pwenzel

Speaking for Minnesotans and other winter folk, I would love to see heated seats as an option!

Up to now, I would have agreed with you. However, many residents of cities victimized by ICE see paying federal taxes as money that goes directly toward an enemy that is destroying their communities. I will happily pay my city and state taxes, but I no longer feel that my my federal tax dollars are helping much.

I live in Minneapolis, MN. The Federal government has cut public health grants, Medicaid, laid off a large portion of he Department of Health, cut Department of Human services, cut school funding, cut University of Minnesota funding, cut heating assistance, cut flood mitigation, cut USDA programs, and cut SNAP. This is just the things I can remember! Our city hosts Hennepin County Medical Center, which provides emergency care to the entire state, and it is risking closing due to federal cuts.

Minnesota has historically paid more in federal taxes than other states, and contributes more than it gets back. I think it's time for a change.

His contributions to the Monome Norns ecosystem are impressive as well! Barcode (https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/norns-scripts/barcod...) is a classic and I still rock it.

Doesn't help when Trump simply responded to Minnesota assassinations with:

"you know, I could be nice and call him [Governor Walz], but why waste time?"

https://www.startribune.com/trump-says-he-will-not-call-walz...

It was an attempt to quell the No Kings protests scheduled to happen the same day.

I also want to hear from the people who still maintain AOL in 2025!

I use and recommend Evermusic for offline listening on iOS. It can fetch music from your cloud storage accounts too.

Swinsian is 100% worth the $24.95. It's really nice to have a good system for offline music purchases.

Heck yeah! I use an RSS reader to consume news every day on both my phone and laptop. It's blissfully free of extras and distraction.

Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist)

Go to a meditation center instead!

I bought a six-pack of sand timers. They are silent, require no apps, have no screens, and are beautiful. They will probably outlive solutions such as these.

I hate CSV too. If I have to use it, I'll live with TSV or some other special-charter delimited format.

On top of that, when people are are attacked politically by Trump, they are also threatened physically by his followers.

100%. I prefer having a separate client for various tasks.

As someone who listened to music from this album on a shitty clock radio growing up, this feels perfect.

Plain old AM/FM radios are cheap and super efficient. Everyone should have one! I have a portable radio that I use regularly and its AA batteries often last a few years!

TTOP via password manager

Forget everything, we're doing 5 chips

We have to use Jira at my current workplace and it's so complicated. Pivotal Tracker, which I used at previous workplace, was so simple and focused. Sad to hear it's shutting down!

I'm amazed how many NYC addresses have "666" in them!

Man, I loved Windows NT back in the day. It was light enough that I could run it on fairly low end late-90s hardware, and it was substantially more stable than Windows 95.

This is lovely and well implemented.

I would take advantage of a metronome if provided one, but I at the same time I can appreciate happy timing accidents.

Nice work.

Yeah, I feel cynical saying this, but who wants to create art that looks and feels just like everything else?

For outdoor plants, I would really want to know what plants are drought tolerant. Climate change is drastically altering summers in Minnesota (wildfire smoke, drought, high AQI, high temps, extreme downpours).

It would also be really great to search for pollinator friendly plants (https://bluethumb.org is an excellent reference)

The first thing I looked for was hardiness zone. I live in Minnesota and our weather is...particular.

I remember standing not far from edge of that shortly after it happened (https://www.flickr.com/groups/35w-bridge-disaster/), and still get a little panicky when I'm in slow traffic on a bridge. This event will affect the city, the port, and its people for a long time.

How does VitePress compare to Jekyll in terms of developer-friendliness and page build times? I still use Jekyll for small projects because it is well-documented and just works.

I have a local doctor in my area that specializes in Lyme care. Doxycycline, Minocycline, herbs, supplements, and sleep. I have also taken the path of acupuncture and medical cannabis for supplemental pain management. Overall I'm doing better now!

Chronic lyme patient here, been bit twice. The first time a deer tick was attached to me for roughly 6-8 hours. I got really sick.

Here's a couple pictures next to a ruler and a penny to show how tiny the tick was:

https://imgur.com/7YpvzRb.jpg

https://imgur.com/b5sUUO3.jpg

Might as well rename it from Meta Status to Metastasis.

This year I picked up an Akai S20 sampler and have been using it to make beats. It uses 1.44MB floppies for storage, and this limitation really forces you to make decisions and stop wasting time.

Demo of the S20 floppy disk workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMDRT_0Nt0I