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Posts on and around this day (Mar 5):
  • 2025-03-08 / I am so looking forward to this game: Cairn is a realistic-ish climbing game with a layer of survival and resource management mechanics, and it feels really good to play, right down to the calming breath from a bomber hold to the Elvis-leg twitching you get from holding too long on a sketchy, fatigued toe edge. After a hard pitch, you can roll out your little bivvy sack, cook some instant noodles with your ultralight stove, and sleep with a view of the stars.
  • 2024-03-02 / Haven’t posted one of these in a while. Robin really kicks my ass.
  • 2024-03-02 / Last week, Textpattern turned twenty years old. Funny how many memories that brings back.
  • 2023-03-05 / The launch of the new Destiny 2 expansion, Nightfall, adds a new subclass – Strand – and restructures the mod system that affects player stats gained from armor. I’m happy to report that it only took me a couple of hours to revise my Shiny tool to find optimal armor loadouts using the new mods and subclass fragments! I had to hunt a little through some old code, and next time it should be a simple and easy update due to having fixed how I work with the manifest.
  • 2022-03-08 / Severance has some amazing Oldest House vibes going on. I’m eagerly awaiting the appearance of Hiss.
  • 2022-03-08 / Dearest Ada, it has been two days since I began editing odbcinst.ini, and still SQL Server repels me. Tomorrow, we will sudo brew reinstall FreeTDS. With our persistence, someday, odbc::odbcListDrivers() shall yield results and I will be at peace. /wistful violins
  • 2021-03-08 / Ogden valley morning
  • 2021-03-08 / Loop Hero is really great, friends. 🎮
  • 2021-03-06 / 🎮 XBox friends: Dungeon of the Endless is a fun and interesting tower defense sci-fi dungeon crawler studded with neat mechanics and writing, and it’s on Game Pass now. Recommended!👍
  • 2021-03-05 / TIL: The very cool cloud music sync service Soundiiz is now synchronizing with the very cool independent music store Bandcamp. 👍
  • 2021-03-04 / I’m just a simple country sociologist, but this fawning pro-NFT article seems quantitatively unsteady with assertions like “assume you instantly zero out 50% commission to double your revenue,” and “just slice your art infinitely to capture more revenue under the demand curve.”
  • 2021-03-03 / Out for a morning walk with the pup.
  • 2020-03-06 / Crap. I got new speakers and amplifier, and now I’m one of those insufferable guys who can tell the difference between mp3 and FLAC. 🎶 DON’T SAY OGG VORBIS
  • 2020-03-04 / What do you mean there’s not gonna be a third season of Counterpart?? 📺
  • 2020-03-04 / Home sick, watching Counterpart and tooling around with the Roon API. Precariously close to deciding to make a lo-fi now playing display from a Raspberry Pi.
  • 2020-03-01 / Is today the day I finally finish Outer Wilds? Time-loops will tell! 🎮
  • 2020-03-01 / Double vision, after a winter storm. #mbfeb 30! (I know, I know, it’s March now.) 📷
  • 2019-03-08 / Lovely orange and pink sunrise on the horizon while hail comes down in buckets at my house is pretty classic lousy Smarch weather for Flagstaff.
  • 2018-03-08 / Stopping for a coffee at Social Policy. John Prine’s on the stereo am I’m taking it as a good sign for the day. [photo]
  • 2018-03-07 / Can’t leave the coffee shop if Tom Petty’s “American Girl” just came on the stereo, right? It’s a bylaw?
  • 2018-03-07 / BRB, learning stuff at #StrataData.
  • 2018-03-05 / Do you know the way to San Jos—never mind, found it.
  • 2018-03-05 / On the tarmac at FLG.
  • 2018-03-05 / I’m packed, more or less, and enjoying a coffee by the fireplace, just about ready to head to the airport. I love flying out of our little airport — short security line and free parking for the win!
  • 2018-03-04 / Waiting on breakfast at the Tourist Home on a blustery morning and making some planning notes for this week’s San Jose trip. It’s wintery here this morning but spring is definitely on the way, as mountain bikes have started to supplant skis on the car racks around town.
  • 2018-03-03 / We saw Black Panther today and really enjoyed it! Cast, characters, story: it has lots going on – lots to say – and it does it very well. By contrast, one of the trailers was for Ready Player One, and boy does that trailer just do utterly nothing for me.
  • 2018-03-02 / 🎧 I’ve had Brian Fallon’s new album Sleepwalkers on heavy rotation the past week or so, and now I find Billy Rosenbeck’s glowing review. It’s an evocative, thoughtful orientation to what makes Fallon so good. 👍
  • 2018-03-02 / I’m San Jose-bound next week! I haven’t been there in many years, so even though it’s a work trip I’m excited to be there again. I’m scoping out coffee shops and told my parents I’d wander over and take a picture of the church where they got married, too.
  • 2014-03-08 / TextDrive Shutdown Countdown
  • 2014-03-02 / Wintertime Photowalking

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Boring website administrivia

Weeknotes, Nov 17, 2024

Weeknotes #/n

Weeknotes V

Weeknotes IV

Weeknotes III

Weeknotes S1E2

Notes from the week

Saying goodbye to a home and hello to another

Python + R in Quarto

Hugo: render hooks and partial for displaying images

Keyboard Week!

