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Weeknotes: Aug. 28 - Sept. 4, 2026
Bellevue Botanical Garden - Joe Pye Weed / Eutrochium maculatum 'Gateway' Highlight of the week: saw my niece and met her partner Looking forward to: seeing Coyote vs. Acme with my friend Stuff I did: 5 hours book outline went to Bellevue Botanical Garden
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Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.) Basically, I wanted to know how "big" of an issue bot traffic is on my site since I've read some general reports from other bloggers. Some people are
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The betrayal of perceived allies
I appreciated Newsonaut's recent post arguing that we should keep supporting Firefox, as well as the Hacker News discussion about it. I am one of the people who got so annoyed at Mozilla in the past couple years that I switched my primary browser to Vival
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Formatting as courtesy to the reader
Formatted text (especially bullet points with the first sentence bolded) seems to be twigging some people that it's AI-generated. (I've mostly seen people share Reddit posts where they're dismissed as being machines.) I also saw someone note that bolded k
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My emergency food supply is extra normal food
While most emergency preparation in the PNW focuses on "The Big One," I've realized the most common scenarios in which we actually need emergency food and water are: winter storm power outages (1-4 days, 1-3 times a year) and water main breaks (we had a t
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I asked my city about their street cameras
Per this map, my city does not have any publicly operated Flock cameras, which I'm very happy about. But, we do have school zone speed enforcement cameras. I realized I don't know how those work, so I emailed the city to ask. Question submitted to the cit
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Weeknotes: Aug. 22-28, 2026
I'm hoping this mini clamp-on shelf (right) will let me keep my thesaurus in arm's reach without me piling junk on it also hopefully Mina will not try to sit on it Win of the week: dropped off a ton of household goods at Goodwill (discovered that there's
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What I read online today: Aug. 26, 2026
Monday's reading. Tuesday's reading. Via RSS Rabbit Holes #178 by Thomas Klaffke (Aug 25, 2026) - only opened two articles from this and one was in the Atlantic so I closed it this newsletter might not be for me August 25, 2026 by Heather Cox Richardson (
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What I read online today: Aug. 25, 2026
See yesterday's reading Via RSS Grumpy Grumperson (A Learning a Day, 8/25/2026) Why I Was Wrong to Be Bearish on U.S. Stocks by Nick Maggiulli (August 25, 2026) - still pretty sure this is a bubble THE "HIGHWAY" AESTHETIC FOR HOME (FOR SCALE, Aug 24, 2026
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What I read online today: Aug. 24, 2026
Every once in a while, I keep track of everything I read for a day or two, mostly out of curiosity about what I'm actually reading and how much I read online on a given day. It's been a couple years! More at the bottom of this page. Via RSS Small things l
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