After messing around with my metal detector, tape measure, and shovel, and staring intently at my survey for an hour, I still can’t find my property pins, so I think I’ll have the surveyor come out and mark the boundaries for me. That should have the added benefit of legitimacy in the eyes of my neighbors, one of whom will be unhappy when my new fence goes through some of her flower beds, which are technically on my property.

I’m a YIMBY (build more housing!) but nothing makes me closer to becoming a NIMBY than companies buying homes to turn into rentals, then immediately removing all of the trees and landscaping for “easier upkeep.”

Working from the back porch today and loving it 🌞

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can buy new lids for your Pyrex. It took us 10 years to learn this 🤦

Having used a bunch of alternative browsers on iOS, I still find myself using Safari regularly because nothing else is as deeply embedded into the whole OS.

The updated version of the Sunday Scaries as a parent is when your child is sick on Sunday and you don’t know if they’ll be better tomorrow or you’re going to have to call off work.

Hot take on seed oils, sugar, and gluten: Yeah, probably not ideal for you, but our bodies are more resilient than folks give them credit for, and you’ll be fine if you consume these things.

Sazón’s secret is MSG. That is why it makes everything taste so good.

I updated the People and Blogs Reader with Tracy Durnell’s feed and recommendations from her PB interview. https://peopleandblogs.feedland.cloud

Next step in my DRM removal quest: You can remove DRM from Audible books via ffmpeg!

ffmpeg -y -activation_bytes <your-activation-bytes> -i audible_drm_file.aax -codec copy drm-free-file.m4b

These are blog posts for people who don’t use the internet.

Seeing the solar eclipse with 100% totality today was incredible and I’m so glad we made the trip to experience it in-person with family.

Found my circa-2007 OPML file of blog feed subscriptions. Cool to see how many of my high school and college friends had blogs then, but sad to see how many are no longer online.

Earthquake in the NY area! I felt it and was confused. Windows rattling, chair and desk shaking.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbh3yv/executive

My go-to lunch this week has been rice + leftover protein from dinner + hot sauce. Simple and good.

Not gonna lie, tennis purists hating on pickleball made me want to try it. The city put in some courts a couple blocks away from us, so we ordered a set of paddles. Looking forward to trying it!

There is so much BS on Twitter normally now that it makes April 1 seem like a regular day.

I’m starting to archive my own bookmarks using ArchiveBox. I already post the bookmarks to my own website, so I wrote an API endpoint to make them available (including tags and published date) via JSON, and I wrote a script to fetch and pass them to ArchiveBox once a day.

I need to set up an IFTTT-style workflow that pings on my home server, and if it stops responding, cycles the WiFi plug the server is plugged in to.