We are ready for the 2026 Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser! We made a record setting 415 candles this year. Plus two new scents. The six Golden Ticket candles for Makers Night get a special spot! All proceeds supporting four great organizations.
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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Today is officially MAX Day at SPS!
Voted! I’m always impressed with how well Minnesota runs polling places. ✅
Thingy, my agentic librarian, moved from a simple picture generated by ChatGPT this weekend to a full 3D model that I can bring to a bunch of different experiences. He has four different outfits and different poses so far. This was a cool project.
Ask Thingy
Ask me about coffee, kubb, or two decades of links.
This is what 25 lbs of candle scent comes in. 😬 Taking our candle making up a couple levels from the 16 oz bottles.
The 404 page for Road Sign Math is a work of art. 🤩
Another Thing · my podcast
Another Thing
Ways to listenMy 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 …
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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 …
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