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Dec 10, 2024: It’s a sign.
Dec 6, 2024: 2024 AOC Day 5 Donzo I just completed “Print Queue” - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/… No live coding this time. …
Dec 4, 2024: 2024 AOC Day 4 - More live coding! I’ve completed “Ceres Search” - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/… Lots of fun tonight - …
Dec 2, 2024: 2024 AOC Day 3 Oops I did it again. I’ve completed “Mull It Over” - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/… …
Dec 1, 2024: 2924 AoC Day 2 I survived “Red-Nosed Reports” - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Had a lot of fun on this stream with help from the pros at the …
Dec 1, 2024: 2024 AOC Day 1 I’ve completed “Historian Hysteria” - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode I always look forward to this particular coding …
Nov 15, 2024: Election denialism. Them: storm the Capitol Us: leave that lawn sign up just a little too long.
Nov 12, 2024: Sofa Parade The district South of A Street in Santa Rosa, California is called the SOFA district. Every year they have a sofa parade. Featuring actual sofas. …
Nov 12, 2024: New Mac Day The new M4 Pro Mac mini arrived today. (Buddha for scale.) It’s so small and cute. And the internal drive is very very fast. Quiet, too.
Nov 9, 2024: My momma with her grandson’s cookbook. She’s so proud. Me, too.
Nov 9, 2024: I feel like it’s a Scooby-Do moment. The orange spook mask comes off and it’s… President Musk!
Nov 7, 2024: From Sherrilyn Ifill: Our spirits will be assaulted in the coming months – by coarse and crude language, by open displays of violence, of privilege, …
Nov 5, 2024: Now we sit and wait. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Nov 4, 2024: Oi. I feel like a moron. I tried to add a font-awesome icon to my blog title. It did not work as expected and now I’m stuck.
Nov 4, 2024: You might notice a bunch of older posts on my timeline - I’ve decided to move my blog from a self-hosted Hugo instance to micro.blog. I …
Nov 3, 2024: Let's see if this Stoot thing works... Chief TWiT :twit: @leo@twit.social I'm starting to wish Apple would add an "I've already voted …
Jan 12, 2023: Is it weird that the Advent of Code problems keep me up at night? I don’t mean I’m staying up late working on them, I mean I’m lying …
Jan 7, 2023:
Time To Ask The Tech Guys
As of Sunday, December 18, 2022, the Tech Guy radio show is no more. But starting Sunday, January 8, 2023 a new and improved show will be born: Ask …
Nov 23, 2022: Time for Windows Weekly. Listen live at live.twit.tv
Nov 23, 2022: I’m turning off my automated news feed on my micro.blog (https://leo.social). If you still want links to stories we’re planning to cover …
Nov 23, 2022: So I guess this means I have three Fediverse accounts: leo.social, @leo@twit.social, and @leolaporte@pixelfed.social. Not to mention my long abandoned …
Nov 23, 2022: Hello. I’m reconnecting my micro.blog to leo.social. I’m also @leo@twit.social.
May 21, 2022: This Old Man Roger Angell passed away yesterday at the age of 101. A long-time editor at The New Yorker, he was also the best damn baseball writer ever. His essay …
Feb 16, 2022: Is It Over? I created this site in the midst of a pandemic. Now two years later, it’s over. Right? Today mask mandates are lifted in our county and, despite …
Feb 7, 2022: Like Father, Like Son Yesterday my son showed up at the studio. I took the opportunity to interview him! Henry (or Hank as he’s known now) has become a big-time Tik Tok …
Mar 19, 2021:
Joining the PC Masterrace
I pulled the trigger on a Monster Gaming Machine. I know it’s crazy, but boys just want to have fun.
Mar 18, 2021: I Am Not Throwing Away This Shot Yesterday I got the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine! When I arrived at Kaiser they threw me a curve. “Would you like Moderna or Johnson & …
Feb 7, 2021: It's Right Against Wrong, Not Smart Against Dumb Just because someone believes in conspiracy theories, doesn’t mean they’re dumb. From an article in The New Republic: The University of …
Nov 21, 2020: An easy way out of the pandemic is available today A new study from CU Boulder (my son’s alma mater) and Harvard’s TF Chan School of Public Health points to a way forward in the pandemic. …
Nov 8, 2020: I resemble that cartoon. via Rakhim [rakhim.org/honestly-...](https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/) (UPDATE from 2024:) and here I am, moving my …
Sep 18, 2020:
How To Be "Talent"
One of our hosts asked me for some talent coaching. This is how I responded.
