The air is crisp and the evenings are more colorful as autumn arrives. đ
@jemostrom Wow, what a beautiful view!
@petebrown Not only is your hunch correct, they've done research into it like this one from Iowa State University. As they put it:
"People in the rumination group felt angrier than did people in the distraction or control groups. People in the rumination group were also most aggressive, followed respectively by people in the distraction and control groups. Rumination increased rather than decreased anger and aggression. Doing nothing at all was more effective than venting anger."â
@Mtt From leather: Watch bands of all kinds, a Ray-Ban style sunglasses case to replace the original âvegan leatherâ one that instantly ripped, mousepads, keychains, a pencil case, and a whole lot of notebook covers as gifts for family and friends.
@Mtt Yeah, a local source for leather can make it much less expensive. For smaller projects like notebook covers, your leather can also come from less obvious sources like second hand leather clothes and handbags at Salvation Army or Goodwill. Itâs amazing how, once you know the dimensions you need, you start to see materials everywhere.
@alexink Theyâre about to announce a series 10 watch next month so Iâd at least wait for that.
@Mtt Rereading my last comment, I sound snobbier than I meant to. I love learning to make stuff so a notebook cover was my chance to try lots of weird ideas and learn to leatherwork at the same time. I found a nearby Tandy Leather store and just bought a raw side of their cheapest thin leather, one stitching punch, and a roll of "artificial sinew" with needles to stitch it with. I ended up with this and am still enjoying it many years later. It's quite literally a rip-off of the Bellroy cover design, only I ended up removing the left cover pocket.
@Mtt That's why I just bought a side of leather and prototyped a bunch of designs for myself instead. The cost is incredibly lower, I get to try weird stuff, and I end up with something my kid might want.
@Mtt I just slipped a fresh Pitch Black Dot Grid notebook into my cover. As someone who draws just as much as writes, it makes me wish dot grid was the global default for all paper.
â@otaviocc That Bellroy cover is so good that I made my own with some leather back before I could hope to afford it.
@alexink The problem isn't the hardware, it's the lack of a software mode for it. I have a Series 9 watch and its sensor readings are amazing for workouts, training, alerts, etc.
A âuser-centeredâ approach to design has been replaced by what [Jarrett Fuller] has taken to calling a âcorporation-centeredâ approach. Rather than optimizing for the userâs experience, it optimizes for the extraction of profit. If Spotify succeeds at turning us all into passive listeners, then it doesnât really matter which content the platform licenses. As Fuller put it, âItâs about âHow do you get through as much music as you can so you keep paying for it?â" -Why I Finally Quit Spotify
Quitting Spotify has been a huge improvement to my music listening.
@jaheppler @Parag Thanks đđ»
@alexandra Thank you. Hopefully it passes quickly.
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@Annie I had to share since you just happened to pick a date I remembered. đ I went through a couple of portable CD players that year, each somehow cheaper but with longer skip protection. It helped that bigass pants were in style so I could fit them into my massive pockets. In September of the following year, I replaced the CD players with the very first portable mp3 player.
The lead in a flotilla of clouds caught the evening colors just right as they passed.
@Annie September 3, 1997 â I was back in class after the Labor Day holiday in my first year of college. I was still saving up to buy a bicycle so I had to leave my dorm early to walk to my classes across campus; my portable CD player held like a pizza box the whole way because it was too old to have much skip protection.
One of the coolest parts of the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards is how well represented older phones are.
@ericmwalk Those are awesome!
@jean I learned from my church-going days that the oldest and youngest people in the room had the most in common. (And also, are the ones everyone should be paying more attention to.) Wear it with pride!
I managed to capture the evening colors before they left. They lasted less than a minute.
@jaheppler Cool!
@Parag What a beautiful place to have time with family.
@ChrisJWilson It's a cold-front gift from Canada so I'll give @alexandra the credit. đ
@maique That island is on beauty overload.
@maique I would get into so much (delicious) trouble there.
@czottmann Only if I can use my Service Weapon to stop this Object of Power.
@amerpie I applaud your bold, brave stance. #sorrynotsorry
@t3mujin If it makes you feel better, my high schooler recommended a track from it to me and was amazed that I already knew it.
@hawaiiboy It makes sense why a lot of people didn't enjoy it but the hate being directed at the series is a bit overblown, especially for something that doesn't even touch everything made up until now.
@petebrown Master of The House
Enjoying coffee and a sunrise on the first cold morning of this year. (50°F, 10°C)
Finally getting around to reading the original Thrawn Trilogy from the earlyy 1990âs. Really enjoying it so far!
Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position â it is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.
- Nick Cave
When we mostly read, watch, and hear about the worst of people, itâs easy to believe theyâre all thatâs left. They are not.
Hat tip to Annie Mueller for originally sharing the full quote.
Cloud mountain
Taking time to appreciate the cooler morning before pushing the pixels.
Proud member of the golden-hour appreciation society.
Every member of the household celebrates the start of âcool enough to open the windowsâ season.
Appreciating the new day with coffee and cooler temps.
Current mood
First, An Event Apart ended their amazing conferences and now A Book Apart has closed up shop. I canât help but feel like the Internet is continuing to become a lesser form of itself.
We need to diversify the kinds of people who make software, the kinds of problems theyâre solving, and the philosophies and worldviews that govern how they build. Putting every software creator inside a tiny, privileged bubble thatâs awash in VC cash and obsessed with hierarchical status games isnât going to give us novel, âinnovativeâ, or diverse software that serves the needs of everyone.
- Maggie Appleton, Leaving Elicit
The impossibly blue Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Remote work isnât, by definition, better or worse than IRL work. But it is different, and it is a necessary adaptation in an era marked by climate change and the slow collapse of long-neglected infrastructures. Itâs past time to engage with its flaws directly, instead of always harking back to a fabricated office history we never lived in and cannot return to.
- Mandy Brown, Official Myths
I canât overstate how beneficial working fully remote for the past four years has been for myself and my family.
Post-storm sunset.
Today my grandfather passed away. He was my last living grandparent so now that generation has completely exited my life and my parents have no parents.
Thankfully, my daughterâs grandparents are all still here. They came to celebrate her artwork being shown at the Detroit Institute of Art.
Part of what makes art special is that itâs difficult to make, even with all the tools right in front of you. It takes practice, it takes skill, and every time you do it, you expand on that skill. [âŠ] Generative AI is only about the end product, but it wonât teach you anything about the process it would take to get there.
- Drew Gooden, AI is Ruining the Internet YouTube
Gen AI is a bad middle-manager trying harder than ever to convince people that its stolen output isnât bad.
Happy Independence Day
Looking for some good tunes? My music page has been updated for summer with more albums coming as I listen. Powered by @bjhess awesome Album Whale.