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A deeply weird kids song that also really good, via my friend/coworker Matt.

Run done! 35 minutes, 11 pull-ups. Shocked by how temperate it is.

Wow. no clip has a ton of levels ripped from video games that you can inspect in the browser. Seeing them from camera positions never intended by the designers is fantastic.

Corporate Stock Footage Is Edited Into an Absurdly Chaotic Music Video for BRONSON This is a really good music video.

12 pull-ups. 15 light deadlifts. Yet another day in which it was hard to fit in a workout.

Here's a talk I gave at work about Svelte. It's a bit terse in that form, so hit me up if you want clarification!

Well, the guy is six. That's obviously a lot of years, especially to him.

But on the way back from the pool, we happened to drive by the hospital he was born at. I looked at that and thought, oh, yeah, I remember when we were there. And yet things like Obama being president, which was actually more recent than the guy's birth, that seems extremely distant.

We couldn't do a party, so we just loaded up on favorite activities, like swimming, and getting a donut and pizza, and listening to a playlist that is all versions of Yakety Sax. Then, after lunch, we just went for an August Christmas experience. We had cupcakes, then he got a bunch of presents that he played with all afternoon, then had a beef sogeum gui dinner.

It worked!

I've tried to unsubscribe from Qualtrics emails for months. I've finally done it!

I looked at the console after hitting their unsubscribe button and noticed there was an error because I block trackers. Their unsubscribe page loads JS from Marketo.

I guess this is somewhat understandable, but what's not acceptable is not saying anything about the thing the user was trying to do having failed.

31?-minute run. 11 pull-ups.

It was 79°F when I was deciding whether I should bother to run in this Heat Advisory weather. 81°F when I left the house. 83°F when I got back.

I got Our Magick Future partially working again. (It doesn't actually post anywhere yet.) Here's a headline from it:

How Can Sacrificial Pits Help to Triage Ophthalmology Patients?

From Amazon's podcast content licensing agreement:

4. Content Restrictions. Your Content may not (a) include advertising or messages that disparage or are directed against Amazon or any Service

I think I'm disqualified, but also tempted to get my podcast on there, and then just make every episode about Amazon's fucking people over.

10-4-4-4-4-10.

There is a Dunkin' cereal. Both Katt and the guy came running when I said, "Hey, there's a Dunkin' cereal."

Katt laughed immediately upon seeing it, and the guy asked, "Can you delete that?"

I finished reading Jobs to Be Done. i think it’s taken me five months. I got it from the library just before the pandemic started.

It’s a book about coming up with products by starting with examining what exactly people are trying to do and are having trouble with, whether they realize it or not.

It made a lot of sense, but I think I would have gotten as much out of a blog post with these ideas as with an entire book. A lot of what it talks about makes intuitive sense, but the backup for most of their recommended techniques are single anecdotes, so I don’t really know how much weight to put on them.

Still, it is a core concept that I hadn’t heard anyone else talk about explicitly. Whether this is due to its uniqueness or my naïveté, I don’t know. Regardless, I can’t say it’s been a waste of time to think about this way of designing a bit per week over the last several months.