2023-03-25 ⚽️ Match day for Austin FC. Some fans are growing nervous at the 2-2 record to start the season, …
2022-11-06 I love a site that keeps their archives online and searchable. I searched for PowerTalk and found …
2022-11-05 Blogging and the Blank Page
2022-11-04 I guess it should be no surprise that so much ActivityPub work seems to be happening right now.. …
2022-11-04 New plan: Export all my existing wordpress stuff to a static site and serve it on a new subdomain. …
2022-10-13 Stopped reading: Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics by Jonathan Wilson 📚 I knew …
2022-10-09 The Bergstrom Spur Trail will be approximately 6.5 miles bike and pedestrian trail from Vinson Drive …
2022-08-16 Currently reading: Inverting The Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson 📚 I don’t know if I’ll …
2022-08-16 Finished reading: Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley 📚
2022-08-10 Currently reading: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley 📚
2022-08-10 Finished reading: The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One by Brandon Sanderson 📚 A very easy read; …
2022-06-29 I love that Nolan Bushnell says his favorite Atari game is Tempest. I loved that game. I …
2022-06-14 So many online reviewers think I’m buying clicky keyboard switches for the sound. I …
2022-05-25 I saw Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 film, At Long Last Love last night. It was a huge flop in its …
2022-05-17 Tonight we saw What’s Up Doc? in a theater full of people. It’s the best way to watch a …
2022-05-15 The eclipse from an iPhone camera pointed at a telescope eyepiece.
2022-05-12 It’s looking more and more likely that I’ll have to give up on Twitter completely.
2022-05-10 Saw The Automat at AFS last night. I knew of automats, but I didn’t realize how grand they …
2022-05-10 My play date arrived!
2022-05-10 ACM members will no longer get access to O’Reilly’s Safari books after July 1. It was a …
2022-02-11 Now that everything is crisp and retina-y on my new display, the custom scrollbar in Lightroom looks …
2022-02-11 The new monitor came and the options are: A slightly too-large but sharp UI. A slightly too-small …
2022-02-10 It looks like the remains of Spider House Cafe falls into good hands. Austin Chronicle: Brian …
2022-02-10 Not a day goes by without an email from Instagram because some stranger is trying to reset my …
2022-02-10 Austin FC fans are freaking out because the team lost a preseason game. Chill. Preseason is more …
2022-02-10 I got out the Fuji X100s for the first time in a long. I had to relearn a few buttons to set it up, …
2022-02-09 LG has a USB-C 4K display with USB-A ports for a dock-like experience (I still prefer wired keyboard …
2022-02-09 The state of monitors for the Mac is disappointing. I just ordered a 27" 4K display but …
2022-02-08 Felipe Martins signed to Austin FC. DC Unitied fans: So long Felipe! Best of luck! Every opponent …
2022-02-08 Complete thought: There is nobody on microblog talking about Austin FC or even MLS. Maybe I’ll …
2021-10-10 I watched Spectre last night in preparation for tonight’s showing of No Time to Die. I had …
2021-10-01 “I would like to believe in God in order to thank him, but I just believe in Billy Wilder, so thank …
2021-09-14 Sunrise
2021-09-12 If you’re an Austinite who opposes TxDOT’s plan to demolish 140 homes and businesses to …
2021-09-04 📽 I rewatched Midnight Run after a long time. It’s a formulaic dude buddy movie but it totally …
2021-08-24 🎵I can’t believe it was 2006 when The Rolling Stones played Zilker park. 15 years ago! I’m old…
2021-08-21 📚I have a stack of unread Important and Impressive books, but I think I’m going to read a …
2021-08-21 ⚽️It’s another Austin FC home match I’m going to miss because I don’t want to …
2021-08-21 I know it makes me a suburban cliché, but the gas-powered yard service is really putting an edge on …
2021-08-20 Set up cross posting between Twitter and micro.blog. I’ll be trying out micro.blog exclusively …
2021-08-19 Is Micro.blog better, or just smaller?
2021-08-18 Ulysses’ greatest strength is its greatest weakness: the internal document database. Yes, it keeps …
2021-08-18 It’s match day for Austin FC. I’m not sure I want to stand in a crowd of 20K and scream for 90 …
2021-08-18 On the topic of writing tools, it looks like Ulysses supports micro.blog. As luck would have it, I …
2021-08-18 I kind of want to write with BBEdit. I like micro.blog, and I appreciate that the backend is a …
2021-08-16 Monday morning! It’s going to be a great week!
