Chuck Grimmett

Chuck Grimmett

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Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.

Check out my blog or my microblog, see what I’m reading, what I like, dig around in my digital garden, learn a bit more about me, or search for something.

Posts

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  • Month of March 2026
  • Trout in the Classroom 2026 Releases
  • Green frogs
  • Wading Around
  • Spring Peepers
  • How I organize my fly tying materials
  • What I’m Reading, March 2026
  • Casting Out Winter
  • Page Family Tree WP block by Telex
  • Skunk Cabbages
  • Month of February 2026
  • Cecil Heacox’s Charmed Circle of the Catskills articles
  • Thirty-six
  • Weekend in the Catskills
  • Escarole White Bean Soup
  • Blizzard
  • FediBoost Plugin
  • On using AI in blogging
  • Red Beans and Rice
  • made with love

Microblog

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  • Today was the day of too much paperwork. Taxes, filing reimbursements, bill payments, getting quotes on solar panel installation, quotes on life insurance, and estate planning documents. I’m exhausted.

  • All I really want to say about emdash is that it took me a good 30 minutes to figure out it isn’t an April Fool’s joke, and that is only because an insider vouched for it. Doesn’t pass the smell test otherwise.

  • Pretty cool to watch the Artemis II launch live on TV with Amanda and Charlie! From a TV at a car dealership no less.

  • Tied some Synthetic Clousers tonight. Striped bass on the brain.

  • Currently running WordPress 7.0 beta 5. So far so good!

  • Questions from your kid that make you nervous:

    “Daddy, have you seen the creepy eyeball in the sky?”

    Queue trying to hold it together while you calmly ask follow up questions.

  • It was better when we didn’t know Banksy’s mortal identity.

  • Trying to force the rhubarb.

  • Hot coffee take: Jamaican Blue Mountain is overrated and over priced.

  • Crocuses are up!

Links I like

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  • Likes A brief history of instant coffee – Works in Progress Magazine.

  • Likes How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one by Tey Bannerman.

    Chaos.

  • Likes Client Challenge.

  • Likes Some of the thoughts from carving one spoon by Peter Follansbee.

  • Likes Why Roadless areas matter by Tom Sadler.

  • Likes Project NOMAD – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline by Crosstalk Solutions.

  • Likes Endgame for the Open Web – Anil Dash by Anil Dash.

  • Likes Farmington River book news: August 4 it is, pre-orders, and who wants to buy a signed copy directly from me? « currentseams.com.

    As was foretold by fearless forecaster Chuck G., the official release date is Tuesday, August 4.

    I like that, adding “Fearless forecaster” to my bio.

  • Likes Quiche Browser — Beautifully customizable web browser.

  • Likes Amphibian Migrations And Road Crossings.

  • Likes Logjam | Troutrageous! by Michael Agneta.

  • Likes Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. by Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS.

  • Likes https://jeremyfelt.com/notes/note-if-i-ever-move-to-not-wp-my-first-post-will-b/ by Jeremy Felt.

  • Likes JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals.

  • Likes WP Composer — WordPress Packages for Composer.

    Alternative to WPackagist now that private equity-driven WPEngine snapped it up.

  • Likes My Woodlot – Skunk Cabbage: Swamp Thing of Spring by Tyler Van Fleet.

  • Likes Impressions from my first week at Bluesky – Toni.org.

    This post is reminiscent of the weekly internal posts Toni wrote during his most recent stint at Automattic as acting CEO while Matt was on sabbatical. Toni’s open communication is one of his many strengths.

  • Likes Studying with Ludwig Lachmann by Tyler Cowen.

    My favorite quote from Lachmann’s Capital and Its Structure:

    Such are the pleasures of generalization for those who do not stop to reflect upon the intrinsic differences of the objects of their manipulations.

    Page 88, if I recall.

  • Likes Yes! You Can Fix (some/many) dead links with the Wayback Link Fixer – CogDogBlog by CogDogBlog.

    I love the ::after link icon Alan added. I’m going to add this into the main plugin.

  • Likes The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Bassim Eledath.