Gratitude wall at Falls Coffee. Nice.
Hi, I’m Jamie.
I write here about technology, AI, the open web, photography and family. Every weekend I send a letter with the things I read and thought about during the week.
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Red leaves. 🍂
Melting wax to pour some candles. I’ve made over a thousand candles at this point but because we only do it once a year I always feel like I have no idea what I’m doing when we start pouring. Good thing I learned to keep good notes with weights! Let the candle making begin!
After flipping to my own custom theme for my blog I was able to ship something I’ve wanted for a very long time: all of my personal sites are now connected with a navigation header at the very top of the page. For the first time it is easy to jump from site to site!
Ask Thingy
Ask me about coffee, kubb, or two decades of links.
Phishing Fear
Well done phishing campaign just landed in my inbox. This one gave me a pause and smartly goes after a “fear” motive. Did someone just compromise my account? That anxiety could lead to a quick login attempt and complete takeover. The info@rumpunch.io from address was easy to spot …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Phishing FearRelease Notes gets Badges
I decided to have some fun and I added badges to my Your Version Number: Release Notes project. Some specifics on how they work: Your birthday is a release and every day is a patch, so badges speak release engineering, with tiers from alpha through beta, rc and stable to LTS. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Release Notes gets BadgesAnother Thing · my podcast
Another Thing
Ways to listenMy agent Otto started on OpenClaw and is now running on ChatGPT dot. I asked the dot instance if it wanted to update it’s profile photo. The dot version is lighter and a bit more friendly. Otto also shed the black leather jacket for a cardigan.
I’m happy with how Linking Things turned out. I’ve tried this effort before and it never landed right, this one did. See more about it. I also gave it an MCP server so I can have Claude dig around in my links. And Thingy has them too.
Worked with Claude today and created Linking Things! I publish links every week in the Weekly Thing but I’ve never had a site that provides my entire archive of over 16,000 links to search and browse. Plus the stats page is awesome. 😎 Also see the project page.
This weekend marked the 23rd annual Olson Family Vacation! It was our year to plan it and Tammy put together a wonderful weekend of fun including a ghost hunt, walk to the fire tower, the Grandpa Don games, Rafferty’s pizza, exploring Nisswa and Baxter, “The Game”, and me bartending!
