Awesome Kids

On short notice we hauled the whole hoard of kids to a lawyer's office for hours. They drew, read, and watched a show with almost no complaining, not because they enjoyed it but because they understood. Parenting is hard work, and important work.

Cool Air Curtails Croupy Coughs

When I was a kid with a croupy cough, my dad would bundle me up and carry me out into the cold night air, and it would fade fast. Tonight I burritoed my daughter in her pink fuzzy blanket and did the same. Like magic, her cough was gone within minutes.

Find-a-Potty

Find-a-Potty was my app idea, a Yelp for public-access bathrooms, inspired by passers-by stopping to use a remodel crew's roadside porta-potty. I got as far as an interactive map, schema and mock data before losing interest. One among hundreds of such endeavors.

Curtis Joneses of the World

I tried to compile a list of notable people named Curtis Jones and it turns out there really aren't any, save a Liverpool footballer. After adding a dozen minuses to my search query, I finally hit page two. The only thing I'm notable for is authoring this list.

Why do Carseats Expire?

I'm confident the studies behind carseat expiration dates were authored by the same folks who once proved nicotine isn't addictive. I've got a perfectly good seat I probably can't even give away. You win, Big Carseat.

MovieID

MovieID was a fast, native Mac app I built to hop between actors and movies, and to scrub per-minute thumbnails to decide if something was worth watching. It didn't die of disinterest; abandoning it was unavoidable. Maybe I'll resurrect it one day.

The Iliad & Odyssey of Homer

I need to read Homer again; the names are brutal but the books are so good. Also, a job interview that ended minutes before it began when a recruiter, sensing reluctance after asking me to reformat my resume, cancelled the whole thing. Dude. You called me.

Hosting an AASA File on Your Ghost Blog

I wanted to self-host a blog that wasn't WordPress, so I landed on Ghost. The catch: serving a .well-known/apple-app-site-association file when Ghost insists on trailing slashes. With no nginx in front, I solved it using a Cloudflare rewrite rule. Here's how.

MTG Resigns

Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns, not a moment longer than needed to secure her pension. For those criticizing the exit, remember she couldn't stay faithful to her marriage, so why expect better at the job? Here's hoping her replacement has a name that doesn't need an abbreviation.

Would You Rather; Bad Dreams

My 4yo's best joke: would you rather eat ice cream or eat POOP? ChatGPT has no sense of humor. Meanwhile the baby seems to have had his first bad dream, with a cry unlike the usual hungry or dirty-diaper ones, and it took real effort to calm him down.