2021-08-15 We started out planning for a picnic at Waterloo Greenway, ended up spending a rainy day at the …
2021-08-15 I updated my micro.blog theme, and now the highlighting is somewhat better. I’m not a fan of …
2021-08-15 Update: the next step is not screwing around with domain names. The next step is to write a bunch of …
2021-08-15 Syntax Highlighting in micro.blog
2021-08-15 I wonder how code formatting works? Here are a couple of samples: #import …
2021-08-15 A post with a photo: the Austin FC supporters section. Note: not my photo. I’m in that crowd …
2021-08-15 The next step for my micro blog is a custom domain. But do I add a micro.brokaw.org domain, or …
2021-08-15 The new post seems to have overwritten my earlier posts. Luckily, they were just test posts from …
2021-08-15 Another Try at micro.blog
2021-01-18 Happy MLK Day, 2021
2021-01-09 Edgerouter X
2021-01-04 Is Austin the Next Silicon Valley?
2021-01-02 Happy New Year 2021
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2020-11-23 Another Take on Austin's Proposition A
2020-11-23 The Long, Strange Trip to Austin’s Transit Victory
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2020-08-26 Morgan Witt on Austin Land Use
2020-05-16 iA Writer 5.5 Improves Wordpress Support
2020-03-26 Markdown for Technical Documentation
2020-03-23 Remote Cheese Tasting
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2020-03-22 Wordpress Theme Search
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2019-07-07 Ulysses vs. iA Writer
2019-07-03 City Grid
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2019-05-27 Merchant of Venice
2019-05-26 Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
2019-05-25 Return of the Secaucus 7
2019-04-21 Best Travel Promo Ever
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2019-03-09 Fixed Links
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2018-11-25 Riding Horses is More Dangerous than Riding Motorcycles
2018-09-13 Configuration is the Root of All Evil
2018-09-08 Scott Meyers Can No Longer Remember the Full Intricacies of C++
2018-08-18 Cutting the Cord
2018-08-18 Lady Snowblood at Austin Film Society
2018-07-21 New Blogging & Hosting Platform
2018-02-19 WordPress Hosting Benchmarks
2018-02-18 The Science Behind Police Shooting Bystanders
2018-01-30 Reports of Blogging's Death
2018-01-28 Is Swift Easy?
2017-12-18 That Sinking Feeling – Talking Points Memo
2017-12-18 Paul Krugman says bitcoin is a bubble - Business Insider
2017-12-15 How To Thank Black Women For Keeping Roy Moore Out of Office
2017-12-08 An Expert's View on Trump's Lies
2017-12-07 Repost.
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2017-12-05 Another attempt at the Grand Web Unification project, via Bridgy.
2017-12-05 Byword Test
2017-12-05 Where is Amazon’s Prime Video app for Apple TV? - The Verge
2017-12-05 MarsEdit Post
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2017-07-18 Twitter Harasses Ed Sheeran into Deleting His Account
2017-07-02 Movie: Funeral Parade of Roses
2017-06-30 After the Fox
2017-06-12 Newt vs. Newt
2017-06-12 I don’t want to go back to Xcode 8.
2017-05-29 Trump v Trump: Sources
2017-04-05 VPN
2017-01-31 Bannon's Anticipated War
2017-01-29 Travel Memories
2017-01-29 History Calling
2017-01-29 Helping ISIS Recruiters
2017-01-29 Fake News Rundown
2017-01-23 Texas Women's March Round-up
2017-01-22 Women's March Austin
2017-01-16 MLK on White Moderates
2016-12-31 Smart Quotes
2016-12-15 Memory Layout in Swift
2016-12-10 To Repeat: Medicare Isn’t Going “Bankrupt”
2016-12-08 Super Mario Bros. Theme Performed Live
2016-12-02 Cleaning Out Argument Labels
2016-12-01 WSJ on Trump's Carrier Deal
2016-12-01 Secret Lambda Permissions
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2016-11-30 Fair Elections
2016-11-30 iTunes Visualizer
2016-11-23 The Case for Identity Politics
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2016-01-27 Easy Network Scripting
2016-01-27 Better Wordpress Management through Fabric
2016-01-25 Default Arguments in Swift Functions
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