Destiny 2 Power leveling tool in R

My 2020 in Songs

Alan Plays Destiny - Season 11

Enabling Minecraft fn-key combinations on a Ducky One 2 Mini

Too Many Words About Two Keyboards

Adding Todoist items with an Alfred workflow

Alan plays Destiny - 2020 Edition

2018 Items: An accounting of things in no particular order

Rediscovrng Flickr

Alan Plays Destiny: My Season 3 Summary

Further adventures in IndieWeb

How I Play Zelda vs How My Kid Plays Zelda

Uses This is a huge 'Life Stack' repository, and there's data, too!

Dear Destiny - a play log

Hoping Machine

Re-tuning up my indieweb

Micro.blog and the urge to make stuff online again

Microblogging

That time I lived in a hotel for two months

Using the Ecobee API

Deployed = true?

My First Hugo

AirPods are Cool

Still Alive

Kinda Gone

January: a month of tiny challenges

TIL 31: Puppies

#TIL 30: Dog People

#TIL 29: Analysis

#TIL 28: Jury Duty

#TIL 27: My Job

#TIL 26: Routines and Goodbyes

#TIL 25: Learning and Doing

#TIL 24: Gluten Free Pizza

#TIL 23: 1000 Yard Stare

#TIL 23: Dating

#TIL 22: Allergies Suck

#TIL 21: Progress & Cooperation

#TIL 19: Life's sometimes a journey

#TIL 20: Copied

#TIL 18: Are you a vacationer or just a traveler?

#TIL 17: Music

#TIL 16 TIL is Hard

#TIL 15: Bitcoin Fail

#TIL 14: Gymnastics

#TIL 13: Learning at work

#TIL 12: Bowie

#TIL 11: New Tool

#TIL 10: Miles of Cables

#TIL 09: Goodbyes

#TIL 07: Snow Days

#TIL 08: Imagination

#TIL 07: Snow Days

#TIL 06: Shrinkage

#TIL 05: Allies

#TIL 04: Bedtime

#TIL 03: Star Wars Smile

#TIL 01: Thirty-two Thousand Feet Elevation

#TIL 02: Forza Teaches Numbers

New Year's Eve 2015

My Weekend Rabbit Hole: I Made an App

Dark Skies Star Party

Slow, Small Data

Restarting the iCloud Photos Sync

Plerd, a Dropbox-hooked static blog builder

How Invisible, Inc. Gets It Right

Apple Music, so Far

At Rock Paper Shotgun: The 50 Best PC RPGs

Adventures

A couple more Apple Music notes

This is a post without a title.

What to wear for the apocalypse

Can't Talk Now, Playing Splatoon

Invisible, Inc., and Roguelikes

Snow in May

Wunderlist API + Alfred = Cool

Jess Zimmerman stole a pen from Douglas Adams' grave

Being a Man in Tech

Keeping the Web

Three Moves Ahead on 4X Games

Browser Tab Roundup

Newsletter Serendipity

Tuning up my Backups

Find Me at Huffduffer

Springtime Biking

Pizzicletta

This Week's Reads from my Instapaper Queue

Wintertime, Briefly

Mailbox Methodology

Huffduffer and Workflow.is

How I learned to stop screwing around with a task manager and get work done

Good Analysts are Doing it By Hand

MailMate

2014 Stuff

What's Your Thing?

Making a Play Plan

Gaming Blogging, or Writing About Gaming

Another Webmentions Implementation

Indieweb Conversation

Why I Don't Have a Personal Site ▹

Abandoned in Place

Bridgy

webmention.io

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Syncing iPhoto Photostream with Lightroom

#

Upgrades: iOS 8 and iPhone 6

SteamWorld Dig

What I Found in my Photos

Amethyst, a tiling window manager for OS X

Me and My Synology

Fixing Syncing

Tuning up my Little Piece of the Indieweb

Microsoft.com in 1994

Posts I Did Not Write After All

Payne to Andreesen

Overcast

You Are Carrying

Nethack Meditation

At Multiball: Player Two Start

Choosing Words

What I Want From WWDC; And, Entirely Uninformed Speculation About Beats

Editorial 1.1 and Me

[Adactio: Journal—Selfish publishing ▹](http://adactio.com/journal/6801/)

[What's New in Editorial 1.1 ▹](http://olemoritz.net/whats-new-in-editorial-11.html)

Early Summer

[The beautiful blueprints for Fujifilm's camera of the future ▹](http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/8/5695310/fuji-x-t1-beautiful-blueprints-for-camera-of-the-future)

