Dan J’s Website

First, I love the title and the cover art.

“There’s no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say ‘fuck you’!”

I find everything about Gina Trapani's website Note to Self inspiring, including this post about simple programming projects she's done for herself.

Having just gotten my winter boots repaired, I once again had recourse to Ian Fieggen's indispensible database of shoe-lacing tutorials.

I just came across musician Teddy Swims, from hearing Lose Control in a hair salon and looking him up.

Austin Churton Fairman (15 November 1924 – 4 April 1997), who used the name Churton Fairman but was more widely known under the pseudonym Mike Raven in the 1960s and early 1970s, was a British radio disc jockey, actor, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, TV p…

The most obvious example is user accounts.

This is a free app that lets you download entire websites as single files for offline browsing (their headliner is downloading Wikipedia).

So much of enjoying something involves knowing how to enjoy it.

I've been a long-time user of Plex, and a happy one.

A frog has no trouble grabbing a fast-moving fly in midair.

As I gradually rebuild this website up from nothing, it amused me to have no stylesheet for a while, and just see black text on a white background with blue links that turn purple when you visit them.

nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application I came across this the other day while researching plaintext/CLI-based workflows, and my eyes bugged out of my head like in those old cartoons where a w…

It’s so funny, all the ways I come up with to hold myself back from just making stuff and sharing it with the world, to wit: I’ve written, or drafted and half-written, lots of posts over the last many, many years that I never posted on my various blogs at…

I often feel like a failure.

I was thinking about the Peloton guy who drinks water out of his hand: Daring Fireball: Somebody Tell This Guy He Can Just Buy a Cup to Keep Upstairs And how I’d read about it through the lens of people mocking him, and someone said somewhere that he does…

I never remember what plastics I can recycle and what I can’t; this is a handy reminder.

I’m a huge fan of people who dive into arbitrary corners of pop culture in insane amounts of detail.

This is cool.

our lives are held together with thoughts of where we might be tomorrow.

I've been looking for guides for how to do .NET development in Vim, because Vim has long appealed to me for a variety of reasons too esoteric to get into right now.

Someday.

“The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.” — W.E.B.

Great little essay by Patrick Rhone, making the argument against relying on a piece of software to hold your journal: The history of computing has copious evidence to back me up on that bold statement.

I've added this to my workouts to start building the strength and stability I'll need to do full overhead presses eventually.

Setting up Visual Studio Code for F# Cool: you can open a Terminal in VSCode with ^ + ` Do I need to install an extension to use F#?

Love this brief post from Rick LePage, especially the bit from Seinfeld.

I always try to do sudo cd /some/restricted/dir and it doesn’t work and I always forget why. sudo cd won't work because the cd command is built into the shell.

It gets complicated.

OMG, you guys… MegaZeux still exists!

I want to switch away from CloudApp to a host/domain under my control, and DropShare looks like a great alternative, because it lets you pick a back-end.

Nice collection by James Clear.

Highlights/Notes: After I wrote the item “do something nice for a friend” – because being a good friend and having good friends is important to me.

A lot of good potential resources for IndieWeb/decentralized/non-siloed social media tools in here.

Well, half a day, really.

After closing my rings every day for over 200 days, I stuck my Apple Watch in a drawer for a week, to see if I'd be happier without it running my life.

Everything he says about what it's like to be brought up male—the lack of connection with our own emotions, the devaluing1 of femininity, both in ourselves and in women—it all strikes a chord with me.

Like in most other areas of my life, I've been privileged to come at the question of body weight without undue stress or anxiety: I'm male, and naturally skinny, so "lose weight" has never been a thing I felt the need to do.

I always find Seth's posts insightful.

This is an excellent—and harrowing—look at the downsides that come with being well-known.

In a similar post a couple months ago, I talked about taking an app I've had for a long time (OmniFocus, in that case) and "doubling down" on it—making it a more regular part of my daily life.

I've been wanting to take up gardening for a long time—in particular, growing some of the veggies I use in my everyday cooking.

Patrick Rhone shared a link to his /reading page, where he posts short notes on all the books he reads.

It's a stunning thought, to the point of vertigo, how much time and energy and sweat and blood we invest in a life we don't actually want. [...]

I love both of these, but I was particularly drawn by the one about anxiety, that being one of my things.

OmniFocus is one of these accessories for my 'aspirational' life.

I have really mixed feelings about this massive article, which I'm bookmarking because I'm only part way through it.

It's obnoxious that this is even required—and who knows how effective it is to opt out of any of these companies.

I like Curtis's post about finding open alternatives to even excellent apps like Ulysses: in the longish run, I'd like to do the same.

I've had a tab for this 2014 Ars Technica article open for ages, let me collect the series here: How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain, part 1 Taking e-mail back, part 2: Arming your server with Postfix and Dovecot Taking e-mail back, part