An integral part of getting a CSA (veggie share) is freezing/preserving what you won’t use that week. We’ve been getting lots of celery and carrots, so I chopped them up and froze packs for soup this winter.

Taking shelter from the rain

We need the SEO Rapper to come out of retirement and make a Vibe Coding video to the tune of Design Coding.

Here’s that blast from the past for your Friday nostalgia.

These cool nights have been so nice. 55F this morning.

Chatting with GPT-5 is, in fact, like talking with a PhD—it recites lots of quotes and states complete fabrications with utter confidence!

I got a new space gray MacBook M4 Pro for work with 48GB of RAM.

I’m not running any local LLMs yet, so the main place I’ve noticed the RAM making a difference is in Numbers.app. On my previous machine with 16GB of RAM, applying filters to large sheets was noticeably slow. Now it is snappy. I still prefer Google Sheets, though.

This space gray machine gets hot noticeably faster in the sun than my previous silver one did.

Charlie (4yo) and I saw a Cybertruck on the way back from pickup today.

Charlie: “I HATE those!”

Me: “Why?”

Charlie: “Because they look like rocks ALL THE TIME!”

My reading has somehow swung back from physical books to ebooks again this month. I guess it is because I wanted to read something I didn’t have a physical copy of and I didn’t want to wait for it, then I started reading other things I already had on my Kindle.

Campfire rudbeckia

Sometimes I wonder in the spring whether or not to go through the effort of putting in a garden that year, but later that year I’m always glad I did. Going out to pick tomatoes for our salads each night is so nourishing.

Pour one out for Ozzy. Black Sabbath was formative for my musical interests and probably started my anti-authoritarian and anti-war inclination, both of which persist today.

I think I’ve finally come to terms with Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned being my Prodigy album, despite wanting it to be Music for the Jilted Generation for a long time.

Plum tomatoes coming along nicely.

I love Old Bay, but I can’t stand the taste of crabs.

Baby tomatillos

I tried out Dia for a week, but I don’t think I am going to make it my default browser. I am sticking with Arc for now. I strongly prefer Arc’s sidebar, URL bar in the sidebar, and Apple shortcuts in the share menu, which I use daily.

I’m not going to uninstall it. I’ll still probably use Dia’s chat and tab comparison features for research and brainstorming, just as I use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari for specific tasks. I’m also interested in seeing how it evolves over time and will launch it occasionally to check in on their progress. It is still in beta, after all.

Sometimes a book needs to sit on your desk and look at you for a while before you’re ready to read it. Like a lover, its gaze catches your attention, slowly drawing you in. Then, when the time is right, it reveals its secrets.

A faerie definitely sits here sometimes.

NY Post-level headline pun from the local library’s monthly newsletter. Amazing.