to Make Us Longer”
: Now that I have finally reached my 1,000th Move Goal, I get to be tormented by the non-parallel …
: Still grumpy that “Freaks and Geeks” is apparently unavailable digitally.
: Pulled out two games older than the kids for family play today: Hoity Toity: All loved it, wife …
: 🎵 Jansen/Barbieri, “Other Worlds in a Small Room”
: Earlier this week we had to reboot our… dishwasher to correct its behavior. Software WTF 🤷♂️
: 🎵 “John Hiatt Essentials” I usually try to avoid sharing service (Apple Music) playlists but …
: 🎵 Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, “Changes (Live on KEXP)” 😭
: Imagining Clark Kent in an EverlyWell commercial, saying “the results came back and surprise, …
: The 8yo has provided us with a schematic for the cure. ❤️
: First WWDC Keynote I have been able to advance my Stand ring during. 👍
: Oh wow, a capper Father’s Day original from the 14yo. 🥰
: Father’s Day with the family: Played “Monkeys on the Moon” Watched “Knives Out” Chili for …
: Starting summer off with my kind of rosé: Not sweet, and lets you know it’s both white and red.
: Cracking up that tomorrow is the last day of school for our kids, and it’s still on the …
: If one were to spend one’s days writing an app to track their job search activities for …
: We were playing Coup earlier, a game our 14yo loves but wife and I find incredibly frustrating. …
: High school/college kids playing 3-on-3 at the corner basketball hoop and I can’t help thinking this …
: 🎵 Stefan Huth, “Time” One of those albums that is just recorded so simply and purely, it cuts all …
: 🎵 “Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Original Cast Recording)“
: New podcast rule I made for myself: As soon as rumors and speculation kick in, I am deleting the …
: My goal last fall was to find my last job before I retire. Looks like thanks to the pandemic that …
: Oh, to have the opportunity to work with so many people at the top of their field (drumming). And to …
: 🎵 Diamond Fist Werny, “Live in Seattle: Selected Performances 1995–1996“ Didn’t …
: 🎵 Stephan Thelen, “Fractal Guitar Remixes and Extra Tracks“
: 8yo: “How do you make-a da butt?” Me (sensing a trap, or at least a bad joke): “Uhhh…what?” 8yo: …
: 🎵 Bernie Worrell, “Elevation: The Upper Air” Whenever I need “beautiful, relaxing music”, this is …
: I need to figure a way to keep classical music more readily available in Sonos. I just keep …
: Yay, my first distancing nightmare. 😰 Attending a low-budget comedy show; they were still setting up …
: 🎵 Richard Barbieri, “Stranger Inside”
: Restoring to a new iPad is showing me just how many apps don’t store their login credentials …
: Introducing my daughters to The Arrogant Worms via “Carrot Juice Is Murder” followed of course by “I …
: If you love “Galaxy Quest”, you need to watch/own “Never Surrender”. The only thing that could have …
: My wife, who grew up in Pasadena, just asked me (the Minnesotan) how to spell “Anaheim”. 🤦♂️
: Converting the back mezzanine to a vegetable garden. This has been a wishlist item since we moved in …
: 🎵 Billy Squier, “The Tale of the Tape“
: Existential GO: Uncertain whether the Pokémon are summoning me or binding me.
: Text to my hair stylist: “You can fix a mohawk when this is all over, right? Do I need to pay a …
: Farewell, coffee grinder, you will be missed. We had many great cups together over the years, but …
: So, it was a “fun” afternoon of hunting down an important package from Amazon that was about to be …
: Nobody told me there might come a time when my near vision would be bad enough to not be able to see …
: If you want to properly support Dynamic Type on iOS, design for the larger content sizes first. Then …
: Finally got around to watching HBO’s “The Inventor” Theranos doc. It’s amazing how many …
: 🎵 Dweezil Zappa, “Confessions of a Deprived Youth“ I love this album, but I also …
: Music decided to try adding a new “Get Up! Mix” to my watch without me requesting it, and drained my …
: Now is not a good time to shatter the screen of your iPhone SE. Like my wife’s. 😱
: Still smiling about the van I saw yesterday with “REOWAGN” license plates.
: The opening riff to Hall & Oates’ “Sarah Smile” still makes me melt. Every. Time.
: I am not a THC/CBD person. Today was the first time I’ve been at a pot shop since well before …
: This is not what I expected when I ordered 10 wall plates from Amazon. 😬
: 🎵 Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell, “Realm of Spells“
: 🎵 IQU, “Chotto Matte a Moment!“ One of those albums I “rediscover” every …
: “Adventures in Cable Pulling, or How I Finally Got Four Lines of Gb Ethernet to My Basement Office” …
: Now that webcams seem to be in extremely limited availability, I wonder what I could get for my …
: Instead of socially isolating with tacos and margaritas as planned yesterday, we spent 6hrs at the …
: Never been happier to have enabled parental controls/approvals on a child’s account.
: I realize I’m not the first to reach this milestone, but I do believe I’ve hit the point …
: I always forget that Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You” is about being a mistress …
: If you like trick-taking games and want to mess with it to make it a bit more of …
: 🎵 The Clumsy Lovers, “Live!”
: 🎵 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, “Nothing But the Water”
: 🎵 Matthew Sweet, “Girlfriend”
: Unreasonably upset that there still isn’t a high-quality copy of SNL’s “Macintosh Jr.” (“The …
: 🎵 Shineback, “Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed“
: Found myself going back and dusting off Prune by resetting my progress to just enjoy its beautifully …
: I am not really willing to recount the events leadin up to our family listening to an Apple Music …
: Every time I eat a pear, I think, “Pears are so amazing! We don’t I do this more often!?” Then …
: 🎵 Time to introduce the family to Orbital’s “In Sides”
: Arrogant Worms, “I Grew a Beard”
: Orchids. A new bloom (re)joined the family today!
