Edward Jensen
@edwardjensen.net
Professional nonprofit IT person, usually an IT skeptic | A Phoenician in Saint Paul | Classical music observations at #ejnotes as ever | Opinions are my own, wisdom is not guaranteed
#NonprofitIT #TogetherIT #BoringIT
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The Westminster Town Hall Forum out of Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis is a treasure for Minnesota. Today's talk is required listening...courage is contagious.
www.youtube.com/live/APLDNI9...
www.youtube.com/live/APLDNI9...
The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde - Courage is Contagious
YouTube video by westminstertownhall
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December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The Westminster Town Hall Forum out of Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis is a treasure for Minnesota. Today's talk is required listening...courage is contagious.
www.youtube.com/live/APLDNI9...
www.youtube.com/live/APLDNI9...
Reposted by Edward Jensen
First of all, rude
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
First of all, rude
One of the biggest tragedies in the classical music world is that the French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was taken from us at age 24.
youtu.be/FA7HeZz9Yag?...
#ejnotes
youtu.be/FA7HeZz9Yag?...
#ejnotes
L. Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Delyana Lazarova
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
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November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
One of the biggest tragedies in the classical music world is that the French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was taken from us at age 24.
youtu.be/FA7HeZz9Yag?...
#ejnotes
youtu.be/FA7HeZz9Yag?...
#ejnotes
I still follow Phoenix news, and this is promising to see. Despite the Willo Soviet's whininess about this, increasing housing density in central-city neighborhoods is good policy. (h/t @seemtoggle.bsky.social)
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
#phx #mtphx #centralphoenix
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
#phx #mtphx #centralphoenix
Phoenix unanimously approved its 'middle housing' ordinance impacting historical districts
The plan aligns with a new state law to allow multifamily homes in areas within a mile of a city’s downtown.
www.kjzz.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I still follow Phoenix news, and this is promising to see. Despite the Willo Soviet's whininess about this, increasing housing density in central-city neighborhoods is good policy. (h/t @seemtoggle.bsky.social)
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
#phx #mtphx #centralphoenix
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
#phx #mtphx #centralphoenix
It's Give to the Max Day in Minnesota, our statewide day for supporting MInnesota's nonprofit ecosystem. The Land of 10,000 Nonprofits needs our help now more than ever.
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#gtmd25
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#gtmd25
Give to the Max Day 2025
Today marks the 17th annual Give To The Max Day in Minnesota, our statewide day for showing up and supporting Minnesota’s nonprofit ecosystem. (For my Arizona friends and connections, this is the same...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's Give to the Max Day in Minnesota, our statewide day for supporting MInnesota's nonprofit ecosystem. The Land of 10,000 Nonprofits needs our help now more than ever.
www.edwardjensen.net/notes/2025-1...
#gtmd25
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#gtmd25
Ah, nothing like this to start your morning
A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector
A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector
What isn’t offline right now?
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ah, nothing like this to start your morning
Powerful. And a reminder why local journalism matters.
Addiction ravaged Lizzi’s life while leaving a far wider blast radius, rippling out among family and friends, lovers and bystanders.
‘The monster inside of me’: One Minnesota family’s struggle through the darkness of opioid addiction
Dan and Yvonne Carlson battled for years to save their exuberant, headstrong daughter from disappearing into a cycle of addiction, treatment and relapse.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Powerful. And a reminder why local journalism matters.
Dear @mndot.mn.gov: Please hire some freeway designers from the AZ DOT to revisit your work. Especially the 35E/52/94 mess. Also: Auxiliary lanes on 94 between Mpls and St Paul. Thank you.
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Dear @mndot.mn.gov: Please hire some freeway designers from the AZ DOT to revisit your work. Especially the 35E/52/94 mess. Also: Auxiliary lanes on 94 between Mpls and St Paul. Thank you.
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is an incredible (or should I say fantastique?) piece of music, but it's just so programmaticly weird. (Spoiler alert: Unrequited love leads to an opium bender, meandering toward the scaffold at the protagonist's own hanging. Yeah...weird.)
#ejnotes
#ejnotes
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is an incredible (or should I say fantastique?) piece of music, but it's just so programmaticly weird. (Spoiler alert: Unrequited love leads to an opium bender, meandering toward the scaffold at the protagonist's own hanging. Yeah...weird.)
#ejnotes
#ejnotes
Officially a trace of snow reported at MSP Airport. And with that, winter 2025-26 begins.
#AndSnowItBegins
#AndSnowItBegins
TWIN CITIES MN Nov 9 Climate: High: 30 Low: 21 Precip: Trace Snow: Trace Snow Depth: Trace Link
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Officially a trace of snow reported at MSP Airport. And with that, winter 2025-26 begins.
#AndSnowItBegins
#AndSnowItBegins
Having watched the original BBC version of Have I Got News For You for many years, I had doubts that a US version would stick.
Have I Got News For You US is quite good. I think Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black should go on HIGNFY opposite Ian Hislop and Paul Merton once. That would be excellent.
Have I Got News For You US is quite good. I think Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black should go on HIGNFY opposite Ian Hislop and Paul Merton once. That would be excellent.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Having watched the original BBC version of Have I Got News For You for many years, I had doubts that a US version would stick.
