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Weeknotes: Sept. 12-18, 2026
she’s happy, really — miraculously she did not fall through the gap under the chair arm, the t-shirt was enough to hold her Win of the week: did a task I’ve been putting off for years 🙌 Sorted through...
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Photos from the end-of-summer garden
tall oregon grape! for real this plant is a winner if you have a large spot that a spiky shrub would work (I planted mine a bit close to a walkway 😬) The light was muted this morning so I decided to...
View ArticleTwo and a half years without a gallbladder
I’m posting this — the kind of report-back on a personal experience that I’d look for on Reddit — because I want anecdata to be available on the open web, too. Two and a half-ish years ago (late...
View ArticleLegibility in work
We’re defined by our work It’s not only our desire to be seen as productive (and thus worthy) that keeps Americans from working fewer hours and leaving bad jobs. In American culture, the first thing we...
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Weeknotes: Sept. 5-11, 2026
that’s the good spot Win of the week: I sometimes get stuck in the mentality that town is sooo faaar (it’s a 7 minute drive) and I can’t justify a special trip for a craving, but I wanted a cookie on...
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Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor (part 9)
Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans! (And workers abroad ✊) This is part nine of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Each post stands alone. Read the introduction...
View ArticleI bought retinol and I feel weird about it
I’m trying to do better about caring for my skin, so I went into the dermatologist for a full body skin check in January. (Apparently most insurance companies will cover this annually!) My grandparents...
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Weeknotes: Aug. 28 – Sept. 4, 2026
Bellevue Botanical Garden — Joe Pye Weed / Eutrochium maculatum ‘Gateway’ Highlight of the week: saw my niece and met her partner Looking forward to: seeing Coyote vs. Acme with my friend Stuff I did:...
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Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.) Basically, I wanted to know how “big” of an issue bot traffic is on my site since I’ve read...
View ArticleThe betrayal of perceived allies
I appreciated Newsonaut’s recent post arguing that we should keep supporting Firefox, as well as the Hacker News discussion about it. I am one of the people who got so annoyed at Mozilla in the past...
View ArticleFormatting as courtesy to the reader
Formatted text (especially bullet points with the first sentence bolded) seems to be twigging some people that it’s AI-generated. (I’ve mostly seen people share Reddit posts where they’re dismissed as...
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My emergency food supply is extra normal food
While most emergency preparation in the PNW focuses on “The Big One,” I’ve realized the most common scenarios in which we actually need emergency food and water are: winter storm power outages (1-4...
View ArticleI asked my city about their street cameras
Per this map, my city does not have any publicly operated Flock cameras, which I’m very happy about. But, we do have school zone speed enforcement cameras. I realized I don’t know how those work, so I...
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Weeknotes: Aug. 22-28, 2026
I’m hoping this mini clamp-on shelf (right) will let me keep my thesaurus in arm’s reach without me piling junk on it 😂 also hopefully Mina will not try to sit on it Win of the week: dropped off a ton...
View ArticleWhat I read online today: Aug. 26, 2026
Monday’s reading. Tuesday’s reading. Via RSS Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #178 by Thomas Klaffke (Aug 25, 2026) — only opened two articles from this and one was in the Atlantic so I closed it 😂 this newsletter...
View ArticleWhat I read online today: Aug. 25, 2026
See yesterday’s reading Via RSS Grumpy Grumperson (A Learning a Day, 8/25/2026) Why I Was Wrong to Be Bearish on U.S. Stocks by Nick Maggiulli (August 25, 2026) — still pretty sure this is a bubble THE...
View ArticleWhat I read online today: Aug. 24, 2026
Every once in a while, I keep track of everything I read for a day or two, mostly out of curiosity about what I’m actually reading and how much I read online on a given day. It’s been a couple years!...
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My book TBR system
I mostly avoid corporate platforms… but I am on Goodreads on a daily basis 🤦♀️ (I know a lot of people are down on book tracking, but I read too many books to remember what I have read otherwise....
View ArticleWeeknotes: Aug. 15-21, 2026
Win of the week: published my latest thoughts about authenticity in digital art, digging into what evidence makes us perceive cultural works as authentic — I don’t think we’re looking for the same...
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Authenticating digital works without ‘detectors’
This builds on the ideas in my digital aura series, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it to follow along. I start by justifying why audiences want authentication of cultural works, but AI...
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