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A parenting challenge I'm experiencing for the 2nd time: 9-year-old boy monologues. Both attempting to understand them, then either develop or feign interest in them, then trying to extract oneself from them.

An oldie but goodie: "The epistemology of software quality"

increment.com/teams/the-epistemology-of-software-quality/

Fk TX

Got some good advice about preparing vs acting, that seemingly universal dilemma / balancing act:

"If you don't wait until you're prepared you will do the same things [you've done before] that don't work."

So. JS-bloated web pages have crashed my computer 3 times now. (I'm back on my small but plenty beefy Ubuntu desktop now.)

1. Notion running in Firefox
2. Notion running in Brave
I believe both of these were while trying to edit a metadata value on a page.
3. ADPList, just loading a page

I guess I will start by googling why it is crashing my entire computer and not just the browser(s). Both are installed through the snap store, so in theory are sandboxed (or whatever?)

Went to Smashing Pumpkins tonight, caught Interpol opening. Both were bad. Embarrassingly bad.

When I raced road bikes as an under 18 in the early 90's, my team trained at an office park loop starting at 6pm. The office workers had largely gone home at that point, leaving the road mostly free for our training. That's not really an option in 2023.

Ha! My own filter hid my post.

As far as I can tell, all local advocacy is being organized on Facebook, Instagram, and very out-of-date GoDaddy websites. There is a bicycling organization here and the only information I can find about their activities is in IG reels I just happen to see because I am on that platform (I wish I wasn't but it's the best way for me to see the photos my wife takes--a technological failure story for another post). I guess I am going to transcribe the info from the reel?

There are a dozen girls in our neighborhood going into middle school (including my daughter). The moms organized a gathering this morning and we're going to walk them part way (our neighborhood is next to our middle and high schools). There's a bridge over a creek and we're going to wave goodbye as they cross the bridge. It's a little cheesy and a little awesome and quite the scene at 7:45 am.