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TickTick and productivity, the hilarity of Doom, an electrical failure, Tailscale, design fiddling

A rewatch of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 24 years later causes me to re-appreciate 1999 in movies, and reappreciate on odd but poignant consideration of purpose.

There’s a difference between the Peak Design Field Pouch v1 and v2 that has caused me to reconsider my recommendation.

Note: Just after posting this I realized I wrote about the older version of the Peak Design Field Pouch. I also realized I had both versions and was able to make a quick comparison. This followup cautions against the newer version of the Field Pouch and offers an alternative. ...

Picture of the Week: Billboard

Come April I will have lived in this house for 14 years, and if there are two facts about it that I do not like, it is these: Whoever built it didn’t install Ethernet connections, but did see fit to wire up every room + the living room with coax drops. Depending on how you look at it, it is either very wide or very long. Either way, it is incredibly hostile to plain old Wi-Fi. When we first moved in it was plain that the traditional Wi-Fi router that had worked well from a central location in our last house was not going to fare so well tucked away in the far corner of the house with the Comcast drop. ...

We pushed out the weblog.lol quick start guide today. It’s a “zero to something you can use” document. ...

Picture of the Week: Frost on rusty bolts

Today I’m starting a contract gig writing some technical documentation for omg.lol’s weblog service. It seemed like a fun idea when I came up with it, so I sent the site’s founder, Adam, a quick note with a simple proposal. He liked the idea, too, so here we are. At the moment I’m busy looking for work doing what I’m best suited to do, which is operations or chief of staff work somewhere in the software industry. Looking for work always triggers some reflection. This most recent period of time off and now spinning the job search back up has been no different. ...

Picture of the Week: Crow