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

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

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 “how 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.

Imposter syndrome + struggling with self esteem is hearing someone talk about a thing you think you’d be great at, but then having a voice fill your head so fully with “Nope! As if! You?!”, that you delete the email you were drafting.

New blog post: Building a Gaming PC in 2025 Takes a Community

Anyone out there using Craft for Notion-like documents and tasks?

New blog post: Adding Video Streaming to Your Podcast with HLS

New blog post: Breaking Down and Rebuilding The Edge’s Work on U2’s The Wire #U2

This video is possibly the dumbest nerd pun I’ve ever created. But hey, just a little something to take the edge off am I right?

Sometimes, as new users start to use an app previously dominated by early adopters, apps just have to explain the thing in the menu instead of using the technical term.

In this case “Ducking” becomes “Lower audio of other layers” in the newest version of Descript.

A digital audio editing interface displays options for audio and visual effects, including compressor, limiter, and studio sound dynamics with “lower sound of other tracks” highlighted.

New blog post: War Is Over, We Don’t Need Your Help. America’s Making War on Itself

New blog post: I’m Happy You’re Here

A reminder from a non-handyman to clean out your dryer lint catch and swap out your furnace filter. Not because anything bad happened. Just a reminder