: My Apple Watch 4’s battery life has gone into the toilet lately. Just me? ☹️
: Haven’t managed to find enough time to just chill with the blossoming back yard during this …
: 🎵 Bill Rieflin, “Birth of a Giant“
: 🎵 Bill Ward, “Ward One: Along the Way“
: 🎵 David Gilmour, “David Gilmour“
: I regret ever buying box sets from the iTunes Store, regardless of what a bargain they were. I have …
: 🎵 Richard Barbieri, “Variants.1“
: 🎵 Herbie Hancock, “Inventions & Dimensions”
: Such a great feeling to introduce a new trick-taking game and not only have the bridge player in the …
: 🎵 Arrogant Worms, “Songs from Inside the House” 🤣🤣🤣
: 🎵 The Senate Arcade, “All the Weeks and Highways“
: 🎵 Faraquet, “The View from This Tower“
: 🎵 Mos Generator, “The Late Great Planet Earth Suite: Parts I–XII“ Epic and, at this …
: 🎵 Arrogant Worms, “You Can’t Play a Sad Song on the Ukelele”
: 🎵 Minus the Bear, “They Make Beer Commercials Like This“
: Thought isolation would be a good time to introduce the girls to dungeon crawls by playing Descent …
: Just got stomped by the 14yo in a game of Suburbia using the “Bureaucracy” themed set, the first …
: TIL the Catalina Music app changed its library location from iTunes Media/Music to Music/Media, …
: 🎵 Blue Öyster Cult, “Fire of Unknown Origin“
: “To raise even more awareness around the pandemic’s impact on musicians everywhere, we’re waiving …
: 🎵 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Streetcore“
: Tip: Remember to delete tickets from Apple Wallet for shows that have been COVID-canceled unless you …
: “When did they make a movie of ‘Heathers’?” - my 14yo daughter. 🤦♂️
: 🎵 Brass Against, “Brass Against III“
: 🎵 Yes, “Fragile“ It always surprises me how loud I turn it up for …
: I get an amazing jolt every time I see my name in a publication, I can only imagine how it feels to …
: Now I’m wondering if I could get the kids interested in my Apple //e in the coming weeks …
: When life gives you lemons (and a cassette player to hook up)…
: 🎵 Iron Maiden, “Powerslave“ You’re right, Apple Music “For You” …
: If COVID-19 is the first time your company has tried remote work, start suggesting a retrospective …
: OMG, “Balance” is 30 years old. It’s still amazing. 😍
: I just made myself so much happier with multiple monitors. 😁
: 🎵 Vulfpeck, “Live at Madison Square Garden“
: 🎵 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “So It Is“
: “Reply All” is one of my favorite podcasts; new episodes jump straight to the top of my queue. The …
: 🎵 Steve Jansen, “Tender Extinction“
: 🎵 Trey Gunn, “The Third Star“
: The almost-daily Apple Card and Apple Cash push notifications have hit the point of feeling more …
: We just told our 8yo that she had a Wilderness Trial to survive when she turned 10, and the only way …
: 🎵 The Dirtbombs, “Ultraglide in Black“
: 🎵 The Crimson ProjeKCt, “Live in Tokyo“
: 🎵 Poundhound, “Massive Grooves from the Electric Church of Psychofunkadelic Grungelism Rock …
: 🎵 Sylvan, “Artificial Paradise“
: 🎵 Kansas, “Drastic Measures“ I know this is a pretty hated Kansas album, but I love it. …
: 🎵 Steven Wilson, “To the Bone“
: “Oh, you know, nothing too exciting… just trying to figure out how to clean up some damage to my …
: “Please update your popup blocker to allow this site to creat new windows before proceeding.” What …
: Mary Poppins Returns: So! Many! Stripes!
: In other news, discovering Bill Laswell has a bandcamp discography means I probably need a second …
: 🎵 Material, “Hallucination Engine”
: Episode 4 of “Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts”: In which I say “wow, that snake sounds so much like …
: 🎵 Pure Reason Revolution, “The Dark Third“
: Daughter’s new socks: “I’m a girl. What’s your super power?”
: TIL that our taxpayer-funded baseball stadium changed from “Safeco Field” to “T-Mobile Park” a full …
: TFW you revisit assumptions and discover that you probably do have the capability for a whole new …
: 🎵 Lonely Robot, “Please Come Home“
: 🎵 Mos Generator, “Night of the Lords“
: 🎵 The Fierce and The Dead, “If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe“
: Just rectified the fact that I’d never watched “Uncle Jack”, a quick burst of hyperkinetic fun from …
: Happy to be home with my boy. Seems he feels the same. 😺
: 🎵 Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Playing the Piano 2013 in Yokohama”
: Then I watched “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” which is nothing like the graphic novel I love. But …
: Finally watched “The Frame” (I love “Ink”) and while I don’t believe I caught all the subtexts, it …
: Waking up to a world where I won’t receive @jeffmc’s facetious advice to drink heavily or be able to …
: Dammit, universe, be kinder to my friends.
: “Singles” holds this sweet spot in my dichotomous life with Paul Westerberg representing my MN …
: “I’m probably sterile; it runs in my family.”
: Watching “Singles” for the first time in almost 20 years and thinking (among other things) that …
: 🎵 Fifth Angel, “Time Will Tell“
: 🎵 Metal Church, “Blessing in Disguise“
: 🎵 The Model Rockets, “Hilux“
: 🎵 Screaming Trees, “Sweet Oblivion“
: 🎵 Sweet, Sorten Muld is kickstarting a new album. “Mark II” and “III” were some of my highlights at …
: “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” was wonderful. Neither a hagiography nor a dirt-filled …
: 🎵 Rush, “Hold Your Fire” One of my personal favorite Rush albums. A great blend of seriousness and …
: Don’t really know why I decided this morning to start listening through the Rush studio albums …
: I’m going to call this one a “Google fail”.
: TFW it finally dawns on you that the iTunes Store for music is hidden by default on Catalina. 😫 …
: Sitting here on New Year’s Eve thinking about the people I haven’t spent as much time with this year …
: 🎵 Industrial Revelation, “Old Man Soul” might be my song of the decade.
: I swear I wasn’t trying to dig up my electronics graveyard.
