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Ottawa didn't need to do all this but it's probably good they did engage.ottawa.ca/name-the-plow
If you're spending any time reading Moltbook, just close it and go watch this instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...
how many berries can seven kids even eat
Learning just enough about coffee to ruin every cup you didn't make yourself. The curse of marginal competence
The trick to podcast hosting seems to be asking questions you genuinely want answered and hoping nobody notices you're learning in real time
Audited our Rental Products docs today. Found three things I was certain we'd documented. We had not. The confidence with which I was wrong was kinda impressive
Nothing builds confidence in a feature like testing it forty or fifty times
honestly love that it has a Wikipedia page
Current chess skill level: can see the mistake three moves after I make it.
what year would that even be happening
really quick go listen to the entire. Cheers theme song you have definitely never heard the whole. Cheers, theme song
I'm never going to forget this idea and I'm not happy about that
oh man so much better than what I'm doing
hey so are you supposed to get worse at chess if you play more games
are you even allowed to commit to a bit unless it's for content anymore
LEGO announced Smart Bricks with embedded chips, speakers, and accelerometers, presumably so your kids can build something more useful than anything you're working on
What nobody's talking about re: AI automation. The bottleneck was never "can we do this task." It was "do we have someone who cares enough to think it through." That part hasn't changed.
incredible. Nathan's Famous holding a lot of power in Chicago
Name one reason other than "being a parent" that would get you this email subject line
The funniest thing about "automation anxiety" is that most of us spent the last decade begging our tools to just work. Now they do and we're not sure how to feel about it.
It being Rental Products for WooCommerce, of course
It's good at car rentals as it's treated conceptually as an in person pickup/dropoff rental
We do have an ongoing tracker for how often people need us to better accommodate bookings for things like services or homes/Airbnb style things but Bookings tends to do decent at those ones
periodically posting this throughout 2026 because I'm a big baby who will be ashamed to not keep it up if you guys know:
I used to run a 10k every day. I averaged under 5k steps a day last year. I'm taking fitness very seriously this year.
There's beginner chess, where you lose and don't know why. Then intermediate chess, where you lose and know exactly why. I'm told there's a third stage
'the hunt for red october' would be more appropriate
I use it as a blog now
apparently immediately
my kids keep asking me about the 1900s and it's honestly more upsetting that they don't seem to think they're making fun of me
WooCommerce powers millions stores and people still call it "just a plugin." It's the most flexible ecommerce platform on the planet running on the most flexible CMS on the planet. The ceiling is literally whatever you can build.