Wow, the original WWW logo was spectacular.
After 2 years of our house being COVID-free, today is the day. I’m the winner of the COVID lottery. In 3 days we have 100-150 people stopping through for our eldest’s high school graduation party. So I’m quarantined and we hope the rest stay negative. Please send your good vibes.
First time I’ve played it and…
Framed #63. 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
I’ve never seen the movie in question. How weird.
Coming soon the makers of doevery.day bring you A Good Enough Newsletter. To support these wacky web activities of ours, Shawn and I formed Good Enough LLC on April 1st. We adore newsletters, so we decided to start one of our own. Expect something that’s not half bad.
I’ve got all the posts I care to transition transitioned to the new HTML+CSS version of my blog: bjhess.com/blog/. The completist in me feels better (even with broken links), though old posts can be 😬. (Ruby and Nokogiri were the primaries if you nerd like that.)
Shawn shared this with me today. It’s amazing.
🔗 In a recent newsletter I wrote about how I gave up on the book Ducks, Newburyport, so I really feel Read Like an Artist. That post also includes this great quote:
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures…if you like something, like it.
– Dave Grohl
So now that I’ve moved my main blog off of Micro.blog, my theory is that I will feel more incentivized to use my microblog as a microblog, posting more small updates and random thoughts. I guess it makes sense that my first random thought is about having random thoughts? Random.
I’ve decided to bring my main site & blog back in-house. bjhess.com is not using a static-site generator. Rather it is hand-curated HTML and CSS. Not a new idea, but one I should write about at some point. I will link my blog RSS here soon. Hope it doesn’t make a mess.
Fortunate to take my two brass-playing kids to see Canadian Brass this afternoon. Such virtuosos! While browsing the merch table after we realized we were standing next to the horn player. Our talk finished with a very motivating high five to my horn-playing daughter. W00T!
doevery.day now has a cheering feature for log entries. Cheer on your friends. Be cheered by your friends. All in the privacy of your own space – the rest of the world will not see how many cheers your log entries receive. The cheers are just for you to enjoy.
Did you know in 2005 a song called “My Humps” sat at number 3 on the Hot 100 for 6 weeks?
Magic for your locks that no longer seem to be working with your key.
🍿 The Batman (2022)
I went into this expecting a super hero movie. By the end I realized it was more of a crime movie. I would have enjoyed the movie more if I had that attitude while watching. There are some beautiful moments in this one.
The Minnesota Timberwolves made me feel very Minnesotan tonight. Oof.
I’m very thankful to @jean for bringing doevery.day to the @theweeklyreview podcast. It was interesting to listen to Jean’s discussion about how she uses the site! That discussion begins about 17 minutes in and it has some surprise discoveries. Listen now!
I think my least favorite response to reporting a bug to a company is “Here, look at our over-populated forum and see if someone is talking about it there. If not, create a new post.”
🔗 The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure We’ll Never See Again
This does make me sad. I’ve subscribed as recently as last year, and the disc subscription (for reproduction quality reasons) is something I enjoy when I have a period of free time.
First fire of the year.
Prepping for a music boosters benefit concert tonight. Music!
🔗 Practically Paperless with Obsidian
For those that followed along with my Obsidian questions last month, you might find the above series interesting. Tons of information!
🔗 This art was made by a computer
This is just absurdly mindblowing. I want to try it, but don’t want to get a Discord account just to get into the beta…
If you are a person who has a thousand ideas and directions you want to go, how have you managed to limit yourself to a few active projects? What are your Pro Tips ™ for delaying project gratification?