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I know the legislature has a tough task ahead balancing this year’s state budget. I saw that Governor Ferguson has proposed using funds from the Climate Commitment Act to fill the gap (which is technically allowed).

Given the horrific flooding…

There’s a major Verizon outage, still impacting us here in Austin. My phone is currently on SOS. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something on this scale before… Despite how much we gripe about cellular service, it’s actually very reliable.

2025 has been the year where something broke in my long-standing relationship with technology. That something could be summarised with the word trust but ‘trust’ is just the core of it. Much like an earthquake, its effects aren’t just limited to its epicentre. In November I already wrote extensively about…

I use Goatcounter for analytics primarily to see where things I post might get mentioned. I don't get a ton of traffic, nor should I expect to.

John Gruber commenting on Meta’s plans to sell more glasses:

20 million units is a real number. But building the capacity for 20 million units isn’t the same as selling 20 million units, and, to my knowledge, actual sales of Meta Glasses are only Bezos Numbers.

In NYC last week,…

Caught myself writing a blog post to complain about someone else’s blog platform and API. Deleted the draft. There is plenty of complaining to go around already. “Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.”

Running database migrations! 🤞 Deploying a bunch of new things this week.

I am excited to announce the launch of a landing page for my passionate work: ski & ride instructor.

I want to share a bit about my journey to skiing and snowboarding. I also want to share my coaching progressions for both sports so guests will know what they will…

As I write, my mother is in the other room on a Zoom call with a group of longtime friends in Ontario. They know each other from a Burlington YMCA morning fitness class; when the pandemic hit, they moved the class to Zoom, and when Mom moved east to PEI

This is how I glance at my Micro.blog timeline recently, using my n8n automation and my personal Discord server. The summary structure varies from one edition to another, likely due to the unpredictability of LLM on top of content variations. When something catches my interest, I go directly to the…