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Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke.bsky.social
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Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
A sign reading "Notice: no persons beyond this point. You are not a person. Proceed."
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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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.)
Screen capture of Chrome configuration which shows the option to "Show Gemini in Mac menu bar and turn on keyboard shortcut. Easy access to use Gemini across your device, even if Chrome is minimized."
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Just verifying todon.eu/@b9AcE/11564...
A screen capture for Google's AI summary for the search "Is 2026 next year?". The response reads: "No, 2026 is not next year; it will be two years from now. As of late 2025, the current year is 2025, and the year after that is 2026, followed by 2027. This year: 2025. Next year: 2026. The year after next: 2027."
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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...
An unstrung guitar hanging on the wall, with a walnut and maple through neck, a quilted maple body, and a maple and purple heart tailstock.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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The buck stops here.
A very green feiled, with a large palm tree on the left and a deciduous tree on the left. Between them, further back, a deer with large antlers sits on the grass, looking at the camera.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Something tells me this housing development was laid out by a JFK conspiracy theorist...
Street signs at the intersection of Jacquelyn Ln and Ruby St.
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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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...
A large disk of plywood, with blocks mounted around the edges supporting a ring of masonite, which is held on with a cam strap. A pull saw sits on the bench in front of it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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"🎶So make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into...🎶"
Hand painted lettering on a commercial glass door saying "follow steps arrow for entry", with an arrow, in the sense of "use other door".
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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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...
A light pole in the middle of a parking lot, on top of a large concrete pedestal, bent over and leaning at a 45 degree angle. The potential fall area is surrounded by caution tape and traffic cones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Went over to the Sonoma community center to see the elephant sculptures. Worth the trip, these are cool. thegreatelephantmigration.org
A sculpture of an elephant, made from long thin branches nailed on to a substructure, with surprising detail around things like ear curves and the tip of the trunk. Two life sized elephant sculptures, in front of the entrance pillars of a large brick building.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Not sure if hungry or brazen, but out in broad daylight in our neighborhood...
A raccoon on a walk beside a house.
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
Sitting on a router table, it's a handle carved from a medium colored hardwood, with a hacksaw blade protruding from it.
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Wacky... Lemme try some other browsers. This was in Vivaldi (Chromium rendering engine).
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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
screenshot of the Gmail line saying "Chris Kluwe for Ass.", and then the subject and first line, "What I'm bringing to this race" and "An unwavering and unapologetic attitude."
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"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...
A screen shot of the top right of a MacOS desktop, with the pull-down for wireless and audio settings having a completely transparent background over the windows behind it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma
The backs of a lot of people holding up various signs, with the heads of the "ride on" inflatable unicorn costumes that Charlene and I are wearing in the foreground.
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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.
A screen capture of a transparent "Comet Helper (Plugin) wants to use your confidentail information stored in "Chrome Safe Storage" in your keychain. To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password.", with transparent background,superimposed over a combination of Apple System Settings, and the Comet splash screen, in a completely unreadable mess.
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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.
A "Churroteka" food truck parked in front of the reaching spires of the church. The food truck has the slogan "come to sin" painted on the side.
October 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Stolen from bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/...
Welcome. This place is a blessing and part of a system of blessings. Cherish it deeply! Sending this blessing was meaningful to us. We considered ourselves a joyful community. This place is a place of honor. Many cherished deeds are celebrated here. Everything valued thrives here. What is here was nurturing and delightful to us. This blessing is a message of hope. The hope is in a special location, it radiates outward from a center. The center of hope is here of a unique shape and size and beneath us. The hope is ever-present, in your time, as it was in ours. The hope is for the spirit, and it can heal. The form of the hope is a flow of light. The hope is shared freely when you lovingly engage with this place physically. This place is best embraced and cared for.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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.
Screencap of a Facebook notification reading "you could be on the public engagement list for 'The Information' this week."
September 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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...
A screen cap of a November 6, 2024 post of Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone: "I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we’ve hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately".
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I think it's the "Translate to English" on this YouTube "Ah ffs man" comment that really makes it shine.
A screen capture of a YouTube comment by "@bevmaddison8159 5 years ago" that reads "Ah ffs man", below which is a button offering to "Translate to English".
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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
Several pink flowers, on long stalks, rising beside the corner of a barn, in spattered sunlight and shade. Several pink flowers, on long stalks, rising along the side of a barn, in spattered sunlight and shade.
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Sunday in Petaluma
Picture, through the chain link fence at the Fairgrounds, of crushed cars. Presumably from the monster truck show.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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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...)
A screen shot of a comment on Metafilter by the user "clew" reading: "I find this distinction useful: if a group isn’t multigenerational it isn’t a culture, whether main or sub; it’s a scene. Scenes are much more common but they don’t often last long."
September 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM