Dan Lyke (he/him)
danlyke.bsky.social
Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke.bsky.social
Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
OMG, Google, I fucking hate you.

(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
13 years ago, Daniel and I built a guitar in my workshop. He's recently been working with a luthier local to him to tune it up. Went a little thin on the back taking out weight, but replaced the screws for the plates with magnets.

Original build www.flutterby.net/Guitar_Build...
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The buck stops here.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Something tells me this housing development was laid out by a JFK conspiracy theorist...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The dining room table is going to have a round recess, and we're gonna put Charlene's dad's O gauge train in it. I could build it as segmented, but I got a bunch of 1/8" masonite, and have some veneers, so I'm gonna laminate it. This is the form to wrap it around...
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"🎶So make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into...🎶"
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It's kind of amazing how these things jump out at you in the dark. Maybe if there were a light on it or something the driver might have seen it...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Went over to the Sonoma community center to see the elephant sculptures. Worth the trip, these are cool. thegreatelephantmigration.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not sure if hungry or brazen, but out in broad daylight in our neighborhood...
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wacky... Lemme try some other browsers. This was in Vivaldi (Chromium rendering engine).
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...
www.kluweoc.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".

Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yesterday I went to a Catholic funeral, my first time attending a service in that sect. This morning I walk by St Vincent de Paul and there are food vendors and the churros truck has "come to sin" painted in the side, and... I'm tempted.
October 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Facebook threatens me in the notifications: "you could be on the public engagement list for 'The Information' this week." A good reminder that laugh reacts to the AI shill posts are still engagement.
September 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Variety with a link to the monologue: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...
200 station affiliate owner Nexstar: www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-...

Matt's prescience:
xoxo.zone/@mathowie/11...
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I think it's the "Translate to English" on this YouTube "Ah ffs man" comment that really makes it shine.
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The amaryllis belladonna have been lasting a lot longer this year, but alone the road I've been ready to say that the naked ladies have lost their bloom. But in the shade
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sunday in Petaluma
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is helping me coalesce my thoughts around a few groups* that I'm trying to turn from a scene into a culture...

(* Square Dancing generally, and Petaluma Urban Chat, but probably also applies to discussions about portions of the social web...)
September 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM