Apple’s most popular podcasts of 2024 in the U.S. feels like a pretty good sampling of what I assumed Americans listen to, leaning towards true crime, conspiracy / politics / news, and celebrities having conversations. Any of your favs make the list?


Shovelling 37 times is enoughh for today. It’s probably enough for the whole winter tbh. 😪


Elon attempting to buy Substack makes perfect sense. It’s a safe home for right wing nonsense (and worse), and regular folks use it as well without knowing they’re supporting a bar for nazis. Kind of like Twitter.



Dog owners: do you wake up the dog because you need to get a second cup of coffee? Or suffer caffeine-less for your dog’s sake?


Further proof of Bluesky being included in the conversation: Transistor.fm allows you to pull a person’s profile from Bluesky now. Super handy feature I use all the time on some podcasts I work on.

Screenshot of Transistor’s dashboard showing a “pull this person’s info from an online profile” including Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, and X.

Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series is on sale for $6.99 on the Canadian AppleTV store.


First time seeing real snow. Turns out he likes it.

A golden doodle puppy walking in the snow.

Now 3 of us have learned the hard way that Neville Dogbottom is big enough to grab food off the counter if we leave it for too long: this morning was a nice PB+J sandwich my son had just finished making for his lunch.

Neville’s been licking his lips for 30 minutes. 😆


Selfie of a man somewhat annoyed he has to get cleaned up to leave the house for a niece’s bday. (No shade to the niece. She nice. Nice niece.)

Selfie of me looking at the camera with a Netlify shirt on and messy hair.