The other day Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix magnum opus showed up in my recommendations and I imagine the uploaded file has a name like everything-is-a-remix_final_final_v25_no_really_finally.mp4 and even though I’ve watched half a dozen of his short videos and backed his kickstarters over the last 10-12 years, I watched the whole final version in …
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How to create your own VPN with Tailscale to get around stupid free WiFi network rules and protect your traffic
Today I pulled into a car dealership for some scheduled service, went to the waiting area, joined the free WiFi, then tried to pull up a YouTube video someone sent me. I got a DNS error. Then I tried to use my Twitter DMs to send a message to a friend I might see this …
What every outdoor sports app gets wrong
People are rejuvenated by the outdoors, and they crave any chance to spend time there. So much so that aspiration is a big part of loving the outdoors. We think of ourselves as “outdoorsy people” because we want to spend more time doing the activities we love while exploring a world that fascinates us. I …
A less exhausting guide to podcasting in 2022
Recently, I started a small casual podcast with my friend Joel about how much we love trucks (and also bikes and mass transit, but mostly off-roading). We’re doing it for the hell of it, not really looking to make a big splash but what strikes me this time out on my third real podcast is …
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On a long bet
In early 2012, at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand, my new friend Jeremy Keith was on stage talking about the impermanence of the web and the ephemeral nature of our work and over drinks afterwards together we came up with a quick challenge for a Long Bet (update: I misremembered the origin, Jeremy …
The Bose sunglasses I thought I might hate but are actually kind of great?
There’s a podcast run by a friend called All Consuming and the premise is fun: two people try out any weird products they get in their Instagram feed, with a full review and rating that follows. At first, the show started out mostly mocking an endless sea of direct-to-consumer drop shipped junk that almost everyone …
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CarPlay is finally (just barely) good enough that you should never look at your phone while driving ever again
As a person that grew up driving many hours each day in California and to a lesser extent (still more than zero) in Oregon, I take car audio seriously. I love big stereos for listening to music and these days I spend about half of my car time listening to podcasts. I’ve always been a …
Tips on buying a used Sprinter van
Sprinter vans are fun as hell, look cool and can be customized in any way you can imagine. A brand new, completely stripped cargo van from Mercedes is only about $35k-40k from the factory, but building sleeping platforms and storage and kitchens into them can easily add $100k to the price or more. Over the …
Getting a Brother HL-L2350DW to work
Early in the 2000s, I got way into photography and soon after into inkjet printing so I could print my images at home. But after a few years of spending money on Cyan cartridges, I realized I wasted lots of money on ink printing simple pages. Soon I realized I could send digital prints to …
My Favorite covers
I’ve always loved cover songs. They’re a perfect combo of recognition but hearing it in a new way for the first time, and my favorite way to experience them was always at concerts, where a performer you’re familiar with often has one or two weird covers up their sleeve they do on the road just …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 