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Crashface – Arguments
June 4, 2025
Balance And Composure – Believe The Hype
June 2, 2025
Pitchtuner – Ready To Go
June 1, 2025
You Me At Six – Save It For The Bedroom
June 1, 2025
You Me At Six – Always Attract
June 1, 2025
Luna Bay – Blue
June 1, 2025
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May 29, 2025

A Few San Diego Bakeries to Try: Wayfarer (Bird Rock), Izola (Downtown), Bonjour Patisserie (Little Italy), Secret Sister (South Park)

May 28, 2025

It’s always just been a part of capitalism, basically the notion that if I run a company with employees, I’m potentially profiting quite a bit off their work. Sure, they’re being compensated, but as the employer, I’ll take my cut — sometimes a very large cut. It’s always on some level, bugged me a little. Perhaps a bright spot of AI is that there is a potential to move beyond that necessary bit of exploitation.

May 28, 2025

I keep forgetting that May and June in San Diego, with the gray skies and drizzle, is the time of year for soups, chili, pot pies, and other fall meals.

May 28, 2025
Mount Washington – Lisboa
May 28, 2025
Satellite Stories – Painted Arms
May 27, 2025
Satellite Stories – Heartbeat
May 27, 2025
Satellite Stories – Campus
May 27, 2025
Hazel English – Love Is Dead
May 26, 2025
Son Lux – Lanterns Lit
May 26, 2025
Efterklang – I Was Playing Drums
May 26, 2025

Got that hit of caffeine this morning and now the ideas are running wild in my head. Must move faster on things. Maybe AI can help.

May 26, 2025
The Boxer Rebellion – World Without End
May 26, 2025

Are there any cool dashboards that I could design that (a) people would visit and want to see, and (b) have some societal good? I’m thinking of stuff like how city budgets are used and allocated (or federal and state), or even just some sort of a “humanity dashboard”, that tracks things in technology and health discoveries. It just needs to have cool graphs and charts and stuff.

May 26, 2025

Was thinking about playing with a mix of 00 flour and bread flour. Originally I was thinking that this would just result in something around all-purpose flour, but it sounds like there are some advantages to it.

One such recommendation from the web:
00 flour (60%) brings extensibility and tenderness — easier to stretch, silky feel. Bread flour (40%) adds strength and chew — prevents it from becoming too soft or fragile. This mix gives you a dough that’s: Easy to handle, crisp on the bottom, tender in the middle, and with a bit of that classic pizza “chew.”

May 24, 2025

A lot of people are worried that AI is making us dumber. I’m not convinced; often times I find that it will show me a better way of doing something (like a coding problem), and generally I’m smart enough to adopt that better way of doing it into my own coding. I’m learning…

May 24, 2025
Astronautalis – Dimitri Mendeleev
May 24, 2025
Bad Timing – DEUS
May 24, 2025
The Fiends – Bad Actor
May 24, 2025

Today’s kind of a “knock off a whole bunch of small things” kind of a day….

May 23, 2025

I learned today that up until the 1920s, nobody really knew of other galaxies — they thought the Milky Way was about it. That’s fascinating to me, that it’s just a fairly recent thing. Every once in a while I want to make a giant timeline of historical things like this, perhaps with different “rails” for various disciplines — art, science, technology, war, etc.. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been more curious in how events from various disciplines were happening at the same time.

May 23, 2025

Lots of small commits really make me feel more productive.

May 21, 2025

Just sitting here working with my helmet on, hoping someone will get the hint that we should go out and skateboard.

May 20, 2025
Broken Records – A Darkness Rises Up
May 16, 2025

Loving me some midcentury futurism this morning.

May 14, 2025
Project Status: Opti

Added the ability to search/filter pages by title or url on the page listing screen. Very needed since a few sites that I’m tracking have hundreds of pages and there is definitely a need to pull up the exact page I need.

May 13, 2025
Fairbanks, Alaska – The Front Bottoms
May 12, 2025

I wonder how much of our current issues as a society are tied to the terrible platforms we have for online discussion. I don’t think online discussion is necessarily a problem, it’s just the mechanisms that are in place — moderation, upvoting, downvoting, etc… Could we solve some of our problems if the tools we have for online discussion were designed better?

May 12, 2025
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May 12, 2025
Project Status: Opti

Started logging the total download size of pages while scanning (the html, images, css, and other assets). I’m working on updates to a page, and it would be interesting to see how the overall data that has to be downloaded shrinks as I improve things.

May 10, 2025
Flora Cash – You
May 9, 2025
Paceshifters – Hurdles
May 9, 2025
Little Green Cars – The John Wayne
May 9, 2025

I feel like everyone should have a favorite bird.

May 9, 2025
Dreamers – Waste My Night
May 9, 2025
British Sea Power – Waving Flags
May 8, 2025
Savoir Adore – Dreamers
May 6, 2025

I really want vector graphic design software to function more like CAD software. I just want to remove a line segment between two other intersecting lines. It of course can be done in Affinity Designer, but it’s more complicated than it needs to be. It could be trivial, like it is CAD, just select the two cutting lines, then cut click on the segment to remove — easy. Same thing with snapping to tangents on circles, fillets, etc…

May 6, 2025
Hundred Reasons – New Glasses
May 5, 2025
Teleman – Short Life
May 5, 2025
Yoke Lore – Bravado
May 5, 2025
Nothing But Thieves – Real Love Song
May 5, 2025
Iglu And Hartly – In This City
May 5, 2025

It doesn’t happen often, but I do think it’s possible to overdo it with imagery on a webpage.

May 5, 2025
The Dangerous Summer – Coming Home
May 1, 2025
HEISA – Chant
May 1, 2025
The Twilight Sad – Vtr
May 1, 2025

I may not be making as big of a positive impact on the world as I’d like, but some of my clients are. I’ll take some satisfaction in knowing that I’m helping them do so.

May 1, 2025

Heard a Swainson’s Thrush this morning and it brought an immediate smile to my face. Why I love this bird

April 30, 2025
Biffy Clyro – Opposite
April 29, 2025
Spanish Love Songs – Joana, In Five Acts
April 29, 2025
Public Order – Hello
April 29, 2025

It’s always nice when you finish that thing that you’ve been thinking about doing for several years. But I don’t know how I feel about it taking me only 90 minutes to fully implement. I should have worked it into my schedule long ago.

April 29, 2025

It can be a bit of a difficult existence when you can see the possibilities in nearly everything.

April 28, 2025
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