Have I Got News For You US is quite good. I think Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black should go on HIGNFY opposite Ian Hislop and Paul Merton once. That would be excellent.
Have I Got News For You US is quite good. I think Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black should go on HIGNFY opposite Ian Hislop and Paul Merton once. That would be excellent.
Has anyone else noticed when using the Claude Haiku 4.5 model in GitHub Copilot (or even Claude Code), that it just loves to create summary documents and plans, but not so much do the work?
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Has anyone else noticed when using the Claude Haiku 4.5 model in GitHub Copilot (or even Claude Code), that it just loves to create summary documents and plans, but not so much do the work?
I hope new leadership in Saint Paul considers this: If you're just laser focused on adding housing to downtown Saint Paul, and forgetting everything else, you're not building a downtown. You're building a subdivision.
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-dow...
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-dow...
Can punk rock save downtown St. Cloud?
Nonprofits try to restart the city’s beating heart with an all-ages music venue, a proposed community arts space and other ways to draw visitors.
www.startribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I hope new leadership in Saint Paul considers this: If you're just laser focused on adding housing to downtown Saint Paul, and forgetting everything else, you're not building a downtown. You're building a subdivision.
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-dow...
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-dow...
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
I'll always be partial to Game 7 of the 2001 World Series being the best (because floater, center field, the D-Backs are World Champions), but dang, last night's Game 7 had it all - and a kid from Saint Paul pitching his heart out for the Blue Jays this postseason (Louis Varland).
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'll always be partial to Game 7 of the 2001 World Series being the best (because floater, center field, the D-Backs are World Champions), but dang, last night's Game 7 had it all - and a kid from Saint Paul pitching his heart out for the Blue Jays this postseason (Louis Varland).
As times change, it's time to retire some of the older content on my blog. It's a last call for old posts
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Last Call for Old Posts
After migrating sites, it’s time to send old posts off into the sunset.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As times change, it's time to retire some of the older content on my blog. It's a last call for old posts
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
The central question for the 2025 St Paul mayoral election is this: Despite the trajectory of the city, does the electorate want to stay with the current leadership to move us forward, or is it time for a change (with all its inherent unknowns)? There are compelling arguments both ways.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The central question for the 2025 St Paul mayoral election is this: Despite the trajectory of the city, does the electorate want to stay with the current leadership to move us forward, or is it time for a change (with all its inherent unknowns)? There are compelling arguments both ways.
It would be interesting to see these here. I have ridden one in Phoenix and they can be quite nice. (In full disclosure, I was originally a naysayer of this tech.)
Is Waymo ready for winter?
Is Waymo ready for winter?
Can Waymo handle the snow?
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It would be interesting to see these here. I have ridden one in Phoenix and they can be quite nice. (In full disclosure, I was originally a naysayer of this tech.)
Today in "and other duties as assigned": Cutting a hole in a steel cabinet www.edwardjensen.net/notes/2025-1...
Hole punching in metal
In the “and other duties as assigned” bit of my job, I had to punch a two-inch hole in a steel cabinet for cords. Here are things I’ve learned:
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October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Today in "and other duties as assigned": Cutting a hole in a steel cabinet www.edwardjensen.net/notes/2025-1...
Oh yeah, I have this blog thing. Some new ideas and features for the site
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
Site meta: More New Features
Some new ideas and new features emerge on the site, just in time for the fall
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October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Oh yeah, I have this blog thing. Some new ideas and features for the site
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
www.edwardjensen.net/posts/2025/2...
What dreadful software engineering if you put your platform in a single point of failure, and again if you require your stuff to be in constant communication with said platform to work.
Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen
Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen
Eight Sleep became No Sleep
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What dreadful software engineering if you put your platform in a single point of failure, and again if you require your stuff to be in constant communication with said platform to work.
It is appropriate that there’s an NFPA 704 safety square on a door with an address of 704 E Minnehaha Ave
#StPaul #InsideSafetyJokes
#StPaul #InsideSafetyJokes
October 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It is appropriate that there’s an NFPA 704 safety square on a door with an address of 704 E Minnehaha Ave
#StPaul #InsideSafetyJokes
#StPaul #InsideSafetyJokes
So you want to bring 20K more residents to downtown Saint Paul? Great! But unless you focus on the commercial infrastructure as well, you're just building another suburb, where we have to commute out to work, shop, play.
Try again.
#stpaul
Try again.
#stpaul
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
So you want to bring 20K more residents to downtown Saint Paul? Great! But unless you focus on the commercial infrastructure as well, you're just building another suburb, where we have to commute out to work, shop, play.
Try again.
#stpaul
Try again.
#stpaul
I rarely agree with the Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray, but he is kind of right: of all the issues facing St Paul, seeing the Summit Avenue bike trail built (which I do think is a good idea) is pretty far down on that list. www.twincities.com/2025/10/11/j...
Joe Soucheray: If you list St. Paul’s 100 most pressing needs, bikes come in at 101
Five candidates for St. Paul mayor were asked where they stood on the proposed bicycle trail along Summit Ave. Three had the right response, Soucheray writes.
www.twincities.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I rarely agree with the Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray, but he is kind of right: of all the issues facing St Paul, seeing the Summit Avenue bike trail built (which I do think is a good idea) is pretty far down on that list. www.twincities.com/2025/10/11/j...