Well, I think that For All Mankind stuck the landing. It’s still incredibly silly at times, but they got me with the finale, where everything really did come together in a nice emotional crescendo.

Kayo's Ramen Bar

at Kayo's Ramen Bar

Lloyd Center

at Lloyd Center

Wired up my Claude Code via A2A with my OpenClaw agent. They share a memory via Honcho, so at all times both agents have the same understanding of my home lab. Cool 😎

Hypercritical Hypercritical: EV Stupidity Checklist

Spot on checklist for car makers from John Siracusa, who always has a knack for this sort of thing.

In 2026, we’re well past the time when EVs need to compromise safety and functionality in order to appear futuristic. As for the cost savings, well, that’ll be harder to shake. Once automakers got a taste for cheap touchscreens, they spread to all cars, not just EVs.

To help the industry get back on the right track, I’ve created a checklist for car designers. Make sure your new car—EV or otherwise—checks all these boxes to avoid making the same stupid mistakes that have plagued modern cars for years.

It’s no accident that we are in the midst of selling our Rivian R1S, which fails to check quite a few boxes:

  • Physical charge-port door mechanism: this one actually bit us in the ass recently. Our R1S has been sitting in the driveway while we wait for parts from Rivian (it was in an accident and it’s been over a month waiting for parts). The battery died and we couldn’t open the charge port to plug it in. They had to send people to our house to fix it. So dumb.
  • Physical controls for temperature and fan speed
  • Physical controls for air flow and direction
  • Physical glove box opening mechanism: This one is a double fail — the R1S doesn’t even have a glove box. So dumb.

Not on the checklist, but relevant, is that Rivian doesn’t support Apple CarPlay.

Meanwhile, my BMW i4 suffers from none of these problems, which is why we decided to get a used iX for my wife. Physical charge port doors, real door handles, “stalks” to adjust the direction of airflow, and native support for CarPlay. They aren’t perfect, but they give the same great BMW experience that exists in the rest of their ICE cars without compromise.

Today's photo booth setup for the Bike Summer party
Gierratio On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun Launching your enemies into the sun is simple with the one easy trick rocket scientists don't want you to know about!

When snark and nerdiness collide, the results are often delightful, and this post is no exception.

Calculating the delta-v needed to launch someone into the sun is easier mathematically but tougher conceptually because it actually requires the counterintuitive approach of firing your rockets retrograde until your orbital velocity becomes zero. Since your velocity is now zero, the sun is going to pull you straight down until you become a toasty, concerningly fleshy [sic] marshmellow.

In the last 20 years of my life, I’ve slowly devolved into a concerningly fleshy marshmallow with very little aid from gravity.

What a fun post.

I had to do a bit of soldering and heat shrink to fix Lily's bike lights
Built a little removable floor for the package locker so boxes don't sit on the ground all day, but we can still clean under it when we need to.
Long day of meetings, at least the cats kept me company
The 3D printed nylon version of the parts arrived! Did a quick test fit but will have to actually build this later
This week's LEGO build progress, saucer section is coming together
Assembled the frame for the rear rack shade/mount and took it on a little test ride! Now I have 100W of solar panels on my bike and a shaded area for things below!
Took a quick break from meetings to run the fiber and cat6 between the buildings finally!
Pizza on the grill... still learning, but I like where this is going
Working on hydroponics plumbing
Finally got the connection between the buildings moved over to the new underground fiber line!

These Steam Deck price hikes are making me worried that the Steam Frame is going to cost a hojillion dollars.

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