: Younger daughter gave me an inspirational poster for my home office! 🥰
: Daughter took one of the sketches from her art “collage” and watercolored it as her Xmas gift …
: Where did this UX trend begin of changing a checkbox/switch’s label to reflect current state (or …
: I have only ever seen “The Good Girl” once, but every time I watch “Elf”, the first scene with Zooey …
: “Life is pain. Get used to it.”
: Every time I use our Xbox One, I get so frustrated with the UI. It just seems implemented to lose …
: 🎵 Eddy Arnold, “Christmas with Eddy Arnold” My favorite Christmas album nobody else seems to know.
: ‘Tis the season for updated privacy policies. 😕
: Apologies to the cast of “Freaks & Geeks” but, even though they’ve done great things the …
: I‘ve been staring at my annual physical bloodwork, stunned that my blood glucose has dropped from …
: 🎵 Stephan Thelen, “Fractal Guitar“
: I never would have predicted that one of my 8yo’s often-used phrases would be “soooo …
: 14yo daughter laid out a collage of her favorite (approved for sharing) artwork from 2019. Always …
: There are some great deals on boardgames direct from Eagle-Gryphon Games right now. I just purchased …
: Another excellent track choice from @theweeklylisten, even if the episode is shorter than the track …
: Seriously, you don’t need to cram more items in a grid on AppleTV. Let them breathe; let me read.
: The one time we did a family photo shoot intending to make Christmas cards, the photographer didn’t …
: One of these decades, we are going to feel stable enough in our living situation to get our shit …
: 14yo daughter needs a “scientific calculator” for school so I’m handing her my HP-42S. Please tell …
: 🎵 Andy Summers, “Charming Snakes”
: December 2, 2019: The last of the household’s Santa Believers has fallen. There is both a collective …
: One of our cats has spent a large chunk of the last three days sitting in the hall, staring up at a …
: For the record, it wasn’t anything Star Wars that got us to sign up to Disney+, it was wanting to …
: 8yo expressed confusion at these Monty Python magnets in my office so I lost of bit of the afternoon …
: A call to my iPhone rings on every one of my Apple devices; will we ever be able to check voicemail …
: “I thought they said ‘Disney Frozen Chew Toys’.” - just one of many reasons to love my wife 🥰😂
: Center-aligned paragraphs of text are evil and should be illegal.
: In retrospect, I should have expected this many questions about the black velvet El Vez poster on my …
: TFW Apple Books on the desktop is totally unusable due to continually requiring password entry, …
: More often than not these days, Mobile Safari’s Smart Zoom (double-tapping to zoom in on a …
: Ah, 8-year olds: “Kitty Cat Daycare: No humans allowed (unless you’re here to pick up or drop off …
: 🎵 Mos Generator, “The Dance of Red” Mahavishnu Orchestra + King Crimson = 😍😍😍
: 🎵 Exit North, “Book of Romance and Dust”
: 🎵 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Two (Live at Sydney Opera House)” Been a while since I put on …
: Ugh, email announcing a planned lockdown drill at kid’s school. At least it unintentionally …
: Am I the only one who looks at crowdfunding campaigns for charging- and other power-related projects …
: Pretty stoked to be starting my new position next Monday: Principal Software Developer at Mimeo, …
: Downloading WWDC videos brings my iPad to a crawl. 😢
: Kicked off my final week of unemployment by watching “General Magic”. A wonderful documentary, but …
: 🎵 Mos Generator, “Breaker” If anyone else were awake in the house right now, this song would be …
: Wow, I didn’t expect this week to be so stressful but it ended up highly positive. …
: The irony of a Facebook page throwing a captcha to determine whether I am human.
: 🎵 TIL @carriemakre has a new album out. So far it is, as expected, awesome.
: 🎵 Crash Test Dummies, “God Shuffled His Feet”
: I tend to listen to a lot more Ted Leo around election days because I first came to his music …
: 🎵 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, “The Tyranny of Distance”
: While I was in high school, we found a design for this bandsaw-cut set. We bought the wood and had …
: My father made us a beautiful hardwood chess set for our wedding. This is actually the first time we …
: Talk to me about Christmas before Nov 29 and I will cut you. 🎄🔪
: Kind of surprised there isn’t a phone system technology yet to negotiate reconnecting on call drops …
: 🎵 Bonnie Raitt covering INXS: Proof that awesomeness is multiplicative, not additive.
: Even though she didn’t go all-in on full-body costuming (it’s just over 40°F), I am pretty impressed …
: Listening to daughter’s friends trading their candy haul. What’s the most “underappreciated” …
: Little voice in my brain nagging all morning, “It’s either ‘rub it in your face’ or ‘rub your nose …
: Revisiting music I hadn’t listened to in a while, and Maggie Björklund’s “Summer Romance” triggered …
: “Daddy, you did a good job of staying on task though!” -8yo rubbing my face in it for trying to get …
: 🎵 I can’t imagine Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Lenny” will ever age. So amazingly beautiful. 🥰 …
: I think the 14yo wins this year with the “Burning Elmo” Jack-o-lantern. 🎃😂
: It’s not often that I regret a 99cent rental and the time involved, but “Gloria Bell” was an …
: Family Sharing Q: How are these apps getting past Screen Time’s “Block at End of Time Limit” for All …
: A few songs for which I can never remember the recording artist because they don’t “fit in” to the …
: Looks like having less than 2mo left on AppleCare+ should save my daughter ~$400 on repairing her …
: Apple’s HealthKit/app suffers one of those curses of always wanting more from it. I want more …
: 🎵 Hibou, “Halve” Beautiful light and airy electropop.
: Being a parent of a middle-schooler is finding out that the lighthearted “what happened here with …
: Pretty excited to get the first Mac this week I’ve bought for myself since a 2012 mini: A …
: 🎵 Planes on Paper, “The East End Session”
: “Fine, I’ll just go clean up my room and end my life!” Teenage drama begins as early as 8 years old, …
: Getting really frustrated with text in almost every AppleTV app. Not only is the font consistently …
: Growing numbers of bandaids on my hands: The cost of needing to give a cat regular oral antibiotics. …
: Discovered that I can see a bunch of contract apps I worked on in my Purchase history that are no …
: “Well, we made a kid cry so I’d say Phase One was a success.” - And just like that, I am a fan …
: I am amazed at the number of Temple Run clones/licensees my kids still play on a regular basis.
