Notes from my week.
- Did a proper fresh install of Windows 11 on my desktop. Hopefully this will clear up some of the lingering issues I was having, probably from changing hardware quite a bit over the past year or two.
- One of the primary uses for my Windows desktop is running my Plex server. Getting this set up after reformatting was actually pretty easy since I now keep the Plex server files on a separate drive. All I needed to do was add a Windows registry key.
- Trying out Fig. Looks cool so far.
- Our kids got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It wasn’t perfect, but it went better than we expected (and certainly better than their drive-thru flu shots last month).
Links
- Fenway Sports Group in advanced talks to purchase Pittsburgh Penguins, source says
- Marvel reveals Disney Plus slate including Agatha: House of Harkness and Spider-Man: Freshman Year
- Metaverse, schmetaverse — take me to the Icelandverse
- Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
- 1Password 8 arrives on Windows with a new design and big performance improvements — Lots of people in the comments pointing out that 1Password is an Electron app now, so we’ll see what that does to the performance going forward.
- Brave built its own crypto wallet into its browser
- The Dutch Angle
- 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet
- Winners of the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
- I got 99 grammar problems and Oxford commas ain’t one
- Julia: A Documentary Film About Julia Child
- Where the Rich Use Public Transportation…
- New Ice Age movie coming from Disney Studios, not Blue Sky
- Baymax is bay-back in the first trailer for Disney Plus’ Baymax
- How to clean your earbuds
- What do you get for using a search input type?
- Streamlabs will drop ‘OBS’ name after getting called out by open-source app
- That ‘real’ Disney lightsaber? You’ll never get to touch it
- Zero Trickery Custom Radios and Checkboxes
- 7 advanced workflow automation features with GitHub Actions
- Spider-Man: No Way Home’s latest trailer brings back all the bad guys
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 489: Landing Web Clients, Native App vs Web App, and Dave Wants LinkedIn Friends
- Syntax — 404: Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski
- Syntax — 405: Hasty Treat – Next.js 12
- Syntax — 406: Potluck — Copilot × Glasses × Databases × Dealing with Stress × Employment vs Self-Employment × Auth in GraphQL × Headless CMS × More!
- Puck Soup — Jack Eichel, Traded
- Puck Soup — Image Rehab
- One Footer in the Grave — 5: Mary’s gone blind. Again
Reading
Watched
- Avengers: Infinity War
- The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
- NHL: Penguins-Sabres
- NHL: Penguins-Canadiens
- Last Week Tonight
- Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Bluey
- NCAA football: K-State-Baylor
- The Shrink Next Door
- NFL: Chiefs-Cowboys
- Wrath of Man
Played
- Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4/PS5)