Microblog

  • The tomatoes are loving the rain and humidity, even if we aren’t.

  • Power had been out for 5 hours and the power company keeps bumping the time estimate back an hour at a time, so it is time to get the generator out.

  • Overheard from a NY pizza maker: "Hawaiian?! confused look and gesturing Nah. I got regula pizza."

  • One benefit (maybe the only one) of the basement flooding is that it is now cleaner that it has been in a couple years.

  • Removed ~80 gallons of water from the basement with the shop vac, not including the dehumidifier, which drains into the sink. Thankfully it is starting to dry out except for a few spots where water is still slowly seeping up.

  • If Threads doesn’t meet its revenue benchmarks in 12 months, I bet Meta will shut it down just like they did with Bulletin (remember that from last year?)

  • Currently sucking up water in the basement. Fun.

  • What are your favorite lamb recipes? I have a bunch of random cuts in the freezer. Looking for something beyond curry or ragu.

    I love using it in the Xian Famous Foods noodles recipe, but lack the time to make everything from scratch.

  • Does anyone have an AI tool that I can feed thousands of old bookmarks and have it come up with a reasonable taxonomy for me?

  • I will admit that it is amazing how many people I recognized on Threads on Day 1. Finding people on Mastodon and Bluesky is kind of a pain, but Threads seems to have figured it out. Even people I know but don’t follow on IG are showing in my feed.

  • Initial thoughts on Threads:
    – App is smoother than Bluesky
    – No public API that I can find
    – No way to filter your stream for just people you follow.
    – Content so far is a mix between LinkedIn and Twitter. So it is the worst in its class.

  • I’ve been on Threads for 5 minutes and it is already filled with garbage. No thanks.

  • With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers – all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application !

  • In case anyone else needs it over the holiday, 1 750ml bottle of Reposado tequila can make 16 margaritas.
    – 24oz Reposado Tequila
    – 12oz Cointreau
    – 12oz lime juice
    – 8oz simple syrup, 1:1

  • I have deep reverence for the tinkerers who make their own tools, whether hardware or software. Those are my people.

  • Does anyone I know use Nostr? I’m npub1nd95vhkam3wkde0utk8tmc066462dfg5pv0yuxpkrs797xcv4nnqcfqw3h there.

    Just pasting that feels ridiculous. Seems cool, but not all that user friendly.