Chuck Grimmett

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  • Bookmarked https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032634037567509.

    File under “SEO is bullshit”

    See also:

  • The V-seal weather stripping I put up over the weekend fell off sometime overnight 🤦‍♂️

    I guess I’ll go with the weatherseal tape again. It doesn’t look as nice, but it works.

  • Peekskill Brewing is closing. I’m sad about that because we go there frequently, and did so even before moving to Peekskill in 2019. It is in a great location and has kid-friendly outdoor seating, which has been a livesaver for us and our friend group.

    I can’t help but think that one of the main contributing factors has been the decline in food quality and wait staff post-COVID. Pre-COVID the food was excellent and seasonal. Now it seems like everything is pre-made and reheated from US Foods.

    I’m sorry the current owners couldn’t make it. I hope someone buys it quickly and reopens by spring. Maybe Hudson Valley Brewing or Sloop?

    edit: Upon reflection, it is more accurate to say decline in service rather than wait staff. No one has ever been rude to us there, they just always seem understaffed and have high turnover and are constantly training new people who don’t know the ropes yet.

  • In reply to Show me your blogroll.

    I’ve subscribed to your OPML. feedland.com added a feature where we can subscribe to an OPML as a reading list and subscribe to the changes in it, too. Thanks for sharing!

    Here is my blogroll: https://cagrimmett.com/blogroll

  • I think the most interesting and experimental sites on the web right now are digital gardens. So full of unique individual expression, interests, ideas, and life.

    ‪Three quarters of the sites in the last 6 months where I’ve thought “woah, this is cool!” have been digital gardens. They give me hope for the future of the web. ‬

  • Sometimes I find the coolest sites linking to my posts. https://researchpoems.com

  • Progress is radical over time yet incremental in time.

    Ronald Heifetz in The Practice of Adaptive Leadership

    Never delegate understanding.

    Charles Eames, blog post, bootleg of the documentary

  • I noticed today that Clarus the dogcow got an update! According to wikipedia that happened last year.

  • Test post!

  • From the homepage of Automattic.com:

    We don’t make software for free, we make it for freedom.

  • Trying out Minstral-OpenOrca in GPT4All.

  • Bookmarked Streamlit • A faster way to build and share data apps.

  • Just realized that when doing Wordle, I sound things out letter by letter, which doesn’t always match up to the English pronunciation of words. So today’s took me an extra step before it clicked.

    Wordle 849 4/6

    🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
    🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
    ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • It is calvados season.

  • Loving this linter for Obsidian. Nicely formatted notes make a big difference. https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-linter

  • Anyone want a Bluesky invite?

    bsky-social-4xdtn-kvkoa

    bsky-social-66lla-dpgct

    bsky-social-p5ids-wmlzg

  • Surprise and delight of the day: Learning that a cocktail website I’ve been referencing uses some Jekyll tools I open sourced a couple years ago and links to them in their repo.

  • TIL ch is a length unit in CSS. So if you want to limit something to roughly 50 characters and add an ellipsis at the end if there is overflow, you can do something like:

    .className {
    max-width: 50ch;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
  • I was right! OB in Loki Season 2 is Short Round from Indiana Jones.

  • Notes on The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

    • Kickstart, AWE and Focus
      • “What’s on your mind?”
      • “And what else?”
      • “What’s the real challenge here for you?”
    • “What do you want?”
    • Ask “what” questions instead of “why” questions.
    • Avoid asking rhetorical questions