Chuck Grimmett

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  • I haven’t tied much in the past three weeks because of other projects and travel, but I’m back at it. I noticed some small blue quills on the river today, so I tied some blue quill dries, emergers, and flymphs, all size 16. Eager to try them out tomorrow.

  • Some of you need to go re-read book IV of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

  • New project: Learning how to use QGIS.

  • First time using the Shopsmith Speed Reducer to turn below 700 RPM. Took me six months to find one for a reasonable price. Very handy for roughing out big stock without the machine jumping all over the place.

  • I wanted to tie some Hare’s Ear and Plover, but plover is a bit hard to come by these days. I think the barring on hen pheasant makes a good substitute.

  • Worse than a rickroll: Clicking a link on Twitter and it going to LinkedIn.

  • I have a new weather station set up! Will set up data syndication next week. For now, you can view it here: https://cagrimmett.com/weather/

  • I call this the Peacock & Purple.

    • Hook: Size 12 Czech nymph
    • Thread: White GSP, 100 Denier, colored with a purple marker
    • Rib: Purple floss
    • Body: Peacock herl
    • Hackle: Hen pheasant

  • I asked Eric Davis about the difference between bsky.app and bsky.social and why a single login works in both places. His answer:

    so your Personal Data Server (PDS) is hosted by Bluesky (the company) at bsky.social(*)

    when you log into bsky.app you’re actually firing off a request to bsky.social to authenticate (check devtools, it should be visible)

    bsky.app is the main client of bluesky, but there are others like https://skeetdeck.pages.dev/ and some mobile apps. But bsky.app is not privileged, they all work the same — by talking directly to your PDS.

    (*) technically bsky.social is the “entryway” to a fleet of individual PDS servers created as a convenience (https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/entryway) but not important here. But if you ever see “mushroom servers” mentioned, those are the individual PDS servers. There are 66 right now, each around 500k users.

    every PDS in operation has a default domain and new user registrations become a subdomain of it — hence why most everybody is “NAME.bsky.social”

    TIL!

  • This is fun!

    Notion Faces
    New year, new you. Create a custom self-portrait in Notion, the workspace shaped by you.
    faces.notion.com

    Here is mine:

  • Tying some peacock herl body flies tonight 🦚

  • Anyone fill up SodaStream cartridges from 5lb CO2 tanks? I want to learn from you.

  • Bookmarked Weeknotes 28.

    I love how Anh styles unordered lists as chat bubbles.

  • In reply to A weekly note by Jeremy Felt.

    The part about A and eggs cracked me up. I had to show Amanda.

    Charlie is in the same boat re: eggs. Butter, too. He loves when butter is in something, but he can’t see us put it in, or he will refuse to eat it.

    We’re going to try the JD Biscuit Rollups the next time we go to the store.

  • Chaotic idea: Randomize the password requirements so each user has different requirements they must follow.

  • I don’t know why I’ve ever used Goo Gone. Regular acetone works about 100x better.

  • Winter fly box ideas

  • I don’t mess around with Facebook Marketplace. I’m loyal to Craigslist.

  • I am delighted when I encounter things like this. The digital equivalent of peeling wallpaper or chipped paint that offers the faintest glimpse of what lies beneath.

  • Sketching fly ideas with colored pencils is fun!