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Boat Day 2025! Got the boat out just in time to get on Cannon Lake for Memorial Day.

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How cool that the S3 Files app added a local MCP server so you can expose any S3 bucket of files to Claude or Cursor for local use.

S3 Files app MCP settings panel showing files.thingelstad.com S3 server available to enable, with JSON configuration for Claude and Cursor LLM clients.
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Traeger Grill

My brother-in-law got a Traeger Grill a while back and he found he was never using it. They decided to get a Blackstone Flat Top and I volunteered to provide a good home for the Traeger they didn’t want. I got it fired up for the first time tonight.

Why get this when I’ve got a perfectly good Big Green Egg already? Brisket. I’ve never been able to do brisket acceptably on the Big Green Egg and I’m hoping I can get a great product off of the Traeger. Sure is simple to get going!

Black Traeger pellet grill with lid open showing grates, sitting on a brick patio outside a home at dusk.Black pellet smoker with lid open showing glowing heating element and smoke rising from empty grill grates on a patio.

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Got to do a firmware update on the Traeger Grill. 🤓

Traeger grill control panel displaying a SOFTWARE UPDATE screen reading Update In Progress Do NOT Power Off Grill Will Reset.
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TeamSPS at the Cristy Rey “Ungala” tonight celebrating our long-standing partnership with the organization. It is a great program and amazing results. Proud that SPS Commerce can be part of it!

Group of about ten people posing together at a Cristo Rey Ungala event in front of large marquee letters and colorful balloon decorations indoors. Sponsor logos for a Cristo Rey Ungala event including Signature Sponsors Excelsior Group and SPS Commerce plus Gold Navy Silver Bronze and Printing tiers
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We put a Phyn Plus in our home and I had to celebrate getting to do a firmware update. The unit is now inline and it is super interesting to see the data on water consumption. I’m really curious to see what this shows over time. Plus a solid discount on homeowners insurance for having it. 💧

iPhone screen showing Phyn app firmware update progress at 4 percent with a circular progress indicator and setup instructions.Phyn Plus smart water monitor installed inline on main water supply pipe in a basement, next to a water meter on a concrete block wall.

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I’ve been a bit obsessed thinking about AI agents and this definition shared by Willison from Anthropic’s Hannah Moran works for me.

Agents are models using tools in a loop.

Perfect. I might add “and have a memory” to that too, but that isn’t required.

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Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a group of Omnivore addresses subscribed to the Weekly Thing bounce. Seems they turned off the email addresses now.

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Dave Winer today…

Where AI fits in

  • The Beatles
  • Personal computers
  • The web
  • Napster
  • AI

It is interesting and I’ve made similar comparisons lately myself. It matters who your audience and point is for such a list. For technologists I keep saying it is like…

  • GUI
  • Internet
  • Cloud
  • Mobile

I think of those because they changed nearly everything about how technologists do their craft. I believe AI is going to do that too.

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I went looking for this photo that I knew I had of my by an SR-71 Blackbird. I found it and then selected map view. It is cool how you can see the plane in the aerial satellite view. Location is pretty accurate at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.