June 8, 2026

• My heavy ebike has a left thumb throttle I use to get underway from a stop, and it’s fine for that. I think we’d be better off layering in training/licensing for faster e-mopeds, but I’d also be curious about the safety numbers for the 50cc IC scooters you don’t need that for today. — toot

June 7, 2026

• starlight parade — toot

  
• starlight parade — toot

  
• starlight parade — toot

  

June 6, 2026

• Terrible weekend to decide I wanted to get back out on the board. I keep going out on runs and seeing people from my old longboarding class out on Springwater cruises. I put off getting back out there because I know it’s gonna be a long climb back to proficiency. — toot

  
• snag seems to reliably replicate X11’s copy-on-select. Now to find the edge cases. — toot
• Leftists have a fascination with failed utopian projects that’s often flavored with a sense of bemusement that ideology was somehow not enough to help the project flourish. It’s sort of comforting and universalizing to see the WSJ wrestling with its own failed utopians. — toot

  
• walk to Woodstock — toot

  

June 4, 2026

• I really wanted to be a tiling window manager guy.On a desktop monitor (and on a Mac) I’m preferring a tuned Rectangles Pro setup with plain old Mac window management, which means my Mac laptop is going the same way. alt-tab was a nice find trying to make it all work, though. — toot

June 2, 2026

• evening walk — toot