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@QuilledSister Take revenge on the sun! It will… keep you young, somehow?

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Finished reading: Cursed by Benedict Jacka 📚

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Jacka continues to write fun urban fantasy with a little noir detective thrown in.

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My unfamiliarity with London geography continues to make some of this series hard to follow, and the characters don’t see quite as rich as I wish they were. But they’re fun...

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Day One AI-Guided Journaling: Good, Not Great: jerrytowler.com

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Afternoon hike at Ghost Falls trail down in Draper.

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Three round trips in twelve days (San Antonio, Huntsville, DC) means I need to take every opportunity I have to get outside while I’m here.

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Hop Skud and a burrito bowl at Free Roam in Boerne.

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I don’t miss much about Texas, but Torchy’s is very high on the list.

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Specifically, the brushfire tacos that were tonight’s dinner and which I can still taste.

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Also high on that list: HEB. Other grocery stores should send ambassadors to HEB like Meiji Japan sent ambassadors to the world.

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Finished reading: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 📚

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I finished this years ago, but apparently didn’t blog about it.

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This third book takes the calm dark winter fairy tale of the first two books and turns it into an action movie that somehow has the same creepy Russian fairy tale vibe.

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An excellent...

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Finished reading: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst 📚

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A worthy follow-up to The Spellshop, about Caz’s creator continuing her forbidden magic. Sort of.

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I like this world, and I enjoyed seeing another part of it. Felt a bit long in places, but still an easy, enjoyable read.

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First session back on the yoga mat after a three-week business travel extravaganza (I am so tired) was brutal.

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Finished reading: The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst 📚

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Not sure what I thought I was getting—something like The Spell Shop, probably—but this is not that.

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Three teenage girls go to a summer camp, but when they arrive, it’s been burned down, the counselor has been murdered, and the campers are missing.

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It...

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Finished reading: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 📚

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Outrageously detailed, as usual for Isaacson, with all kinds of facts and stories I’d never heard, despite having visited Milan’s da Vinci museum.

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Highly recommended, with the caveat that, also as usual for Isaacson, it’s a little too positive about...

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Finished reading: Quicksilver by Callie Hart 📚

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A quick read with faeries and vampires and magic and gods.

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Checks the romantasy boxes: brooding hero, gorgeous magical special girl, companions on both sides.

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Some rough prose, but if you don’t expect too much, you’ll have fun.

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Finished reading: Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18) by Jim Butcher 📚

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A fun palate cleanser. Important plots move forward. A few important bits of lore get revealed. Nothing gets quite enough attention. (Dresden and Lara could have used an entire book to themselves.)

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Suddenly it’s winter again in Denver.

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Maybe it’s a good thing we brought our skis after all…

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@writingslowly Too many words for a comment: jerrytowler.com/2026/04/1…

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These thoughts from Thought Shrapnel are in conflict:

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a Japanese farmer who rediscovered the old ways, and paying more attention to the seasons

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and

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Essentially, everything is emergent, and all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.

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Inhabiting time (“paying more attention to the seasons”) is a kairos-forward approach, and seems to have spooky emergent properties.

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Using LLMs to replace, automate, or accelerate link-making is chronos-forward, and, while not bad, is very much not the same thing.

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@QuilledSister It was a giant mess, but it was delicious.

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Brazilian sandwich for lunch at The Garage Food Hall before my flight out.

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@mroutley Nice! I agree, it’s eye-opening.

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@Mtt I installed it when Brett Terpstra linked it recently. It’s surprisingly good, but I definitely have to turn it off in some contexts.

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It’s lots of fun so far, and sometimes even useful!

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Today’s LinkedIn CrossClimb puzzle used “Patriarch in the book of Exodus” as a clue for MOSES.

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Quick, name any descendant of Moses.

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I send you out for exciting new designer drugs, and you come back with… tomato sauce.

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I have worked very hard to eliminate the possibility of infinite scrolling eating my time.

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Some days I get to the end of my RSS feed and Micro.blog and start looking for something else to read before I realize:

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I have constructed my world this way, so it’s time to get up and do something else.

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@rscottjones s/a month/eight months/ …

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@rscottjones Whoa! I started about a month after you and am just above 2,500. So many beers yet to be tried!

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@amerpie I’d love to hear your thoughts on why Octarine might be worth $80 when Obsidian is free. “Native vs Electron” is almost enough for me alone, but what else have you observed?

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The Wall Street Journal:

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OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a desktop “superapp,” a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and business customers.

