Notes

I’d like to recognize Vizio for finally fixing Chromecast support on their “Smartcast” TV. Was getting close to 2 years of their headline feature being completely broken. Gold star for you ⭐️

One upside for HBO rebranding their streaming to “Max” is that the name is so non-descript I didn’t notice the credit card charges after I was supposed to cancel our trial. Well done corporate.

Happy 2024 everyone. Here’s to gradual improvement over all or nothing goals 🥂

Was great to meet everyone at IndieWebCamp San Diego this weekend! Had some productive conversations and learned a lot about what other people are doing. I hope we can meet again soon.

• IndieWeb

The snow has started falling on the site despite the weather still being in the 70+°F (20+°C) outside. ☃️

• site changes

My favorite part of Apple Music’s “Spotify Wrapped” clone is seeing where the app broke and logged 100+ plays on something I only played a few times. Last year was a Charlie Brown Christmas with an honorable mention of 60 plays of The Prince of Egypt. This year was Pixar’s...

I recently added a micropub server to make it easier to post to my site. Sorry if that means more dumb words. I’m hoping it encourages me to post more pictures though.

• site changes

Watching the Beckham documentary puts a whole 'nother dimension to Ted Lasso as an American.

I donate blood for the free snacks.

• humor

TIL that AM and PM (short for the latin ante meridiem and post meridiem) are styled lowercase with a preceding space and punctuation in most style guides “10:10 a.m.” or “6 p.m.” rather than uppercase. Or if the style is upper case, small caps are recommended with no punctuation such...

• TIL

I just merged a big update to the site which adds dark mode and some other style changes. The site now uses system fonts and doesn’t include the material css library which should reduce the size of the initial page load. The main goal was simplifying the codebase but css...

• site changes

Someone tell the French opera they need to update their windows machine.

• France
• Paris
• humor
• travel

I played around with the Deno JS environment yesterday for the first time in a while and found it surprisingly nice to work with. I liked how integrated everything felt with built in tools like testing and formatting. I also like the idea of the permissions system, though I’m not...

• technology

Today I repaired our noisy clothes dryer and I have a new respect for how the box I used to take for granted works. Also grateful for the wealth of home repair knowledge on YouTube.

• TIL

It’s interesting watching the release of Meta’s new Twitter clone, Threads. I’ve largely left the algorithmic attention traps of the major social networks but I’m (cautiously) excited about the possibility they will embrace open standards. I’d love to restore internet connections with family who’s content I miss.