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Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-11-04T12:38:23.000Z

And now, the real work begins…

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-03T22:20:59.000Z

Today is officially MAX Day at SPS!

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-03T21:39:15.000Z

Voted! I’m always impressed with how well Minnesota runs polling places. ✅

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-02T01:58:19.000Z

Thingy, my agentic librarian, moved from a simple picture generated by ChatGPT this weekend to a full 3D model that I can bring to a bunch of different experiences. He has four different outfits and different poses so far. This was a cool project.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-01T23:06:45.000Z

This is what 25 lbs of candle scent comes in. 😬 Taking our candle making up a couple levels from the 16 oz bottles.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-01T00:43:22.000Z

The 404 page for Road Sign Math is a work of art. 🤩

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-01T00:33:06.000Z

My Makerspace is officially zoned. 🤓

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-11-01T00:32:01.000Z

Happy Halloween! This year in addition to candy we are giving out little miniature 3D printed Ghosts to the kids. So far they are a hit! 👻🎃

Dynamic Link Previews for Linking Things - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-10-31T23:53:12.000Z

When I decided to create a custom theme for my blog I decided I wanted to take over the share preview images that micro.blog generates by default. I didn’t find any of the options really appealing to me so I decided to build my own cards service that is a lightweight Lambda function that serves preview images exactly how I want them. I quickly realized I could use this for more than just my blog and I could embed custom logic for different sites I wanted to use it for.

Today I moved Linking Things to a 3D spatial galaxy view of my 16,500+ links I’ve collected. I love it. If you want, load the site and hit the “full screen” button and you just fly around from site to site in my bookmarks.

I decided to create a custom share preview for the site that actually uses the graph data that the site is built off of and shows real data about how the link is connected. I just had to share these examples. You can link from each to the actual link on the site.

The whole sky. This is the base every other card is lit against: every link since 2005 and nothing lit, just the topic glows under the stars.

An issue: Weekly Thing 354, “A museum for nnxyz art”. Its 23 links are scattered across the whole sky, because one issue reaches into many subjects. The issue number and date sit on top, the subject is the headline, and the count is in the pill.

A topic: AI agents. Its links sit close together in meaning, so the view zooms right in on one corner of the sky and the stars draw bigger. Put it next to WT354 to show “spread out” against “clustered”.

A year: 2025. All 1,076 links are lit and the sky is mostly gold. The more stars a card lights, the smaller each one draws, so a year’s thousand don’t blur together.

A site: kottke.org. This shows one source’s range: lights in most corners of the sky, with a bright knot in the middle. Sites get no count.

On this day: October 31. Links saved on this date in every year since 2005, lit together. It changes each day, so it suits a post dated today.

I so love it. A little detail that most people probably wont even notice but is amazing.

Road Sign Math: The Dream Realized! - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-10-31T17:19:44.000Z

I’ve been casually watching for road signs with mathematical significance for over two decades. The first version of Road Sign Math in 2005 was run on a blog and then a wiki. Forty different people submitted 251 signs in the Web 1.0 era. I let the site go in 2016 when I purged a number of projects.

In 2021 the site came back with some spurring from Tammy actually. The new version embraced “keep it simple stupid” and was a simple micro.blog website. It has sat there for a while.

No version of Road Sign Math has ever hit the dream that I had for it even way back in 2005, two years before the iPhone was launched. I always had this dream that you would be able to “play” Road Sign Math on your phone. The very essence of Road Sign Math is mobile. Something you do out in the world! With the help of Claude, that dream is now becoming real!

Check out the new Road Sign Math! But that is just the read-only view on the web… The star of the show is the new iPhone app!

Snap a sign from the passenger seat. The iPhone camera finds every number on the sign and boxes it, and you check what it read.
Write the math on a keypad built for it. It has roots, powers and factorials, and says “It works!” the moment both sides match.
Post it, and the app fills in the rest. It takes the place and day from the photo and suggests a name, and the sign shows up on a feed and a map.
Find another way. Anyone can add their own math to any posted sign.
Badges instead of points. They’re little road signs for your first sign, new states, every season and a few secrets, with no scores and no scoreboard.
A page for every player. It shows their signs, their badges, a profile photo, and their finds on the map.
roadsignmath.xyz is the window for everyone else. It has a map of every sign across the US and a page for each sign and player, with no app or sign-in needed.

Go ahead and join the beta TestFlight if you would like to play along as this gets built out!

You can read about this Road Sign Math reboot for all the details including build artifacts.

Driving + Math = Fun

“…that time is the fire in which we all burn” – Delmore Schwartz - Garrick van Buren

2026-10-30T15:48:04.000Z

from “Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day”

I was just floored by 9 words from a 90 year old poem.

I’ve yet to be struck equivalently by machine-generated words.

The post “…that time is the fire in which we all burn” – Delmore Schwartz appeared first on Garrick van Buren.

Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-10-30T15:30:54.000Z

Margin: my own Markdown editor | Matthew Lang

Dozens of Markdown editors could serve my purpose. Then I thought, “What if I tried to build my own?”

Building something for yourself, that might be useful to others.

What we believe in.

Sir Patrick Stewart... - Barry Hess

2026-10-29T22:46:06.000Z

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Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-10-29T20:58:25.000Z

Make it so.

— Sir Patrick Stewart, as Captain Jean Luc Picard.

May he rest in eternal peace.

Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-10-28T15:44:26.000Z

TL;DR 11. How to Become … | Hunter Gatherer 21C

To cook well, you need three things: tools, space and decent ingredients.

On theme. Good simple advice.

Post on Jamie Thingelstad - Jamie Thingelstad

2026-10-28T05:14:09.000Z

I’ve moved all my DNS zones from Namecheap to AWS (still registered with NameCheap). Claude did all the work for me. I’ve wanted to do this for a while but so many ways to mess it up. Claude did tons of testing and verification that gave me confidence to do it.

Post on Patrick Rhone - Patrick Rhone

2026-10-28T02:55:34.000Z

Bethany got me a Kitchen Knife Skills Class for my birthday and I finally took it tonight. I got exactly what I was hoping for — a half dozen or more tips and tricks that will help me level up my food prep game at home. A very satisfying learning experience.

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2026-10-28T01:12:46.000Z

Daring Fireball: Prestructured WYSIWYG

A perfect new term (and expert description) for a beautiful idea. I avoided using Apple Notes for years. But, for the past couple of years, I’ve become a big fan and use it for all sorts of things in part because of what is described here.

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2026-10-26T21:50:08.000Z

2026-10 – İstanbul, Tűrkiye – Derek Sivers meetings

Istanbul is super-social. Faces look at friends, not phones. Cafés, restaurants, coffee shops, always full of people talking. The later the hour, the bigger the crowd. Coffee shops are open until midnight.

Speaking of Derek, here’s his report and interviews from time spent in İstanbul. A fascinating first person glimpse into another country.

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2026-10-26T21:40:49.000Z

Motley Peg – The Department of Lingo: WHAT kind of kitchen?!

“An ingredients kitchen. That’s what we call it now.”

Like the author, I’d never heard the term until my wife forwarded me this.

I’m pro “ingredients kitchen” but do have some “snack kitchen” items too. One can have a mix.