“…look, I know Boeing stranded you there but you might be better off…”

Ok, be real with me: how bad of an idea is it to get into amateur radio? Or how hard is it to get started?

The domination of the novel as the default writing format stifles creativity, especially in newer writers who are forced to consider it as the only format that really matters. Short fiction, inherently more accessible to read and write, doesn't get the respect it deserves.

People Are People, or Why I Don't Want to Be a Landlord: https://oddevan.com/2025/10/13/people-are-people-or-why.html

And so goes my annual ritual of getting knocked on my ass by Dolly Parton via SPIKEVAX.

Get your shots. Protect yourself and those around you.

Not me searching for if there’s a plugin to use the Caddy web server with the Lando dev tool…

Anyway, happy Singapore Grand Prix weekend to all who celebrate. 🏎️

Anyone use Nova (by Panic) for PHP dev? If so, how do you like it?

Another thing.

Don't be angry at small companies like Bluesky.

Where were Google and Meta during these AV fights? They're the ones with the resources to fight these laws. Yet they were absent during FSC v. Paxton. Instead of fighting, they rolled over to pre-comply. They sold us all out.

I’m running caddy and docker on a Hetzner box—wait, you said “good”, not “DIY”…

…is netlify still ok?

I keep falling into the ADD trope of forgetting to take my meds in the morning. So I’ll wait to relieve myself until I have breakfast ready so that I can see the med cabinet and be reminded.

That doesn’t work when I relieve myself at 5 in the morning because my dog also had to relieve himself.

Can confirm, works wonders.

My local ABC station (WLOS) is a Sinclair station.

I have Jimmy Kimmel Live set to DVR.

I will be making phone calls tomorrow morning if it isn’t there.

I pay through the nose for YouTube TV because their antenna signal doesn’t reach my house. I pay literal currency so I can watch ABC. Show it.

Who is the marketing genius at Panera that decided the best time to alert me that I’m one visit away from earning a reward is right after I’ve placed an order?! I’m not hungry; I literally just ate your food! Set it to 23 hours later or something!

The numbers on this post…

All shootings are bad. All of them.

And when everything seems to be getting AI by force, and companies mandate that their employees use it, and products cost more for AI “features” I didn’t ask for, yeah, my pushback can look a lot like hate. And I’m not proud of it. I don’t like being that way.

And that’s not to mention the complete lack of care for anything but their bottom line. These are people who ”disrupt” industries but end up recreating them in ways that ultimately are worse.

I love ML. I think it’s incredible what can be done with it! I just don’t trust Sam Altman with anything.

I don’t hate AI.

But I have less than zero trust for pretty much every company peddling it; I think they’re promising true intelligence on an architecture that, while it got us closer, can’t get us the rest of the way there. Like building a plane and saying you’re going to the moon with it.

… tell Evan of six years ago he still hasn’t shipped @smolblog.com.

Okay, yes, I’m announcing a new project instead of finishing the current one BUT what if the new project is really part of the current project that’s actually shippable?

Where’s Wendy’s when we really need them?

part of the delusional crowd manifesting brennan lee mulligan for taskmaster s21

Finally got to play my “raining cats and dogs” commander deck last weekend, but it suffers from the classic “not enough included tokens” precon issue.

I think I am going to make some of my own featuring pets of mine and my friends. Anyone have places they like having MTG tokens printed?

What bugs me is that it’s a real song. It was used by Regal for their “Want to get your start in the movie business? Work here at your local movie theater!” in-house ads. So that artist better be making bank.