Various styles of cooking bannock over the fire.

Cooking over a campfire includes a bread-dough-wrapped stick and a pan of pizza or similar food resting on embers inside a barrel.

Get yourself a colleague + friend who stands up for you when your boss is a turd the way Jon Stewart stood up for Stephen Colbert.


Tuesday afternoon is for naps by the firepit. (Briefly interrupted by someone drilling their trailer level.)

Neville laying on a mat having a sleep. Neville is a golden doodle puppy.

Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang πŸ“š ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️


Is it smart, lazy, or something else to go around picking up leftover firewood when people checkout?


I’ve posted about this before, but I did a quick video version of how easy it is to enable Bluesky comment replies on your podcast episode pages with Transistor podcast hosting.


I haven’t been lied to this confidently since my kid told me they had fully cleaned the bathroom this week. Descript’s AI vibe editor has got a bit of room for improvement. πŸ˜†

A video editing interface, Descript, displays a timeline with text, gradient layers, and notes about video production adjustments. The AI tooling states that there are no text layers in the document while there are multiple instances of text layers in the document.

For those of us who hear about these things weeks or months after the fact: here’s the sketch where “Do it lady” came from when you suddenly hear random people saying it. πŸ˜†


I’m sure there’s a way I could do this better, but lately all my requests to Claude AI begin with “Don’t ask questions, make this into a markdown linked list”.

I feel like I’m trying to convince it to do crimes.


Can a human live on cinnamon toast crunch cereal alone? We’ll check back with my kid in late August and see how he’s surviving.


It’s not a well known story, but Coldplay’s Chris Martin started writing “Fix You” because he was trying to upload a video to YouTube, but it was taking forever to process.

🎢 “When you try your best, but you don’t succeed…” 🎢

A YouTube description indicates that a video is being processed to 4K resolution with 9 hours remaining.

brb overdosing on watermelon


The rate at which the apps I use for editing keep leapfrogging each other is kind of dizzying. I’m back in Descript pretty heavily with a client and it’s gotten so much better than even 6 months ago. (The AI vibe editing is hot garbage though.)



I have a spam comment on my Ghost blog. I reported it (to myself) and got an email from Ghost saying “This comment will remain visible until you choose to remove it, which can be done directly on the post.” but I don’t see any option to remove it. (I’m logged in.) I’m missing something.

Screenshot showing a comment on my Ghost powered blog.

If you were wanting some Elgato gear on Prime sales, but missed out due to no stock, Elgato’s website has the pricing with stock on some items for another day or two. I’m going to try out the Stream Deck + XLR dock to see if I like it.

Screenshot of the Elgato Stream Deck + XLR dock hardware promo from Elgato.com

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome, 2024 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Watched on Friday July 11, 2025.


The Apprentice, 2024 - β˜…β˜…β˜…

Watched on Friday July 11, 2025.


Now that DMs on most platforms have AI quick responses, it’s pretty easy to just get two bots talking to each other. And on the off chance it’s a human scammer, even better!

Two people are having a chat conversation about how to address each other, with one side responding in blue text. My side of the conversation keeps responding with the same generic β€œhow can I help you” style bot responses to the other side’s (likely a bot or scam) attempts to get me to say my name.

On one hand, TikTok is potentially a data collection privacy nightmare. On the other hand, we’d never get this kind of video as a valid form of marketing in 2025 without TikTok.