The Canadians have invaded our airspace! Every fall, this is one of the things I look forward to most in the Pacific Northwest. https://video.adamwilbert.com/w/8WL2HvuFyfF7UAcMr6Lw19

Never played Gris, so I don't have a deep gameplay connection to the music, but I am really enjoying the Gris Piano Collections soundtrack this Sunday afternoon. I don't usually crank up solo instrumental stuff, but I've got this playing pretty loud and it's reverberating in my chest, doing […]

Super esoteric question: Watching a show (Invasion) and spotted these strange bokeh spots in one scene. The've got a sharp grid pattern in them, and I've never seen anything like that before. Can anyone in the #photography #optics or video #PostProduction […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This reminds me of a few items I've added to my .zshrc file over the years: alias ll='ls -laG' (quick format file listings) alias atheon='open http://192.168.7.61:5000' (jumps to my NAS) alias cls='clear' alias dir='ls' (for when I forget I'm not on Windows) alias dotclean='dot_clean -n .' […]

The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants destruction of the White House East Wing halted, saying it’s “deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself.” […] [Original post on journa.host]

Free entertainment sorted for the next three weeks. I just found out that my library lends Switch games!

I must be doing something right when the only impact I saw of the AWS outage was a bunch of posts on Mastodon talking about it.

#shapr3d has a new generative render mode that works pretty well for making visualizations of a 3D CAD model. I made a short video. I do find that I'm exceptionally conflicted on these new tools. Privacy, energy, and training data are all problematic. Many people I follow are either all-in or […]

I don't know why "full screen with menu bar" is such a hard concept for #macOS. There's an option in System Preferences to keep the menu, but it applies globally, even to full-screen video which is maddening. So I figured out a per-app solution using […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Learn anything from Python to Jazz Piano." Thats how I described Linkedin Learning in one of my pinned posts. It's a combination of words that Amazon used to call a “statistically improbable phrase.” There are literally zero other hits on Google for that combination. Now I see that the […]

Newest buzzword du jour: Shoppable. 🤮

Hello there old friends! Resurrected my old CS6 license, activated through Adobe's offline registration process, and locked everything up in a macOS Sierra VM. Not the most performant way to work, but will suffice as an option of last resort should I ever need them on my journey of disentanglement.

My absolute favorite scenery 3d modeler just launched a Kickstarter for a new modular retro-sci-fi set, and it looks amazing! Functioning doors and hatches, elevators, channels for led strips and individual lights. The level of customization for tabletop […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Now that autumn weather has come to the PNW, I can return to my normal, beflanneled self.

I had some unlucky timing in trying to migrate from #Adobe to #Affinity. They shut the store down pending a major announcement at the end of October, right after I started my trial. Well, a bit of relief: They re-enabled any trials that were started after […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

ChatGPT, what do I think about this? *copy* *paste* This is what happens when social media becomes an algorithmic game. Some people can't help but look for every stupid shortcut to goose their metrics.

I don't know how anyone types with predictive text turned on. It's constantly flashing random words at you, sometimes they're what you're going for, often it's not. Then your brain is constantly switching back and forth from "keep typing" to "hit tab" at any random moment. But if you're too slow […]

New profile pic! Yeah, it's an @Iconfactory original pixel portrait. Slurp it up, facial recognition data brokers.

Interesting, I can still get a disk image of my old CS6 license from 2012. New weekend project: see if it'll work on some sort of old OSX VM or something.

Welp. Was looking at dumping my #Adobe subscription this month (and taking the early cancellation fee hit just to be done with 'em). But there's some shenanigans going on with #Affinity now. The perpetual license purchase links have been removed, the support […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115306424173494411 Today's "lost dog" is tomorrow's "brown person of interest." Something something paved with good intentions? TLDR; Ring cameras new AI feature will search neighborhood footage when an owner posts an image of a lost dog, and will notify the […]

Finished playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle last night, and then I see that /NoClip put out a "Making of" doc yesterday as well. Perfect timing! Truly a fantastically well executed game. Story, cinematics, acting, lighting, set pieces, puzzles […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

**Have You Ever Heard of This Mysterious Mediterranean Island That Has Only Appeared 4 Times Since 264 BC?** 🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/mysterious-mediterranean-island/. #maps #cartography

"Why isn't my shell script working?"

Spending a bunch of time this week extricating myself from Adobe CC. I use a broad swath of the suite, so there's a lot to test for compatibility with a lifetime's archive of work. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign seem easy to replace with Affinity. Premiere/After Effects, leaning towards […]

Updating my #pihole, and caught this info message as it quickly scrolled by: Neutrino emissions detected... Yup, it's a Star Trek joke: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/what-does-neutrino-emissions-detected-mean/11350

"The algorithm will also be controlled by America" is a terrifying thing to read.

