Archive

2026

October

  1. The 404 page for Road Sign Math is a work of art. 🤩
  2. My Makerspace is officially zoned. 🤓
  3. Happy Halloween! This year in addition to candy we are…
  4. Dynamic Link Previews for Linking Things
  5. Wrong Wicks
  6. Road Sign Math: The Dream Realized!
  7. Candle making: wax + scent + weigh everything.
  8. Love that Changelog is bringing my Upcoming events from…
  9. Our last United game of the season. Go Loons!
  10. I’ve moved all my DNS zones from Namecheap to AWS (still…
  11. WT354 — A museum for nnxyz art
  12. Making candles for the 2026 Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser!
  13. Release Notes on a map!
  14. Gratitude wall at Falls Coffee. Nice.
  15. It make me irrationally annoyed when the junk drawer has…
  16. Red leaves. 🍂
  17. Melting wax to pour some candles. I’ve made over a thousand…
  18. After flipping to my own custom theme for my blog I was able…
  19. Phishing Fear
  20. Release Notes gets Badges
  21. My agent Otto started on OpenClaw and is now running on…
  22. I’m happy with how Linking Things turned out. I’ve tried…
  23. Worked with Claude today and created Linking Things! I…
  24. This weekend marked the 23rd annual Olson Family Vacation!…
  25. It is fun to explore new card shops in different cities so…
  26. Card shop stop for Pokémon at Spitty’s Cards.
  27. Morning coffee with a nice fire.
  28. I’m bartending tonight.
  29. Fire tower walk in Pequot Lakes. My fear of heights kept me…
  30. Tammy had these amazing trophies made for the inaugural…
  31. I added a new Upcoming feature to Release Notes: Release…
  32. The nnxyz rooms
  33. We saw Sting tonight at the Orpheum. It was really cool to…
  34. Years ago I purchased three collections of art by nnxyz on…
  35. Cold and rainy weather put a damper on the evening but it…
  36. Great time connecting with BigCharts alumni Steve Sutherland…
  37. Whitman on Walls!
  38. My Maker Space is now in a totally workable and ready spot!
  39. WT353 — Release Notes for Every Day
  40. We took Tammy’s Mom to her first MN United game! It looked…
  41. A world that doesn’t need new software is a world without…
  42. In 2018 I wrote about Your Version Number. A few months ago…
  43. Thingy, my digital librarian, got a big improvement this…
  44. We got to watch the US Men’s National Team take on Canada…
  45. Weekly Thing Archive Improved
  46. mb 2.0 with MCP support
  47. I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last…
  48. Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon…
  49. Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my…
  50. We went to BRKTHROUGH tonight and tried out their various…
  51. My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and…
  52. Today is that sad day when I take the boat in to be put in…
  53. Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo.…
  54. Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. The engineering…
  55. It was great to connect with the Twin Cities tech community…

September

  1. Oh no — I’ve used all my tokens! 😬 And I did successfully…
  2. We got the very last of the available Pokémon 30th…
  3. Happy Clash Royale cake day to me! 🎉
  4. I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been…
  5. I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a…
  6. The Radish Farm Stop opened a couple blocks from our house…
  7. I guess I’m getting my money’s worth for my $200 Claude Max…
  8. It still gives me a big grin when you open a model and then…
  9. Easy mission: I will use all $250 of these free Claude…
  10. We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. Fun movie with plenty…
  11. This most recent issue of Arena all about Software looks…
  12. Weekly Thing Podcast Improvements
  13. The reward for sending the first issue of your newsletter…
  14. Some screenshots of my WT Builder custom app to create…
  15. I just published Weekly Thing 350 which is notably the very…
  16. Building and Puzzling about Software
  17. Delicious Black Krim tomatoes from my friend Eric. 🍅
  18. Nice lunch for SPS Tower tenants today.
  19. The four bracket winning teams from our 8th annual Team SPS…
  20. Kicking off the 8th annual Team SPS Kubb Tournament with a…
  21. Out There: A National Parks Story
  22. Cool and windy for a boat ride but the swim parkas made it…
  23. Sugar at First Avenue tonight!
  24. I’ve had Claude working on a new project and since I have…
  25. After 20 hours in the sous vides it is time for a final…
  26. I’ve always taken July and August off of publishing the…
  27. Gentle wind pushing mist across the lake this morning.
  28. I’m ready to call Thingy complete! Thingy is the agent that…
  29. Otto upgraded to OpenClaw 2. I had a super rocky start with…
  30. Jaunty Hair by Josh Ellis
  31. Tyler has been a fan of AJR for a while now and last night…
  32. I had an idea to “flip” Elixir, the Clash Royale agent I…
  33. One of our favorite treats at the Minnesota State Fair —…

August

  1. Watching The Long Honeymoon at Lake Harriet bandshell. My…
  2. State Fair Food Log: Elote Tots Muffin Top Mini Donuts Sweet…
  3. The lines at the Minnesota State Fair are getting very…
  4. Starting our day at the Minnesota State Fair! Peachey’s…
  5. Closest I came to a selfie with Brandi Carlile at today’s…
  6. Love that Jim Mitchell created this new IndieWeb is Punk…
  7. Great coffee this morning at Johnson Public House in…
  8. Departing CDG on way to MSP! ✈️
  9. Porto 2026 — Day 2
  10. Porto 2026 — Day 1
  11. Porto at night. View from our Airbnb.
  12. Pasteis de Nata.