Spotted a new menu item in Riverside’s menu: “Hosting”. At the end of the day, I don’t really care that much what company does what as long as they do it well, but there’s something about “we’re going to be the everything app” that rubs me wrong in the indie + creative space.

Screenshot of Riverside.fm’s admin panel showing a hosting option in their menu of options.

Finished reading: Catalyst (Star Wars) by James Luceno 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The BBQ grilled salsa was amazing. Sorry you can’t taste it through the screen. Leftovers available if you hurry. 😆

A bbq in the foreground has peppers, tomatoes, onions, and more on it cooking. A lake is in the background.

What a distinguished looking gentleman. 🐶

Neville Dogbottom, a golden doodle puppy, stands on his hind legs holding on to the railing of a deck looking out.

Do you ever think about how wild it is that boats work? If we could actually see to the bottom of the lake when we’re out on the boat, everyone would be way more freaked out at how “high” up we are. It’s kind of wild.

Why the Web matters:

If you think the web is boring, I both encourage and challenge you to approach it differently.

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 📚 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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. 😆

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. 😆

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.)

New blog post: Ghost Comments Strike Again