Uncategorized Everything is a Remix is great 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
howto 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
sports <strong>What every outdoor sports app gets wrong</strong> 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
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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:
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized Daily diary for April 24, 2021 Four devices. My iPad, my phone, my kid's iPad, and then my laptop. Every morning at 5:00:01 AM I hit them all for the daily drops. Tap, tap, tap, click. Done. Then we wait. They say it's a lottery and random for anyone that
Uncategorized Building DIY LED strips for fun I work remotely and have for many years, but let's be honest: it's the case for a lot of people now. Lately I've been trying to step up how my home office looks, especially with regards to its video conferencing capabilities. I started using
Uncategorized How to build a 5-acre WiFi network: cheap, reliable, long-range wireless points make anything possible Last year I moved to a house with some property, and it had a separate garage a hundred feet or so away from the main house. At first, I tried Netgear Orbi mesh networking points to connect them but I couldn't reliably get one wireless point in my
Uncategorized The curious pirate Hamilton video With the release of Hamilton on Disney+, I want to talk about another version of Hamilton that's been traded and talked about in hushed tones for the past several years. In early 2015, I started to hear a lot of buzz about Hamilton. It had just finished its
Uncategorized Installing an Alpine Halo9 stereo in a Sprinter Van Even though it doesn't have a ton of apps and feels pretty limited, I'm still a huge fan of CarPlay in my vehicles because it makes driving a lot safer. You can get Google Maps with live data instead of whatever weird navigation system came with
Uncategorized How to use a DSLR as a webcam on a Mac Over the past few months I've created a tv studio-like webcam setup at home. It took a bit of trial and error and lots of research, and I want to share what I've learned. Moving to a real DSLR as my "webcam" was a
Uncategorized How to take a decent photo of your own shoes with an iPhone & WATCH I have a lot of sneakers, probably upwards of 30 or 40 pairs, and I also have tons of brightly colored cycling socks, so I like to take photos of my shoe/sock combos that I put on Instagram. People often ask me how I get the photos, because it
Uncategorized My first no-knead bread bake A couple days ago, I saw that friends were all trying out the New York Times' no knead bread recipe and I've been meaning to for years, so I checked our cupboards and lo and behold we had a new bag of bread flour and some live
Uncategorized Monologuing Mr. Bond I see you’ve ingested my poison. Getting the antidote is simple. First, look up your choice of local doctors on this website to see if they’re in-network, then cross-reference against the PDF we sent you weeks ago to make sure they’re in your PPO. By
Uncategorized Entering your home with just a tap (using NFC & iOS) As you might have guessed from a previous post, I'm not a fan of carrying keys and or even having to use them. When I moved to a new place, I knew I'd use the front door as my main point of entry (instead of a
Uncategorized I'm a grown ass adult that watches about an hour of YouTube daily and here are some things I like A few months ago, I finally cut the cord and moved to watching everything on my Apple TV. Though I watch things on loads of streaming apps, I realized the one I come back to most often is YouTube. I easily watch 30-60min of YT videos whenever I jump on
Uncategorized How to control your Apple TV with a TiVo remote It all started with the story of a swiss company making a better Apple TV remote, and what a bummer when I learned you couldn't get one in the US. A few weeks later I tweeted about a new set-top box being developed by TiVo, and how much
Uncategorized Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself A few months ago, I moved into a new house on a couple acres with a few outbuildings. I don't know why the person who built the place did this, but they put both a deadbolt and a locking door handle on every building door (sheds, barn, coop)
Uncategorized ✅ finished my LED strips for lighting stairs I've got a long walkway with five stairs going down it leading to my door and everything is a dull grey Trex-style decking that makes it hard to discern where the steps end, especially at night. I could have put a line of black grip tape on the
Uncategorized Brian Hull's Disney impressions I stumbled upon a bunch of videos of a guy named Brian Hull doing incredible voice impressions of disney characters at disney parks. Watch a few: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY7U8y8gw8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFW4WYZtZLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CjanuYvQf8 https://www.youtube.
