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The number of people in tech I know who are around my age and at-present unemployed and asking “Am I… retired? M-maybe?” is more than half of one hand. Just the ones I know of, anyway.

Yesterday’s entertainment was FLOW (2024) which I liked a lot. I knew going in that the films’ existence is a point of pride for the FOSS community but I didn’t know until reading about it afterwards that Latvia is as proud of the movie as any place could be about any movie. Riga erected a […]

Spent two weekend afternoons adding a tip jar to BumpySkies. It takes me a long time coz I am meticulous about hand-weaving this sort of thing into my UI instead of just jamming in a pre-fabbed iframe from Ko-fi or whatever. Plus this way I can put my own little jokey-jokes in.

I’ve been coming around to the notion that BumpySkies is probably the most important thing I’ve built-or-co-built since IFTF. It’s funny coz both projects launched in 2016, but I treated BumpySkies as a one-and-done for the next nine years. I picked it up again one year ago this month after I […]

Spent two weekend afternoons adding a tip jar to BumpySkies. It takes me a long time coz I am meticulous about hand-weaving this sort of thing into my UI instead of just jamming in a pre-fabbed iframe from Ko-fi or whatever. Plus this way I can put my own little jokey-jokes in.

If only you people could see what I am absolutely not posting right now

Now giggling because I remember how the iRL catechism (protestant ranch-flavored) that I heard countless times as a kid ended with “on these hang all of the law and the prophets”. Nobody explains what that meant. I thought of a bush from which dangled a bunch of beardy desert guys in robes, and […]

wait is the php thing the 4 thing

Was it literally set to “4” or are people just quoting that one xkcd

Anyway, yeah, Randall Munroe, 2007: https://xkcd.com/221/

I got my fluey and covie shots today. Go get yours if you still need to, now’s the time. The nurse had a thermos sticker of an idiot cat saying “I FORGOR 🥴” that I stared at while getting 2X-poked. At the BGR airport bar last month, the local-news TV played a puff piece about hey it’s time for […]

I have seen folks saying that this year’s shots really put them on their ass, and count me among them. This is the sickest I’ve felt from a vaccine shot—well, a two-shot cocktail—since my last shingles shot. Full-body sweaty aches and general enervation. It’s for a good cause! I ain’t […]

Now I am in #CambridgeMA! I watched the regatta from the bridge for a bit specifically because it’s something I never bothered to do when I actually lived around #Boston. There is a bogus Lord Binface here confusing the children

I’m on my way to join a protest against Miller’s goons gunning down my neighbors in the street, and then I’m going to drop off a busted PlayStation controller for repair at the local indie game shop if I’m gonna be below Midtown anyway, because New York has every kind of energy and I let it all […]

I guess continuing to avoid photographing faces anyway is kinda like wearing an N-95 mask today, but for your camera, and I mean that kindly.

I’m on my way to join a protest against Miller’s goons gunning down my neighbors in the street, and then I’m going to drop off a busted PlayStation controller for repair at the local indie game shop if I’m gonna be below Midtown anyway, because New York has every kind of energy and I let it all […]

This protest was, unsurprisingly, much more emotionally intense and full of negative energy than any of the protests I’ve marched in since last year. I don’t mean “negative” as in “bad”, you understand. It was appropriate to the context. But it was absolutely an angry march, not a proud one. The […]

I’m on my way to join a protest against Miller’s goons gunning down my neighbors in the street, and then I’m going to drop off a busted PlayStation controller for repair at the local indie game shop if I’m gonna be below Midtown anyway, because New York has every kind of energy and I let it all […]