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My latest project is a leaderboard app I’m tentatively calling blumbotron. It run natively in Windows, Mac, and Linux for all your offline-first leaderboard needs. thinklikemike.com/blumbotron/

I’ve been streaming live coding and someone is offering to pay me to consult on his work on stream tonight. It feels like a milestone but I’m not sure to where.

I’m enjoying talking to the kids on bikes pointing out ice agent vehicles. I call them antifa goonies.

RFID - POUCH - INDEXEDDB This is a Next.js project that uses PouchDB to store logs and notes on RFID scans via the IndexedDB API built into web browsers. This projects will generate a local folder with HTML / javaScript that...

I wanted to share a little project I worked on last year that feels a specific niche. If you need to take notes on rfid tags and all you have is a laptop and a cheap 40 dollar usb reader, I gotchu. thinklikemike.com/rfid-pouch-i...

Apologies for all the typos. Is there an edit tool? I end up deleting and reposting my messages.

Uruguay's ex-President José Mujica, nicknamed 'world's poorest president,' dies at 89 José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

I feel I only heard about this man in passing but I wish I learned about him sooner. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

I’m told my great grandfather was a high court judge for a certain dictator back in the day. He eventually was removed from that country when he fell out of favor. My grandmother used to recall him smoking cubans on the porch, cursing the dictator. Due process for some means due process for none.

Donald Trump puts tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins The tariffs are part of a new plan announced by President Donald Trump yesterday on what he dubbed "Liberation Day."

A new fact I discovered about penguins is they don’t care when would-be dictators drop tariffs on them. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

1903 Oxnard Beet Sows the Seeds of Diversity Cultural diversity is one of the modern Labor Movement’s greatest strengths. Labor celebrates the richness of mutliculturalism and recognizes that the united voice above all else is the fabric that ho...

As it’s Cesar Chavez Day, I thought I’d share some local history I’ve been reading up on. During the Oxnard Labor Strike of 1903 over 200 Mexican and 500 Japanese farm workers crossed language and culturural barriers, unionized, survived being shot at and won. ufcw324.org/1903-oxnard-...

I think I’m entering my era of living in a cabin in the woods. Except it is a studio loft in an industrial park with lots of houseplants.

If I were to look up career politician in a wiki, I’d expect to see Newsom’s face. Also it be captioned “Newsome”

Weird new dinosaur with exceptionally long hands discovered in Mexico

I kinda want to train a Mexidracon. www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/me...

Is this why some people had a problem with the halftime show?

Having a curious morning. Received a death threat on my Facebook fan page for my Bad Elvis Impersonator persona. Apparently linking to a site to call you representatives is grr real bad meanie head thing!

I’ve always been the first penguin in the water kind of person. So far I’ve been mostly sharing things that I’ve discovered recently.

Responding to the Vice President YouTube video by Dan McClellan

My favorite YouTube religious scholar, Dan McClellan, explains why St Augustine would be opposed to the beliefs of JD Vance. youtu.be/q3Jd0kmZ1ck?...

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Today I learned you can get one of several newsletters direct from the World Health Organization www.who.int/news-room/ne...

As much as I’ve enjoyed the cultural exchange, Red Note is still an app for upper middle class. The honeymoon is starting to fade and the conversations are becoming less inquisitive and more polarized. Cats are still solid though. 🐈

A nicecity Red Note allows me is its a serves as window to ask my esoteric questions to that side of the world. I learned a bit about Chinese Cryptids, such as the cat-faced granny that terrorized children a while back.

A few days into xhs (Red Note) and still liking it. I feel in a week or two the honeymoon period will be over. I’m seeing folks from Mexico, Canada, Europe migrate over as well and if it continues to build a global feel I’ll continue to use it.

In the 90’s there was a feeling that the internet was going to bring us closer together as a global community of understanding. I feel that this Red Note situation reminds us that the dream is still alive, one cat tax at a time.

As a TikToker I jumped on the bandwagon and hopped on Red Note. Having some lovely conversations about hiking and beaches with new Chinese friends.

The fires are terrible but it reminds me how Los Angeles always comes together when disaster strikes.

What’s everyone’s go to news source? Seeing my favorite TikTok reporter get thrown under the bus on NPR and having Bezos block a satire of him in the newspaper he owns, makes me question the legitimacy and relevancy of my current sources.

2025!!! Can’t type the year correctly so happy new year!!

I came across a fun dataset of lunar and solar eclipses from days of Ptolemy archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/...

Mertingopeav - Twitch Hacking A RFID Logger Together

I’m live on Twitch - Watch me at twitch.tv/mertingopeav

I read the first three books and left it there. No real reason other I wanted a sampler of the story universe

Another adventure buddy this week!

Was flipping through a sketch pad and found an adventure buddy I forgot about!