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Smashing a quasi-IDE into a goofy web browser is so silly-sounding (and unlikely to simplify anything) that I almost believe the WSJ misunderstood what it was told.

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Software developers tend to be do-one-job Unix people or do-everything super-app kitchen-sink people.

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They both generally think the other group is insane.

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@rscottjones Done! No pressure, just offering some feedback if it’s useful.

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The plural of “doozy” as in, “it’s a doozy” looks weird to me:

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doozies.

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Why does the singular look okay, but the plural looks so bad I want to write around it?

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(Not to be confused with Doose’s Market, the grocery store next to Luke’s owned by Taylor Doose and pronounced exactly the same way.)

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Wow, these plugins look amazing! Years ago I built some of this for Jekyll, but I didn’t take the very hard extra step of publishing them for others to use.

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Awesome work, @rscottjones; if you need testing, I’d love to help.

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I love all the breathless stories about data centers in space that seem to forget the biggest problem with launching compute.

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You have to read to the very last paragraph of this Payload article to learn that they still haven’t overturned thermodynamics:

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Of course, in space there’s no conduction, there’s no convection, there’s just radiation, and so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space but we’ve got lots of great engineers working on it.

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Earlier, the article claims both “low-SWaP” and also 25x the performance of the H100.

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And, presumably, no cooling necessary.

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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold:

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He knows it’s probably not the right tool. It doesn’t matter. It never did.

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The reviews can tell you what a computer is for. They have very little interest in what you might become because of one.

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There are too many great words in this piece about the MacBook Neo (via Daring Fireball) to quote them all, so maybe just go read the whole thing. It’s short.

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When writing that last post, I instinctively went to the Wayback Machine because it’s a post about censorship from the publication being censored.

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About halfway through the process I remembered Micro.blog already auto-archives pages. That @manton is a smart guy.

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Rose L. Thayer at Stars and Stripes:

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The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content…

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This sentence is inherently hypocritical. The gist of the article is that DOD is trying to turn Stars and Stripes into a propaganda outlet while preventing it from broadly informing service members, even about sports and world news.

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I’m amused at the author’s rebellion: she calls the department “Defense” and not “War” throughout.

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Well done, Ms. Thayer.

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@QuilledSister We must «cultivate» the serenity to ¡accept! the punctuation we |cannot change|, the ]courage[ to change the \\marks/ we can{ and the ((wis’dom)) to know the difference‽

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@QuilledSister

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> Never lend books
\n> —Captain Adama

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@manton I agree with all of that. Part of my professional work is with autonomous vehicles, and we are slowly, and unevenly, but surely, getting regulations caught up to their existence.

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Thanks for the reminder not to be too pessimistic about the future.

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@jaek In this context, it’s almost jarring to see “You are not your own” not followed by 1 Corinthians 6:20, “…you were bought with a price.”

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@lex I am quite subject to streaks mechanics, and I love that Lex.games lets me binge them occasionally instead of grind them daily. Thanks for the empathy!

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@QuilledSister

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Fun trick: Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom

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  1. Zoom filter: low light
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  2. Maximum zoom level: drag all the way left
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Then Settings -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Zoom

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Now you can triple-click the power button (top left) to extra-darken your screen.

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@QuilledSister Throw enough stones and you could say,

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> I can see clearly now the moraine is gone…

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@manton The 600-character counter on micro.blog is helpful for me. 300 makes me edit, which is sometimes useful (like in this comment), but 600 is long enough to drive me to saying something useful.

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I think it’s still “micro” so long as it’s never 750 words…

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@Mtt That’s amazing work to put out a year’s schedule. Very cool.

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@Mtt How are you doing Scripture of the Day? Is it manually curated? Cyclical list? Something else?

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@QuilledSister I like this idea! I could do with some more Pepper quotes. And Ms. O’Harliot. They’re easily my favorites.

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@manton My Day One journals are not remotely close to print-ready. Do you work on the posts/entries as you write, or have you done a retrospective curation/edit?

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@danielma Do it! It’s super quick.

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@Mtt Yep, that’s me! I kept getting confused why the wording was switching back and forth on me.

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Trying to be helpful, not negative. I’m impressed at anybody who can ship a full app!

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@Mtt Yes, although it occurs to me it might be valuable in the Favorites list too.

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Haven’t played with Favorites much yet, although I can already imagine myself abusing it just like I do highlighting in YouVersion.

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@Mtt In-your-face search history is cool, especially when switching back and forth across several verses.

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Potentially interesting: visually separate reference searches from word searches. But that might be hard when either list gets long.

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