Stumbled upon this visual metaphor of our times: an Amazon van blocking a bunch of the free parking spots in front of the public library. 😡

Excised all the lorem ipsum and other placeholder stuff from my new Eleventy based static site, and finally deployed it for real. This is replacing an old Squarespace blog that was dormant for a long time. Hopefully the ease of dropping markdown files in a local folder and a quick `git push` to […]

Can't find any reason to justify updating my #apple devices today, or anytime in the near future. There is literally nothing of interest in iOS 26 or macOS Tahoe, and lots of downside. At best, Liquid Glass is "meh" across the board, and has plenty of janky edges. AI Translation in messages & […]

Cascadia Daily News "Citizens Agenda results: Housing, Bellingham waterfront, ranked-choice voting top concerns" This is a big deal! #rankedchoicevoting & #proportionalrepresentation are in the top 5 issues that local voters care about. Voters are fed up with dysfunctional government, and they […]

Are they, though? https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/115183501410864863

Starting to build out a faster 2.5Gb network in the house, and picked up my first couple of Ubiquity switches. The Flex 2.5G PoE switch comes with a card to help center a wall mount bracket, and that card has a tiny little bubble level in it! As soon as I saw that, I thought "this company gets me."

I like rewatching older movies and spotting actors that I didn't know on the first watch, but recognize now. Instantly knew the voice of Empire's middle clone, Brother Day (Lee Pace, Foundation), when he showed up as an elf king in Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.

Couldn't be any less interested in the Apple event that's apparently going on now. Zero interest in buying any new Apple gear until Tim's out, then maybe I'll reevaluate. Or maybe I'll have moved on by then.

Spending the day clearing out my ancient #gis data archive. There's some real doozies in these folders. Like this 600 megabyte "output.tif" image. I think it's Yosemite, but who knows what this was for. Circa 2016.

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure: the perfect gift for the #woodworking enthusiasts in your life! https://xkcd.com/3138/

Sometimes @verge has interesting articles, but boy do they really, REALLY want me to buy a robot vacuum from one of their affiliate links.

Need to move a bedroom light switch 1.5 inches away from the door frame to accommodate wider door trim. Step 1: Ugh, not enough wire slack to relocate easily. Step 2: Remove bit of drywall Step 3: Oh, the drop hole in the attic is covered by the nice flat […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The graphic and simulation improvements made for Anno 117: Pax Romana are looking really great. I do *not* need another beautiful city builder to get sucked into... but there is a free demo for the next two weeks, until the 16th. #anno117 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RG4O8TxEck

Beginning to think my apple trees aren't "giving trees" in the Shel Silverstein sense. More like "guilt trees" in that, if even a single one of these 10,000 viable apples goes to waste, I'm going to feel bad about it. #gardening

Anyone that plays Flight Simulator in VR with an HP Reverb headset is probably familiar with the work of MBucchia, the ex-Microsoft mixed-reality engineer behind the pet project OpenXR Toolkit. He just released a new driver to extend the life of the HP headsets, which were set to turn into […]

As someone that only dabbles in occasional web design, and whose knowldge of HTML and CSS is 20 years out of date, I found this article to be very useful: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

I've been binging a bunch of #GameChanger on #DropoutTV lately. Turns out LinkedIn actually sponsored an episode, and the cast did a full #LinkedInLearning bit, with CEO/Owner/Host Sam Reich stating that he used the service (what would have been Lynda.com at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you have rooftop solar, a reminder to regularly check your production output. I just noticed two of our panels stopped producing back on July 1st. You can see in the graph when they dropped off, right at about 16:00 hours, on an otherwise sunny afternoon. #solar

Plugging along on my biggest ever #LinkedinLearning course. In 15 years, I've never had one near this length. Watching these numbers tick up & down in our progress tracking spreadsheet for the past several weeks, looking forward to the eventual "record […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I thought we already had a system to transfer corporate profits to US Treasury. Squeezing companies one-at-a-time seems very inefficient. Instead, we could have blanket rules about percentages that companies should contribute, and companies in different profit-brackets could pay different rates […]

[USpol] When the solution to people losing their representation in Texas is to make other people in California lose theirs too in righteous retribution... that doesn't feel like a win. Lots of people cheering as we take another giant leap forward on the downward spiral.

Back in my day, we didn't have chocolate in the bottom of our ice cream cones. We just let them melt and dribble onto our shirts, LIKE MEN.

I really need to give Obsidian another go. I've tried it in the past but didn’t have a good organization plan, and it got real messy real fast. https://mas.to/@obsidian/115051689371979970