It’s been a few weeks since I last got one of these out. Life has been busy. In short:
- I had a week of work meetings and long days a plane ride away from home.
- My sister-in-laws mother (who lived about a 45 min drive from us) passed away so we hosted my brother and his family for a weekend.
- Some wild weather happened in these parts (thankfully not impacting us) but the week of we had a new roof put on our house which made it a concern.
I think personally it’s been challenging figuring out how and what to write with everything going on (said while waving hands wildly). A big part is wrestling with some new-to-me info and how it affects day-to-day life. In short I took the AQ test a couple of months ago because we’ve been exploring at some point getting one of my kids officially tested and it’s known to be genetic. So…I took that initial test and got a really high score. Honestly I think it surprised no one (myself included); it’s been a running family joke that my grandfather was probably undiagnosed AS and that I favored him strongly. Seeing the score is different than joking about the possibility though. On some days I feel all the better for it and others broken and unsure what to do (other than knowing for sure I’m not interested in paying lots of money for an official diagnosis). I’m pretty sure the latter is just my head/heart/feelings catching up to my body which is a process (especially I think for people that score high on this type of test); I can’t really compartmentalize in the same way I used to. Anyways - it all makes writing more difficult. Although it’d probably be therapeutic to write a bit more.
Since the last one of these reviews I wrote about…
- A new project I’m working on that’s going great! And also makes a ton of sense in light of what I shared above.
- Some thoughts on hurricane Helene and the inherent complexity in addressing it caused by the modern age.
Links worth checking out:
- Self-hosted solar-powered website. Pretty neat and lots of possible applications.
- Kagi, by default, downranks sites with lots of AI generated content and lets you specific exclude AI images from image searches. Find out more here.
- I’m so jealous of all those that got to go to Furnace Fest. A big quarterly work meeting kept me from attending but I love this writeup on the even from John.
- In news that shouldn’t shock any one, LLMs don’t do formal reasoning.
- Annie is a blogger with great ideas for encouraging blogging. Looking forward to seeing how these challenges develop!
- Lou on an appreciation challenge. Over the last few months I’ve tried to do this more in the context of Mastodon but don’t know if it works due to lack of understanding of social clues.
- Annie writes a letter to friends and family thinking of voting for Trump. Definitely worth a read.
What I’ve Watched
- Agatha All Along - Tons of fun, surprisingly.
- Nobody Wants This - We are about half way thru and it’s been surprisingly good
- Abbott Elementary - This one’s always great.
What I’ve Listened To
