My thoughts on stuff
-
Grand Tetons and Yellowstone 2026
I spent 6 nights in Grand Teton NP in a campervan, and one night in Yellowstone! Hot takes: We rented a campervan. It’s expensive but nice! Grand Teton is amazing Overall I highly recommend staying at Signal Summit Campground, it’s our absolute favorite. It’s much smaller, very quiet, out of the way from the freeway,…
-
Empty Bernzomatic Propane Tank Weighs 14.5oz or 412g (Tare)
-
Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What”
A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections. I’m now more responsive and engaged, while also feeling less stressed. How? By sorting my Slack channels by urgency, or how often I want to read them. What Projects Team Alerts Sibling Teams Announcements SF Office Social Noisy Versus How Often Read Now Read Hourly…
-
adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat
status.href.cat now reports and notifies me if my home power/internet goes down!
-
I modeled for swap.care, a probiotic deodorant. It works really well!
A few months ago, I trialed a new probiotic deodorant that uses GMO’ed bacteria to fight odors. It worked REALLY well. I applied the cream once and it worked very well for a week, and still had noticeable improvements to my normal body odor after a month. I did not need to use deodorant at…
-
Featured: 18 Reasons Community Porgrams Coordinator!
If you’re looking for a nice non-profit job running community cooking and nutrition classes in San Francisco, check out 18 Reasons! They’re hiring! Here I am, teaching a class of elderly seniors how to balance eating nutritiously with their various medical and health needs.
-
docker compose up -> 401 Unauthorized
I was trying to set up a new retool instance on docker when I encountered a 401 Unauthorized error: I had just signed up for a new docker account and had not verified my email yet. Docker will return 401 Unauthorized if your email is not verified. I’ve hit this issue a few times before,…
-
Can you solve this AI/Math puzzle and get a prize? I couldn’t.
I found a poster with a math puzzle that points to a reward website. I couldn’t figure it out, so maybe the prize is still available! Here it is all typed out: Stop here if you want to work on the puzzle yourself! My Breakdown Below is everything I figured out before I got stuck.…
-
Sewing Notes
-
Organizing Recipes with ML For Creative Cooking
Today, I’m sharing my recipe tracking app powered by machine learning and how it works.
-
Ideas for cheap ways to hang art up
DIY Clothespin Picture Frames Hanging Wood Frame w/ Hot Glue Jankier alternative to hanging wood frame with just tape Use a Mitre Saw Box with a hand saw to make a frame Acrylic Sheets with glue, seems a little pricey, ~$20 per sheet of for large prints and you’d need double to get front and…
-
Rover Pet Sitting Intake Questions
We pet sit dogs, cats, and chickens on Rover and use the following questions to guide our onboarding. Deal Breakers: Get to know the dog: Logistics:
-
Second Lever Puzzle in Reconquer.online
Released on July 12 2024 on the second island of Reconquer.online’s Alpha! Sequel to the first lever puzzle. Gives huge copper ingot and leather boots. These switches flip these doors: I found this puzzle really fun and encourage you to try it on paper. The solution is below but the table gives you an idea…
-
Reconquer.online Getting Started and Notes
I like this game! It’s like Old School Runescape. I’m excited to see how far this game goes. I discovered it on HackerNews and have played it for a few days now. Here’s my guide on the game, and all the notes I took to understand mechanics and stuff. Talk to the guy in front…
-
Reconquer.online Underground Door Lever Puzzle
I started playing reconquer.online‘s open alpha. In the starting map, there’s a ladder into a basement to a puzzle room where the reward is a pick axe for mining and a hatchet for logging. Probably also good as weapons but I’m unsure what the damage boost would be. It’s kind of a tough puzzle so…
-
Cloudflare encounters unknown error 520 when my host changed my IP address
So today, I got an email from Google saying they are unable to index my pages because of 5XX errors. When I visit my blog, it looks bad. My initial guess is that maybe my server is down, so I check out cpanel to see resources and server logs. Both are really low or empty.…
-
back cracking for me
-
Switching to Cloudflare because QUIC.cloud kept erroring with 403 Forbidden
I switched my CDN provider from QUIC.cloud to Cloudflare. Why? Because quic.cloud kept erroring out on me. Very suddenly around May 14 2024, I started receiving HTTP 403 Forbidden when visiting my blog. After lots of trial and error, I found that it really only stopped when I “Bypassed CDN” entirely. No amount of disabling…
-
Design Analysis in Real Life
I picked up “Be a Revolution” by Ijeoma Oluo from SFPL and absolutely hate the cover for so many reasons. First, lets’ talk about the stuff the library put on top of the book . They covered the author’s name with the barcode sticker and like 1/4 of the title with the “Lucky Day” sticker.…
-
Techniques for painting with acrylic
Acrylic is basically glue and pigment. If it’s left exposed to air, it’ll dry hard. You can peel it off but not off clothes. Store brushes and tools in water. Add retardant to prevent drying. Leave in a pile rather than smeared to prevent drying. Colors like yellow, orange, and yellow-green can be almost transparent.…