Cool Things - October 04, 2026
Say what you want, but Happy Hardcode is a fantastic genre. If you are in retail, the easiest scheduled post should be ‘$month Best Sellers’. Is there a Saas equivilent? Maybe. But it won’t be as...
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Cool Things - September 13, 2026
Remember how good the first Elastica album was? Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it – hitting these guardrails reminds me when I was at HP and we got...
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My Magazine Idea
I love paper. And the experience of reading on paper. The tangibleness, the layout, the font choice, etc. that all get lost in the digital world. I own /a lot/ of paper. Bins of hardcovers, magazines...
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Cool Things - August 22, 2026
Sitting around before heading into the city for Pomplamoose. The Utopia of Rules What an SSH Tunnel Actually Does and When You Should Use One Double – new library from JMac. He does Good Stuff[tm]...
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Cool Things - August 16, 2026
From Mail “There is a special level of hell for taking away a competent person’s confidence.” – Mike Monteiro “ultra-saturated fuchsia” – listed with no context Basmati has quite a bit of interesting...
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Cool Things - August 5, 2026
Listening to the new Kim Gordon album to see if I want to see her live (leaning towards no, even though I thoroughly enjoy Sonic Youth) and processing emails From Mail The Three Questions Every...
View ArticleCool Things - August 2, 2026
It took me 6 months to catch up with my mail. And just 1 week of a new job to start to lose control of it again…. From Safari A Tour of WebAuthn – I still don’t get the Passkey hype. I know I should,...
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Cool Things - July 31, 2026
Welp, my flight home from Laracon US is now delayed past the point where we should be landing, so this is the stuck-in-the-airport-first-world-problem edition of cleaning up tabs. From Safari The...
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There is a mystery tab on Safari causing it to just burn through battery. So lets close some tabs. (Ended up being the 1Password helper that needed a restart.) From Safari Dune as an operational model...
View ArticleCool Things - May 13, 2026
Let’s clean up some phone tabs. We’re finishing up 2023 and 2022 here. From Phone SaaS Lens – I thing the AWS Well-Architected Framework is super handy. Since I specialize in SaaS, this is useful. Even...
View ArticleCool Things - May 6, 2026
Avoiding testing something that is going to be rather tedious to do… From Safari New Comic: The Scale of a Man – Pieces of art become more when you know all of the story. And when the meta story...
View ArticleCool Things - April 22, 2026
Had a process lose its mind, and then tabs started dying in Safari. So before I force quit the process, here’s the open tabs that pass ‘yup, this is cool’ test. From Safari How I Run a Fully-Remote...
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Books - Wednesday, April 21 - Dead Trees are Important
Greg linked to an article the other day I’m never buying another Kindle, and neither should you which has at its core a thesis anyone paying attention to anything should meet with ‘well, duh.’ And...
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Art Thursday - Thursday, April 16 - Hera
I’m unabashedly a Star Wars fan. I was raised on it. We lived in Grand Cayman and had a pirate video copy of A New Hope that I must have watched 100 times. And while I do think, in general, the novels...
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Joyful Thing - April 15, 2026
In lieu of the normal ‘Cool Thing Wednesday’ post, we have a ‘Joyful Thing’. While this post could be about Mike Monteiro’s How To Die (And Other Stories), which is great and you should get it, it is a...
View ArticleBooks - Stand The F*ck Out
Verdict*: Buy at full price I was at a MicroConf meetup last fall and they had a few copies of Stand The F*ck Out from an earlier event. With a title like that, how could I not pick it up. Love me some...
View ArticleMailing List Cleanup - DevOps’ish (Part 5)
(This is part of an open ended series of posts where I write down random things I feel are sharable from the years of mailing lists I’ve not caught up on…) This is part 4 of DevOps’ish and the final...
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Art Thursday - Thursday, April 9 - Giovani Tetris Bouquet (framed)
This is a follow-up post to Art Thursday - Thursday, March 12 which was André Schulze’s ‘Giovani Tetris Bouquet’ in a basic frame. Well, it is back from the framer. I really like the green matting and...
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Cool Things - April 8, 2026
It’s the return of Cool Things! Largely because I want to install the MacOs and it will need a reboot and I don’t trust that things will come back nice. From Laptop Another movie I missed at TIFF last...
View ArticleMailing List Cleanup - Freek Van der Herten (Part 5)
(This is part of an open ended series of posts where I write down random things I feel are sharable from the years of mailing lists I’ve not caught up on…) Here is 5th and final installment of Freek...
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