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In reply to www.ciccarello.me/posts/202…

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@artlung.com So. So. Awesome!

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@adactio I really like this approach. I’m holding on to this for later.

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In reply to dead.garden/blog/how-…

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A great job on this one. I keep coming back to this dithering post for, uh, clarity.

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@jamesg.blog I’m in the midst of deshelving and moving out some books as well. That will allow for some semi-reorganization (read de-stacking).

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@manton Claude collapsed Chat and Cowork and mixed the chat / task sidebars. What you laid out with each of the three contexts changing the list of below them fixes the mess Claude made.

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@artlung.com So much goodness in one post, and Buckaroo Banzai too.

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Half a double rainbow

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@manton A seriously impressive game to watch.

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In reply to www.ciccarello.me/posts/202…

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Seriously impressive photo!🎉

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@mandaris I really like this post. 🎉

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My fun reading rotation is Mick Herron’s Joe Country, Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver (I brought this in this past week), and my mobile reading is Apple in China (I’m finding some odd conclusions that seemed a little more forced than they should be, but I am enjoying it).

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@manton Much of what was in the New Yorker was not all that different from Karan Hao’s book, the Empire of AI. The Hao book, which longer, was a better read.

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In reply to vanderwal.net/random/en…

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Nice

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@jamesg.blog This is really good.

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There is a piece of software I loved, now gone, called Skitch, which was a screen capture and annotation app that was really easy to use, but also fun. When you open it and capture a screen the app flips to the back to open the annotation tools and allows many different ways to save it or send it off to others. When done with that and save it it flips back and becomes small again waiting to get asked to capture another screen.

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In reply to jamesg.blog/2026/02/2…

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Oh, Dopplr colors. The Dopplr blog is archived in the Internet archive. Dopplr discusses their use of colors for cities here: web.archive.org/web/20080…

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There is a GitHub repo (not by Dopplr) that tries to echo their approach: github.com/banterabi… .\nIan Kennedy blogged...

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B

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Caw caw!

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@AccordionGuy Awesome!

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@manton No no, cosine! Not cone sign.

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@manton Oh! This is so good!

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@pip This is stunning!

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@adactio I this this a few weeks back when trying to sort out why Google no longer was coming by vanderwal.net and bringing in new content, nor surfacing older content there.

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In digging through how to get it kickstarted it noted I didn’t (or no longer had) a robot.txt file and I needed one.

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Rodman’s Store in Friendship Heights, Washington, D.C.- it is like a global portal through an old school store

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Oh hey, Happy New Year!🎉

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In reply to gregorlove.com/2025/12/f…

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Hopefully, a successful test of Omnibear to gRegor’s first test post from Omnibear

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First comment test of Omnibear to gRegor’s first test post from Omnibear👍

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Bethesda Central Farmer’s Market

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@Richr I didn’t pick it up, but may this weekend. I get short rib ravioli (gluten free) and wilt the chard with shallots, a few raisins, and the toss the ravioli with the chard and shallots and garnish with pan toast pine nuts and grate fresh Parmesan on top.

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Chard looked really good at the market this morning

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Farmers Market Dalias

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Finished reading London Rules by Mick Herron, so I can watch Slow Horses and not have it interrupt the book.

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Sunday explorations

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Farmers market 21 September 2025

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@manton That was a crazy game to watch. Aces had two or three players chasing the ball on defense like a middle school game. The Fever just kept moving the ball and keeping the tempo up.

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Only time I’ve seen the Aces look this lost was their big loss to the Fever earlier in the year.

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Farmer’s Market Red

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Westbard Square utility box

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@manton Does Abilene have abundant water?

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@manton I’ve used Arc for about 2 years and it has become my work and research browser. I had a really good set of functionality. When that video started I was concerned that it would change, as it has been really well honed and crafted.

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Keeping iterations going is a good step and new app.

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@vanderwal @manton The Draft App model for capture and then sort out where to distribute is a good example of the “capture and share / take action with it” coupled step in the flow.

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@manton Back in 2006 or so I wrote up a social progression social workflow stack and the capturing things then sorting out what to share out where is a key early part.

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I used to personally have that process down, but I need to rework it for myself.

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I’m here trying to sort out if Mastodon Social is down

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@manton I seriously need to get back to this practice.

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But, also my note taking / note making gets my brain dumps about things of interest that I’ve read or worked through. I need to get back to putting these out as blog posts as well. I’ve been blogging to myself for 2 to 4 years quite heavily.

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@manton This is really good. This was largely why I blogged, so to find others with similar interests and to start, or be in conversation around things I was finding interest.

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@boris I had one of these about 35 years ago staying with a friend on her year abroad in Lyon on my way to a semester abroad in England.

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The meal was at Bocuse and it broke me and my concepts for food and eating from then onward. I did a six course fixe menu and it was stunning.

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@boris I do have some >2k blog posts between 2000 and 2017 I want to import and interlink into my collection that Obsidian sits over. I also have a few hundred blog posts and articles written I want to pull in as well.

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@boris I’m not sure with Logseq, but with Obsidian I have it sitting on top of ~2500 older notes (including the last 4 years of blog posts) from 2003 to 2020, but also now some >4k notes total since July 2020. It runs smoothly.

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A few weeks ago I took this photo at the farmer’s market at one of the flower stands. I just added as my external monitor wallpaper when not in work mode and I find it quite calming.

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This weekend is a large used book sale near me at a church, but also my favorite local independent book store member’s sale - www.politics-prose.com.

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This week I realized my bookshelves are now full and needing to cull.

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I’ve only had a partial eye on WWDC sessions this week, but finding an awful lot that really have my attention. This weekend and the next week or so may be when I get to them.

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