I'm super stoked for House House! But, very sad that it isn't on Nintendo Switch, which is what our entire family is still on.

If you just finished a site survey with Hamina Onsite, but you forgot to enable Broadcast AP Names, good news! You can fix it by adding a few point surveys. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1d9...

This week I was at a networking event in Oslo. A Wi-Fi engineer at my table, having no idea about the history of Pebble past 2016, pointed at my watch and said, “Hang on. Is that a… Pebble? Why does it look so new?” The PT2 design clearly has classic #Pebble DNA! Nice work, @ericmigi.com!

Thinking about UI adjustments for low-resolution Pebbles (144x168) and #Pebble Time 2 (200x228). It’s tempting to just bump fonts by a few sizes (pictured), but I’m leaning towards bumping fonts by only one size, and increasing data density a bit. PT2 sure is a joy to wear. Nice work @ericmigi.com!

The fact that Slack uses Command + Shift + U to paste hyperlinks instead of Command + K is absolutely and completely diabolical. I'm amazed that they've gotten away with that.

Mr. Cowie is living his best life.

11: "GUYS, MOM IS USING AI."

What are people using for offline file storage and archival these days? I'd like to have something I can write to, stick on a temperature-stable shelf (maybe have two copies in two places), and then come back to in decade if I need it. Use case: FCP libraries that I *think* I won't need again.

From the archives: A prototype WLAN Pi NEO2 leave-behind sensor in 2020. It had two Wi-Fi adapters and a PoE splitter. I meant to intro it at WLPC, but forgot to pull it out from under the podium at the end of my talk. It got pretty hot, and took a long time to print, so I never released it.

From the archives: 3D printing back in 2013 with Printrbots. We didn't have fancy stuff like auto leveling. We had wood! 3D printers made of actual wood! And we had to walk uphill in the snow, too! Both ways!

11, as her older sister agonizes over an art project: “Pain is the best teacher.” “…at least, that’s what Bowser says.”

Welcome to "Googling Idaho Gubernatorial Candidates Real Quick so you Don't Have To", a Bluesky thread. 🧵

I work for a good company. Nice people. Great product. My industry has a bunch of great people with lots of friends. But making videos, speaking at conferences, being the "community guy"... I don't think I can do it anymore. Some negative people, tough competitors, and monotony leave me exhausted.

Claude by @anthropic.com was/is my favorite LLM, but they shut off our entire company weeks ago with no explanation. They finally replied to our messages saying they would turn it back on, but it's been another week and... nothing. Most of the company is giving up and switching to other tools. ☹️

I am doing a massive project to consolidate my locally-stored photos (plain filesystem), Google Photos, and Apple Photos to Immich, with photos dating back to the early 2000's. The hardest part has been timestamps. So many of my photos lack EXIF data.

From the archives: the gauge cluster on my SV650S. That was (and still is) one of my dream bikes.

Something I don't understand about Europe: WhatsApp. It's ugly and controlled by a US-based company, and both Signal and Telegram are _right there_. I just don't get it.

Why, why, WHY does Slack not use Command + K to make a link?! What product manager decided to do that?!

That feeling when you update a DNS entry that should take 24 hours to propagate, and it starts working in about 30 seconds.

11, usability-testing a shopping cart prototype by @thelinengirl.bsky.social: "Ooooh, a discount! Wait, that's more than half. Who permissioned that?!"

To me, the worst thing about vintages Macs are StuffIt archives. I never seem to have the right version of StuffIt on my machine. I wonder what is the minimum viable version of StuffIt is that would give the maximum compatibility across various System and Mac OS versions?

11: “Dad is relaxing in his space pod continuum.”

I've released a new #Pebble App! World Clock does the usual world clock stuff, plus scrubbing forwards and backwards to compare times across timezones! 💿 @repebble.com App Store: apps.repebble.com/de275b75a429... 💾 @rebble.io App Store: apps.rebble.io/en_US/applic...

