Took an inexplicable open space between a bathroom and my office and built a wall. Now we are adding shelves on each side.
Office gets a Billy bookcase (because it fit perfectly) and the bathroom gets a Eket drawer (both IKEA) and custom built shelves because nothing is square.
Another year of hockey. Another year of deciding how long I can hold out paying $65/month for YoutubeTV.
(Because the games are on NBC Sports Washington. Which they pulled from Sling and every other service that carries it starts at $65.)
Today I Learned Ubuntu made their Ubuntu Pro service available for free up to 5 users from The Homelab Show: Episode 75. I’ve linked it with timestamp on Youtube but it’s just past 35 mins.
I used it for the Kernel Livepatch and it’s Magical.
The sky was lovely tonight.
Finally starting to wrap my head around Obsidian’s Dataview plugin.
I don’t want much, just a way to get a list of files created/updated recently and link my daily notes pages together so I can navigate between them.
March 2020 I took a job managing Webex and Zoom for an events company.
Two years later I find myself leading a developer team and researching Amazon Chine APIs.
How did I get here and what am I doing? The imposter syndrome is deep. I’m now a Product person and each day learning what that means.
Opened the window in the my office today for the first time as it’s gotten cooler. After hours of reading through Amazon Chime SDK documentation I hear a stange, but familiar sound. A squirrel perched in the pine tree outside munching on a walnut gathered from the yard.
We are looking at putting some merch together for our Destiny 2 podcast. There’s so many options out there. We are looking for basic clothing. Shirts. Hats. Other silly things.
Does anyone have a site/service they like?
I have an Xbox One X with a external SSD where I keep games that benefit from the speed. They weren’t staying up to date even though I had the other settings on.
I missed one setting that was powering off the SSD do it couldn’t downlooad updates:
When Xbox is off, turn off storage: Unchecked (only matters if you have games on an external drive).
Credit to Reddit for this post that led me to the answer. I’ve updated the locations of these settings since the menus have changed in the past year.
Under System > Updates
Under General > Sleep mode & startup:
Working remotely from April 202 until now and there’s one person who continues to use their laptop’s mic and speakers causing echoes and noise in every single meeting. It’s maddening and this is my rant for today.
I pulled 1364 photos out of Google Photos into Apple Photos (because App > Web for photos). Down to 706 photos and putting them back into Google Photos for sharing with the family.
And now I’m deep into existential photo thoughts about how to move forward with my photo life.
Apple Photos. Google Photos. Apple Photos. Google Photos. Apple Photos. Google Photos.
Wealth is the Missing Piece - by Anne Helen Petersen
AHP talks about wealth not as the flashy gold jewels of extreme wealth but as comfort and a pathway to feeling comfortable and safe. And how little that safety and comfort has extended past White Americans.
Found an entry/exit tone bug in the Webex XML APIs for Webex Events. It’s getting patched on the 16th by Webex.
If you want to know the secret code until then…
Beep = No Tone
Announce Name = Beep
No Tone = Announce Name
Tonight is for cake. Dolly Parton banana pudding cake.
What are people on iOS using for calendars? We are deeply missing Business Calendar 2. Why does every app have a horizontal week view?
I need to play with Fantastical more, but I really miss Business Calendar 2 from my Android -> iPhone swap. It was perfectly customizeable so I could get the exact widget I wanted and then easily swap on/off calendars I wanted.
Sorry, you are too tall to ride this ride.
Moving to the iPhone feels really alien after so many years of vanilla Android Pixel phones.
It’s nice to be able to bring some of the niceties of “home” with me to the iPhone to help bridge the gap.
I’m sure I’ll come around to the keyboard but it feels really basic.
Having just bought iPhone 13s, I’m not sure exactly how the Magsafe charging works.
My wife has a magnetic mount in her car, with a metal plate in the case for her Pixel phone.
We had iPhones years ago and are moving back from the Google Pixel line… anything you wish you had known when you swapped? I’m half familiar with the Apple side of the pond (we have iPads and MacBooks) but hadn’t used the phones in a bit so I’m behind on the latest and greatest.
Trying not to spend ALL THE MONEY™ on new accessories Day One.
Who are airplanes designed for?
It’s not for someone 6'5". It’s not for someone a foot shorter.
These gentlemen decided to cool off under our trees in the back yard most of the day.
Peace Lilly in bloom this morning.
Some days need to start slow with a bunny munching greens in the yard.
Gold Finches are pure joy.
