The Oura Ring detected I was sick before I did. This is what my 2nd round of COVID looked like as it started. It also noted elevated sleeping heart rate.

Bar chart showing body temperature deviation in Fahrenheit with a spike to roughly plus 2 degrees Fahrenheit during a COVID illness period.

What must be the worst holidays for dogs: Independence Day and loud fireworks, Halloween and frequent doorbell ringing.

Happy Halloween! Thingelstad pumpkins for 2022!

Two carved jack-o-lanterns glowing on stone porch steps beside a white column, with several small uncarved pumpkins grouped on the lower step.Two glowing carved jack-o-lanterns on stone steps beside decorative gourds in orange, yellow, and pale green

🎃.⌐◨-◨

Carved jack-o-lantern on brick porch steps beside seven small uncarved pumpkins of various shapes and colors.

We made another 90 Things 4 Good candles today for a total of 180 ready for the Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser!

Roughly 90 handmade candles in colorful cylindrical containers with wooden wicks arranged on a wooden table. Dozens of colorful handmade candles with wooden wicks arranged on a wood table alongside pouring pitchers, a scale, and paper towels.

I decided to give Reddit another try. In 2015 I deleted my account. Reddit hasn’t clicked with me, but I want to give it another go. I created a r/WeeklyThing community, which I think could be interesting there. I’ve found r/candlemaking fun. 🙂

Making Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil is way faster and just easier. We made twice the candles in much less time versus multiple double boilers.

It is also a win that we can make them inside. Last years cooled outside and that can be too fast and cause tunneling.

Dozens of colorful candles in various container colors arranged in rows on a wood table, each with a wooden wick

We are doing our very first round of Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil. This thing can take a lot of wax! This is going to make candle production much faster.

Large blocks of solid white wax stacked inside a stainless steel brewing kettle with gallon and litre measurement markings BrewZilla 35L neoprene-jacketed Digiboil electric brewing kettle sitting on a wooden crate in a garage.

Sign a Message to Verify an Ethereum Address

Cats Will Eat You posed a question on Twitter that I found interesting:

What’s the easiest/free way to validate someone owns a wallet address?

Easiest way to do this that I know is to have the person sign a message with the address and send it to you. I used MyCrypto Sign Message to connect to my wallet and sign a message. This gives a signature:

{
  "address": "0x2BdA946a7740b1dDB0fd5C226819170c4DD15720",
  "msg": "This message is from thingelstad.eth!",
  "sig": "0x0827e88dce80cc03769aa34005f1d693be0247aecd433b49d6fa068df9965bde20047da38ac4aa0e51b6b914fd39b225843fa938817a0ced0a04b47a55b8b99e1c",
  "version": "2"
}

Take that message and use the Verify Message tool and confirm that it was signed by that wallet. 🪄

Since upgrading to macOS Ventura I can no longer launch Safari using LaunchBar. I’m constantly launching the wrong thing. I don’t get why LaunchBar wont index Safari. Works same as always for every other app. 😬