As it’s coming to Broadway, via Minnesota, I suppose I should finally see the Purple Rain movie?

Doing that product launch thing for Pika today on Product Hunt. 🎉

We’re really proud of the beautiful blogging experience we’ve created with Pika!

If you’re so inclined, drop in to Product Hunt and let us know your thoughts.

Does anyone successfully use a social network, say, once a day or twice a week? If so, tell me your ways.

Remember The Deck ad network? Is there anything that even approaches it these days in terms of the type of market served?

New Pika post: Some thoughts on Project Tapestry

Pika has officially launched! Lots of good, hard work this past month and we’ve got something I know that I am enjoying immensely. I posted about some of the feelings behind the action.

How Do Search Ads Run the World?

Now I’m in Microsoft Ads and I can’t even enter my credit card. This is amazing.

Spent the afternoon with Google Ads. It’s fascinating to me that something with such a singularly terrible user interface is single-handedly providing all of the money to one of the richest companies in the world.

Whiskey Rebellion

Welcome to Wrexham

My First Mac: bjhess.com/posts/my-…

It’s kind of hard to search for this: Do you know any good newsletters that are primarily about blogging or maybe personal website maintenance?

Joe Mauer, First Ballot

Family & Travel Journaling

Proper launch for Pika is imminent. The team has worked hard through sickness all month to get here. It’s a modest product in terms of feature checklists, but it feels so nice.

Giving MistoBox Coffee a Try

I finished The Chronicles of Narnia. It was more than a little troubling.

For those who visit Japan frequently, and fly 10+ hours, what is your minimum stay requirement given jet lag and the…pain of long flights? We enjoyed visiting so much that I want to be ready to jump on any mistake airfares. I’m thinking 10 days is reasonable, but maybe I should’ve push to 7?

I think I found that URL redirection service I was after: Redirect Pizza.

Trade Coffee Pricing Gets Convoluted

HTTPS Traffic Redirection Service?

Micro.blog ingesting of outside RSS feeds seems pretty hit-or-miss to me? You have the same experience? (It could very much be a poorly coded feed from Pika. Just seems weird that sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.)

Working with Mild Illness

Just finished up Demon Copperhead. What a ride. My first Barbara Kingsolver fiction book, if you’re wanting to make a recommendation.