Achievement unlocked: snow skiing 🎿 in August. To be fair, we cheated by flying to Chile 🇨🇱 to do it.

It’s also many other firsts:

• first ski trip in the southern hemisphere
• first trip to Chile
• first trip to South America
• first trip to the southern …

Since the ongoing implosion of X, née Twitter, began, I’ve been combing through my archive of 15,000-ish tweets across 15 years since April 20, 2008.

It’s the longest record of anything in my life, stretching back further than my oldest Day One entry …

Information architecture update complete! Almost everything’s a river, which gives me two huge wins:

1. Every resource is accessible through the archives page.
2. The entire site is more flexible in the future, since it’s based on metadata …

Finished watching: Tetris. Tons of fun, and filled in the hard-to-believe story of which I knew only the outline—who knew a movie about IP rights and the KGB could be so enjoyable? Lots of clever little nods to 80s video games. And of course I had to …

Made some good progress today redesigning information architecture for VerseNotes.

Current theory: only standalone articles are dated; everything else is a Jekyll collection.

New theory: (almost) everything in one river of dated posts with judicious …

Just dropped off our skis to get waxed. Starting to get excited for Santiago next week!

I do feel a bit silly waxing snow skis in Texas in July. 🎿 🇨🇱

Finished watching: Oppenheimer. Superb acting from a cast I didn’t expect tells a story I of which only knew a small fraction. Fun sound design, although parts were noisier than they needed to be. Only real complaint is that it did not need all 180 …

My yoga app introduced me to a new pose tonight: locust pose. I’m reasonably certain you can see it in my heart rate just after the two-thirds mark. 🧘‍♂️

We have tried a bunch of non-alcoholic (n/a) beers lately, looking for something that satisfies the desire for something bubbly and refreshing but doesn’t have the associated buzz, drowsiness, lack of focus, terrible sleep, and other downsides …

Finished watching: Silo (2023). Incredibly slow start, but every episode was better than the last, and the final scene is worth all ten episodes. I’m not sure if it was better that I’d read the books first, or worse because I didn’t …

I had forgotten how much getting a car serviced costs. My 2014 Altima has been solid since I got it in 2016, modulo oil changes and tire changes, but today it needed some (expensive) help.

It was a lot of time and a lot of money, but I guess I can’t …

Today, Phil Schiller celebrated the 15th anniversary of the iOS App Store, and many people posted the first apps they downloaded. Here are mine.

• AIM
• Google Earth
• Mocha VNC Lite
• BJCP Styles¹
• Holy Bible ²
• Cocktails - The Original³
• Mantis Bible Study^{4 …}

Back in 2014, there was a Twitter account, or maybe a Tumblr account, that published pop songs as sonnets¹. I loved the spin on genre, but I noticed that they were all Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets, which go ABBA ABBA CDE CDE, or Shakespearean …

Finished watching: Ted Lasso. Three seasons and only two clunkers. Amazing record. It’s not common that we get a mostly wholesome high-quality smash hit show, and I’m so glad to have seen it. Believe! 🍿

I’ve been obsessed with Demonin’s Array Game since Andy Baio linked to it a month ago.

After getting effectively to the current endgame (there’s no real end, but at some point there’s no “next upgrade”), it …

I just accidentally used the Universal Control feature built into macOS Ventura. I had set up my work MacBook Pro next to the monitor for my personal Mac mini, where I used to keep my laptop when it was connected to this monitor. So I naturally just …

Today I discovered Merlin Mann’s Wisdom Project, and it’s the kind of thing at least part of my Micro.blog should aspire to be.

Little snippets that are helpful to me now and might be helpful to me or others later.

Some of them are very …