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The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 travel router I bought a year ago is on sale today for 38% off. If you’ve been on the fence, get this now.

Summary: check into a hotel and connect this, instead of your phone, to the paid WiFi instead. Then connect your phone, laptop, Switch, whatever to the router’s WiFi. Only pay for the one device, have your own firewall in place, and route everything through your own VPN if you want (we watched American Netflix from Germany).

I’ll never travel without one again.

Brendan Barker Obituary (1974 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers

Oh man, this hurts. Brendan umped our kids’ baseball games and he was wonderful, both MLB-level good and unfailingly fair. We’d chat and joke with him before games and during slow parts, but it didn’t matter: he’d still call our kid out a minute later.

RIP Brendan. You were a true role model for hundreds of kids.

Bob, being dogsat, likes to perch on the back of the couch behind my head.

A small black and white Japanese Chin dog is perched on the back of a sofa.

She stood a cautious distance from the racked spamcannon, its GPUs glowing with malice and infrared as LLMs cranked out personalized spells. The tokens oozed out to the fediverse through a web of fake egirl accounts: “OMG… You would… look so cute… in these Skechers! ”

It was as profitable as it was horrible.

Because my ex-employer pays for a “platinum plan” health insurance policy, with family premiums of like $6000 per month, when I had a routine medical procedure last week, my out of pocket expense was “only” about $2000.

‘Murica. Shit yeah.

I’ve been using Just for a while as a task runner. It’s similar to Make, but optimized for developer ergonomics with a vastly simpler syntax and a wonderful CLI. I’d also been using Mise for other environment management things, such as installing specific versions of Python and NPM and other tools in a project directory.

Someone introduced me to Mise’s own newish task runner, and it just might win me over from Just for most things:

  1. Instead of using 2 tools, I can use 1.
  2. Just still feels nicer to me, perhaps because I’m more used to it, but Mise is good enough that I don’t think I’d miss the extra features.
  3. Mise lets you write tasks in separate files, which lets any editor handle them well without having to support justfile syntax, but still shares a CLI with inline tasks.

I like it.

I had a patch embroidered for my wife, a foot doctor.

A brown patch on a Timbuk2 bag. It says “I can get you a toe”.

Today I’m trekking the 1.5 mi walking part of my commute with 20 lbs of iron in my backpack. I’m reasonably confident in my ability to get it there with me intact. I’m less confident of my power to schlep it back home tonight.

Waking up to KMFDM blasting in the bedroom, a very surprised looking cat, and the HomePod she just accidentally coaxed into life by sniffing the top of it.

When an email’s footer starts with “The content of this email is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed only”, the desire to turn it into a blog post is almost irresistible.