Chuck Grimmett

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  • In reply to https://www.manton.org/2026/02/04/wordpresss-new-link-fixer-is.html.

    Your platform archiving features are definitely an inspiration. I’m curious, what kind of storage space does that use, and how much does it grow on a monthly basis? What have you budgeted for archiving per account?

    A note on the routine fixing with our plugin: It also self-heals, stopping redirects if the links come back. We thought that an important part. We also handle the redirects via JS on the front end so that if someone decides to stop using the plugin, their original post content is unchanged. Trying to avoid lock-in as much as possible.

    A project I used to love is Amber Link from the Berkman Klein Center, which takes a similar approach to Micro.blog and saves snapshots on the WP site itself: https://github.com/berkmancenter/amber_wordpress

    The plugin doesn’t work anymore, perhaps I should fork it and make it compatible with modern WP.

  • We are reading The Hobbit to Charlie tonight, and it struck me that Cat in the Hat may have been partially based on Gandalf the Grey.

  • The new version of this is “Our AI agents are running!”

  • Charlie today, pointing at my macOS dock:

    “What’s the square with the truck?”

    “That’s called Transmit.”

    “What does it do?”

    “It helps me move files from this computer to others.”

    “Cool!!”

    Panic is cornering the macOS app market for 4 year olds, purely on how cool their icon is.

  • I think we’re finally understanding that the Turing Test doesn’t rely on smart computers but easily fooled humans.

    Al Sweigart

  • A decent proxy for how well a town is managed is what the roads look like 48 hours after a snow storm, compared to the other towns in the area.

    This morning, Peekskill’s roads are wet and covered in slush, while the roads in Cortlandt, Garrison, and Cold Spring are bone-dry.

  • Final measurement: 16in.

  • 14″ and still coming down.

  • Blizzard update: 9in here in Peekskill so far and we have 14 more hours of snow forecasted. This deck was empty yesterday.

  • Charlie is an old soul. When we came back inside from the first round of shoveling, he took his hot chocolate over to the window to watch the birds at the feeder.

  • Our house has officially graduated from Duplos to Legos. We are less than 30 mins in and the little guy has already made some creative stuff. RIP our feet.

  • This year we received four New Year’s cards from people we usually receive Christmas cards from. New trend?

  • Oh my goodness, summer camps are already in waitlist territory. Brutal.

  • In reply to https://jeremyfelt.com/notes/note-i-now-have-3-years-of-draft-the-books-i-rea/ by Jeremy Felt.

    Make a /reading page, dump the backlog there, then put what you’ve read in reverse chronological order there going forward.

  • It is so much more satisfying to leaf through books for ideas than searching online. More time consuming, but more grounding.

    Two recent examples: Simple beadhead fly ideas and bean recipes.

  • In reply to More book editing and AI by Manton Reece.

    I sometimes have a similar conundrums when woodworking: Do I spend the next couple hours flattening this piece with a No. 5 plane or run it through the machine planer a few times? Do I carve out this dough bowl by hand with a gouge or put a carving disk on the electric grinder?

    I really like using hand tools, but certainly will use power tools to save time and energy. Where I personally draw the line with woodworking is that I have no interest in using a CNC, but I don’t mind when other people do.

    In some aspect it is the artist’s creative vision that counts most, but there is definitely a sliding spectrum on which the method of execution matters, too. An AI prompt is a kind of creative vision, but there is a lot to be said for a human grappling with and creating art manually.

  • There were some ice floes on the Hudson in the Highlands section this morning (Garrison to Beacon). Nice to see some ice on the river.

  • Stratification of my workshop dust collection bag.

  • Observation: I remember very little about the Blinkist summaries I “read” (perhaps consumed is a better word) a few years ago, whereas I remember a lot about the full-length books I read a few years ago.

    Perhaps I wasn’t taking the Blinkist summaries seriously or there is a selection bias going on (I chose to read the full version of things I was interested in and was thus more engaged), but either way they were a waste of time.

  • Eastern Hemlock branch covered in snow. The sled Charlie and I were riding came to a stop underneath this branch with tiny pine cones.