This book was recommended to me by Mike Shaver a couple years ago and I only just now got around to reading it. Carlos has made it freely available, which is nice. | Continue reading
I watched this on the plane ride from L.A. to Chicago as part of our way home from New Zealand. It was a layover that originally was planned to be 3 hours but then chance and LA wildfires turned that into 55 minutes. We had to disembark the first plane, go through US Customs, pic … | Continue reading
Returning to enjoy the ocean and the views. | Continue reading
A surfer town with a view of the jungle. | Continue reading
A city pressed by wind between the hills and the sea. | Continue reading
I’d forgotten how beautiful Monument Valley makes the rest of the world seem as you play it through. #games | Continue reading
A mountain lake town where you can walk between the hot springs and the redwoods. | Continue reading
A modern city built between the volcanoes and the sea. | Continue reading
My brother recommended me this book years ago and then again this fall so I picked it up to read on a long flight. It’s lovely, blooming writing on tennis, colored by David Foster Wallace’s own ego. It imbues you with love the the action and appreciation for the effort of profess … | Continue reading
Constant, cutting contrast. Vines trained to cover a barbed wire wall. Clean clothes dried by wind carrying human ash. A girl hides gift apples in a field of murder. Gunshots heard through the laughter of a party. One can hope they realized what the future held. | Continue reading
And interactive art piece, counting care | Continue reading
Hacked something together yesterday | Continue reading
This was incredibly uncomfortable to watch. But once you start on its journey, it compels you to follow it through. And I think it is worth the effort. Felt like the first season of True Detective but set in Pennsylvania. Jakey G’s performance was a highlight. A lesson/reminder t … | Continue reading
Archiving and syndicating Bluesky posts to my site | Continue reading
It’s a jazz duet between a dirtbag and the wife he destroyed that culminates into an amazing ending. The cinematography feels like a stage play in a wonderful way. | Continue reading
I remember watching this in theaters when it released and remember being awestruck by the performances of the family and remember being gripped by the gruesome twists of the metaphorical knife. On a re-watch, I was amazed as I traced the pieces of the story weave their way into a … | Continue reading
In the same line as Apple Music Replay 2024 and Strava Year in Sport 2024 I used git-wrapped to generate a 2024 review of my commits on GitHub. I’m pretty sure this only includes my public repository contributions (not my contributions for Shopify work). If it had, the contributi … | Continue reading
I think I can build a spaced repetition system on my own site that can replace the one I use on Readwise right now. It’s not that I dislike the Readwise tooling, it’s that it doesn’t include all of my writing/notes (e.g. blog posts) and the highlights in Readwise don’t have all t … | Continue reading
Cross-posting From Letterboxd to Jekyll https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/crossposting-from-letterboxd-to-jekyll | Continue reading
Strava Year in Sport 2024 https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/strava-year-in-sport-2024 | Continue reading
The First Omen https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/watching/letterboxd-review-738439039-the-first-omen | Continue reading
Apple Music Replay 2024 https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/listening/apple-music-replay-2024 | Continue reading
I want to meet the movie-lovers where they are, so I’m going to try writing my movie journal on Letterboxd. I have friends there already. Unfortunately, Letterboxd doesn’t have an API to post from my site into it, so I have to post there and pull them in here. | Continue reading
Just like my Apple Music year-in-review, Strava wants to give me an annual aggregation before the year is done. But here are their highlights (which I feel must be incorrect, because I know I hiked more than 25 miles - double that in the Cirque trip alone!): | Continue reading
This review may contain spoilers. I clocked the twist as soon as she got to the convent, but that didn't make it any less fun. I enjoyed some of the frames and camera work, but each time the scary started to ramp up, it seemed to settle back down. It reminded me a lot of Saint Ma … | Continue reading
Bluesky’s AT Protocol and client app has some interesting choices. One of them is that links inside posts don’t get unfurled into previews/cards. So when I started syndicating links to my posts to Bluesky, they didn’t really look like much: just truncated blue text. Because every … | Continue reading