On Free Speech

Tracking quality of life with Reporter

The Gig Economy

What's new

That Bites - a food allergy documentary

TextDrive Shutdown Countdown

Wintertime Photowalking

Adventures on the Isle of Skye --- An impromptu trip of a lifetime. ▹

[John Foreman on Machine Learning, Privacy, and Humanity ▹](http://www.john-foreman.com/1/post/2014/02/data-privacy-machine-learning-and-the-destruction-of-mysterious-humanity.html)

Quantified Selfies

Because It's There

Roll your own Mac

Being a Better Reader

Text Editors Data Update

Getting Better or Getting More

The Year in (my) Photos

Wintertime Cooking: Homemade Pho

Brushfires & the Death of the Blog

Hobby Blogging is Dead Unless it Isn't

Happy New Year

The Year's Bloggy Roundup and Administrivia

Merry

[Avoiding Spam with Email Aliasing](http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/12/avoiding-spam-with-email-aliasing.html)

[Where's iTunes Extras for AppleTV?](http://www.imore.com/wheres-itunes-extras-apple-tv)

Knee Deep in Nostalgia

[Love Actually celebrates a Christmas for the rest of us](http://www.avclub.com/article/love-actually-celebrates-a-christmas-for-the-rest-106269])

snow delay

Computing at Home and Computing at Work

More photography: Using the Fuji X100S and VSCO

[Everpix was great. This is how it died.](http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup])

[Drive Nacho Drive](http://www.drivenachodrive.com)

It's autumn!

[Buca Boot: Flexible, Secure Storage for the Urban Biker](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bucaboot/buca-boot-flexible-secure-storage-for-the-urban-bi)

[Launch Center Pro 2.0 Review](http://www.macstories.net/reviews/launch-center-pro-2-0-review/)

[My First 100 Days With Google Glass](http://readwrite.com/2013/09/25/first-100-days-with-google-glass#awesm=~oiKXLJTcYOwWrO])

[XOXO Talk Notes](http://blog.pinboard.in/2013/09/xoxo_talk_notes/)

Not Catching Up

Friday-ish link roundup

[The end of kindness: weev and the cult of the angry young man](http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindness-weev-and-the-cult-of-the-angry-young-man)

More administrivia: Editorial and Koken

Route 66 Days

[Seahorse on Line One](http://5by5.tv/incomparable/154])

[Loving Pencils](http://kottke.org/13/08/loving-pencils)

A few photos

[70Decibels - Generational - 049 - Journaling with Paul Mayne](http://www.70decibels.com/generational/2013/8/27/049-journaling-with-paul-mayne.html)

[Some Stuff from Amazon that Wasn't Crap](http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/08/some-stuff-from-amazon-that-wasnt-crap.html)

[On leaving academic life – Rethinking Markets](http://www.rethinkingmarkets.org/2013/08/23/on-leaving-academic-life.html)

[Editorial Workflow — Insert browser URL as link](http://editorial-app.appspot.com/workflow/4541326620098560/n1ym7Y2709Q)

Storing things is easy

[Editorial for iOS](http://omz-software.com/editorial/)

[Pop Culture Happy Hour](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129472378)

VSCO + Fujifilm X100S

[Exiftool | Diving Into x-Pro1 and X100 Metadata](http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/2012/7/12/exiftool-diving-into-x-pro1-and-x100-metadata.html)

Telling stories

On Vacation

DPReview Fuji X100S review

Reading, running and riding

Eye-fi and more

[Koken - Creative website publishing](http://koken.me)

Making pictures

Always be Catching Up

Text editors in The Setup

[Previously, on Arrested Development](http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/)

New Fitbit Dashboard

Integrating Runkeeper with Day One via Slogger

[“What do you think about the name we've been using? It's called Pinterest.”](http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea)

[Calexico covers Highway to the Danger Zone](http://www.avclub.com/articles/calexico-danger-zone-loggins-undercover,70706/)

[Generational: Blogging Platforms with Bob VanderClay](http://www.70decibels.com/generational/2013/4/27/032-blogging-platforms-with-bob-vanderclay.html)

Another user for mover.io: Slogger on a server

[Jim Ray on Twitter Music](http://jimray.tumblr.com/post/48626134951/twitters-music-app-is-beautiful-in-that)

Using mover.io

Hour-long meetings have a lot of filler

Thinking about a new camera

Improving my mousetrap

From the Pinboard Files

Dwarf Fortress

Notch fitness visualizations

Milestones

Computing memories

Posthaven open for business

Winter, no, spring

Excel is Complex, Untestable and Everywhere

Quiet

Fit

Alfred 2 workflows - managing a to-do list

Paths and maps

Pinboard co-prosperity winners announced

Getting out my Headphones

Winter day routines

Site Notes

Grateful

Not Resolutions

Pausing

Wintertime

This week's notes

Rdio, Access & Ownership

Seasonality

e-book Ambivalence

James Gowans on Using What You've Got

Reading

I built a toy

Visiting the Kitchen

Doing it Right on Kickstarter

Upgrade Paths

Taking Inventory

Clearing the Desk

Craft

RSS how does it work

On Owning my Material

Roadmap

So this will be interesting

TextDrove