: Trying to convince the 8yo that she needs to show her work in a more detailed manner than “I counted …
: As if I weren’t having a hard enough time with iOS 13’s text selection & editing gesture …
: Yesterday a friend showed me how to transfer Pokemon I thought were untransferrable and my Pokemon …
: It is 2019: We have algorithmic social media feeds, but Cheap Trick’s live version of “I Want …
: Back from a week in Cancún for the wonderful and inspiring Release Notes conference + family time …
: If your app doesn’t highlight tap targets, you better have instantaneous responses to my taps so I …
: Reminder: Xcoders 15th Anniversary This Thursday. xcoders.org/2019/10/0…
: I have spoiled my children: Not only are they not used to commercials and not having shows on …
: It was when the legs extended that I knew she had truly achieved a new comfort level. 😸
: 🎵 The Replacements, “Dead Man’s Pop” Wow, what a changed mix! 😍
: Just sold @brentsimmons on Bold Text and discovered that switching Bold Text on/off in iOS 13 no …
: Rather stunned at how thrown off I’ve been by the iPhone Mail.app moving the Delete toolbar button …
: ✅ Used the new “Find My” app to prove that my wife was indeed sitting on her “missing” iPhone even …
: TIL there are people who tell git to treat their pbxproj files as undiffable (via .gitattributes) so …
: My new hobby seems to be “well, actually”-ing reCaptchas. 😖
: Most revealing part of this journey was realizing how laughable the “Nightmare on Elm Street” …
: 8yo is on a sleepover so we gave the almost-14yo free rein to choose a mature film she has wanted to …
: Flipping through my iTunes movie collection and, umm… this ain’t right… 🤪
: The irony of being asked to address Big-O notation for sort algorithms when it’s obvious your …
: “Comic Lab” is a podcast highlight of my week—I love how someone aptly described it as “‘Car Talk’ …
: There’s been a long enough grace period where we can now fine websites that rely on you disabling …
: Finally caught my last Dragon-type to close out the medals. 🏅
: Online job applications: Looks I’ll be up against time travelers trying to get through this …
: 🎵 Chroma Key, “Dead Air for Radios“
: 😲 Discovered 1980s “Night Flight” episode excerpts are on Amazon Prime Video. It’s going to be …
: My major accomplishment for the day is cleaning and reorganizing the pantry. Peak Boring …
: Look, I fully understand that language evolves with usage but the thought that “definately” might …
: The million typing monkeys have finally produced the unexpectedly perfect combination of words: Big …
: OMG there were a lot of people at @xcoders tonight I hadn’t seen in a while. So awesome. 😁
: Making a concerted effort toward Inbox Zero, currently down to 120. Suspecting I might finally have …
: Xcoders 15th Anniversary 😳😁 xcoders.org/2019/09/1…
: Rest of my family still refuses to eat bananas once they actually become ripe: Just softening and …
: Does it bug anyone else the way most digital calendar appointments are titled from the other …
: 🎵 Presto Ballet, “The Days Between“
: 🎵 Cosmograf, “When Age Has Done Its Duty”
: Daughter watching the lightning.
: Damn, I love me a good thunderstorm; it’s one of the few things I miss from growing up in the …
: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
: TIL your Apple Card goes back to white when you pay it off. Apparently the colors only reflect your …
: Ugh, playing “Dead or Not?” with a random ’80s playlist. 😢
: Protecting my fat stack o’ worms in Pickomino.
: TFW you’re on your morning walk, your right AirPod goes “pop”, then left-audio only, …
: BTW, in case it wasn’t obvious or you forgot: I am looking for a new position leading an iOS team to …
: Pro Tip: When you reject a candidate to “move forward with another candidate”, let your for-hire …
: Would have sworn we had >2 Wii controllers. Went to local Another Castle, bought 2 motion+ …
: OH: “They seem just smart enough to manage to get on a city bus, but not enough to actually get to …
: Based on this Apple Music playlist, I am thinking 1986 might be the overall greatest (pop) rock year …
: 🎵 Mandolin Orange, “Tides of a Teardrop“
: 🎵 The Qualitons, “Echoes Calling”
: We last saw Teatro Zinzanni 16yrs ago, so last night was the first visit for my daughters (and …
: Been a long while since I walked to the beach in the morning. I needed this.
: 🎵 “Private eyes… Watching you… Bing bing bang bang Ding ding dang “Private eyes… Watching …
: A growing number of my middle school daughter’s friends are identifying as non-binary… and I …
: My middle school daughter is pissed at the world. She sees college as only debt, and independent …
: Discovered the 8yo had been bypassing Parental Controls on her laptop account by using a Guest …
: 🎵 Faraquet, “Anthology 1997–98”
: Apparently the “traditional” 19th anniversary is “bronze”. Seems I am breaking with tradition by …
: OH: “How a company treats applicants, even the ones they don’t hire, is vitally important. It’s kind …
: 🎵 Bill Rieflin, “Birth of a Giant“ Curious why this isn’t available online but the …
: 🎵 The Damage Manual, “Limited Edition“
: 🎵 Suicidal Tendencies, “Lights… Camera… Revolution“
: TIL: Setting tableViewCell.selectionStyle=.none is only visual, and activated cells still read …
: Totally in love with coding Units and Measurements in Foundation. The syntax can be a bit quirky to …
: 🎵 Killing Joke, “Pandemonium” 25 years old! 🤘🤘🤘
: Tree cat! She climbed up and settled in for a while, even though this thing is usually crawling with …
: 13yo drew this Nao Tomori on the back of a kid’s menu at dinner tonight.
