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Doing some cable accounting in the network cubbyhole, I found that the previous homeowner here had run a cat5 cable with an ethernet plug at one end to a phone socket at the other end — my office! One RJ45 jack later, I have wired network at my desk.

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Today at Crucial Tracks: Monster Ballads, by Josh Ritter

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I have a live version of this song from Josh’s 2020 Hell Yeah! album that’s so deeply searching and beautiful, with Sam Kassirer performing this delicate piano part that just lifts me up.

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Today at Crucial Tracks: Sabotage, by Beastie Boys

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What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning?

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This is more of a gotta go, gotta go now kind of song, but it’s definitely right for some kind of mornings.

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I got into a Destiny 2 raid with friends for the first time in a while, last night. We pretty much breezed through Garden of Salvation until the final encounter, which took quite a while of trial and error, as we are all a little rusty with it (some of me rustier than others). It’s great to hang out for a...

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Today at Crucial Tracks: Across the Wire, by Calexico

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Share a song that sounds like your favorite weather.

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What a provocative prompt. I think one of my favorite weathers is a clear sky in pre-dawn light, a cool morning before a warming day.

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Alternative photo apps haven’t really stuck for me, but I am really appreciating a lot of what No Fusion does, so far. The interface feels pretty good, allowing for fairly natural feeling adjustments, and it has a nice set of film-like modes. It also claims to have a unique processing pipeline...

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I’m impressed by Iris, an elegant and clever Mac app that does a bunch of delightful things.

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I have an array of photos sources: Two Photos libraries from different eras of Mac and pre-Mac computers; more than a decade of flat file storage that make up my Lightroom libraries; and a big file tree of imported...

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Listening Post is such a great scrobbling solution. I’ve been listening to a lot of radio and am really happy that it works so well to capture that listening and mark favorite new tracks.

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TIL that Fuji’s raw studio software has perfectly nice support for saving and editing film simulation recipes. It’s been there all along! I exclusively used Lightroom when I primarily made raw images, so I never thought to explore it.

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The software isn’t so much for full raw development, but rather for...

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@antonzuiker I love that you got to see him! He came through here in the winter and it was a similarly special event for us.

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My Playdate was always pretty fiddly, registering d-pad presses unreliably, and it made for a poor experience, such that I never really got into gaming on it. This weekend I finally opened it up, realigned the buttons over their contacts on the board, and – with some struggle – got it put back...

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Quick question, when people post about their “homelab” they’re just talking about another computer, right? Like this is giving a nice credential to “dicking around on the computer?”

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Gotta get a new VM on the homelab so I can tailscale it from the Center where I run a Lab.

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The improvements that Qobuz are making with their beta apps is really nice, and this alternative Qobuz theme by Jon Hicks is a great illustration of how much impact a thoughtful design has.

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Sunday morning selfie.

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Protest and Protesters: prettygoodhat.com

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I got out to ride the 2 Line to downtown today, where I had a croissant and a cappuccino at the beautiful Boon Boona cafe that sits above the waterfront. What a beautiful spring day!

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@antonzuiker Snow Canyon is a real gem! Glad you got to see it, and happy birthday.

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There are some casual clubs in town that organize periodic group ferry rides – what a treat! Taking photos with other people who dig ferries! They look like fun and I’d like to join sometime. And it reminds me of the time I got severely scolded by a ferry crew for taking too many photos. Times have changed.

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Explaining to my kid that when I went to college, your dorm room had a phone and that was now your phone number. But only for that year. And then you had a different phone number at the place you lived for the summer, and so on.

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This small corner shop would become the place where I got the most delicious and satisfying meal of my trip — a luxurious katsu curry.

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The MacOS Journal app feels so half-baked. I thought I’d try it for a travelogue of my past week, dragged some photos to it, and it just dumps them in a pile. There’s no arranging, scaling for layout of landscape and portrait, nothing. C’mon, Apple, I’m trying to not shell out for Day One again, here.

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This breakfast sandwich from Golden Bakery is so good. Man, it’s good.

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@jsonbecker I started using it recently and really like it. It worked perfectly for remote editing via ssh when I migrated to a new server.

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Boring website administrivia: prettygoodhat.com

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One thing I did not anticipate about living in the future was how many Mychart accounts I’d have.

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Sometimes one does get the urge to change web hosts and screw around with servers for a couple of weekends.

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I played through Cairn this week and have lots more thoughts to come on this endlessly scenic, challenging and interesting game.

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@mrbeefy Thabks for this, and hugs back to you.

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@endonend Thanks for this post. We’re not quite as far on our journey, but we moved last year to be in a state where we think our kiddo is better protected. I’m going through a lot of fear and uncertainty, and also a lot of anger at the cruelty out there. But we keep going, it’s all we can do. ❤️

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@maique I think for me the sense that Flickr doesn’t have community there anymore is holding me back. Of course the community is different; I’m probably unrealistic in wanting that again, but I do miss it.

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@cygnoir Oh, thanks for sharing that! I wasn’t familiar with Retro and it looks like it’s trying something interesting. I’ll try it out.

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@maique I keep thinking about what photo platform I should use in lieu of Instagram now, and how maybe I should just go back to Flickr. It’s been right there for twenty years now!

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@patrickrhone I like those.

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@jaheppler Those look great!

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@bapsi That season premiere was just about everything I could have hoped for. I’m excited to see what’s coming.

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@Annie puts on a jacket let’s do it

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@sonicrocketman That’s fair, though probably also the reality with any other platform. I find installing and using packages to be pretty seamless almost universally, and tools like renv make it a lot easier to manage for reproducibility where needed (infrequently, in my case)

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@sonicrocketman What’s making it a pain for you?

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@endonend I wasn’t at all familiar with the book and was glad to be surprised by the show. I enjoyed it.

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@jsonbecker Yeah, it’s such a narrow and purely functional notion of democracy as being upheld purely in isolation. I couldn’t take the self-congratulatory “we upheld democracy” callouts yesterday.

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@peroty Yeah, listen, there’s a lotta tabs here.

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@pratik Those are really lovely. Great colors and nicely seen.

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@jaheppler I thought this had a couple of really surprisingly well-done action scenes.

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@bbohling Nice work! Well-deserved indeed.

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@pratik I’m surprised and happy with how good that show is. We really like it.

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@bapsi That spot looks great! I’ll put it in my coffee to check out list.

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@patrickrhone That’s a good one. My favorite sweater is a lightweight wool shawl collar one from Ibex that, alas, they don’t make anymore.

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@cygnoir ice cream friends are good friends!

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@pratik Really nice photos!

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