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Tags: #photos #places Santa Barbara, CA, 2025 The offshore platform is just there, day and night.

Tags: #nature #dispatches Ali and I went for a hike yesterday, the first time for her in years.

Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #learning Hello RSS and Email club people.

Tags: #photos #places I spent a day at the Sonoma Raceway; my expertise in cars runs about as deep as playing Gran Tourismo and Forza Motorsports many years ago will get you.

Tags: #attention #dispatches I had just finished my workout, stair machine and treadmill, and was about to climb the four floors of stairs back to my desk.

Tags: #writing #learning This one’s about writing craft.

Tags: #gym #sketches The lat pulldown machine is the only machine in the gym with a one pound increment, and the only machine with a seat belt.

Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #links Hello once again RSS clubbers, this is the now habitually weekly grab bag post of random things that I have on hand that are interesting and fun.

Tags: #moods · *duration:6h Feeling down after a rare rough day at work.

Tags: #music #TIL Today I learned of the bandoneon, a variant of the concertina.

Tags: #sketches #food The strong smell of fresh earth became noticeable in the dark night air.

Tags: #critiques #design #attention I saw recently that a company is now projecting the indicator on the ground.

Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #links #active-incident-links Hello RSS Club!

Tags: #moods #weather #dispatches #active-incident-links · *duration:24h Dang, it’s hot!

Tags: #sketches #attention The parking lot is full, like completely full.

Tags: #series-butano #sketches #nature I’ve always been struck by the middle view, the “middle airs,”1 of the Redwood trees.

Tags: #rss-club #YouTube #dispatches #music Hello RSS Clubs and Email Subs!

Tags: #sketches #attention The black Tesla is speeding and braking and lane changing and routing around the slower cars.

Tags: #sketches #attention #places The uniformed man walked past, straight down the middle of the two rows of chairs, perfectly ordinary.

Tags: #series-butano #sketches #backpacking Where did that banana slug go?

Tags: #sketches #weather Our pants are getting wet, quite a bit more wet than I had anticipated and the umbrellas aren’t helping much.

Tags: #critiques #platforms Apple, we’ve got a problem.

Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #learning Hello once again RSS Clubbers, and welcome email subscribers!

Tags: #food #dispatches Yesterday I noticed a pattern, or trend, or well, something.

Tags: #moods #dispatches #attention · *duration:24h The neighbors are having work done.

Tags: #photos #attention #dispatches #art By Moko.

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Tags: #backpacking #series-butano #sketches Carbon.

Tags: #dispatches #food My plate is sliding away from me across the table.

Tags: #dispatches #blogging I found out yesterday that Jeff’s mom has a blog, has had a blog for 7 21 years!

Tags: #rss-club #video-games #dispatches It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another snapshot grab bag of random stuff.

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Tags: #meta A known-safe target for end-to-end testing the serverless comment-to-PR worker.

Tags: #moods #nature #bioregion · *duration:24h Eleven monarch caterpillars on the neighbor’s milkweed this morning, and a dozen or so bees tending the flowers.

Tags: #writing #learning #dispatches There are almost no similes in Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth.”

Tags: #backpacking #sketches #photos #series-butano #places The forest is misty at five in the morning, and the air still and quiet.

Tags: #backpacking #sketches #photos #series-butano #weather Now they tell me.

Tags: #moods #learning #ai · *duration:6h Lots of learning going on this week.

Tags: #dispatches #links #rss-club Hello RSS Clubbers!

Tags: #moods #backpacking #series-butano · *duration:72h I’m off to spend a couple of nights in the woods with some new friends.

Tags: #Chris-Arnade #links Chris Arnade has a blog (newsletter) called Chris Arnade Walks the World, and his beat is, well, walking and the world.

Tags: #blogging #meta Update: just use the “comments” form at the bottom of any post (and most pages) to leave a comment!

Tags: #critiques #essays The advice is that you want more options, keep your options open and collect more of them, and that’s the way to succeed in a highly uncertain situation.

Tags: #links #replies #gardening #Giles-Turnbull #photos You might think allotment people are only green-fingered, but I think they’re a bit tin-fingered as well.

Tags: #attention #platforms #critiques The trends today that feel forced and presented and manipulative and really only there for some reason other than because people want them, the selected shouting and distilled intensity, it’s all exhausting.

Tags: #design #code #references So I thought I would write a post about emoji ligatures and the zero width joiner and how it’s cool that you can use emoji shortcodes plus the html ‍ character to do this yourself.

Tags: #moods #meta #design · *duration:24h Just wanted to say hi!

Tags: #links #walking I’ve been reading Dan Flag’s1 newsletters for a while, I started for the pictures.

Tags: #rss-club #dispatches #ai Welcome to the first real volume of RSS Club!

Tags: #dispatches #food #places This place is a hotel restaurant at the end of Menlo Park on Sand Hill road, past SLAC but before 280.