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.

25 years for SBF is harsh and does nothing to get justice for the people he defrauded. Treating white collar crime like violent crime is the wrong approach.

Testing out the new Readwise Reader. I already use the Readwise app for my book reading, so trying it out for other sources (feeds, PDFs, YouTube video transcriptions, Twitter threads, ebooks, newsletters) felt like a no-brainer.

For now I have my blogroll feeds in here. I might forward some newsletters into here, too. I’ll try an ePub and PDF soon, too.

So far I like the interface, keyboard shortcuts, and I like that an index is automatically created from headers.

I love the daily digest UX in the iOS app. Makes review and triage quick.

I like the ability to automatically save linked posts to the reader.

I like the metadata, GPT summaries, and ability to subscribe to additional feeds related to the article right from the reader.

They have an API, so if this sticks around in my workflow I might build something for posting Likes here from the Reader.

It does not handle titleless posts well. I’ll send them some feedback about it.

I’m creating a family ebook library, akin to the physical library in our house, available on the home server I set up this weekend. To kick it off I de-DRMed 250 Kindle books from our devices and put them on the server. Next step is downloading our wish lists from Open Library, Standard EBooks, and Project Gutenberg.

Doing stuff on Linux is like buying random Ikea pieces from a flea market. Half the time they don’t all fit together and you spend hours custom making things to get it to work following a guide on a forum, and it is still janky.

I wanted to use a 2TB external USB drive with the FreedomBox, which runs Debian. Currently formatted with APFS. Tried to get apfs-fuse running, which broke the web services. Had to roll back to a snapshot. Then spent an hour trying to get a tool on macOS working to format the drive with ext4. Once I did, the FreedomBox was too underpowered to run the drive. Spent 20 minutes digging through old boxes to find either a better power supply or a powered USB hub. Ended up using my daily driver hub from my desk. All to get this drive to mount.

Tonight’s toddy:

• 2oz brandy
• 1/2oz ginger liqueur
• 1/2oz lemon juice
• 1/2oz honey
• 2 cloves
• 6 drops tiki bitters

Add to a coffee mug, top with boiling water, and mix.