It’s going to be in the 70s later today in Houston on New Year’s Eve. Some time in the last couple days I think they clicked over a full year without a freezing temperature. Now that we’re only here during the winter every few years, you can really tell the difference.

Rainy Christmas morning with our star lantern we bought in Berlin years ago finally hanging over my little corner desk.

Didn’t have my suitcase for a week, but it finally arrived so I have a couple of days to lock in some sea level miles before going back to Santa Fe.

Finally trying out Lingon X to run some periodic scripts from my basement server.

Working on long-term personal projects on a rainy Christmas weekend in Belgium, and Gitlens is showing me 364, 365 days since I last touched any of this code. Tradition.

My body appears to be much happier when I spend my days standing and circling, rather than sitting and typing. Hmm.

Feel this from Robin Sloan’s most recent newsletter

Fun to see Graham while reading my Kottke.org feed in this random hotel breakfast room in Carlsbad, NM as the sun comes up. Cool Old Songs: Graham Smith, a.k.a. Kleenex Girl Wonder

Finally taking the day to build my AxiDraw MiniKit

I bought my upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 11 this morning, and it occurred to me to check: I’ve been buying software from Peter Lewis for about 25 years. (I remember the Anarchie to Interarchy switch, but don’t recall when I bought my first license.)

Quiet snowy day with a sick kid at home. Longhorns came on mute on my iPad while I work on some long brewing Keyboard Maestro automation ideas.

Was just startled by a sound at my office window which turned out to be a buck knocking his antlers against the glass. Too bad he wandered off into the snow-covered trees before I could grab my camera.

Had a busy day with work and kid home from school for a snow day, but I did get out for a run this morning for the first big dump of the season. 4.5 miles and by myself in the city almost the whole time.

We launched the current version of The Public Domain Review (the first version I worked on) four years ago today.

No snow on the ground for my run this morning, but sunrise reflecting off snow in the mountains for first time on walk to school this morning will suffice.

Just went back and forth with GPT-4 a couple of times to refine a pretty complex phone number validation regex, and I’m starting to buy in.

Second proper snowfall in as many weeks. Hoping this one will stick, and I’ll have my first snowy morning run of the season tomorrow morning.

Sunset viewing from the Cross of the Martyrs with mariachi horns coming up from the Plaza

My local coffee shop Downtown Subscription is currently showing these beautiful relief wood carvings by Ivan Dimitrov, who’s currently an instructor at the Santa Fe Community College woodworking program.

Last night was the cassette release for the Music for Harry Smith by True Believers project at Lost Padre Records. Son didn’t last too long, but it was nice to be out in the evening here. Met Andrew Weathers and complimented him on his work and Full Spectrum Records.

Santa Fe Half Marathon finisher medal is by far the most attractive I’ve ever gotten.

Sitting on the deck on our third morning in the house in Santa Fe after a morning thunderstorm, smelling the cedar and pines on the air. Making a list of chores to do before the first day of school tomorrow.

Running the calibre content server on my basement server in the States has been an absolute delight while in Belgium this summer. Think I’ll just keep using all my e-books this way from Santa Fe in the upcoming year as well rather than bother with having them locally.

An afternoon spent updating a bunch of Lambda functions that have been humming along without issue for 2 years and more to cover a small authentication change makes for a very high stress-to-intellectual engagement ratio.

Looking forward running at altitude with our upcoming year in Santa Fe. Put my registrations in today for Santa Fe Half Marathon and Albuquerque Marathon this fall. Denver on the calendar for next May.

Morning work hours this week looking across the river to Echternach, Luxembourg

Today is the last day of our fundraiser at Public Domain Review. Just hit our goal of 250 new Friends of the PDR members. publicdomainreview.org/support

Encountered the ‘word’ “BoFu” for the first time this morning. Sometimes client projects open a window on new worlds.

I’m already using another OH no Type Company font for this project, but am very, very tempted to switch over to Casserole, new to me this morning…

Finally making real progress with figuring out how to deploy a massive site on Netlify with Gatsby 5. Been stuck on 3 for a long time while I’ve taken baby steps through these migration issues.

Hundreds of e-books getting de-DRMed and organized in Calibre on first day of my quarantine. Who knows what other thrilling projects await?

Finally caught COVID. Time to see what I can make happen with a few quiet days of quarantine.

Drove into Asheville today to meet Alse at Burial later in the afternoon. Doing some tourism beforehand centered around a trip to Harvest Records. Walking up and down Haywood Rd. I found the Firestorm co-op bookstore which is absolutely wonderful.

Listening to Core Intuition and excited to hear Manton seem to brighten up when webhooks come up as a solution to the Twitter debacle, mentioning the users (including me) who have who have already asked for support for custom webhooks in the crossposting on Micro.blog. Will make my life so much easier on some of my personal site updates I’m working on.

Very stoked on the new Content Collections API, but I have some incredibly long and deeply nested JSON files that I’m not thrilled about having to redefine in YAML.

Enjoying recent ‘Stretching to Infinity’ from Seattle’s Reverse Death. Psychedelic folk and drones from sleepy pianos and flute over fingerpicked guitars.

My newest innovation in posting avoidance is adding content to my unpublished personal website revamp which may never see the light of day.

Events of the last few days have spurred me to finally write a little script to go through and resolve all of the t.co links in our PDR social media archive to their real target URLs for future-proofing.

A few good short runs in a row these last couple weeks, but I think I should release myself from the pressure of the spring marathon season and hope for an easy, full recovery before starting to prep for the fall.

I pause for a moment while setting up annual Todoist billing in January for fear that future me will be disappointed that this was related to some lame New Year’s Resolution. I swear to him it’s not.

Back in Ohio after several weeks away in Belgium and North Carolina. Kid back in school tomorrow. There’s lots of client work to catch up on, but I can feel the space for returning to personal projects approaching.

Pulled out Jesse Grosjean’s Bike Outliner this morning to untangle a cascade of feature feedback/questions and to organize my answers.