Hi, I’m Chuck Grimmett.
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Pretty soon Cloudflare will block all crawlers just to make you pay to use their crawler.
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I added a new photo to the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Chronolog.
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I haven’t tied much this winter, but the prospect of some rain and warmer weather melting the snow and ice has me hopeful for getting out on the water. Tied some peacock body little black stoneflies with CDC wings, and some glass bead dark sakasa kebari.
Planning to tie some BWO comparaduns and CDC midges next. Can you tell I’m eager for dry fly season? -
The Little Free Library I put up in 2024 is still doing great! The three of us walked over and each put in a couple books. Glad to see it was pretty full with good books.
Links I like
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Alternative to WPackagist now that private equity-driven WPEngine snapped it up.
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This post is reminiscent of the weekly internal posts Toni wrote during his most recent stint at Automattic as acting CEO while Matt was on sabbatical. Toni’s open communication is one of his many strengths.
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Likes Studying with Ludwig Lachmann by .
My favorite quote from Lachmann’s Capital and Its Structure:
Such are the pleasures of generalization for those who do not stop to reflect upon the intrinsic differences of the objects of their manipulations.
Page 88, if I recall.
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I love the ::after link icon Alan added. I’m going to add this into the main plugin.
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Likes BullshitBench Viewer.
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TIL that Venezuela now produces less oil than the US state of North Dakota.
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Amaro sours? I’ll have one, please.
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Likes DEMON’S GAME by .
Rob Worthing just announced DEMON’S GAME: The Definitive Guide to Oni School Tenkara. Instant purchase for me. I can’t wait for this book to arrive.
The definitive guide to the tenkara fly fishing school of master angler, Masami “Tenkara no Oni” Sakakibara. Widely regarded as the best tenkara angler in the world, Masami revolutionized Japanese fly fishing with the use of ultralight rigs and elegant fly presentation, blending cast and drift into one seamless act. Presented for the first time in English, the Oni tenkara school includes everything the fly fisher needs to become an adaptive angler, ready to tackle any problem a trout stream might present. A comprehensive review of the physiology and behavior of trout, the water they live in, and the bugs they eat sets the stage for detailed lessons in fundamental and advanced casting, fly presentation, playing and landing fish, and more. Whether you enjoy tenkara or any other style of fly fishing, you will learn to trick more trout and have more fun fly fishing than ever before.
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Likes Century-Scale Storage by .
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Likes How are we preparing for the Long Web? by .
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Likes Practical Decentralization.
Paul Frazee on the differences between atproto, ActivityPub, and Nostr.
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Likes Ftrain.com – Paul Ford.
I don’t pop molly, I read Paul Ford
International bring back the blog postYeah, Ftrain is back on the tools again.
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Likes Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme – Unsung by .
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“What concerns me most is the unintended consequence of these blocks. When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite.”
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Likes Deep Blue by .
We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.
We’re calling it Deep Blue.