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 BadgesMy 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.
It is fun to explore new card shops in different cities so we stopped by RipCity as we were passing through St. Cloud. We found some nice cards. Recommended!
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!
Card shop stop for Pokémon at Spitty’s Cards.
Morning coffee with a nice fire.
I’m bartending tonight.
Fire tower walk in Pequot Lakes. My fear of heights kept me firmly on the ground.
