Good data visualizations showing ICE presence versus police in Twin Cities area.
Software Development
MnTech Outlook 2026
Interesting comments on big goals for their organizations and the community this morning at MnTech Outlook 2026. Some observations: No surprise that AI and transformation was top of everyone’s list. Pratt: “we are going to have a reduction in our white collar workforce” Tomes …
Keep reading · 1 minute: MnTech Outlook 2026I love the words play and tinker.
It is very important for me to have projects that I can play and tinker with.
Thankfully I have more than enough of them. 😆
Gall’s Law
I was listening to The Omni Show — How Jorge Arango Uses OmniFocus. It was an overall good episode and at the end Arango shared a reference to Gall’s Law. I had not heard of this before so I looked it up: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Gall's LawThings 4 Good Five Year Impact
We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for five years. With the amazing support of this community we have raised $31,787 for non-profits! Thank you so much. This year was an incredible jump from last year selling 321 candles! ❤️ Last year we did the first day of the …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Things 4 Good Five Year ImpactThings 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Insights
We have wrapped up the 5th annual Candle Fundraiser. I’m proud to say that we raised $9,048 in donations! That is a $2,000 jump (29.1%) from last year’s results. Amazing! Last year we made 252 candles and we sold out on Sunday. This year we sold 321 candles and only had 10 …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser InsightsPlausible Analytics Plug-in for Micro.blog
I’ve been using Plausible Analytics for over a year and have been using the Plausible Analytics Plug-in created by @lukas to add it to my blog. It hasn’t been updated for a long time and the embed code, while still working, is very outdated. I finally decided to take a few …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Plausible Analytics Plug-in for Micro.blogDrive-thru metrics. Needs some sparklines. Too many numbers, not enough easy to read lines.
Blogging with Messages
Conversation named "Blogging with Messages". Me Hey Matt, An ask for Tiny Theme new feature to consider. There is a general case where I would like to blog and include a conversation. Two examples: Mimicking a back and forth in Messages Sharing a dialog with an AI and the back …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Blogging with MessagesI upgraded to ChatGPT Pro a couple months ago and it has been amazing. Now I upgraded to Claude Max as well, mostly because Claude Code is that useful. I use both for research, ChatGPT is way better for images and creative. Claude for building projects and executing things. Incredible stuff. 👨💻