BLUEBIRD OF FRIENDLINESS
LIKE GUARDIAN ANGELS ITS ALWAYS NEAR

Super mundane, but both my Polar and Wahoo heart rate straps are misbehaving. Polar only reporting HR for the first few minutes, but then staying connecting over BT. Wahoo reporting HR +/- 50bpm from what it is.

If you're using the pi coding agent on Mac, here's a quick SwiftUI menu bar app to monitor your sessions: github.com/vbehar/PiScope

and if you haven't tried pi yet, this is a good time to do it ;-) pi.dev

Done. Enjoy the ride!

I'm participating in Bike MS: New York City 2026! I’m participating in Bike MS: New York City 2026 to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Nearly one million people in the US are living with the challenges and uncertainty of MS. W...

Every bit helps!!

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Just going to repost this twice to be clear how great it is. Really good framing.

I can’t do $500, but drop a link. MS is a cause really close to home.

Eostre, the Germanic goddess of spring wishes you a joyous first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Go motherfucker, go
Go motherfucker, go
Go motherfucker, go

Starting to play around with OpenClaw and local models again. Liking it so far, but the limits of the LLMs that will run on the M1 are… well, limiting.

Was only a matter of time.

Now need to set a bunch of them up in the Twitch Plays Pokémon style.

Alt text: Small tan terrier mix wearing a purple harness stands on a red leash in a gravel area at dusk, with a softly lit tree and quiet street in the background.

Tiny dawn patrol. 🌙🐾
Streetlights on, tail up, business serious.

I ended up getting an external drive. Not even sure where it is now, lol.

There is a smattering of MP3 still, from some niche stuff where I can’t get physical media or higher quality digital.

Both FLAC and ALAC. As I’ve done it a few times over the years, unfortunately.

Navidrome, Jellyfin, and Plex are the ones I cycle through on the regular

Ripped all of my old collection to lossless a few years back. New music is bought from various sources, and ripped into the collection.

As for sharing the library around, that is something I’m still sorting out. There are a few self-hosted solutions, but none that are quite right.

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Announcing Flux 2.8 GA We are thrilled to announce the release of Flux v2.8.0! Here you will find highlights of new features and improvements in this release.

Flux v2.8 is out! This release marks the General Availability of Helm v4 features such as server-side apply and enhanced health checking.

❤️ Big thanks to the Helm maintainers for their work on Helm v4 and for collaborating with us to ensure a smooth integration with Flux!

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Yes. But, maybe also no.

I thought I was going to post something witty, but this post says otherwise.

Also, unclench your jaw, and maybe hydrate a bit.

Screenshot from conf.party homepage showing the header name and logo with "Subscribe to ical" link below

😎 Just added an ical link to @conf.party

You can now subscribe to calendar with either all events or a calendar for conference specific events.

If you see this, post a #StarTrek

New Post! Call For Papers Listings for 2/13
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world.
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That said. I’ve been managing 6-7h a night even if both the Oura ring and Apple Watch imagine otherwise.

Ok, sleep on the train is an interesting proposition. The seats are huge, lay back really nice, but are awkward at best. The “roomette” upgrade, one way, is more than double the cost of my ticket, however.

This is a precursor to warm gel beds and artificial dreams of the late 90’s, isn’t it?

They did away with the pushpop things a while ago. Now these? My core childhood memories eroding away.

With a security stack called Betty?

Taking an Amtrak for the first time ever. So far this is 1000% better than any flight I’ve ever been on.