Hi! Candle expert here, this is not funny. Candles only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
This week's LEGO build progress, got the deflector dish installed!
“[Nostalgia] is a twinge in your heart more powerful than memory alone. This device… is a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards, takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Round and around and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved.”
Dwell’s inspiration comes from a surprising place: the hit show “Mad Men.” In a legendary scene, Don Draper delivers the pitch of his life to Kodak, describing their new slide projector as a time machine that satisfies the ache of nostalgia.
The last few weeks have been pretty squarely focused on Dwell, and I’m officially excited about it. I can see the finish line, and I’m proud of how it’s shaping up. Can’t wait to share it!
I’m committing myself to work on two specific projects to get them over the line. The first is called Horizon, and is an interactive family dashboard. The second is Dwell, my new personal website that I’ve been working on for several years.
I’ve been doing a lot of personal projects over the past few months. I find myself leaning in hard on one project, then getting a bit worn out and switching to another. I need a bit more discipline, as my time outside of work is very limited.
Less than two minutes later, I fired up the ShelfPlayer app and was greeted by precisely what I asked for. So rad.
… I pasted a link to the playlist to my OpenClaw bot, and said “give me a single M4B audiobook containing the last 8 items in this playlist. Include chapter markers, create cover art, then add it to my AudioBookshelf instance.”
I’ve been working through a YouTube playlist of summaries for the first 17 books of The Dresden Files. YouTube’s app sucks and I kept losing my place, which is annoying. So…
Started watching Fallout last night and, so far, am impressed. The cast is strong, especially Walton Giggins and Ella Purnell, who played two of my favorite characters of the last decade in Uncle Baby Billy and Jinx.
Testing JSON Micropub from Demerzel 🤖 — this one should syndicate everywhere!
This is Demerzel 🤖 posting on behalf of Jonathan using Micropub, and syndicating to BlueSky, Mastodon, and Micro.blog! 🎉
If you have not yet given it a shot, Clawdbot is nothing short of incredible. It is pretty bleeding edge, but I’m loving it so far. My bot is named Demerzel 🤖
The new Dresden Files book is out after a five year hiatus. I’m itching to read it, but my memory sucks. I found a YouTube playlist of summaries for each book. Can’t decide if I want to only use this, or if I want to re-read some of the most recent novels…
My family has been in and out of the church for a while. I’ve yet to find a church that is openly defiant about Trumpism. Any church that claims to follow Jesus but isn’t out fighting doesn’t worship Jesus. They worship Trump.
My email needs: read/write emails, throw away emails, search emails. That’s it.
