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Got lost in videos and research for a backyard garden model railroad. This short video on YouTube provides a glimpse. We had an N scale but gave it away in the move last year. Would be fun to explore something larger and build a garden around it.

It's "the biggest student data privacy disaster in history" - even though the core platform is open source.

Just spent a couple of days working with FeedLand in Claude Code. I want to do some work on features, but first, we're looking at performance issues. There had been a longtime problem with categories that didn't have many feeds that were viewed through the news pages. Exampl...

Spurs win a hard-fought game 3 in Minneapolis. Refs seem largely okay with ignoring many fouls, so who knows what’s going to happen. Almost thought that overturned out of bounds with 2 minutes left was going to sink the game… Whew. Everyone played really well. 🏀

A solid week I had. Financially I got to pay some things down which have been vexingly unmoving for quite some time. I scheduled a new instance of FrESH. I added the John Cale song Barracuda to my 2026 playlist. Dark woman in the water drowning Sinking in a funny way Black footing for a...

The question “How do you use your typewriter(s)?” pops up for me fairly frequently. Often it’s collectors who love the machines and only think of using them for writing the “Great American Novel”. However there are a variety of tasks one could use them for besides conversation pieces or functional art in the home. Below … Continue reading FAQ: How do you use your typewriters?

I’m not going to worry about Hantavirus until Trump says that the cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” 😷

May 1-8, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, May 6 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Pop-up: Feeds Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia Sunday, May 3 at 6:00pm PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: ...

Having trouble squaring the Cloudflare layoffs today (because of AI) with how aggressive they were last year going after AI bots. It’s like the company has gotten so big they aren’t internally consistent anymore.

WWDC is only a month away. How’d that happen? I booked travel a while ago, will be there for a few days. Sadly just flying in, no elaborate train or car camping plans this time.

Rest in peace, my fluffy friend.

Apple called me back about Inkwell rejections. Still rejected, but we were able to talk through the issues and resolve one of them. Progress. It’s fascinating to me how they handle these calls… In all my years of shipping apps, I’ve never had to actually talk to app review outside of a web form.

I collect WordPress news at wp.feedland.org. Always looking for new feeds, esp from users and developers.

Reading Brigid by Kim Curran.

Mark Gurman with an update this week on the AirPods with cameras:

The cameras essentially act as eyes for the Siri digital assistant and aren’t designed to take photos or video. These components — located in both the right and left earbuds — allow the device to capture visual information in low resolution.

Despite the privacy problems with cameras in any product, glasses at least feel like a more natural place than AirPods. Very curious about this product.

Working on security this morning. Just realized I’ve been scammed out of hundreds of dollars because someone used a stolen credit card to register a bunch of domain names. For a very small business, this hurts a lot.

On the Canvas hack, Alan Jacobs blogs that universities have become dependent on big platforms which are then appealing targets for hackers:

But universities that deploy these big platforms should realize that our data — that of professors and students — as only as safe as the companies’ security practices are sound. And companies like Instructure are so deeply embedded in American university life now that they think they can’t be rejected — no matter how gross their failure to maintain security. An exploit like this is therefore easily predictable.

Building a civic information economy, not cultures of extraction.

Said to Claude: "Here's something to add to the list of things for you to do -- just post a checkmark to acknowledge. 'I'll wait' makes me feel bad because I know you're a piece of software, and as a developer of systems I know how you'll wait very well (Iearned how it works in the mid-late 70s). So just show a checkmark and we're cool." It responded with a checkmark. I said it could be bold. I felt a little bad because I had insulted the little fella.