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AI writing only impressed me once, the first time I tried ChatGPT and asked it to write a limerick.

I stopped into the local cargo bike store with a loved one who was shopping for a longtail e-bike and was surprised not to see Yuba bikes.

Ope, summer got busy and I didn’t post an August Meutch update.

I have logged over 10,000 miles (!)

A few years ago I was given a belt made out of old bike inner tubes (specifically, the Ballard Belt from Alchemy Goods).

In 2020, I migrated this blog to A2Hosting – I know that because I wrote about it at the time.

Kintsugi is a Japanese technique for visibly repairing pottery.

Meutch had a great June, with more people using the platform than ever.

I launched Meutch in May!

The quick backstory: I love sharing I enjoy borrowing things from friends.

A couple of winters back I read Unauthorized Bread, a novella by Cory Doctorow.

Here’s an update on my journey deploying Apache Superset and using Docker.

It’s 2026.

I have a 6 gallon aluminum pot that I wired an electrical heating element into.