Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 13:49 (UTC) 100%, 50%, 25%, 15%, 10% CUSMA is a joke and so are the illegal tariffs and the embarrassing convict-led administration to the south of us. - Me on CoSocial

Discovered: Aug 24, 2026 17:35 (UTC) ‘Illegal initiated-by-American-convicted felon Trade War’ instead of ‘Trade War’. There I fixed it for you Canadian and USA media :-)

Discovered: Aug 17, 2026 17:08 (UTC) What I really want is a Midea Portasplit Air Conditioning, Mobile Heat Pump that is unavailable in Canada which means this Midea portable air conditioner plus a custom french door ki (i.e. somebody handy unlike me to do this :-) ) seems to be the best we could do with our french door 3rd floor master bedroom. ; Midea 12,000 BTU / 10,000 BTU SACC DUO Smart Inverter ¦ Midea CA

• Midea Porta Split (not available in Canada)
• YT: Martijn Wester:: I Tested the Midea PortaSplit: Can A Portable AC Replace a Split AC?!

Discovered: Aug 17, 2026 01:34 (UTC) ME:: Preach G! ; Garret Vreeland:: Virality Needs a Speed Limit ¦ dangerousmeta! <– QUOTE: Virality should be treated less like success and more like an electrical surge: a dangerous condition requiring a circuit breaker. We do not need systems capable of deciding truth for us. We need systems incapable of turning uncertainty into instant mass conviction. ... The goal is not to stop free speech. It is to stop velocity from impersonating legitimacy.

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:42 (UTC) Like climate change we have the solutions (free ‘extended` care for all, universal basic income, etc) yet the powerful don’t want them because it reduces their power and the not so powerful refuse to believe that they could work because they have been brainwashed) Scott Santens The Hidden Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing — And How to Reverse It

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:38 (UTC) Must buy these $10 LUTs if I haven’t already :-) ; G’MIC and RawTherapee Film Simulation LUTs Converted by RADIOPROEKTOR

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:33 (UTC) ME:: tl-dr-ing; Transactional web of ‘AI’ and human web ; Andy Budd:: Will AI Agents Kill the Web as We Know It?

QUOTE

• Read the whole thing: Andy Budd:: Will AI Agents Kill the Web as We Know It?

One layer will be invisible: efficient, transactional, built for machines—powered by protocols like MCP. The other will be human-facing: emotional, experiential, and deeply brand-driven.

AI agents won’t kill the web. But they will radically reshape it. And just like with retail, the winners will be the ones who make that second layer worth visiting.

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:32 (UTC) ME:: I don’t do code reviews but I do do knowledge base reviews and they do make me anxious :-) ; Lee, Foster-Marks:: Code Review Anxiety Workbook

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:29 (UTC) Must try this new app from Marco Arment:: Unforgetful

QUOTE:

• Read the whole thing: Marco Arment:: Unforgetful

• It’s impossible to lose a task. Notifications always repeat, even if you miss or dismiss them, until the task is completed or deleted.
• Designed for procrastination. Snoozing is a core feature, with thoughtful intervals that scale as you snooze a task more.
• Nothing is hidden away. A hidden task is a forgotten task. No folders, no tags, no organization, no different views or modes.
• No judgment or shame. Nothing is overdue. You’re not in trouble. Everything is either due now or in the future. Didn’t get to it today? Maybe tomorrow. Every day is a fresh start.

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:25 (UTC) Must watch this Japanese movie from 2021; Wikipedia:: Drive My Car (film)

Discovered: Aug 16, 2026 16:19 (UTC) ME:: I wake up I don’t know where I’ve been :-) ; Shayla Love:: A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are. G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

• Draft created: Aug 15, 2026 04:59 (UTC).
• #Ymmv :-) I did enjoy the black and white though! Not enough nuance for me. And M’Benga’s literal beast mode memories always scare me!!!

• Draft created: Aug 15, 2026 04:56 (UTC).
• Or something :-). I enjoyed it. Not a profound episode though :-) unlike episode 1. But I like how every episode is different and mostly self-contained.

Discovered: Aug 12, 2026 19:13 (UTC) TIL: Spanish colonialism killed at least 40,000 people in Guam ; Wikipedia:: History of Guam - Wikipedia <– QUOTE: Intermittent warfare, plus the typhoons of 1671 and 1693, and in particular the smallpox epidemic of 1688, reduced the Chamorro population from 50,000 to 10,000, finally to less than 5,000.

• Draft created: Aug 5, 2026 15:12 (UTC).
• I guess create an address book, add contacts, delete an addres book in order to support Thundermail folks.

  Previously

• August 4, 2026: How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl on Windows (untested)
• August 1, 2026: How to create and delete a non default CalDAV calendar using curl

Discovered: Aug 3, 2026 16:36 (UTC) Evgenia Karunus:: All Lean Books And Where To Find Them <–Super good list! Doesn’t have Kevin Hartnett’s ‘The Proof is in the Code’

• Draft created: Aug 2, 2026 17:25 (UTC).
• Probably flooded in Winter though?!? Freeway is low and probably gets all the rain.
• Strava: Zum Burquitlam :-) via Freeway Trail und Avalon. Freeway ist wahrscheinlich ein Sumpf im Winter
• Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/MxQ7UmZvoDNawuYk7
• Ducky has another route that we’ll hopefully try on August 10th
• You can also go via Broadway in Burnaby I think!

• Draft created: Aug 2, 2026 05:03 (UTC). From: github.com/thunderbird/desktop-support-tools/blob/main/README.md:

Make a calendar

curl -i -u nemo@thundermail.com -X MKCALENDAR \
-H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
--data '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<C:mkcalendar xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav"><D:set><D:prop><D:displayname>ticket-1234</D:displayname></D:prop></D:set></C:mkcalendar>' \
'https://mail.thundermail.com/dav/cal/nemo%40thundermail.com/ticket-1234/'

Delete a calendar

curl -i -u "$CAL_USER" -X DELETE "${CAL_HOME}ticket-1234/"