They could have called it an iBook! 😭

I was excited to finally get a Symbol SPT-1800 running PalmOS, but disappointed to find out that the 802.11 Radio Configuration was password-protected. Fortunately, someone on Reddit figured it out! ▶️ Video: youtu.be/mKruVXJEXb4 🥱 TLDW: Found it with a hex reader

Reasons why I have housekeeping make up my room at every hotel I’ve ever stayed at: 🚫 Because I want my room made up ✅ Because I can’t get the Privacy sign to stay on the doorknob, no matter how hard I try

Whoops, it's been over 365 days. I guess I'd better get my backups fixed.

I have a product that I love. It failed outside of warranty. I emailed their support asking if there was anything I could do to fix it myself. They just issued a replacement item. Or, I could have publicly flamed them on social media. That would have shown them!

This weekend, I worked on my Helsinki Regional Transit Departures app for #Pebble. Coming soon: 🚋 Toggles between route number and destination with a short timer! 🚌 No longer constrained to just Helsinki; will support all of 🇫🇮 Finland and 🇪🇪 Estonia, since they use the same API!

LLM be like, "Yo dawg. I heard you like functions and methods, so I put a method inside a function so you can call the method with a function."

Lately when text chatting with friends, instead of wasting electricity on AI image generation, I've just been saying: "Imagine me Scrooge McDuck diving into a pit full of identical multi-port USB-PD power adapters." Saves electricity, but burns glucose. I wonder which is worse.

Dad had a 386 running Windows 3.1. Playing this and Skifree are some of very, very first memories of using a computer and playing video games of any kind.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Back at work for two days; already struggling with wrist pain from mouse and keyboard work. Mechanical split keyboard, ergonomic trackball mouse from Logitech. Not sure what else I can improve.

I randomly stumbled across @tantacrul.bsky.social's video about Audacity 4. Two thoughts: 1. Wow. Audacity 4 Alpha 2 is shockingly easy to use. My go-to, starting now. 2. As a product manager on hiatus, this video is a masterclass in UI/UX design for mature apps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3...

A few minutes ago, here in Lapland. 🇫🇮

Pebble Round 2's platform name in the @repebble.com SDK is: Gabbro! Aplite (Classic, Steel) Basalt (Time, Time Steel) Chalk (Round) Diorite (2) Emery (Time 2) Flint (2 Duo) Gabbro (Round 2) Info about Gabbro (rock): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbro Pull request for Gabbro: github.com/coredevices/...

Pebble Round 2 exists! @thelinengirl.bsky.social and I have never ordered something so fast. It is exactly what we wanted. repebble.com/blog/pebble-...

New app for Pebble smartwatches! Punchclock is a simple "how long did I work" calculator. This is my first app that also supports Pebble Time Round and Pebble Time 2. @repebble.com App Store: apps.repebble.com/en_US/applic... @rebble.io App Store: apps.rebble.io/en_US/applic...

3 PM. The sun sets in about 5 minutes. 🇫🇮

Today's Pebble dev project: supporting all of the #Pebble screen sizes and shapes. Pebble Time 2 still needs some work but the groundwork is there.

My wife (@thelinengirl.bsky.social) knocked Christmas out of the park (again), this time with a custom-made Macintosh 128k LEGO kit designed by Chris McVeigh (chrismcveigh.com)! The logic board, analog board, floppy drive, flyback transformer… it’s all there! The accuracy and detail is insane.

The Macintosh Classic II might not be the *best* black-and-white compact Mac, but it is the *best looking*.

Even Duolingo has iconography on Pebble now! Excellent! @ericmigi.com is this coming from Pebble-Dev? Planning to add more? These icons are one of my favorite things about Pebble.

Nothing makes me feel like an information security expert like explaining what a "factor" is in authentication (something you know, something you are, something you have). I'm an idiot when it comes to infosec, btw.

I'm thinking about replacing my aging Mac Mini with a proper NAS. Primary use cases: 🔄 Time Machine backups ▶️ Plex 📷 Immich (interested) 📂 Files 🌍 Webserver (local network only) I'm in a "buy it once, buy it right" mood.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I accidentally clicked "Schedule a meeting" in Outlook. The good news is that it didn't work.

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.