The Den of Nurdage

More interesting stuff than I thought this month. Lots of articles plus some good new music releases. Reading We’re continuing through Salamandastron in our Redwall reads, and finding a bit more time to read with summer schedule. Katabasis I had heard great things about this one and had finally put it on hold at the library. I really enjoyed it a lot (ignore that I technically finished it…

Catching up on this post that I have had sitting in drafts for the last few weeks. Life, uh, got in the way. After watching the keynote (Mastodon thread) and the Platforms SOTU (thread), I was overall pleasantly surprised by what they presented. It sounds like the 27 OSes are going to be a lot of clean up, a Snow Leopard year, “sweating the details”. Wishlist First, a quick review of how my…

Basically everything from my wishlist last year still holds, especially around Photos. Unfortunately the one-two of Apple Intelligence in 2025 and Liquid Glass in 2025means that this year is likely to be a mix of cleanup and trying to deliver on those original promises. A lot of my list is framed in terms of how much of my personal computing life is on iOS, because it’s the computer I have with…

Yes, haha, yes!! The Pike Place car ban makes for a much nicer pedestrian experience walking from the shops across the street into the main market.

A very cool microshelter site is going in on that weird triangular lot behind Whole Foods and across from the Seattle Animal Shelter. It appears to be using Pallet S2 Sleeper 70 units, which have gone up very rapidly. I’m excited to see Mayor Wilson work to fulfill her promises. Of course people who can see it from the hillside are Very Concerned over on NextDoor. Not sure where they think they…

I just think they’re neat. Watching them move about through the roof emergency exit of a New Flyer XT40 1 bus