Google Cloud emailed me a reminder that they’re about to make breaking changes in permissions that will cause currently working things to stop working.
“Remind” is begging the question by implying that I was ever minded in the first place.
But really, if you use GCP, check your email.
I realized that my entire career seems to be built on saying, “huh, that can’t be right…”
As seen on BART. I love my neighbors.
We saw a blue heron on our hike today.
I just got an email from AWS support asking for some data, saying, and this is a copy-and-paste quote, “You can provide this information by replying to this message.”
I replied to it.
A minute later I got an error message. Only then did I notice that they’d sent the first email from no-reply-aws@amazon.com, and that “replying to this message” was guaranteed to bounce.
They get me every time.
With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky behind them, the San Francisco skyline almost looked like a render.
The Cardputer-Adv + Cap LoRa-1262 combination is turning into the little pocket Meshtastic radio I’d hoped the T-Deck Pro would be. So far, so good!
In the middle of our weekly Hyperventilate Watching The Bills session.
I opened the box containing the replacement shower drain cover, and its bag of screws — which is what I most wanted in the first place — fell to the ground. The cat grabbed it and ran off when I yelled at him to put it down. Now I’m back to having just 1 of the 2 screws needed to hold the cover in place.
In case you were wondering how my day was starting.
The National Park Service claims putting a sticker over inappropriate parts of the 2026 pass invalidates it. However, you have an absolute right to carry the pass inside a clear plastic case, and that case may have a sticker on it that tastefully hides the affected area.