With all my recent outward posting and inward importing of my writing on various platforms, I should write down how I’m planning all of this. Otherwise, it could get messy: POSSE and PESOS jangling noisily. | Continue reading
Archiving and syndicating Mastodon posts in Jekyll | Continue reading
@macallik One year later, are you still doing these check-ins? https://federation.network/notes/9lje23q71tgh02d7 When I was working at a startup as the only engineer, I would walk around the building to find other engineers in other companies and spend lunch with them to get some … | Continue reading
I have been writing my movie reviews on my personal site but I doubt anyone is reading them. Instead, I need to make sure they publish somewhere that people will read them. I want people to engage with them, after all. | Continue reading
A man broken by war rides a boat of soldiers up a river to kill another man broken by war. In the process, all of his companions are killed, and they kill hundreds of innocent people they see on the way. | Continue reading
I’ve gone back - these past couple weeks - to waking up with an hour or two to myself before work. I love how I’ve been feeling, but it shouldn’t be a surprise: I’m a morning person. | Continue reading
This morning I figured out how to set up my preferred font (IBM Plex Sans) on the Boox Palma! I had to use their Boox Drop app (websites accessible on LAN are still amazing to me) and upload the font files from my computer, but now I’ve got it working like a charm. | Continue reading
A friend of a friend recommended Too Good To Go to me last week and it’s right up my alley. I ordered - for the first time - today a whole bag of croissants from the French bakery down the street and they taste great for a great price! | Continue reading
One of the things I want to do as I continue to embed myself in my personal site is use it to - in whatever small way - help others. | Continue reading
And also connected my mechanical keyboard to the device via bluetooth. I’m thinking this might be a fun way to journal and draft things away from other distractions and maybe outside in the sun. | Continue reading
Just like how I set up cross-posting to Mastodon for this site (to ensure that I am publishing on my own site and syndicating elsewhere: POSSE), I have now set up cross-posting from this site to my Bluesky account. Workflow It’s basically the same sequence of steps, just dancing … | Continue reading
A lovely heartfelt self-discovery film for kids. My favorite character was her cat companion - they animated his jumps better than any I’ve seen before. For some reason, it was really comforting to me that the witches exist in the regular world and have regular world problems lik … | Continue reading
I spent last night reactivating my micro.blog account and trying to run some imports of my Jekyll posts from my main site. I had been seduced again by the amazing simplicity and synergy of micro.blog. I want writing tools that I can use easily on my laptop and on my phone and on … | Continue reading
Another really fun Caribou show. | Continue reading
Switching to basic lights | Continue reading
Christian Mackie is my coworker at Shopify. He’s also a prolific photographer, and one I admire because of how he is able to package his work. | Continue reading
I was reflecting on my post about Working In Public and I realized that I haven’t made and open source contribution to a project in many months now. I mean, I still am an active member of the [F]OSS community- I still operate over a dozen active libraries and tools and services a … | Continue reading
I’m feeling sick this morning because Trump was re-elected. Any large group has incoherent and mentally unwell people among it. Usually, the majority of us focus on helping them. We work with them to come back to a shared understanding of what’s true about the world and common va … | Continue reading
My friend Ned lent me this photo book for the week and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The photos are well-crafted, and the author details exactly how he crafted them. What’s better than that in a photo book? The foreword, written by his son (who helped teach a photography class with hi … | Continue reading
I publish posts on this site first - Publish On Site Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE). I want this site to be the canonical source of my writing, the one true place for people (and myself) to read my notes and posts. Social networks come and go, but my site remains. But I want to get … | Continue reading
I bought tickets to this show back in June when Bill told me they were coming to Chicago. At the time, the band had only released two songs and I like them, so I bought in. The week of the show, Bill almost backed out. But we were able to make the timing work. We showed up and tu … | Continue reading