No better time than right now Monday at midnight to order a new iPhone.

The poor dog named Neville Dogbottom some trolls on Threads think I have no business owning because I didn’t love having to clean his poop out of his crate at 5 in the morning. 😆

Time for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 21, Sep 8, 2025 edition.

Selfie of me, a man with a hat, glasses, and a beard, bent over to include a golden doodle puppy named Neville Dogbottom in the photo. We’re outside on a walk on a sunny, fall day.

I have a lot of sympathy for folks who are getting a surprise (to them) price hike on their Kit email newsletter sending subscription costs. But thinking that moving to a different app will fix the issue of costs when that app is likely to raise prices too in 3-6 months too is very short sighted.

Furnace room “oh crap I haven’t taken a selfie yet” for my #Selfie a day for a year, day 20, Sep 7, 2025 edition.

A person with glasses and a beard is standing in a room with industrial equipment and pipes.

While cleaning my dog’s shit off his crate tray in the yard at 5am, if someone offered me $100 to take him off my hands, I’d have taken $50.

Take out the dock day for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 19, Sep 6, 2025 edition.

Three men and a dog relax by a lakeside on a sandy beach with a table of food.

Look Jetpack, I appreciate the offer to help but I just don’t think you’re the best way to help me fix my social connections. 😆

Screenshot of an email from Jetpack (WordPress plugin for my website) saying “Fix yoru broken social connections”

New blog post: Still Producing Lemons 14 Years Later 🍋 Happy 14 year anniversary to me starting producing lemons. 🍋

For laughs (and boredom), I’m showing my kids my Minecraft tutorial YouTube channel from 11 years ago. It earned me enough $$ to pay for my copy of Minecraft.

There’s a frost warning for tonight so might as well get some sun for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 18, Sep 5, 2025 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a "Netlify" t-shirt stands outside on a grassy lawn with a wire fence and some trees in the background.

New blog post: Should Men Be the Head of Every Household? (I’m really leaning in to Betteridge’s law of headlines on this post 😆)

When should a blog post be a podcast episode be a TikTok clip be a YouTube video be a newsletter issue be a faxed paper be a text message be sent by a carrier pigeon?

Nodding along to Dave: Why would anybody start a website?"

I don’t expect Tim Cook to spit on his food, but watching him and other tech executives like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Safra Catz, and more not just kissing the ring but grovelling for Trump is so gross. Think Different indeed.

I complained about YouTube yesterday, today I’ll give them props for adding a simple “reuse details” so when you upload a new video you can click it and choose a previous video to pull metadata from. Really helpful for podcasts. I wish podcast hosting companies would do it too.

Screenshot of YouTube’s “reuse details” screen showing options of choosing title, description, playlists, etc. to choose from a different video on your channel

You know you’re getting old when your fav band’s performance with a gospel choir from the late 80’s is being posted as if it’s a niche event a blogger found.

Recording a podcast episode, deep in thought #selfie.

Selfie a day for a year, day 17, Sep 4, 2025 edition.

Me talking into a heil pr40 microphone, looking at a compuer screen.

I just published a new episode of my podcast called “5 Quick Things: Digital Gardens, Too Many Interesting Things, AI Everywhere, Forcing It, Slow Horses”. 🎧 You can listen / watch here.

I feel like anytime LEGO feels like they’re running low on cash, they just think of a bigger Star Wars LEGO set to sell. The 9,023 piece Death Star looks like a lot of fun to build though.

Articles like this one on tax loopholes used by America’s richest ought to cause civil war, especially by all the MAGA nuts who elected this President to drain the swamp.