You know when this icon appears in a text thread someone’s about to start broadcasting their day by mistake.

A pink microphone icon is centered inside a dark speech bubble against a black background with various outlined doodles.

Sure, staying up late playing one more match of Fortnite was my choice. But the muscle spasm in my leg at 5am certainly wasn’t. So I can’t really be blamed for being exhausted at 7:30 to take my kid to hockey, right? 😴

Helping the carpenter in the family with some shelves in the garage.

Selfie a day for a year, day 361, Aug 14, 2026 edition.

A man wearing glasses and a black cap takes a selfie while a younger person is working with a saw on a long piece of wood in a workshop.

🚨Random live stream alert: Join me as I see how hard (or not) it is to use Transistor’s new MCP to connect to Claude to update and fix an old podcast’s details. On Twitch or YouTube

I’m tired of seeing my face. 😂 5 more days.

Selfie a day for a year, day 360, Aug 13, 2026 edition.

A man with gray hair, a beard, and glasses is sitting in a restaurant with other patrons visible in the background.

Just when I’d written off hope of any new music, Gang of Youths posts a video on their website implying some work in a studio is / has been done.

A large, rustic building with illuminated interior spaces is set against a dusky sky and framed by a tree on the right.

I’m coming up on my year long “selfie a day” project end date that I liked doing, even if I failed to do it every single day. But what do I do next year?

Give me some “…a day” ideas - silly or serious - because I’m feeling uninspired right now. Reply or anon if you have suggestions.

Loved Ted Lasso ep2 tonight.

Selfie a day for a year, day 359, Aug 12, 2026 edition.

A bearded man wearing glasses and a light blue shirt poses with a slight smile in front of a caricature of Ted Lasso framed on the wall.

I’m going to suggest you turn off this setting on #Twitch if you use it to stream at all. Down near the bottom of /settings/security when you’re logged in on the web.

A Twitch settings interface displaying the option to toggle training for generative AI by allowing channel content to be used for training AI content models at Amazon.

It’s time for the annual re-read of Dave Rupert’s “The Mammoth” to see how close we are to our future where computers make life great again.