Today's Tiny Cool Thing: I added some tests to the calendar.city codebase, which previously had none!

Today's Tiny "Cool" Thing: got Anki set up again by archiving a lot of old stuff, adding some new cards, and putting it on my daily habits doc

The good news is that the GFS 12z is much less apocalyptic than this morning's 06z

What is this person trying to accomplish by using my email address to spam a bunch of Zendesk forms that don’t validate email addresses

Trying out @kyledoes.dev's songrank.dev and have so far exclaimed in anguish at five separate extremely difficult choices

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: I spent just a handful of minutes setting up the simplest possible "do something on a regular cadence" on AWS that I could think of. (You may be noticing a "set up future Tiny Cool Things" theme emerging here.)

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: the most basic Next.js + HeroUI + Auth.js + MongoDB setup possible, so that I can copy and paste it for future Tiny Cool Things

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: 1. apparently I don't take photos on Tuesdays, but I do take photos at lunchtime 2. oop, looks like something went wrong when I migrated my old photo library to Apple Photos a while ago… I'm missing a year!

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: I grabbed the locations from yesterdays.maprva.org, matched them to locations from my photos, then spent literally hours looking at each one to see if they lined up. This is probably the only one that's interesting to anyone other than me!

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: the location from every photo in my photos library over time

Stumbled upon this while doing research for another project: run telnet mapscii.me

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: migrating my "idea list" into an Obsidian vault, with one page per idea. (This is separate from my Tiny Cool Thing idea list, which I'm thinking I might just merge into here.)

Phillie Phanatic snout (?) should be t-shirt cannon

Mobius Materials is hiring a Logistics Coordinator in Richmond, VA. Come help us keep chips out of landfills! www.mobiusmaterials.com/jobs/logisti...

Vowing to only refer to them as "Urchin Tracking Module parameters" in full from here on out

This is so cool.

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: I have an ATProto feed running on my machine that shows posts that say The Secret Word. Once the secret word has been said, we pick a new secret word and search for that. (Making it so people can subscribe to this feed will almost certainly be tomorrow's Tiny Cool Thing. 🤪)

Today's Tiny Cool Thing is probably not going to work. The idea is "Radio Bluesky": subscribe to the jetstream, find a Bluesky post containing a song link and play it; when the song's nearly over, grab the next song that's posted and play that.

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: I use Obsidian for notes, and sometimes I need to take notes that I don't want people to be able to see over my shoulder. So I have this Raycast snippet that adds a div to my notes that hides the text until I select the element. Today I added a fun blur to it.

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: a little window into the most-recent entry in my feeds

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: slurping up some contact names, a quick tool to write down where I met them or any other information, generating a vCard with the NOTE field populated.

Today’s Tiny Cool Thing was left deliberately as a box-ticking exercise because I knew today was going to be super busy: I’ve made it so GitHub notifications are sequestered in their own folder and are no longer in my primary inbox

hi from CES

A very quick Tiny Cool Thing before I get on the plane: a script to send myself a Bluesky DM. Maybe for future scripts to notify me. Who knows!

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: links to all the cool technology-related places to chat for Richmond, VA: blog.joewoods.dev/technology/c... What am I missing? 🙂

Today's Tiny Cool Thing: very often my machine will be sluggish and overdue for a restart, but I'll try to power through it anyway, then, after I restart it, I'll be like, "man, I should have restarted my computer hours ago, this is so much better"

What if everyone agreed that the internet should look like this

bsky.actor.profile (github.com/bluesky-soci...) has a field for pronouns, but Bluesky appears to not use this field out of the box. I've set mine manually, but I don't think this is really visible unless you view my profile record directly. (witchesbutter.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp...)

It's a weird day for this, but I am ticking a box on a personal goal: Today's tiny cool thing: a quick little Notion SDK tool to remove a manual step from reporting I generate at work.

Why didn't anyone tell me that Automator on macOS exists? I'm going to write so many silly automations, or so many silly little tools to run when I boot my machine…

Just saw a scissor lift going by my office window but I couldn't see that it was on the back of a flatbed truck and for a second I legitimately thought some real Watch Dogs 2 stuff was going down

I've added a new command to my repo of git tools: `git to`. This is just an alias for an fzf search I use all the time: `git checkout $(git branch | fzf)`. Basically: find the branch and check it out. github.com/tjwds/git-to...

Introducing Flint: a fast, friendly linter. Flint is an experimental linter made to validate several hypotheses: hybrid linting, streamlined rich configuration, thorough docs & plugins, and tooling coordination. Expect to hear more about Flint over the next month. ❤️‍🔥 www.flint.fyi/blog/introdu...

Here's a playlist of my favorite songs that came out in 2025 — all of which deserve way, way more love. Most of this is "guitar music," but there's a relatively-wide variety in here. open.spotify.com/playlist/4fh...

TIL the term of art "sales-qualified lead," commonly referred to as SQL

Are you going to be at CES '26? If so: let's meet up!

Just finished Tress of the Emerald Sea — I absolutely loved it. You should check it out!

Every time someone changes their profile picture, I'm like: who the heck is this Anyway, I changed my profile picture

I never, ever would have guessed that "Sledgehammer" is massively more popular than "In Your Eyes"

By simple extrapolation 68 should be the funniest number of all time

If I need push notification on for your app — say, because I order things to be delivered through it, and I need push notifications for the status of that delivery — it should be against the law for you to send me unrelated push notifications that I can't opt out of.

Anyway this morning's project: a quick little TUI to reorganize my Feedbin tags

TIL that node has sqlite built-ins nodejs.org/api/sqlite.h...

I have now read 29 out of the 30* books Iain Banks published. blog.joewoods.dev/uncategorize...

Margaret Upshur's startup, Mobius Materials, has raised $3 million from capital investors.

I can't do feats of strength this year, I have stitches

Mobius is on the front page of EE Times today! This is a great intro to what we're working on — we're making procurement for hardware manufacturing more efficient, more trustworthy, and way less wasteful. www.eetimes.com/seeking-flex...