Don’t know if it’s a holiday destination, but Dubai. Heat and shopping malls are two things I’d pay to get away from.

Been pretty busy at work so #3 looks about right

Another reason not to use their platform

High Sierra shower heads are awesome. Installed them in each of our bathrooms. Feels like a rain shower, with more pressure then our previous stock shower head while still saving water. Win-win. They also manufacture them in small town in the foothills of the Sierra mountains which is a pretty cool fact.

Yeah they can improve their UX all they want but since their co-founder is part of DOGE and wants to mess with social security, it makes choosing alternatives easier.

Lizard man, lizard man, and uh lizard man

This looks pretty cool, thanks for sharing! Definitely a unique spin, always wanted to play as a beaver and just chop down trees and dam rivers.

Congrats! Just watched the trailer and the game looks and sounds awesome. As someone who has a lot of half-finished projects, I’m impressed you stuck with it for 8 years and got it across the finish line, that must be a great feeling.

Were you working on it full time or on the side?

+1 for Shark. Bought one several years ago without thinking much about it. It still works just as well as when I got it despite handling a pretty heavy workload. My dog sheds profusely and tracks in stuff from the yard constantly and we also use it on the cars.

Looking forward to Lazarus

Same. When we had our attic insulation replaced, I was incredibly impressed at the crew crawling around up in that heat and knocking it out in 1 day.

Kudos for doing it yourself and for wearing the proper PPE. Good luck with the rest of the project, nothing more satisfying then a well maintained house!

Visit some of the National Parks, aka America’s best idea.

Some amazing ones (they’re all amazing, tbh) in no particular order:

• Yosemite
• Arches / Canyonlands (close to each other)
• Yellowstone
• Grand Tetons
• Glacier
• Denali
• Olympic

Play some guitar, watch some basketball, and replace a fence post.

If they require low/no VOCs, I used Vermont Natural Coatings / Bohme. It’s held up pretty well for the last 18 months of medium use/rain/sun. Though I only used cedar for the fascia, the doug fir I used for the decking still has a warm, golden color.

In addition to self-hosting, I’ll throw out a few other alternatives:

Free:

• hoopla or OverDrive/Libby via local library membership
• LibroVox public domain books read by users

Paid:

• For a user experience closer to Audible, I went with libro.fm. You can pick a local, independent bookstore that gets a portion of the sales. Their catalog is pretty extensive as well, have been able to find most books I’m interested in. Books are DRM-free and you can pause your membership.
• Downpour - DRM-free as well

DRM-free is important IMO because otherwise you’re at the mercy of the platform and if the company ever changes its Terms of Use or wipes your account, you lose your purchases. Amazon have remotely deleted books from users’ libraries in the past or replaced them with modified copies (e.g. Roald Dahl books). Kindle announced last month they won’t let you download your eBooks via USB so it’s possible Audible could see changes for the worse in the future as well.

Yep, have a few Lost Art Press books and they’re all great. If you’re into or want to learn hand tool woodworking, they’re great resources. They’re also not dry textbooks, I’ve gotten a laugh from Chris’s writing (check out the LAP blog or substacks) on more than one occasion.

We’ve known since the 1890s¹ of people who would strip the land bare if they could profit from it. Baffles me why they’re called conservatives when they don’t want to conserve a single thing beyond their bank accounts.

¹"for even now a few men can be found who seem willing to destroy the last tree, the last fish and the last game bird and animal, and leave nothing for posterity, if thereby some money can be made." - Biennial Report of the State Fish and Game Commissioner to the Governor of North Dakota from March 17, 1893 to December 1, 1894

Amazing shot. Big fan of these layered landscape photos, feels like a painting

Yorushika - Thought Crime

A close second would be Tony Rice - Church Street Blues

Thanks, the article piqued my interest and after hearing all this I might have to check it out.