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Today’s agenda:

5:15AM: Up for a video call with Eastern Europe. (Context: I’m in California.)

7AM: Commuting to work.

4PM: Leaving work.

5PM: Meeting up with the backpack cult for a 5 mile weight-carrying hike around the Golden Gate Park and beaches a bridge area.

8PM: Commuting home.

9PM: Animal Crossing until I fall asleep harvesting coconuts.

I’m a long-time fan of Hookmark, but not a fan of its price tag or anti-customer device limits.

Now I’m a fan of my own project, Snaggle, which implements the parts of Hookmark I actually use, borrows Alfred as a user interface, and is AGPL’d so anyone can use it for free as much as they want.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

“How many more meetings is it going to take before we understand the community didn’t vote for this? They don’t want it. How many more times are the cameras going to have to get cut down before somebody realizes it’s not worth the money?"

1. The people have spoken, clearly and repeatedly. Listen to them.
2. Spot the person in this story who’s clearly getting kickbacks.

I bought Hoka Clifton shoes a while back because they have a reputation at being good for walking. I disagree. They’re fantastic for standing. They’re delightful for strolling. They’re sucky for covering distance, though.

The soles are just too soft. There’s no support. Scurrying a mile to make a bus connection? Plan on rolling your ankle along the way and for having achy shins. I would truly rather wear hardsoled boots for making a long or fast trip.

I’m on a bus reading “Accelerando” on a cheap Chinese ereader hacked with open source firmware. Siri in my ears periodically interrupts with a spoken summary of a Slack message from the company lawyer and I shake my head to dismiss it; I’ll be at the office soon anyway. The two guys in Patagonia vests next to me are one-upping each other with AI opinions that aren’t quite based in reality.

Just a regular commute in the Bay Area.

I was trying to remove a Li-ion battery from a thing, and accidentally got its attention. Now the enspicified pillow is sitting inside a pyrex casserole dish on my concrete driveway, far away from anything else excitable.

Today, I learned.

This weekend I’m putting together a little cyberdeck from a Raspberry Pi, a 4.3 inch screen, and a tiny keyboard and trackpad.

I’m going to start off playing with someone else’s design until I have a better idea of what I’d do differently on my own.

I’m going on a 5 mile, 20 pound ruck next weekend. That’s not terribly far or heavy, but I haven’t done it recently, and my backpack on today’s practice trip is already heavy.

I had an HSA years ago. They sent me an email today regarding my tax forms (for the year I’ve already filed my taxes for). The mail included their company logo as an attachment, but mis-named so that it’s not viewable. And when I went to the link in the email, I got a TLS error because their certificate had expired.

I’ve rarely been less confident about a legitimate email. Get your act together, WealthCare. Fintech companies don’t usually want to present themselves as amateurs.

I haven’t finished the morning commute yet and already have five p0 things to do before lunch.

So it’s gonna be that kind of day, huh.