Aug 29, 2020: Life is Short I love Paul Graham’s essays. This one, from 2016, truly hits home. Life is short, so it’s worth eliminating the time wasters. For one, defending …
Aug 29, 2020: Stop the Insanity Normally I wait until Spring to start complaining, but I’ve gotten nothing else done this summer, so I’m going to start the campaign …
Jun 10, 2020:
Makin' Masks
New research shows that wearing masks makes a difference. But we all have to do it!
Jun 10, 2020:
RIP Joze
Last month, when the weather in Petaluma turned nice, I started riding my e-bike to work every day. Until last week.
Jun 1, 2020:
Five Years Later: The TWiT.tv Web Site
Exactly five years ago, we debuted the “new” TWiT web site. I wrote the following post shortly after. It’s buried somewhere on the …
May 28, 2020: It’s a story as old as time. Well at least as old as HG Wells… The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men …
May 28, 2020: It’s a story as old as time. Well at least as old as HG Wells… The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men …
May 22, 2020: Petaluma During the Pandemic Pictures of Petaluma during the height of the quarantine. An historic record.
May 21, 2020: Fame is a Vapor I use fortune and cowsay1 to spit out pithy sayings when I launch my terminal2. This morning’s seemed very apropos. Fame is a vapor; popularity …
Oct 10, 2018: And this is why I love living in Petaluma.
Oct 3, 2018: Definitely confused.
Sep 2, 2018: Noon In Valencia Spain Outside the beautiful cathedral. They hit the bell with a massive hammer.
Aug 30, 2018: And off we go to Barcelona.
Aug 25, 2018: Oops. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…
Aug 25, 2018: Come control robots in our studio live. letsrobot.tv/robocaste… Watch from the other end live on the New Screensavers. TWiT.tv/live
Aug 25, 2018: Am I misunderstanding something @manton? Leo.micro.blog has everything I post. Micro.blog/Leo does not.
Aug 25, 2018: Micro.blog Conundrum I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. …
Aug 25, 2018: Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.
Aug 25, 2018: Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.
Aug 25, 2018: brew install bat alias cat=‘bat’ mind = blown remysharp.com/2018/08/2…
Aug 25, 2018: Spent an excellent Friday with Apple legend Bill Atkinson. We talked for five hours about Lisa, Macintosh, Hypercard, psychedelics, the Iboga ritual. …
Aug 23, 2018: Drat. I keep accidentally posting the micro.blog token when enabling Drafts. (@agiletortoise does Drafts eat the token before it posts to micro.blog? …
Aug 23, 2018: So I’m using Drafts on my Apple Watch to post this to microblog. Does that count as crossing the streams @agiletortoise?
Aug 23, 2018: Checking in.
Aug 23, 2018: First! A first attempt to use Microcast audio micro.blogging.
Aug 23, 2018: Hey @manton - when did you add audio micro.blogging? Great idea! I shall try it forthwith.
Aug 6, 2018: Two updates: Looks like mastodon.network has folder, and quitter.no is going away in September. So I’m moving my GNU.social account to …
Jun 9, 2018: Twitter is a breeding ground for madness Lately I feel like Twitter and its users are suffering from some sort of mass psychosis. It’s all id - to use a Freudian term. And it’s …
Dec 31, 2017: Hey! I can use the iOS Drafts app to micro.blog, too. That’s cool.
May 5, 2017: Happy Cinco de Mayo! Not a fast day - a feast day! El Roy’s Taco Truck here I come! …
Apr 29, 2017: How do i change posting time from UTC to my local time?
Apr 29, 2017: Posting from my micro.blog to Android using the web site seems to work fine. Markdown works but not photos.
Apr 28, 2017: I’m trying to figure out a good workflow for micro-blog. I’m writing this in Mars Edit. It will should post to my micro.blog (leo.social) and since …
Apr 28, 2017: And, of course, as soon as I pledge my fealty to the Pixel, google announces it’s cutting me off in a year. ;-( …
Apr 28, 2017: So if I post from leo.social (backend provided by micro.blog) does it go to @leolaporte on Twitter? Only one way to find out…
Apr 28, 2017: Y’know. I was all excited about the Samsung Galaxy S8+, but after using it for a couple of weeks I think I’m going back to the Pixel. …
Apr 28, 2017: Posting from iOS now. Easy as a Sunday morning.
Apr 28, 2017: Hey, check it out! My new micro.blog is live. Thanks, Manton! Next step - link it to https://leolaporte.com.