Matt’s in the Market

Weekend condo projects.

Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel: tinyurl.com/mr472vs5

Looking at my Network Solutions account... it looks like I've been paying for years for an unused domain protection for a domain I no longer host with them!?

Happy holidays 🎄 in Seattle

A favorite James Bond moment for me is when James rents a Ford Mondeo

Today’s lunch: Piroshky Piroshky

Soylent Green

Push notification from my auto insurance: “holiday safety tip: don’t drive anywhere”

Current status: on a 60 minute flight in the Delta One cabin of an A330-900Neo. None of the usual amenity kit or mattress pad, though. Must essentially be a repositioning flight, this can’t be profitable.

First time seeing Tampa Lighting in Tampa. Super cool venue compared to the overpriced Seattle Kraken I’m used to. Chill, fun, scoring, and they have Tesla coils for lightning! ⚡️

"This was controversial in 1977" ^ overheard in a work call

New executive briefing center

Learned and practiced a lot in a 3 hour latte art course this afternoon @ Anchorhead Coffee ☕️

Cool seeing Waymo in Lower Queen Anne

Nice fall day for a bike ride

Bell St. is a car-free greenway…

Obligatory cycling photos to think of during the big dark.

CityNerd and The War on Cars - great turnout. Brutal noisy walk past I-5 on the way to grab the Metro 1 home. @nerd4cities.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @townhallseattle.bsky.social

Time for CityNerd and The War on Cars in Seattle 🚌 🚲 #TownHallSeattle

That’s a big Coast Guard ship! 🚢

Apple HomeKit automations are not dark fall compatible. The sunset automation only allows turning a scene on for 4 hours max!

Sunday’s sunset in Seattle will be at 4:49pm 🌞

Person: "you people are basic, why didn't you think about [describes problem]?" Me: "here's where I implemented that 8 years ago, and also the discussions around it." < thread goes quiet >

Imagine the value of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” if it was licensed as a SaaS offering per student monthly?

@seattle.carinbikelane.com Western and Union, 2:52pm today

It’s very, very windy in Seattle tonight

A House of Dynamite 🧨 Sigh. Just a few minutes into the flick and my other half called the ending.

Thank you for this Friday ship, GitHub. IYKYK. SAML SSO and friends.

Our dry cleaning service is down.

We need like a sphere’s-worth of LED light strips to make the fall hospitable.

Seattle

Wow! Baseball!

I enjoyed “Tron Legacy”, but the crowd at tonight’s “Tron Ares” show is depressing compared to what this venue used to be and the movies that were produced by the industry.

@seattle.carinbikelane.com truck driving the Ship Canal Trail 1:20pm

Abandoned maglev 🚊

Nice overcast day for a Seoul cycle 🚲

Urbanist pics: pedestrians, underground subway station solar garden, open-ish fare gates

Super interesting seeing the Starbucks brand name in the local language

Rainy day ☔️

This would not work in a low-trust society like America: the subway cars in Korea have communal wireless phone chargers

Love a good set of platform screen doors

First flight with AirPods 3. Wow. Much-improved noise cancelling.

Always fun when websites are "closed" for business hours or observation of holidys or other things.

Delta innovation! No longer requiring a last name alongside username and password!

This new Tron movie better bring back MCP. Best way to associate with the nightmare of 2025.

I guess even the crown prince of Chipotle is no match for stagflation - sad to see the Starbucks HQ Reserve Store close.

Goodbye Uptown Lower Queen Anne Starbucks. Thanks for being here in those dark early pandemic days.

Ten years into using GraphQL and every day I refresh Hacker News hoping to see deprecation announcements for GraphQL things I painfully use...

Last time the Mariners did so well, I was … checks notes … playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and just starting college.