: 🎵 Richard Barbieri & Steve Jansen, “Lumen”
: 🎵 The Postal Service, “Give Up”
: Finishing with one of the best 33-card games ever: “No Merci/No Thanks”
: Next card game that messes with your head, only with tricks: “Rage”
: “6 Nimmt!” is still one of the most enjoyable evil low-complexity games for 5+ players. 😁😈 …
: Apparently I never saw the video for Yes’ “Rhythm of Love” before. So much male gaze, and then …
: Always love finding directories named $(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER) in the Application Support folder …
: Not urgent, but officially entertaining new offers for employment. If you have ever wanted to work …
: There must be one hell of a story behind why: There’s a “Banana Splits Movie” made in 2019 …
: Huh, had never known or noticed that in Settings > Touch ID & Passcode, if you hold a finger …
: You only have 3 days remaining to get in on what may be the only printing of Jason Brubaker’s …
: Is there a “corporate ethical compatibility matchmaking” service/site for people who are looking to …
: Hot. Still got a photo of the seemingly neverending stream of tiny fishies. 🥵
: Yup, glad I sprung for the XS camera when I needed to upgrade my phone. 😍
: (Yes, I used Portrait mode on a pic of my feet; why was it created if not for this?)
: I was reminded last night that I have not yet posted this season’s Summer Toes (which just finally …
: Thanks, Apple Watch, but I’m pretty sure I can make this goal sometime in the 15hrs of daylight …
: I looked at 4 different third party libraries to implement the Maps/Music draggable card UI and not …
: Next year is the 30th anniversary of Wilson Philips’ self-titled debut, so you better start …
: 🎵 Screaming Trees, “Sweet Oblivion” Seminal, yet I still feel it doesn’t get namedropped enough.
: The opening of “Temple of Doom” just makes me want to watch “Big Trouble in Little China”. I know …
: 🎵 Run-DMC, “Raising Hell“ It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I listened …
: “Black Panther” is still the biggest gut-punch of the MCU to that point.
: My “Code, Layout, and Design for Dynamic Type” talk is one of the lucky first-day AltConf videos. 😁 …
: 🎵 Rainer Maria, “Catastrophe Keeps Us Together” Yet another in a long line of albums I discovered …
: That moment you realize your digital scale only ever shows you even tenths of a pound, not odd. 🤔
: He was a very satisfied cat today. 😻
: ✅ Achievement Unlocked: Take massive Scandia wood stove previous owners left at side of house to …
: Today's potential bank fraud? We receive a surprising amount of postal mail addressed to other people. Some Paypal spam, some a …
: On-device Maps machine learning to learn your preferred route out of your neighborhood to the …
: Finished clearing out the last but of access area the crew will need Monday to start installing a …
: My iPad Air 2 has been getting quite hot during use lately, and having spotlight search issues. …
: 13yo’s first attempt at a scratch cheesecake had missteps but still totally dessertable. 😋
: Two of my favorite people (@liz and @jsorge) talking about one of my favorite topics (@xcoders) in a …
: This week’s audiobook: “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley” by Emily …
: Trying to update my blog and really wish I could find some Apple guidance on how to be Reader mode …
: TFW you worked your ass off today but to heck with making your daily exercise goals.
: TFW you’re learning a new Apple tech so you need to download ~10 backlogged WWDC videos to your …
: “Baskin-Robbins always finds out.”
: We are finally starting the last season of “Game of Thrones” and I fully expect the only lingering …
: 🎵 Fifth Angel, “Time Will Tell“ When did this come to iTunes? And “The Third …
: 🎵 The Fierce and The Dead, “The Euphoric“
: 🎥 Pre-order price on the “General Magic” documentary dropped to $6.99. 😁
: Very excited that the final issues of Jason Brubaker’s “Sithrah” are going to print, and have …
: Look out, World, I’m writing Core Data code again! 😁
: Watching soccer and intepreting “USMNT” as “US Mutant Ninja Turtles”.
: 🎵 Jansen Barbieri Karn, “Playing in a Room with People“
: Watched Steven Wilson’s “Home Invasion” earlier today. Stunning video, audio, and performance …
: Family made me work on Fathers Day! 😝 (Okay I’ll confess the dinner plan was my idea.)
: Bryan Cranston in tightie whities, a gas mask, and a Winnebago; what an iconic opening scene. …
: Still one of my favorite solutions to Seattle’s traffic issues: Commutapult.
: 🎵 The Robert Fripp String Quintet
: I have posted PDF slides from my “Code, Layout, and Design for Dynamic Type” talk at …
: 🎵 Jethro Tull, “The Broadsword and the Beast“
: 🎵 Riverside, “Rapid Eye Movement“
: “Visual Design and Accessibility” - An excellent concise overview of some accessibility features …
: Heading home old school. (Not as old school as @jimrea’s wonderful CodeWarrior shirt yesterday, but …
: WWDC/AltConf-ers: I’d like to hit Back a Yard for dinner once before I leave tomorrow. Anybody else …
: Presentations with syntax-colored code on a black background are legibility nightmares. Projectors …
: “The Laws of Magic”: Another great talk from @davedelong@mastodon.social about creating delight in …
: Every WWDC, I am struck by how great it is to see other devs I first met up to 10yrs ago (some I …
: Today’s the last day of AltConf (and osmotically WWDC) for me. Who do I need to meet up with still?
: Less than 24 hours until my Dynamic Type talk at AltConf. Will retire to my hotel after dinner …
: They say you can’t dance to progressive rock… 💃 vimeo.com/339971386
: Leapfrogging from an iPhone 6S to XS has been pretty dramatic: size (both screen and physical—which …
: Burrata with heirloom tomatoes, “family style”. 😋
: Retired another pair of walking shoes.
: Seattleites: While I will be out of town for AltConf, you could make me seriously jealous Thurs …
: It seems like a small thing, but it really bothers me that retailers straight out call them …
: Was not aware of ColorADD, most likely because I’m not colorblind myself. Clever, will need to keep …
: 🎵 Steven Wilson & Mariusz Duda, “The Old Peace” The song’s back story
: Trying to tap your custom back chevron and get it to respond is not my idea of good UX.
