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Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
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I’ve seen a number of posts in vaguely recent history admonishing bloggers to do better with meeting accessibility standards and whatnot. Most recently, I saw this one from Unattributed: Guys, we really, really suck at this! To me, this is about: Sense of pride in the IndieWeb. Performance of our sites, especially...
I added a dark-theme toggle to this blog about a month ago. Later, I saw Lea Verou’s post, The best dark mode toggle is probably none: However, my biggest insight from all of this is that while I stand by my original recommendation that in most cases, if you are going to have a dark mode toggle that is visible at...
I finally got around to self-hosting Home Assistant on my home server, and one of my early discoveries was that CO2 rapidly spikes into the warning zone when I’m working in my home office. Something to consider if you spend lots of time in a room without great ventilation.
The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant. Our dinner instructions: “Can you guys just figure it out?” Their response: “Yep.” And they did and were fine. We’ve come a long way. 😅
As I mentioned in my recent post, I’ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&A and help me write simple scripts. I knew that other people used it to generate vapid scrawls for LinkedIn, or, more legitimately, to write...
From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers, it’s probably bad news for the bottom line. I...
Well, I’ve gone from initial, curmudgeonly reluctance, to shruggy acceptance, to full-blown, guns-blazing, AI mania at work. I’m writing skills, shipping agents, thinking through internal distribution logistics. I think I’ve used about $100 of tokens in the past few days, and that number is growing rapidly. I’ll...
Due to a camping mishap that sent me to the emergency room yesterday morning (a part of our tent infrastructure ended up embedded in my thumb, but I’m okay), I forgot to take my Methylphenidate pill. I started taking this med a couple years ago, and I’ve never been 100% sure if I really need it. I wasn’t struggling...
You know the ones: “The web is dying.” “No one will create anymore.” Blah blah blah. Come on, chin up. Sure, things might get worse by some measurements. Maybe much worse. But for all we know, that could lead to humans getting so fed up with modern tech that we embark on some sort of renaissance. Or it could be...
Naturally I clicked into The Listening Museum when I saw it in Kottke’s feed. “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card, type on your real keyboard, hear it as if it were on your desk.” I clacked a few clacks and felt...
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