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Sep 16, 2024: WAIT A MINUTE Diggnation really is back?! I watched the reunion episode a while back and they joked about it, but now they’re already on episode …
Sep 16, 2024: Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US “over the last 10 years, the number of shipments entering the United States …
Sep 15, 2024: I try to share cool links every day but sometimes I have to remind myself that some days are uneventful. The news has been so consistently crazy for …
Sep 15, 2024: Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules …an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the US Food …
Sep 14, 2024: Woke up to a dead mouse on the floor next to my side of the bed. One of the perks of having a cat door to the back yard 🥴
Sep 13, 2024:
Why do I blog?
Lately I’ve put a lot of thought into why I blog. A few months ago, it was because I had so many ideas to get out of my head I just had to do …
Sep 13, 2024: Boar’s Head Shuts Down Virginia Meat Plant After 9 Deaths Linked to Listeria I’m sure they’ll do all they can to ensure the other …
Sep 13, 2024: Flappy Bird announces its return, but with a… twist So, who is the Flappy Bird Foundation? Well, get ready for a big ol' bummer. When you dig …
Sep 13, 2024: Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh …
Sep 13, 2024: One of my favorite things about Linux is feeling like I got a whole new computer every few months when I get bored and try a new distro
Sep 13, 2024: Switched over to Vanilla OS after running KDE Neon for the last ~3 years. I missed GNOME! It took a minute to figure out fractional scaling from dconf …
Sep 13, 2024: OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities The training behind o1 is fundamentally different from its predecessors, …
Sep 12, 2024: Swingin' Back to Shellac Most 78s were 10-inches and held about three-and-a-half minutes of music. They were primarily made of shellac, which, …
Sep 12, 2024: Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn appears to be for sale At 212 years old, the Buxton Inn is billed as “Ohio’s oldest …
Sep 11, 2024: It’s physically impossible to watch this and not smile. Major Holley - Laughing in Rhythm
Sep 10, 2024: Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads If this kind of thing catches on I’m trading in my car for a …
Sep 10, 2024: Re: RSS Feeds Are Great Instead of mindlessly scrolling “for you” feeds, I now spend that time reading posts from other bloggers I follow …
Sep 10, 2024: I waited for the public beta of iOS 18 before I installed it on my daily driver last night. An official Apple ROM is obviously a lot more stable and …
Sep 9, 2024:
Right side of the bed
Some of my best days start out absolutely horrible. Some of my worst days start out feeling like everything is going perfect.
Sep 8, 2024:
The old man down the road
I woke up to the doorbell ringing this morning. Who in the hell could be here this early? So I got up and opened the front door. There was this little …
Sep 7, 2024: I don’t even know how this collab happened but it’s a good seltzer 😆🍻
Sep 7, 2024:
Drafts + Micro.blog
I’ve been using Obsidian for all of my blog notes and drafts since I started blogging. It’s a powerhouse for writing pretty much anything …
Sep 7, 2024: disposable vapes are getting out of control via twitter
Sep 7, 2024: Woman started wildfires so she could flirt with sexy firefighters A 44-year-old woman from Tripoli, Greece, was sentenced to three years imprisonment …
Sep 7, 2024: You don’t realize how fast time flies until 1Password tells you it’s been two weeks already and you need to manually type in your password …
Sep 6, 2024: This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom When the researchers shined a UV light on the fungus, it triggered an electrical impulse …
Sep 6, 2024: We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world I like …
Sep 6, 2024: I love brutalist design. Especially when it’s something useful, like the Brutalist Report. I don’t remember who showed it to me, who runs …
Sep 6, 2024:
Live for today
I saw an ancient meme on Reddit the other day, something along the lines of “in 10 years you’ll want to go back to now because the good …
Sep 6, 2024:
I quit energy drinks
I’ve been drinking at least one 12oz Redbull a day since somewhere around 2010. Right after high school, I was doing a lot of manual labor jobs …
Sep 5, 2024: Florida Surgeon Fatally Removed a Man’s Liver Instead of His Spleen, Family Says Only in Florida 😬
Sep 5, 2024: Little white lies about blue light The frequently cited 2013 study about blue light and its affect on sleep had just 5 participants and questionable …
Sep 4, 2024: The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without …
Sep 4, 2024: Labor Day is the dumbest holiday. Let’s honor the working class by making all of their checks a day late this week 😫
Sep 4, 2024:
Thoughts on AI to help with little bits of code
