Finally updating OpenStreetMaps to add some local sidewalks/crossings/connector roads. Hopefully this makes onthegomap.com work better too! #running

just completed my once-a-yearish rclone from my cloud provider to an external hard drive that I put into a metal box

Writing some silly scripts for myself and wanted an easy way to skip the yes/no prompts

YES_YES_A_THOUSAND_TIMES_YES=1 hy bin/system_setup.hy

Uh oh I’m getting really into #Hylang

starting to build back up my weekly running mileage: 13 mi -> 17 mi -> 22 mi -> 26 mi. (I know you're only supposed to do 10% a week but I feel like I'm going "back" to a baseline rather than ramping up.)

One weird thing about leaving Seattle is that the default background music in restaurants and other spaces is just a few clicks worse

Compiled a book using uvx --with playwright jupyter-book build ! uvx is great

This week I have used Lime “glider” bikes to carry a calzone, and then an absolute chonker of a suitcase

“ The code didn’t change, but the programmer did. The code rotted because the programmer changed.” -

Got whipped in the face when bicycling down a sidewalk at night by an overgrown hanging vine!

Trying out Readwise Reader as the inbox for all my unread/unwatched links. Used to get my YouTube watch later URLs to convert them into a CSV and upload to Reader

Just created org-roam-copy.el; it searches for an org-roam node and copies the :COPY: property into the clipboard. So if you find yourself copying & pasting stuff a lot (e.g. your phone number, or the name of a server) this may save time.

iOS notifications are a bit off vs. Android notifications. On Android, if you acknowledge a notification, the notification gets acknowledged in the source app. In iOS, notification center has a copy of the notification; acknowledging the notification center version does NOT tell the source app to mark it read.

Why does Windows “check for updates” brazenly say “ you are up-to-date” before it has checked to see if there’s any new updates??

Slowly learning iOS keyboard tips such as long pressing on space to move the cursor

When generating rewrite rules, if you sort in descending order, then the longest URL will match first

Pretty far down the road on a Plone to Confluence conversion script!

Switched to an iPhone! My Pixel 6a had battery issues and I was ready to try something different

Channeling my inner 1990s systems administrator by transferring files using cpio

ummm looks like with AT&T Fiber, I'm defaulting to IPv6!!

I love the energy of the offlineimap message "Signaled thrice. Aborting!"

Need more opportunities to say thrice

Today continues the trend of me doing absolute trash runs (half walking, very high heart rates vs normal) and Garmin increasing my VO2 Max score

100% Garmin-measured heat acclimation! Also it thinks my VO2 Max is going up although I have a higher heart rate and slower pace due to the heat. Is North Carolina air easier to breathe than Seattle air?? #running

After the latest 92°F run, Garmin says I'm "92% heat acclimated." Hoping for superpowers with that final 8%! #running

Went on a fun "food" loop from Wallingford to Vital Creations (vegan) Cafe, Lazy Cow Bakery (vegan), to Spinnaker Chocolate (mostly vegan) at their new location on Stone Way! #Seattle #Vegan

I wrote my first (very simple) lisp macro!

flet/labels are cuckoo bananas

By the way arrays are default multidimensional?!

Wtf there's a function named "1+"

Reading about Common Lisp and I'm somewhat troubled by this format directive:

~& emits [a newline] only if it's not already at the beginning of a line. This is handy when writing loosely coupled functions that each generate a piece of output and that need to be combined in different ways.

I assume this is per output stream/string? This implies a level of statefulness that I am having a hard time squaring with the super-conceptual parts of Lisp

Added deadgrep to Emacs plus a function to search org-roam!

 (defun org-roam-deadgrep (arg)
   (interactive "MSearch term: ")
   (deadgrep arg org-roam-directory))

Figured out why the dishwasher wasn't draining--there was a bunch of stuff in the air gap cap!!

today I learned that my BioLite headlamp has a "lock mode" where you have to hold a button down for 8 seconds to unlock it. (Learned this once I ran home in the dark, thinking the headlamp's battery might be dead.) #running

Ran the Magnuson Series Turkey Trot 5k in 23:56! #seattle #running

The Magnuson Turkey Trot course is reversed and changed slightly because there will be 2000 people!

when my kid and I pause a YouTube video partway through (e.g. because it's really long and we're coming back to it later), I take a screengrab of the video progress (the hours/minutes/seconds) and put it in a sticky note to be able to get back to it later

making dinner wearing my "Run the Rock" half marathon medal! :-D

Dropped the car off for service and on the bus into work got a notice that everything's done already! Now taking the opposite bus back to pick it up

Ran this morning after being sick for a couple of days. #running felt good!

Excellent "law":

The fundamental law of accountability: the extent to which you are able to change a decision is precisely the extent to which you can be accountable for it, and vice versa. (Citation: Davies, The Unaccountability Machine, page 17)

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Went trail #running to Tiger Mountain! It rained more than I expected and some of the trails were unmaintained, but I got to see the West Tiger peaks and ran very close to two deer. Total 3600 ft elevation gain!

Signed up for the November Run the Rock half marathon in Oregon!

Thinking about a trail running half marathon!

Going to do the Ragnar Northwest Passage run! #running

rclone is a hundred times easier than trying to use rsync when it comes to backing up Dropbox to an external disk, especially when using Dropbox's "online-only" option

tom7 made another awesome video; this one about justifying text with GenAI rather than hyphens

I love Victrola Coffee! The first time I remember having coffee that wasn't bitter was there. I remember thinking: what's wrong with this coffee??

Once again in the 10+ person prescription pick up line at Bartell's. An old woman asked someone to mark her place so she could sit down. In the short term there should be a take a number system; in the long run we need to talk as a society about pharmacy deserts like we talk about food deserts #HealthCare #Pharmacy

We went to Washington DC last week! Here's the runs I did:

is a really cool Jekyll theme!

Today I learned it's probably a good idea to use trail running shoes, or boots, when going on the West Duwamish Greenway! #seattle #running

TIL that King County has a list of the country trails called the "Leafline trails" #seattle #kingcounty #running

Did my first night run! Trying to find the right balance between seeing the path and not blinding cars #running

Realizing that all my gists are candidates for org-roam

I just learned about Emacs flush-lines, which deletes all lines not matching a search term!

I can't say enough good things about Fleet Feet sports. I'm now in comfortable, vegan, well-fitting trail running shoes!

Ran/walked up the stairs in Frink Park up to Jackson Street for the first time. There are a lot of them! #seattle #running

Recovering from using some ill-fitting trail shoes while on vacation! As a workaround I made the shoes looser, which resulted in various pains from foot to hip! #running

Finally updated my (lightly redacted) emacs.d at

If the outside temperature is under 37°F, I need to put on trail shoes. It was a bit icy this morning! #seattle #running

Added an "equipment" section listing my running equipment checklist

Wrote up a running race prep checklist #running

Did sprints and actually got a 3.0 on the anaerobic Garmin score! #running

Added a wiki page about vegan protein sources

uh oh