: 🎵 Queensrÿche, “Rage for Order“
: While trying to resolve my iPhone showing me in the middle of Elliott Bay the other day, I reset its …
: Every piece of technology has chosen this week to hate me.
: The battery life of my venerable 6S plummeted this past week, even though I had just replaced it in …
: Wow, do I dislike this email. 😡
: Wow, we really need to go back and rescan our wedding photos at a higher resolution than we could …
: 21 years ago today, I met the woman who just 27 months later would become my wife for the next 18 …
: The one thing I always want more of from an app is feedback: Touch/click highlighting; asynchronous …
: At that point in life where my calendar app reminding me of my upcoming birthday feels more like a …
: Dang, Kiss’ “Hard Luck Woman” is a pretty deep cut to find in a “rock hits” playlist.
: 🎵 Ginger Baker w/ Jonas Hellborg & Jens Johannson, “Unseen Rain” Every time I listen to this …
: Apple iPhone apps I wish were available on iPad: Health and Activity. I don’t need them to …
: 🎵 Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Couldn’t Stand the Weather “
: 🎵 Security Project, “Contact“ Peter Gabriel fan? You should really check this out.
: Grilled pork loin and roasted veg, before and after. First time making, it’s a keeper. …
: Status: Grumpy. Wine solves that, right?
: Conference schedules as subscribable calendars, please.
: I should do some work on the trip home, but I also have a “backlog” of 58 digital comics downloaded …
: Are hotel wifi installations intentionally a pain to use with personal VPNs to discourage them, or …
: Many thanks to @apike and Vancouver @xcoders for the invitation and hosting my Dynamic Type talk …
: Oh holy crap my passport photo is from 2013 when I was…60 pounds heavier than today. 😱
: Any handful of mixed nuts without macadamia nuts is a good handful of mixed nuts.
: Dinner before and “after”. 😋
: 🎵 Stevie Nicks, “Bella Donna“
: 🎵 Herbie Hancock, “Dis Is Da Drum“
: Just had my birthday present for myself delivered: The newer Shure bluetooth headphone cables. …
: 🎵 Steven Wilson, “Vermillioncore“
: So much code is written around “OMG what if something changed?” rather than …
: It’s not really an upcoming talk until the anxiety dreams kick in, right? (Apparently I need …
: In hindsight, the concept of a bass flute makes sense but I had never even contemplated (let alone …
: There is… no?… search capability in the new TV app on iPad? 😳
: 🎵 Hedningarna, “Trä“ This concert was the first night that could actually be called a …
: Never, ever let yourself forget that you are interviewing the company too—and not just during the …
: Bold Text setting is now enabled on my AppleTVs, Watch, & iPhone. TV font was always too light …
: First thing I did after booking last-minute travel to San Jose for (some of) WWDC week was to buy my …
: Just realized VanCAF is the weekend before I’m supposed to be in there for my Vancouver …
: When will I ever learn to not give in to a sushi craving while wearing a white shirt? Not today, …
: I will be speaking on “Code, Layout, and Design for Dynamic Type” at Seattle @xcoders …
: 7yo: “We live by a bay, not a sea; why do we still call them ‘seagulls’? “Because then they’d be …
: 🎵 Lonely Robot, “Under Stars“
: TFW the majority of your crashes in the wild are within third-party binary libraries. 🤬
: Wife and I have been rewatching “Game of Thrones” together (at S6E7 now!). We both note that our …
: 🎵 Trey Gunn, “The Third Star”
: Proudly saying, “I’m responsible for that comma being there!” may be the nerdiest thing Ihave …
: Finally dawned on me that the reason I hear “modern software architecture” with such disdain is …
: 🎵 TILT, “Million Dollar Wound”
: All I want from iOS 13 is for it to stop insisting on playing the alphabetically first song in my …
: 🎵 Maserati, “Inventions for the New Season“
: Once again Carbon Copy Cloner comes through cloning to a new Mac where Time Machine repeatedly …
: Wriggled my way into proofreading my first ongoing comic. 😁⭐️🏆
: Nothing instills confidence quite like Time Machine restoration consistently crapping out ~1/3 way …
: Last night was the first I’d read the (unsubstantiated?) claim that Ruby Rhod in “Fifth …
: Since I learned earlier this week that “Jaco” was on Hulu, I knew what I’d be watching this …
: Ugh, that first time rewatching a film after yet another cast member has passed away. …
: 🎵 Exit North, “Book of Romance and Dust“
: 🎵 Faraquet, “Anthology 1997–98”
: Oh, no (😉), I have learned of Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini’s “Mouth Congress”! 😂
: Ugh, I hate writing personal bios. Time to start with “I am vengeance! I am the night!” and work …
: 🎵 Night Ranger, “Dawn Patrol“
: 🎵 Pat Mastelotto, “Recidivate“
: Resurrected our Wii with a replacement DVD drive, so I celebrated by playing all 7 Rush Rock Band …
: Went to an uncle’s funeral last week. Hadn’t seen most cousins on that side (29 of us!) in …
: 13yo’s “villain versions” of Kyoka Jiro from “My Hero Academia”, her current favorite anime. 🥰
: It’s been a long day, but it’s been a good day.
: If a user touched the screen and there’s not a corresponding analytics event generated, did the …
: ✅ Tickets for my first Release Notes Conference! 😄
: Wish list: Website identification of search capability (semantic markup and/or standard API?) such …
: Pretty sure I don’t want to be “expluded”, even though I don’t know what it involves.
: An advantage of chemobrain: My wife doesn’t remember watching “Sneakers” so I get to watch it “again …
: Just saw someone at the bus stop with an iPhone with a headphone jack! 😳 …at the top! 😲 😁
: Hooray for health insurance! 😳
: Cousins were in town this weekend so we did some touristy things. 😁
: How do I keep the iOS Photos app from scrolling me to 2007 when I’m trying to see photos I took this …
: Spider-Verse: Cracks me up that Spider-Ham’s snout is its own expressive Spider-face. 😆
: Impressively linear weather.
