Welcome to Closing tabs, vol 1: In which I cull neglected open tabs from my mobile browser.
I have too many tabs on on my phone. Today I’m rapidly scrolling and closing, but finding some curiosities that might, might be worth noting.
- Here’s the Southeast Seattle Tool Library where I searched for a hedge trimmer. I should still go check them out sometimes. Tab closed.
- Fifteen or so totally different tabs with view of last summer’s Posit conf. Tabs closed.
- Do Photo a book about practicing photography. Tab closed.
- I was looking for a new backpack last summer.
- Vicki Boykis’s What Are Embeddings. Tab closed. (PDF saved)
- All 50 Security Drone Locations in Destin 2 Season of the Seraph. Tab closed. (Drones got)
- How to open a file in Emacs. Tab closed.
- Deb Chachra’s wonderful essay Care at Scale: Bodies, agency, and infrastructure.
Trying to be a tiny bit more intentional about capturing and annotating things, I’m experimenting with a link/dev/snippet log – new, (again) over at the datablog. One entry so far; let’s see where I take it.
I vastly prefer writing and working with R to Python, but marimo is a really interesting tool and addresses the thing I’ve always disliked most about jupyter notebooks – the awful json file format that stores state in the document itself. Its browser-based editor feels pretty nimble and modern, too. I’ll explore it some more.
Over at the datablog, I wrote up some details on producing my 2024 workout summary from Peloton and Apple Health data. This was a fun little project to tinker through over my holiday break.
Last Peloton ride of 2024 went quite a bit harder than I was expecting. I’ll go out sweating hard because I can, and I’ll try to start 2025 the same way.
It must be winter vacation time, because I’m Screwing Around With My Roon Server Again.
We rewatched Severance s1 this week, ahead of the second season finally dropping next month. Remembering most of the twists let me watch the performances and art direction even more closely. What a banger show.
My wife got me a special Christmas gift: Espresso class at Anchorhead! This was so fun and educational for me. We started with a tasting exercise and then dug into the mechanics of espresso extraction, and I got to practice on the Big Kid Machine in the lab. I have lots to practice on my own (but not today; I am absolutely blitzed with caffeine). Gifts of neat experiences are the best!