I know AI in coding is a touchy subject, but I’ve been learning a lot using Claude to help do things I otherwise had no idea how to do. I still …
Sep 3, 2024: In honor of bleptember 🫡
Sep 3, 2024: It's ok to disagree I was talking to a coworker about his experience buying a car recently. Every time the salesman would suggest something, he’d push back like …
Sep 3, 2024: I thought I had this profound thought about picking the people in your life, etc then I realized it’s already a thing: If you can’t …
Sep 3, 2024: New VWs will answer some of your questions with ChatGPT I was just reading about how people don’t want fancy tech packages in their car if it …
Sep 3, 2024:
Revisiting why I quit social media
So a couple weeks ago I decided to get rid of social media. I deleted my Mastodon account permanently but only deactivated Bluesky. I couldn’t …
Sep 3, 2024: From The Onion
Sep 3, 2024: I like Obsidian but I’m realizing I don’t use any of its unique features really. I only use it for post drafts and simple notes. I …
Sep 2, 2024: Found an old promo copy of The Final Cut at a used record store the other day and I can’t stop listening to it 🫨🎵
Sep 2, 2024: NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’ Daniel José Older, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic and author of …
Sep 1, 2024: It’s finally (almost) fall! 🍁🍺
Sep 1, 2024: CD Projekt Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Return to Animation I’m not big on anime and I never played the Cyberpunk games but I was OBSESSED with the …
Sep 1, 2024:
A hate hate relationship
I’m lucky in the relationship department. We rarely ever fight and when we do, we might avoid each other for the rest of the day or maybe a …
Aug 31, 2024: Former Riot Games employees leverage generative AI to power NPCs Retail Mage is a roleplaying game that allows players to take on the role of a …
Aug 30, 2024: AnandTech shuts down after 27 years For the past several years it seems as if there has been a trend away from ultimate understanding in content …
Aug 30, 2024: When I had covid I never lost my sense of smell or taste completely but now that I’m over it everything tastes… different. Never …
Aug 29, 2024: I am obsessed with these lately 🍺
Aug 29, 2024: Walked up to the screen door and this little guy landed right in front of me! I hear that’s good luck 😏
Aug 29, 2024: Black mold, flies and roaches, rancid smells: No wonder Boar’s Head caused a listeria outbreak! Boar’s Head deli meat was recalled last …
Aug 29, 2024: This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model the diffusion model is trained gameplay footage of Doom to produce the next frame based on the frames that …
Aug 28, 2024: Corn sweat: crop moisture amplifies humidity and heat in US midwest One acre of corn, which is a little smaller than the size of an American football …
Aug 28, 2024:
Slow down
Anxiety is literally going too fast. Thinking too far ahead, trying to compute all the possible outcomes of a situation as if that’s remotely …
Aug 27, 2024:
Digital clutter
A messy home can really bring my mood down. I always feel a lot better when the floors are vacuumed and mopped and there isn’t a bunch of junk …
Aug 27, 2024: The original Pineapple Cider 🍍🍺
Aug 24, 2024: Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story On Friday night, the group took psychedelic mushrooms – a drug …
Aug 23, 2024:
COVID made me rethink my career
I’m just getting over a bad case of COVID, so that means back to work. It’s pretty sad to admit, but even with how shitty I’ve felt …
Aug 22, 2024: Man Spills Blue Cheese in Car, Interior Becomes Covered in Mold Overnight …the closed car doors and lack of ventilation effectively created a …
Aug 22, 2024: Neil Young Personally Approved ‘Rockin’ in the Free World,’ the Song He Sued Trump Over in 2020, for Tim Walz at the DNC No caption needed but the …
Aug 22, 2024: In ‘Fictional Nature,’ Fabian Knecht Encloses Live Trees and Craggy Stones in a White Cube Gallery Walk into one of Fabian Knecht’s installations, …
Aug 22, 2024: Spent most of the morning digging through Robert Birming’s Blog Inspiration page. So many good posts and resources! …
Aug 22, 2024: What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media A year ago today, we published a blog post called “Welcome to 404 Media.” In that post, we explained …
Aug 22, 2024: I’m finally starting to get over this covid stuff. Still not back to 100% and I can’t really taste much but I’m feeling a lot …
Aug 20, 2024:
No sick days
I’m on day four of COVID. Started feeling a little weird at work Friday and I woke up Saturday feeling like I got thrown down a flight of …
Aug 20, 2024: Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training The complaint, filed on Monday, opens new tab by writers and journalists Andrea …
Aug 20, 2024: CSS is like Tetris through text commands
Aug 20, 2024: One of my favorite pics from that Blink 182 show. Idk why really, I’ve just never been that close to the cameraman lol
Aug 19, 2024:
You can't say that on Youtube!
George Carlin had that list of dirty words you couldn’t say on TV back in the 70’s. Record labels release edited versions of hit songs to …
Aug 19, 2024:
Those weren't the best years of your life
My generation is pretty bad about not wanting to grow up. We talk about how we “just can’t adult today,” or how our parents seemed …
Aug 19, 2024: Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. Representatives for LG and Samsung declined to comment to Ars Technica about …
Aug 18, 2024:
Late night hangs
I can’t think of anything I love more than the dead of night. I don’t know what it is, specifically. I used to think it was because …
Aug 18, 2024: Mozilla’s New Logo Brings Back the Dinosaur Mascot (Kinda) It could be viewed as a flag on a pole. Sort of like Mozilla planting its values in the …
Aug 18, 2024: Trump Once Compared Avoiding STDs to His ‘Personal Vietnam’ “You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any …
Aug 17, 2024: I don't really like Fridays I’m sick at home with covid and, coincidentally, this is the first weekend I’ve had off in as long as I can remember. Usually Fridays are …
Aug 17, 2024: Imported all my posts from Bear Blog 👀 I’m all in on Micro.blog now. It was too much having an entirely separate website just for longer posts.
Aug 16, 2024: The Scent Of UX: The Unrealized Potential Of Olfactory Design Odors may not replace textbooks and lectures, but their addition will make remembering …
Aug 16, 2024: Let this tiny bean bag chair for your lap hold your heavy handhelds Doomscrolling isn’t going away any time soon, but there’s no reason you can’t be …
Aug 16, 2024: Friday is my Monday 😩 but I don’t work until noon tomorrow so it’s also kind of my Friday
Aug 16, 2024: Speed is my enemy When I deliberately try to think and move more slowly, things happen faster. That sounds like a contradiction, but not having to …
Aug 15, 2024: Really liking the redesigned Reeder TestFlight. It doesnt pull the full article like Unread or Reeder 5 on feeds that only show summaries but the …
Aug 15, 2024:
Don't meet your heroes: Mr. Beast edition
I keep getting sucked into watching the Mr. Beast drama that’s been going on for the last few weeks. Ava Tyson was called out for sending …
Aug 15, 2024: Overthinking: a self-inflicted scam I’m bad about overthinking. Like obnoxiously bad. I can never leave well enough alone because I start thinking about what I should have done or …
Aug 14, 2024: A few pics I took at the Blink 182 show in Columbus tonight. Tom had a cold so Mark sang a lot of the songs. Travis even sang one. At one point they …
Aug 12, 2024: Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots For some people, it means marriage, it means romance, and that’s fine. …
Aug 12, 2024: Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin A co-founder of transparency activism organization Distributed of Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) …
Aug 11, 2024: Can’t remember who showed this to me but it’s pretty cool. Enter a location and it shows you the indigenous territories, treaties and …
Aug 11, 2024: From r/chrissimpsonsartist
Aug 10, 2024: I’ve never liked watching literally any sporting event but I’ve been obsessing over the Olympics this year. A couple weeks every four …
Aug 10, 2024: Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk SpaceX has launched over 6,000 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit, and is planning …
Aug 9, 2024: Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support …when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and …
Aug 9, 2024: playing around with CSS all day instead of working really makes the work day fly by
Aug 9, 2024: The company has its roots in the very dirtiest kinds of Bitcoin mining. Its top execs (including CEO Paul Prager) were involved with Beowulf Energy …
Aug 7, 2024: In other news I just legally bought weed for the first time a little bit ago 🕺
Aug 7, 2024: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hinted at “new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas.” We’ve had versions …
Aug 6, 2024: Ohio dispensaries started selling recreational weed today 🥹 www.dispatch.com/story/new…
Aug 5, 2024: I don’t think OpenAI really cares about false positives with text watermarking lol they just don’t want to lose paying customers 99.9 …
Aug 5, 2024: “This landmark decision holds Google accountable,” DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter said in a statement. “It paves the path for innovation for …
Aug 5, 2024: This is what I always wanted tumblr to be back in the day. More of a micro blog for text instead of an endless stream of edgy gifs
Aug 5, 2024: Just realized you can follow literally any website on micro.blog by searching the url 🤯
Aug 5, 2024: How can we have a robot on mars but over the last 100 years there’s been no progress in keeping the drain from clogging when you shave 😐
Aug 4, 2024:
What is the IndieWeb even?
