@neynar can you go ahead and get rid of the channels tab in notifications, nobody has tapped on it in about a year.

Why does a thermos work so much better for cold than hot? Is it easier to cool a liquid than heat it?

The city shutoff our water today because of “illegal consumption.” They said we turned our water back on illegally, except we’ve paid every bill on time (autopay) and never asked for it to be turned off. And anyway, I think I would remember walking out to the sidewalk with a 6 foot long socket wrench, lifting up the ir... Show more

word, what’s the new word!!? daylight saving is making wait an extra hour

Got an itch to go back to light mode for a bit. Talk me out of it.

I really like that definition of integrity. The way to ameliorate failure is to accept it, acknowledge it, and make it part of who we are. We’re all going to make mistakes and we won’t get better if we pretend we are perfect. Reminds me of blog post about mistakes and the pursuit, or not, of perfection.

Since the meta is words these days: > He explained that integrity comes from the root word integer -- meaning whole. “I want to be whole,” he said. “So I want to show all.”

> “Don’t be fooled into thinking you need to be part of the community. There is no community”

Once you start self hosting software, how do you ever stop?

“Some people will die”

I’m getting annoyed with newsletters/blogs that don’t provide an rss feed. Why would I want to read an article or essay in a crappy, bloated client optimized for spam mail? How does that benefit the writer?

Oh this is some bull “to see prices add to cart”

I was listening to the Jason Fried interview from a couple weeks ago and there’s this portion about how psychedelics enabled him to flip a problem around and look at it from the back. “The front of things are fronts, the back of things are real.” I hate to relegate you all to the dusty, back halls of my memory, but it... Show more