Maybe now that we have all this A.I. we can figure out how to improve the status quo of Laser Tag Technology

My kiddo made up a complex mansion in his mind and was giving my wife and I a tour. I jokingly said, “there’s a giant spider in the back of the parking lot… roll for initiative.” Without skipping a beat, he said, “you know I can ban people right?”

I don’t understand how Apple hasn’t cracked down on stuff like this. What an egregious abuse of Location services.

I want a rehab for people who have started using “action” as a verb. Yes, it’s for me. Yes, I’m ashamed.

Someone decided that this particular subject line didn’t have enough scary weight to it without putting a period on the end.

I know I’m coming at this like three years too late, but it turns out that Tab Groups are a really kickass feature.

The Devil’s Plan is such a good follow up to The Genius. I think this might be my favourite TV ever.

There should be a way to tell the YouTube algorithm that I want it to radicalize my kid into loving reading or the wonders of space.

I’m going to have to write up a longer review, but the ZSA Voyager is incredible. Better in every way than the Moonlander with the same great configuration software. Best keyboard I’ve ever owned.

What’s the probability of finding a four-leaf clover in a box of Lucky Charms: Learning Binomial Probability with Lucky Charms

Looks like the reigning command line champion right now is OCRMyPDF. So happy that something exists.

It’s crazy how difficult it is to find good software to OCR a PDF. Everything has a subscription, or it’s “Enterprise” with a thousand bells and whistles. I just want a searchable PDF… I don’t need to enter into a relationship.

Through our ongoing commitment of providing a seamless and user-friendly experience on our platform, we are thrilled to introduce our brand new Cookie Banner.

The words “thrilled” and “Cookie Banner” should never appear together.

I’m not sure who first had the idea to milk an oat, but it was a good one.

“The Raspberry Pi 4’s USB Type-C power port is not compliant with the USB Type-C specification, and it will not be able to be powered by supplies that are compliant.”

But… why?

Someone transcribed all of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. A lot of these still hold up well, if you edit for the casual misogyny. Kids are loving them.

Can we get some of these machine learning models to power progress bar completion? I swear there was a time when Apple shipped progress bars that wouldn’t reset halfway through.

I was about to write a review of Bear 2, but Michael Lopp just did it better. I also live in Bear. This update has been all upside. Every part of the app is better.

Things I never thought I would have to Google: “Fascism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism for kids.”

You can never predict where the conversation with the 7-year-old will go.

Bear 2 is out. I’ve been using the betas for the last few months and I can’t say enough good things. Delightful the whole way through. I live in this app.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the birth of a social network in possession of users, will cause gross people to buy and sell followers.

Wow! It looks like Fly.io added the ability to auto-start and auto-stop machines with their command line app (fly launch). This makes it so nice to quickly deploy a new app and then have it suspend on low traffic.

FastMail added a button right at the top that finds and clicks the unsubscribe button for you. This is amazing.

I mailed a letter today. In all this furor about the “internet” I forgot how cool it is that you can stick a stamp on something, put it in a box, and it goes to the other side of the country.