Barry Hess

I’m gonna sit out the socials for a bit. If you wanna say hi, feel free to email me.

Now to figure out how to rip this scratched PAL disc…

I finished the podcast Dead Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Eyes). It was pretty good! Now I need a new podcast.

New post: A List of Unplugging Possibilities https://bjhess.com/posts/a-list-of-unplugging-possibilities

Happy “Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator has sent you $14.89 USD” day to those who celebrate.

An absolutely huge advancement (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro) in the treatment of Huntington’s disease.

New post: A Bit Naive https://bjhess.com/posts/a-bit-naive

New post: Today’s Home Screen https://bjhess.com/posts/todays-home-screen

While the national anthem was sung at this soccer game, church bells rang very slowly (every 10 seconds or so). Very foreboding.

Made a sad error yesterday and didn’t hear the delivery person ringing the bell with our new iPhone. Guess we’ll wait until Monday. To be fair, yesterday was a wild day of household logistics.

I believe Patreon’s unsubscribe feature is broken and I’m about to start marking as spam. (Though, admittedly, my sample size is one Patreon member.)

Codex has been the worst AI agent experience I’ve had. It’s results have been…okay. But it’s integration with the system has been very lacking. There’s probably ways around it, but…🤷‍♂️.

I should re-watch Sneakers.

As @bjhess.bsky.social, co-founder of Good Enough, a platform that builds small-scale projects, says: ”Connecting in this way, human-to-human, is vital to building a future filled with more connection, understanding, and empathy.” That is the beauty and promise of the indie web.

A good night in Des Moines with Lawrence and Lake Street Dive.

I’m on an iPhone 14 Pro and my better half is on the 13 Pro. Our youngest’s 13 Mini battery is toast. I think we’ll move the 13 Pro to the youngest and replace the Mini with a 17 (non-Pro). Four-year cycle!

Thankful to be interviewed for Alexandra's latest at New_ Public: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...

I'm already crying: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatk...

A first for me: bugs in the rice. I’m shook, y’all.

After many past threats, I guess it’s time to finally get off Arc (https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian?utm_content=buffer8278e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=verge_social).

Going to a movie tonight and I’m not really a horror fan. Do I force myself to Weapons or go for Caught Stealing?

My head needs some clearing, so taking a break from CDN/S3 troubleshooting and primarily working on some smaller Pika things this week.

Getting CloudFront/S3 to be responsive and consistently hitting its cache may be the death of me. Wishing I could go back in time and start with Cloudflare, but is the grass really greener?

I’d like to try Monarch (https://www.monarchmoney.com/), but I just assume it will be bought and run into the ground at some point. And so I don’t.

In the car and heading toward college.

Real world experiences with Lemon Squeezy vs Paddle? Pika needs to move from Stripe to a merchant of record vendor. If it’s a coin flip, I would assume migrating to Lemon Squeezy will be easier since it’s a Stripe company.

Prepping for her college move, I just loaded up Cora with bookshelf speakers I bought my senior year of college. 🔊🎵❤️ (Made in Germany MB Quart QL C 104s.)

Trying to understand how this Render.com edge cache offering isn’t a server bomb waiting to happen. The entire cache is purged (https://render.com/docs/web-service-caching#invalidation-and-expiration) on every deploy. Seems you’d need to be provisioned as if you have no caching at all?

Spent a lot of time this week revamping Pika’s image handling. It hasn’t fully landed yet. Hopefully this behind-the-scenes work can be out to customer sites next week, though. Long overdue…thankful for customers’ patience.

Well this looks awfully cool. Re-live your Super 8 (https://www.campsnapphoto.com/products/cs8) years! (h/t my friend, Nate)

@johnnunemaker.com Curious, are you still happily using imgproxy? www.johnnunemaker.com/imgproxy/

New post: Experimental August: Week Two https://bjhess.com/posts/experimental-august-week-two

A long-desired Pika feature has landed: scheduling posts. Yay! We're also happy to say that it works great with email newsletters! pika.pika.page/posts/schedu...

The news that the Minnesota Twins will not actually be sold has led me to here (https://www.reddit.com/r/WrexhamAFC/comments/1kspu9r/how_to_watch_wrexham_afc_games_on_tv_from_outside/).

If you’re thinking of switching your MLB fandom, don’t select: - The Brewers. Fans are mean drunks, ballpark is a terrarium - The Cubs. You left frat boys and sorority girls behind in college. - The White Sox. Abandoned by God. - The Cardinals. Fans’ self-regard equal to anyone in the Pohlad family.

Listening to Vivaldi (https://albumwhale.com/albums/12020) and thinking about Pika Pulse 2.0.

As a big time fan of Ben Folds Five, this was a very interesting read (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1291805842316191&set=a.328032922026826).

New post: Experimental August: Week One https://bjhess.com/posts/experimental-august-week-one

It’s been a minute, so we had to do the thing.

My oldest was running the opera glasses at Enhypen. 😆

We did some damage at Triple Crown.

Now that’s a baseball name: Bris Robot Ham Lord. Also, he was once traded for Shoeless Joe. 👏 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bris_Lord