My family (mainly Sue) gets nervous whenever I use the instant pot because they think I’m going to open it up too soon and blow up our house. Not this time! Survived another soup making experience.
Selfie a day for a year, day 61, Oct 20, 2025 edition.
New kitchen floor mat / stove cleaner is always in the way when I want to get my bread out of the toaster.
Back at the rink for hockey again. Still has the same smell. We just get to come later now that my kid is in U18. 😴
#Selfie a day for a year, day 61, Oct 19, 2025 edition.
5 years after moving in, I’m finally getting around to labelling the network ports in the mess of cables the previous owners left us.
Nice touch by a multi-national corporation: Starbucks applies your free rewards drink to the more expensive option on the order.
I just published a quick #Descript timeline tip if you’re not able to find the audio waveform view in your timeline anymore.
The moment when I realized I’d opened Ecamm Live at some point, and then realizing what kind of hair my hat left me with this morning. 🕖4️⃣ a 💇♂️
#Selfie a day for a year, day 59, Oct 17, 2025 edition.
Checking with any other #Apple nerds out there: the Terminal command sudo pmset -c spindown 90 theoretically sets the spin down timer for external HDDs (spinning, not SSD) to 90 minutes instead of the stock 10 minutes. Any other issues or dangers in running it?
I like Disney+, but with this price increase it moves into the subscribe for a month or two when there’s something to binge category for me.
🤔 It’s so much easier to stay in motion and go for the walk right after dropping my kid off at school, rather than sitting down for a coffee and hoping I’ll want to go for a walk later.
#Selfie a day for a year, day 57, Oct 15, 2025 edition.
Thinking About Microblog's Antisocial Stance
I dig Micro.blog for the way it helps me fight against dopamine driven social media norms by not showing me likes, follower counts, retweet numbers, views, etc. I post something and it gets published and that’s it. No checking later to see how many people liked it or reposted it. That’s a good thing for my vanity.
But I do find it misses out on some of the benefits of social media like knowing someone is actually a mutual friend—in the social media sense at least—because they follow you back and aren’t just replying randomly to posts of yours they come across. And the way that the Mac app doesn’t—as far as I can tell—have any way to get notified of replies or badge the app when you have a reply. I forget to check the Mentions tab for days or weeks and suddenly realize there’s been replies to my posts on Micro.blog. (I think the Micro.blog iOS version allows for notifications and badges?)
For me, all of this has nothing to do with “business” branding, marketing, or networking with potential clients, and everything to do with making connections with interesting people in different parts of the world. Learning their stories and how their experiences have shaped them in ways that might help me learn more about the world and myself.
I already have a proper blog to post longer thoughts on where I don’t have any clue who might be reading it, I kind of want a bit more social on a service like Micro.blog. But I get why for others who use it as their blog first, social connections second, that might not be as much of a priority.
Having used Mastodon and Bluesky for a few years now, I’ve come to appreciate their balance of a feed that’s not based on any algorithm other than who I choose to follow, while still letting me peek at who is actually following me that I might want to follow back (and vice versa).
Ultimately I do like having the ability to post from Micro.blog’s Mac app to social media, and while they’re are other options out there now, Microblog serves that purpose for me just fine so I don’t really need to switch services for that purpose.
Plus there are starting to be more people replying to my posts on Micro.blog as well as me replying to their posts, and I’d hate to lose whatever connections might be there that I’m not aware of.