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Overengineering a Pebble watchface.

I would love a git app more focused on editing files inside a diff view.

Netflix doing away with Sesame Street’s “Number/Letter of the Day” is the travesty in a sea of disappointing format changes.

nullfs is such a pile of hacks, it’s great.

Reduced chezmoi apply time from 15 seconds to 70 milliseconds by moving the binary externals (fonts and a binary application) to a local ansible role.

The compelling part about these command-line coding assistants is that anything with a specific textual representation is game: DNS configurations in DNSControl?

I empathize with the “ranting section” portion of the gluetun release notes.

Quad9’s IPv6 addresses are the first that stand a real chance of being memorable. 2620:fe::fe!

A couple fun ways I’ve used Claude Code recently: updating my backup script to create and download UniFi backups; and reverse-engineering an obscure Bluetooth home automation protocol from Wireshark logs followed by generating an ESPHome configuration.

My LG dryer doesn’t support delaying start, just remotely starting when preconfigured.

Tapo smart plug energy monitoring is great: exportable data & graphs of usage ranging from hourly to yearly.

A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★: Although I felt like I had a pretty good idea what the resolution was going to be, I still really enjoyed the worldbuilding.

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking ★★★★☆: I stumbled upon this “I should read that some day” book and enjoyed it.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler ★★★★☆: This felt right as a duology.

Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★: I actually finished this shortly after it was released, but sat with it in my head for a while, not sure how I felt about my time with it.

Great totally unspellable idea for an assistant app from the wonderful Rob Words newsletter: NOMENCLATOR: a servant employed to ensure their master doesn’t forget anyone’s name

Haven’t been very successful with AI assistants writing production Swift or Objective-C, but I did find a valuable debug use: annotating code paths and methods in a file with print statements.

The age plugin paper-age looks to be neat way to print small secrets on paper.

There’s something really soothing to my brain that Fedora 42 came out on the same day that baseball players were wearing #42 for Jackie Robinson Day.

Stalwart has Proton-like on-receipt encryption which encrypts incoming messages against a destination’s public PGP key.

It’s nice to see the former Twitter building return its sign and clock to normal.

Starting off the season by emailing NBC Sports to ask that they please use a monospace digit font for the centered pitch clock countdown so it stops bouncing around.

Continuing what would be my normal complaining about baseball streaming costs, this year is such an improvement: $20/mo for MLB.tv Giants.

Unlike macOS, iOS and Linux, Android does not support a CNAME to private domains (in this case a Tailscale ts.net) because its resolver doesn’t request after it encounters one; it just fails.

“AI-free since 1990” is a great tag line for SiriusXM; doubling-down on not doing algorithmic radio is hopefully a long-term strategic success for them.