yt-dlp is a treasure

My oldest gets a real kick out of controlling the fan light above the kitchen table with my Flipper Zero.

Morning find on the street. #seabikes #biketooter

This morning on the dead miles of the school run on the cargo bike I recovered a two-wheel slide on mud at 18mph by riding thru the slide. It was a wild sensation that elicited a reflexive holler afterwards. I’m still thinking about it! #seabikes #biketooter

Woah, this is a new-to-me concept. I like it. Spotted in @attoparsec’s video about walking around SF Bay. #cargobike #biketooter

Maybe we could make HTML forms cool again by calling it formcore? #html

More than a bit bummed that this totally groovy Yugoslavian disco/funk album from 1979 is only available on Bandcamp as an LP reissue and not digital download #music

who needs a kvm when you can just unplug a usb hub and replug it in elsewhere

At long last, I’ll soon be able to get back to all these browser tabs.

what the fuckity fuck now

Summer grilling is great, but grilling on a sunny, blustery Fall day is the best.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

and a very cool fountain

Small update

Why did records stop having click tracks?

My 6¾ year old is very into Bill Nye, but hilariously not into the topical music video parodies of 90s hits.

“Click here” is a failure up there with having to write “push” or “pull” on a door.

NDFO! https://starlite.rodeo/@ana/115344600232665684

Cooking up a simple ragu with the almost-last-of-the-season tomatoes.

EVERYTHING all at ONCE.

iykyk #parenting

I have increasingly desired a lathe so I could make some simple metal parts I'd like here and there for various projects. Send help, my hobbies will consume me.

Leaf blowers should be banned. So many reasons why, but tonight, my animosity is apropos of one of my eyes _still_ being irritated, hours later, from construction dust being “cleaned up” with a leaf blower directed into the street.

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

“The Pout Pout Fish” is such a weird book. But, it has a spectacularly good insult: You kaleidoscope of mope

My not-quite-two year old, after her first 10 minutes riding on a Mac-Ride: #biketooter

How I spent my Saturday night. #repair

Good new (library) book day! #books #libraries #othernetworks

#seabikes https://hachyderm.io/@trode/115277644709698247

Next week looks to be when the rain cover returns to the box bike, maybe for good until the spring. #seabikes #biketooter #wawx

Over the past week I’ve been politely arguing with Brooks England over their registration requirement for their 10 year warranty on a bike saddle. On one hand, it feels like a total waste of time. On the other, warranties that require registration within a certain period of time should be […]

I don’t write much Perl anymore, but I still wish I had access to something like its oft-maligned formats when writing code to construct nice humane multi-line error messages. #perl #software

Live your life such that you never end up reading something like this: “Load-balancing printer cluster formation can also be manually controlled by defining explicitly which remote CUPS printers should get clustered together.”

I bristle when people call flexposts bollards. If it doesn't provide physical security, it ain't a bollard in my book.

Things you overhear in your living room when your spouse is a medical researcher: “Wait what? They’re dead but they *didn’t* have an adverse effect? Sure sure ok.”

I wonder if pushing a shai-hulud branch to a repo on GitHub has consequences for the pushing account… #infosec

! #seabikes https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxjqjbmvithsqm6m7ds2uylj/post/3lzee3btyvc2i

My solution for carrying long narrow cargo when I’ve got the kids in the box has been working great. First 8ft lumber, now 10ft pipe! #cargobikes #seabikes

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender? https://phishyurl.com/ Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link #infosec

60°F and sunny is the perfect weather. It was so lovely this morning. #wawx #seattle

“if I don’t die or worse / I’m gonna need a nap” on a Built To Spill kick today… #music

I don't know what the people in this lab do, I just know they have more Scientist Points than I do.

Ha, so a bit of sleuthing thru public records later and it turns out this is the home of the president of a local ham repeater group and amateur radio association. https://metasocial.com/@trs/115161213329011586

Surprise, convergence! Delightful to hear suddenly start up thru the open windows. It’s right overhead. #wawx #seattle

So what all was I looking at here earlier today? Especially that big antenna on the left seemingly pointed straight up. #radio #hamradio? #antenna

My not-quite-2yo is playing with the play kitchen and just booped the stuffed wombat’s nose as she was cooking him over the open stove. Brutal.

A phrase just popped into my head while singing a nonsense song to the almost 2yo. “Fried rice-a-roni”

Welp, it’s now smoky enough at ground level that I’ve shut the windows for the first time this summer. #seattle #smoke