Lyons in Beta

Before I make fun of a silly thing, let me say: buy and install water-leak sensors in your home.

I've written about my app defaults before, then recently I saw that Brad (of Pen Addict fame) started keeping track of his Analog Defaults on the Pen Addict website[1].

I have been considering whether or not I wanted to add my website to any of those cool, retro, small web, web rings.

I finally played Megabonk, a... sigh...

I was gifted a pair of Bose QuietComfort earbuds for Christmas last year.

Game developer, musician, and fellow Sunrise Robot alum, Echolox is making a multi-track rhythm game and the demo is out now.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single trip to Home Depot for a project, must be in want of a second trip to Home Depot

I work in software.

It's been a minute between episodes of Nostalgia Goggles, but Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo was just too good to pass up dusting off the microphones and having a discussion!

It took nearly an entire year but I have decided on my second slash page: /carless.

I learned quite recently that August 8[1] is HTML Day, a celebration of HTML that includes actual meetups!

If this post has a screenshot in it from Mastodon showing my Mastodon account as being the verified author of this website then I successfully followed Robb's instructions.

House House, makers of the delightful Untitled Goose Game and Panic, makers[1] of the fascinating Playdate, have teamed up again to release Big Walk.

I've been wanting to redesign my website for some time.

Blaugust[1] is here again and it gave me the kick in the ass I needed to work on my website.

You're not behind on your feeds.

There are a lot of people on the indieweb who carefully track every book they read, movie they watch, game they play, album they listen to, etc., etc., etc.

re: But they don't love you back, Puzzle games A genre I love that doesn't love me back is puzzle games.

The LEGO Game Boy comes with 2 cartridges you build: Super Mario Land and Link's Awakening.

A few of the folks I follow online posted 10 Pointless Facts About Me and I thought that, just like App Defaults, it seems like a fun and easy trend for me to bandwagon absolutely ages after the moment has passed.

Rating: Final Fantasy Tactics is one of my favorite games of all time.

I mentioned to my piano teacher that I had replayed Super Mario Odyssey recently, and he asked if I had tried to 100% it.

"A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time.

A year or two ago I first noticed some of the folks I follow on Mastodon posting about the coming of Blaugust, a community-driven hey-you-should-blog-more event.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most successful pieces of business and consumer software ever made.

I've been reading a lot of blogs and looking at a lot of cool websites during the #blaugust2025 challenge.

A surprising (but good!)

My new Read-It-Later system is appending links to a note in Obsidian.

I don't normally use the Trending tab on Mastodon because I like my social media highly curated, but sometimes serendipity has other plans.

I've had a bunch of websites over my life.

Between Hank Green moving his money around, CoreWeave cratering, and basically everything Ed Zitron has ever written, the news is looking pretty bleak for "safe" investments in the US (global?)

I was talking to someone recently about a project they are working on.

I have a manual sprinkler that needs to be turned on and off at the spigot.

Hollie on telling the indieweb community they just want to make websites and not "learn to code": In one conversation with four or five people, one person said, "I don't understand why everyone doesn't just learn to code."

My daughter needs a laptop for school.

I came across this ridiculous looking videogame tie-in children's picture book while looking for the release date of this ridiculous looking videogame tie-in remix album several weeks ago and thought "I really really want to read this book but I will read…

I have a pair of over ear bluetooth headphones that have an auto-pause/play feature when you take them off then put them back on.

What you see when someone says "Just going to change rooms real quick" on zoom.

As important as it is to own what you write, make sure you also own what you read.

Ghost announced today that they are adding fediverse "social web" support to their open source publishing platform and that got me thinking about POSSE again.

About a year ago I subscribed to NPR+ which added a half dozen or so shows to my rotation.

In August of 2021 I decided to try a #100DaysOfX challenge for drawing trees in pixel art.

I've been sitting on publishing this for so long I actually had to update several rows.