Wait, did I read that right? After all that drama, they upstreamed the Rust drivers anyway?

Avatar, Korra, Firefly.

Four years from now, when the hardware is out-of-date, what will they do with them?

Shades of putting servers in underwater containers to save on cooling costs.

Dammit! Wish there was a way to avoid inadvertently leaking github secrets.

Oh, wait: https://github.com/security/advanced-security/secret-protection

Have I been doing it wrong with WD-40 all these years?

L.I.D.A.R.: Laser iPhone Death & Android Ruin

Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.

A few things to think about:

• Where do you plan to host and how much is the monthly budget?
• How much traffic do you expect to get?
• Will the content be static or updated often (i.e. landing page site vs. blog).
• Will more than one person be updating the site?
• How technical is the person/people updating the site? Are they OK with using terminal and command-lines, or GUI and point and click.
• Will there be ‘member-only’ features, i.e. things that require users creating an account and logging in?
• Will you need to offer a way for people to get in touch? Like, contact pages, email, etc.
• Will there be a need for public to post and answer questions (i.e. a forum).
• Will you need future support for things like newsletters, shopping carts, etc.

If one-person, technical, static, I’d go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.

If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.

You can self-host all these, but it’s much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.

If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.

Or you could do it inside out… get married then get a fruit tree, so they HAVE to stick around just to get to try the fruit. Trick is keeping it going for a few decades. That’s where fruit-tree LADDERING comes in. Plant a new one every few years. Wait till fruit. Rinse, repeat.

Planted a small orange tree in the yard. Dug a big hole. Mixed topsoil and citrus fertilizer. Expect to see first fruit in 3-4 years.

Mother’s Day gift for my wife.

Interesting to see all the dust gathering around the body parts. There’s been some work on electrodynamic dust mitigation (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576511001883).

It can be a problem, especially when covering solar panels or optics.

You can search around for “Bluetooth speaker call recorder.” They pair with any device over Bluetooth and act as both passthru as well as recorder. There also used to be ones that worked as wired headsets. No apps needed.

However, be aware you need to be in a location that allows two-party consent-free recording.

Google is in an interesting predicament. Their ad service brings in so much revenue, but it’s based on search sending traffic to places where those ads are consumed.

Boost search through Overviews and you’re limiting the effectiveness and reach of your ad service. And to top it off, your search needs content to ingest and remain relevant. But if the ad revenue drops off to websites, they go out of business, so search has less stuff to ingest.

It’s like a reverse flywheel, where each part is working to harm the other part. People have been pointing this out for the last couple of years, but Google search just keeps adding more to Overviews and choking off the flow.

And before you say “good, I hate ads,” most of the internet today and its services are paid by ad revenue changing hands. That includes ISPs that host the Fediverse, networking and storage gear makers, pretty much everything to do with open source, and so many jobs that exist to keep the whole thing humming so we can enjoy cat memes.

If Google (or someone like Cloudflare) doesn’t figure out a way to keep the money flowing, we may be watching a sea shift in how the internet has worked in the last 30 years.

Let’s circle back.

Run Away! Run Away!

Pushing the definition of ‘bike’ as far as it can go.

Going 20+ mph where there are pedestrians is just asking for trouble.

Escape Room.

Our neighborhood raccoons have to up their game. Bunch of slackers.

Just started “The Ottomans” by Baer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/22/the-ottomans-by-marc-david-baer-review-when-east-mixed-with-west