: “The meetings will continue until morale improves.”
: Well, I see the opt-out link from the Facebook recruiter a couple weeks ago isn’t actually …
: I miss prefixed class names. At least then I could use notificationCenter for a variable name and …
: 🎵 Qiet, “Kiss of the Universe“
: We have to leave the door open after showers so this cat can satisfy her fascination with water …
: Digging Apple Music’s “Essential Prog Rock” playlist for when I can’t decide which of my …
: It’s only 6:30am and today I have already unintentionally reminded myself how soul-cleansing it is …
: 🎵 Frost*, “The Philadelphia Experiment“
: Received a spam text of “Do you need a hand while writing a personal memoir? Hire a Ghostwriter for …
: So glad to have kids in the era of unlimited text plans. 13yo texted 4,200 times last month 😲 and it …
: Truly “maintainable” code isn’t code you can fix two weeks from now, it’s …
: var address: MyAddress { didSet { resetAllFields() } } … address.street = “123 Main St” Has very …
: Went through print edition (250pp) of another graphic novel for which I contributed proofreading …
: I don’t believe I’ve listened to Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” cranked this loud since …
: ✅ Yet another instance of taking the time to document a method resulting in tweaking the method …
: You’d think it would be a given that you want to read all of your ebooks at the same font and …
: view.next returning the UIView’s parent UIViewController is one of the most absurd results of …
: The gardeners moved the remaining snow on our lawn out onto the street yesterday so they could mow …
: Been working on some utility code I plan to share, so doing it in Obj-C. Weird how quickly I got so …
: Sous vide steak with just olive oil and Oakland Dust rub then finished on cast iron was delicious …
: I can answer a call on my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, or even my Watch. To check …
: Don’t care what you think, I still love “Road House” and still have my biggest man-crush on …
: Might need a Siobhan Fallon Hogan marathon, if just to confirm my suspicion that she steals scenes …
: I have a recurring desire to watch “Hooper” and relive my youth but AFAIK it’s never been …
: Catastrophic Coffee Bootloader Failure, i.e. knocked over full Aeropress and Cocoaconf mug. 😭
: 🎵 Land, “Archipelago” Ugh, can’t find it online anywhere. Check out “Land” and “Road Movies”, …
: Awake at 4am and inspired once again to price out an iPhone XS to get a better camera than my (paid …
: 🎵 National Health, “Of Queues and Cures”
: 🎵 King Crimson, “Live in Vienna (1 December 2016)”
: I want an iOS-wide “start the week on Monday” setting, but I also know most apps would ignore it …
: You visit in-laws: Uncomfortable in their kitchen so you avoid un/loading the dishwasher; feel like …
: This is what 5 days post-lung removal looks like. I am amazed.
: May your life be full of such strong friends that determining who should have power of attorney is a …
: My wife had her right lung removed Monday due to a tumor around her bronchi. Modern medicine is an …
: Medication reminder apps that don’t support Dynamic Type don’t seem to really know their target …
: Current status: Trying to convince the 7yo that “colonel” is not pronounced “colonial”. 🤦♂️
: Believe it or not, things are going even better than expected. This setup just fascinates me.
: My only personal goal for the week is to finally read Jeff Smith’s clasic “Bone”. 1/3 complete …
: Which do I find more frustrating: Hiding the status bar unnecessarily like too many apps do, or just …
: Re-read Kurtis Wiebe & Riley Rossmo’s elegiac “Green Wake”. I love this book, an intimate …
: Took almost 6 months, but I finally finished Dave Weigel’s “The Show That Never Ends”. So …
: Audrey and Katharine, friends’ cats adopted from another friend who went to Big Fruit. 😻
: 🎵 David Cross & Robert Fripp, “Starless Starlight“ I had not known this existed. 😲
: Any chance there’s a Safari extension to change Google Maps’ trackpad behavior to pan as …
: 🎵 Tullycraft, “The Railway Prince Hotel“
: 🎵 Bob Mould, “Sunshine Rock“
: 🎵 Nine Horses, “Money for All“
: School announcement post-snow days Freudian slip: “Parents can also swig by the [school] …
: The inconsistency between “Show in Finder” in some apps’ contextual menus and “Reveal in Finder” in …
: Oh yes, eye-watering panang curry was precisely what I needed right now! 😋
: Seattle’s Monday morning commute: youtu.be/xLHXwC7lk…
: 🎵 Lettuce, “Witches Stew” Instantly risen to my list of favorite Miles Davis “tribute” albums, …
: FYI, “what’s black and white and re[a]d all over?” is now officially an anachronism.
: The one song I still vividly recall the first time I heard it is Golden Earring’s “Radar Love”.
: Good stuff with my friend who does “too many” business trips to Australia.
: OMG “Willow” is finally on the iTunes Store! 👶🧙♀️🗡 🎉🎉🎉 itunes.apple.com/us/movie/…
: Who could have imagined it would be such a pain to (try to) get VoiceOver to read “911” as “nine one …
: 🎵 Presto Ballet, “The Days Between“
: Do people hate on UITableView so much now that they feel we don’t need section indexes?
: And now I’m hating SMS 2FA because I’m thinking about how to grant power of attorney …
: Is it iCloud Messages’ syncing that breaks filtering spam to Unknown Senders?
: Fuck cancer. Fuck recurring cancer. Again. And again. And again.
: There doesn’t seem to be many info resources online for managing white label apps using xcconfig …
: The heady early days of the iPhone and Minus the Bear’s “Chicken Wrapped in Bacon”.
: Somehow, I have goldfish memory about Genesis’ “Wind and Wuthering”. On the plus side, I get to keep …
: 🎵 JOHNNYSWIM, “Georgica Pond” - Soulful Saturday morning music.
: Autoplaying the next episode is actually anti-consumer.
: I want a streaming service that has “Almost Live!” in its library.
