Sal's
Sal's
Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
Latest Posts
I added a dark-theme toggle to this blog about a month ago. Later, I saw Lea Verou’s post, The best dark mode toggle is probably none: However, my biggest insight from all of this is that while I stand by my original recommendation that...
I finally got around to self-hosting Home Assistant on my home server, and one of my early discoveries was that CO2 rapidly spikes into the warning zone when I’m working in my home office. Something to consider if you spend lots of time...
The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant. Our dinner instructions: “Can you guys just figure it out?” Their response: “Yep.” And they did and were fine. We’ve come a...
As I mentioned in my recent post, I’ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&A and help me write simple scripts. I knew that other people...
From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather...
Well, I’ve gone from initial, curmudgeonly reluctance, to shruggy acceptance, to full-blown, guns-blazing, AI mania at work. I’m writing skills, shipping agents, thinking through internal distribution logistics. I think I’ve used about...
Due to a camping mishap that sent me to the emergency room yesterday morning (a part of our tent infrastructure ended up embedded in my thumb, but I’m okay), I forgot to take my Methylphenidate pill. I started taking this med a couple...
You know the ones: “The web is dying.” “No one will create anymore.” Blah blah blah. Come on, chin up. Sure, things might get worse by some measurements. Maybe much worse. But for all we know, that could lead to humans getting so fed up...
Naturally I clicked into The Listening Museum when I saw it in Kottke’s feed. “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card, type on your real...
The Altar II is a mechanical Magic Keyboard. From the HN announcement: Today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made. Altar II...
Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character. So when I type jjc in my terminal and hit...
I’m working from the beautiful Oregon coast for a few days this week. I set up a makeshift desk in front of three large-ish windows with a view of Neahkahnie Mountain. My image in video calls looks so much better here compared to my home...
My wife has insisted for some time that my hearing sucks. Meanwhile, I think she’s a bit of a low talker. I had my ears checked this week by an audiologist, and my hearing is “borderline” normal except for a particular band of...
As threatened, I moved the blog to pico.sh pgs because pico.sh is so dang cool and much more in the spirit of indiewebbing than Cloudflare. That’s all I’ll say about it, and I say it only because I once again ask: if I broke anything,...
Baty just posted this and I just have to follow suit. It’s hilarious and painful how relevant it is to my blog lately: Comic credit to Rakhim.