In 2016 I remember a lot of people saying “this isn’t who we are.” I’m sure there is someone pulling out that tired line and other platitudes, but I think the reason that the 2024 election results are so gutting is that this clearly is who we are. I don’t know how you can deny it.
I’m going to try ditching Amazon. Not just because Bezos sucks — which he does — but because I’d like to try and support other stores when I can, and because I don’t actually need to get everything right away.
I am willing to admit that while I love living in the Pacific Northwest, I am not particularly excited about the fact that it will be both cold and rainy for the foreseeable future.
Trying to think of fun things I can do in the new year. Maybe a trip to New York to take photos and see music in the spring?
I want to do something fun for my birthday, but there’s not a lot to do in the middle of January, so I’m thinking maybe I’ll observe the date a couple of months later.
If any of my Portland-area friends are interested in taking cool film photos for social media, your music, fun, or whatever else, hit me up. I want to practice shooting people more, so this seems like a good way to do that.
Went to downtown Portland today for the first time since the election. I can’t tell if it was just me, but everything felt depressed and somber. I heard at least two groups of people asking each other how they were holding up.
Debating if I want to take Linefeed paid or have it be a thing I let people use who ask. Content moderation is a lot of responsibility and I’m not sure it’s a game I want to be in. If I want to charge money, there are plenty of things I can do that don’t require me to do that.
Listening to this podcast episode about Beanie Babies and they sound like NFTs, the comic book bubble, and probably half a dozen other things I don’t remember. People keep falling for this. Now I wonder if the mid 2000s housing bubble was the ultimate expression of this.
Part of me has considered basic analytics for my websites, but not knowing is nice too. I was shocked and delighted when I saw someone say title.love was their most delightful title casing tool.
The aforementioned Hobonichi cover.
One gold star! I’m a real programmer 😂 Interested to see how challenging these Advent of Code questions get, and also how quickly.
I’ll be checking out the Hanami web framework for Ruby for the first time on stream tomorrow at 3:30pm PST by going through their “getting started” tutorial. Sign up to be alerted, or just show up tomorrow using this YouTube link.
If I hear someone talk about how the Greatest Generation stormed the beaches of Normandy, and younger generations need safe spaces to protect their feelings, I point out that they had safe spaces too and that it was called segregation. Why do you think suburbs exist grandpa?
This booster shot is really messing me up. Hoping I feel better tomorrow.
I’ll keep crossposting, but I’m going to start avoiding Twitter. I don’t want to share a platform with Donald Trump. I remember 2015-2020, and it fucking sucked. If you do, no shade, but I’ll pass. Find me on Mastodon, Micro.blog, or Linefeed. DM for iMessage.
People are like, “you know CBD/THC/Adderall/caffeine are DRUGS, right!?“
Yeah, I know. I’m also pretty excited to see what psilocybin (mushrooms) can do for me when it becomes medically legal in January.
I just made a hot ale flip, which is a colonial era rum drink and holy shit it’s good. Recommended. Here is the recipe I used.
The fact that you use tell application … with SOAP and XML-RPC services in AppleScript and get back response dictionaries as though you were talking to an app on your machine must have made being a Mac user who was into this stuff in like 2005 incredibly cool.
Picked up this bottle of “Just Rum” made in nearby Sandy Oregon. It came with its own challenge coin, which is kind of fun. The back of the bottle goes into detail about it being colonial style and how it could have been made with technology from the 1600s. Neat. 🥃
I almost forgot this place existed, but really happy to remember you can get tortas in #Portland at Guero at NE 28th and Davis.
Perez won this. I parroted the line after 2016 about 538’s model that “one in three is a pretty good chance, actually!” Really though, we need to stop paying attention to election modeling websites. They aren’t good and Nate Silver and similar are not helping anyone.
I almost forgot this place existed, but really happy to remember you can get tortas in #Portland at Guero at NE 28th and Davis.
If you were going to give someone who hasn’t used one before a fountain pen as a gift, up to ~$100, what would you choose? 🖋️
I’m thinking of dropping using the Trix editor that comes with #Rails and moving everything to Markdown. I like that it’s easy and a nice editor, but I also foresee it being a continual pain in the ass if I want to support editing off the website itself.
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