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2024

/ Feb 2024

Notes from a long road trip

Last week I drove about 2,000 miles from northwestern Oregon down to Southern California and back. It was about

2024

/ Feb 2024

A ranked list of all the 2024 NWSL soccer jersey/kits

The NWSL is the pro women's soccer league here in America, and I've followed it pretty

2024

/ Feb 2024

80s covers that are so good that they made me briefly forget about the original versions

In no particular order:

2024

/ Feb 2024

The Bezzle is another good one from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow’s newest book, The Bezzle, is a second installment in his Martin Hench, tech-nerd, forensic accountant series. It

2024

/ Feb 2024

Rails to Trails recreation paths are amazing but it sucks that they take forever to build

Every couple years I set aside a whole day for riding my bike outside of Portland, Oregon on the Banks-Vernonia

2024

/ Feb 2024

How do I get better at using Slack?

I spent nearly 7 years working at Slack on a variety of marketing projects, but eventually I honed in on

2024

/ Feb 2024

TNT and the NBA blew a once-in-a-generation sports moment

I love women's sports. My favorite sport on earth is women's pro soccer, both domestic and

2024

/ Feb 2024

Notes from migrating 24 years of blog posts from Wordpress to Ghost

As I mentioned in my previous post, it was no small task to migrate an old blog from one system

2024

/ Feb 2024

What's new: a quick trip down memory lane

I started working on MetaFilter in the Fall of 1998, but just before launching it I realized the new blog

2024

/ Feb 2024

Turntables, vinyl, and internet music players

Back in 2019, I bought the first turntable I'd touched since the early 1980s as a kid. It

2024

/ Feb 2024

Today's YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday's bloggers

I watch a ton of YouTube, on the order of an hour or two each day and I can honestly

2024

/ Jan 2024

Move fast with broken things

Today I got an instagram comment on a very old photo, so I popped over to see it was spam

2024

/ Jan 2024

Apple Card/Goldman Sachs scam attempt

Today I got a call from a legit looking number: 877-255-5923 and since I was parked in my car, I

2024

/ Jan 2024

The Dodger Stadium tour is pretty great and if anything, underpriced

Last week I was in LA to get some sun after a dismal cold winter in Oregon. I hung out

2024

/ Jan 2024

Weather on the Way is the roadtrip app I never knew I needed

I take a lot of road trips, but I never knew Weather on the Way existed until this week and

2024

/ Jan 2024

Old people hacks: tips for those of us over 40/50/etc

Time keeps marching on as we collectively age, so I thought it’d be helpful to drop a few tips

2023

/ Dec 2023

One more thing about wifi garage doors

For the last ten years, I've been a big fan of wifi garage doors because you don'

2023

/ Dec 2023

Volvo outdid Subaru

Volvo has a new small pure electric compact crossover coming out soon called the EX30, and from early reviews it&