The 404 page for Road Sign Math is a work of art. 🤩
Hi, I’m Jamie.
I write here about technology, AI, the open web, photography and family. Every weekend I send a letter with the things I read and thought about during the week.
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My Makerspace is officially zoned. 🤓
Happy Halloween! This year in addition to candy we are giving out little miniature 3D printed Ghosts to the kids. So far they are a hit! 👻🎃
Dynamic Link Previews for Linking Things
When I decided to create a custom theme for my blog I decided I wanted to take over the share preview images that micro.blog generates by default. I didn’t find any of the options really appealing to me so I decided to build my own cards service that is a lightweight Lambda …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Dynamic Link Previews for Linking ThingsAsk Thingy
Ask me about coffee, kubb, or two decades of links.
Wrong Wicks
I made 120 candles for our Things 4 Good sale with some 0.5 inch wicks. I’m not sure what I was thinking. We typically use 0.75 inch wicks. I did a burn test and it didn’t work at all. Ugh! What to do. After some consideration I decided to see if I could use a plier and pull the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Wrong WicksRoad Sign Math: The Dream Realized!
I’ve been casually watching for road signs with mathematical significance for over two decades. The first version of Road Sign Math in 2005 was run on a blog and then a wiki. Forty different people submitted 251 signs in the Web 1.0 era. I let the site go in 2016 when I purged a …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Road Sign Math: The Dream Realized!Another Thing · my podcast
Another Thing
Ways to listenCandle making: wax + scent + weigh everything.
Love that Changelog is bringing my Upcoming events from Release Notes to my notifications!
Our last United game of the season. Go Loons!
I’ve moved all my DNS zones from Namecheap to AWS (still registered with NameCheap). Claude did all the work for me. I’ve wanted to do this for a while but so many ways to mess it up. Claude did tons of testing and verification that gave me confidence to do it.