: This coffee mug ny dad owns has been on my mind lately:“No size restrictions and screw the limit”. …
: 🎵 Beat the Clock, “Beat the Clock“A Minneapolis band from my college days that I never …
: 🎵 Metal Church, “Damned If You Do“
: TFW your Watch is exhorting you to close your rings at 6:31am. 😜
: The “Innovation” in “UPS Mail Innovations” is the part where they drop it in a black hole once it …
: Today’s rediscovered gem: INXS’ “Listen Like Thieves”. Memories are flooding back in of how much I …
: Tired of scrolling grids on my iPhone and just want table views back. Yes, I have a 6S.
: I bought a print of this shirt before it dawned on me I’d never played Karateka in color, only …
: Hooray for 8:30am appointments that get added to your calendar as Jan 3 2018 instead of 2019! 🥳
: Strange, I seem to have the location of a Vancouver BC company I have never known attached to my …
: I’m going to delay filing “Happy New Year” wishes until next quarter, gladly paying any …
: Nothing makes you burn a day to redesigning your home network better than trying to bring it all …
: Happy Go Ask People at Your Old Address If They Received Cards and Gifts for You Day!
: Life is <adjective> but Christmas dinner makes it better.
: Just realized that “Top 40” is an anachronism to my children.
: My wife stumbled upon the hiding spot of one of her gifts before I could get it wrapped: A port as …
: 🎵 Snarky Puppy, “Family Dinner Vol. 1”
: FYI, this is one of the shirts I will be wearing for talks at upcoming meetups/conferences/etc. …
: It is weird hearing James Taylor’s original versions vs what our generation knows from his Greatest …
: Tonight’s cocktail: Metropolitan
: Are all medical supply companies incompetent, or is it just every one I happen to have dealt with?
: Oh boy, here comes trouble: All Criterion movies on iTunes Store are under $10. 🤑Including …
: 🎵 John Hiatt, “Slow Turning“
: Day 1 of not taking a blood pressure medication (doctor approved): Begin. 🏆
: Ed Asner is the most perfect Santa. #elf
: I have hit the point in life where I buy extra tickets for concerts and then work on figuring out …
: Bought tickets for upcoming Snarky Puppy (May) and Riverside (June) concerts and very happy about …
: 🎵 Richard Barbieri, “Planets + Persona“ Wow, what a 🎧 album.
: “Salt Fat Acid Heat”: Yet another great food show from Netflix. Yes, we have the book but watching …
: 🏆 Finally reached my 6th 2nd Digit of 2018 after flirting with it for more than a month. Unlikely I …
: 26 of 32.5hrs listening to “Anathem” and I am throwing in the towel as it seems to be transitioning …
: VO2 Max: I think I like this graph. 😁
: I admit I don’t even know all the constraints involved in the dominant ecosystems, so I don’t have a …
: I would love taking ownership of a product team to deliver useful family accounts and sharing. I …
: Trying to find any kind of balance of access, availability, and even the smallest bit of content and …
: 🎵 Brass Against, “Brass Against“
: Interesting… Tried adding an epub to Books/iPad from Dropbox app export, and Books errors saying …
: It’s almost 2019 and I roughly estimate 78% of televisions in public are still set to the …
: 🎵 David Sylvian, “Dead Bees on a Cake“
: 🎵 Steve Jansen, “Tender Extinction“
: 🎵 Mick Karn, “Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters“
: 🎵 Richaerd Barbieri, “Stranger Inside“
: “Sour Grapes” wasn’t the most polished narrative of a documentary I have seen, but was a …
: We have family standards to uphold!
: 🎵 David Sylvian & Robert Fripp, “Damage” and “Riverman”.
: 🎵 Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri, “Not the Weapon But the Hand“
: 🎵 Steve Jansen & Yukihiro Takahashi, “PulseXPulse” www.discogs.com/Takahashi…
: 🎵 Jansen Barbieri Karn, “_ism“
: Pretty sure I’m not fitting in another 500min of exercise today. This was a pretty aggressive …
: 🎵 Mick Karn, “The Tooth Mother“
: 🎵 (More) Jansen Barbieri Karn (+SW), “Sleepers Awake”. A bit more off the hook for ya rockers.
: 🎵 Jansen Barbieri Karn (w/ bonus Steven Wilson), “Beginning to Melt” Looks like I’m sliding …
: I got absolutely beat up in our first game of “Betrayal at House on the Hill” but we all had a great …
: 🎵 Lake Street Dive, “Free Yourself Up“
: Know what I don’t need? I don’t need three emails in a day from your company telling me about …
: Dreamed I overslept until 7 even though it’s only 4 and now I hate my brain.
: I of course had many film crushes as a teen, but I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from …
: So happy I can finally fit into this Victoria Wang design I love. (I didn’t attend this C4, but did …
: “All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation …
: 🎵 OSI, “Office of Strategic Influence“
: 🎵 Visqueen, “Sunset on Dateland“
: Nothing quite like seeing your name on the credits page of a physical book, especially one as …
: And I broke the glass on my 6S so XS here I finally come. 😬
: 🎵 Faraquet, “The View from This Tower“
: 🎵 Roger Waters, “Is This the Life We Really Want?“
: Is your app designed to optimize the user’s experience or to overcome their objections?
: A replacement rubber plunger for his Aeropress makes Paul a happy coffee boy. ☕️😋
: Almost a year ago, I was unemployed and looking at marketplace health care enrollment. So confusing. …
: What could bother me more than learning they remade “Papillon”? The illegible color scheme the …
: My first Perfect Month streak! 😁
: The longer you wait to trick-or-treat at my house, the more of the good candy I eat. It’s that …
: Grr, Apple Tech Talk videos have low volume and no captions, making it impossible to learn about …
: Guy on bus with wired Earpods holding the jack up close to his mouth while talking, apparently …
: Another Halloween without the ability to purchase “Candyman” digitally. 👿
: Ooo, the Pink Floyd “Early Years” v1-6 audio tracks are available on Apple Music. Guess …
: 🎵 Tuatara, “Breaking the Ethers”
: Lost 2hrs today to remotely supporting my parents trying to move their Dropbox directory from an …
: Wife bought enchilada tortillas for tacos. I rose to the challenge. 😊