If you’ve been into running a blog or personal site very long, it’s safe to say you’ve heard the terms “IndieWeb” or …
Aug 4, 2024:
People who don't tip
I don’t get the anti-tipping culture on Reddit. There’s a whole community of people who never leave tips, pretending to protest in favor …
Aug 4, 2024: A secret feature of AI when you’re using it to help with coding is that it’s a great punching bag. You can get as mad as you want when …
Aug 3, 2024:
Don't be embarrassed
I hate that lol you’re nervous about something and someone tells you aw don’t be nervous! Or you’re stressing over something and …
Aug 3, 2024: Man the church of Scientology really has a lot of foot soldiers handing out junk about Dianetics lol this is the second time someone’s stopped …
Aug 3, 2024: I’m running out of time to make a Blaugust post today. I can usually get a post knocked out while I’m at work but between how busy we were …
Aug 3, 2024: Finally reading documentation on what microhooks actually do. I can do pretty much whatever I want with some of these themes huh? Neat!
Aug 3, 2024: I think Safari’s reading list is the only Read Later service I’ve ever successfully used. It forces me to look at all the stuff I saved …
Aug 2, 2024: I knew Intel had to be in bad shape when they announced they were building a factory in central Ohio lol we can never have anything nice here …
Aug 2, 2024: I love these 😆 web.badges.world
Aug 2, 2024: You people are so much more pleasant than the Facebook and Twitter people 🥲
Aug 2, 2024: I like minimalism. Sometimes that manifests as trying to condense things into the most simplified version of whatever it is. I feel like it’s …
Aug 1, 2024: Oof this feels like one of those cheesy April fools jokes some websites post to be cute. Gravitar is getting into crypto 🤢 …
Aug 1, 2024: This is my absolute favorite Macintosh wallpaper of all time 😻
Aug 1, 2024:
US Politics: Can't get fooled again
I’ve worked a few different sales positions over the years, but mostly in the furniture business. It’s probably the most notorious for …
Jul 29, 2024: I used AI to generate a robots.txt that blocks AI grubz.blog/ai-scrape…
Jul 29, 2024:
I used AI to generate a robots.txt that blocks AI
I’m so fucking lazy. I’ve never really messed with robots.txt. I’m kinda new to personal blogging; back in the 2000s I had a tech …
Jul 29, 2024: I feel like anyone who doesn’t want AI scraping their website will eventually have to rely on constantly updated filters, uBlock Origin style …
Jul 28, 2024: On anxiety I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get on the right medications to bring my anxiety levels from a blood curdling scream to a dull whimper. I …
Jul 27, 2024:
Trading Material You for Apple's walled garden
I was a loyal Android fanboy since my very first smartphone: the LG Optimus running Android 2.2 Froyo Before that, I was obsessed with everything …
Jul 25, 2024:
Apocalypse Now(ish)
Sometimes I wonder if anyone else shares the same views on “the end” as I do. I’m not trying to be edgy and I’m not a doomer …
Jul 15, 2024:
Web 2.0 tricked us
I’m a little too young to have really appreciated the pre-Web 2.0 internet. Me and my cousin had our own Tripod sites when we were kids but we …
Jul 13, 2024: Hug your server admins I’ve never done much in the way of web hosting or development. I ran a more “professional” tech blog a long time ago, but …
Jul 3, 2024: The indie web is saving my sanity A lot of my posts have covered stuff I don’t ever have the time of day to talk about. I work too much and almost all of my coworkers are …
Jul 1, 2024: My real blog is a massive unorganized text file that lives in Obsidian
Jun 30, 2024: Do something awesome. For free. I’ve spent the last month blogging and surfing the indie web. It’s still so new to me I can’t shut the fuck up about it. …
Jun 30, 2024: I was originally going to completely switch to Bear Blog but now I’m thinking I’ll keep my more conversational, short form stuff here. …
Jun 30, 2024: I’ve heard so many sales managers use the analogy “They’re playing checkers but we’re playing chess,” when in reality …
Jun 29, 2024: From MP3 to LP As someone who grew up during the golden age of digital piracy, I’m 100% sure records really do sound better than MP3s. Sure there’s …
Jun 28, 2024: This is the first sunburn I’ve had in five years. We didn’t get out much at the old apartment. It’s nice having a big yard but it …
Jun 27, 2024: Life goes five years at a time This could totally be a quote from some sappy movie or a self-help book maybe, I’m not sure. But I went to a funeral a few months ago and saw a …
Jun 23, 2024:
Finding my digital home
I’m not one of the cool people who were on the Fediverse before the big Twitter exodus of 2022. When Elon took over, I was one of many who …
Jun 20, 2024:
Happy Solstice! (I'm miserable)
I’m a winter person. Snow is beautiful. Sun burns are not. Every year when the heat gets unbearable, I fantasize about moving to Alaska. My …
Jun 18, 2024: How to micro blog: First, I start with a long rambling post full of redundant information. Usually at least 3000 characters, saying the same thing 20 …
Jun 10, 2024: We're just clothes When I stop at the gas station or the grocery store after work I’m in my full salesguy attire: a long sleeve oxford, usually black or grey …