The Secure Scuttlebutt
07/11/2026, 01:41:32 PM
I'm on not very good wifi, and tildefriends.net loads significantly worse than I would imagine. It feels like not just low bandwidth or high latency, but like something else is going fundamentally wrong. This upsets me, and I will look into it. Though various other things load poorly too.
On a positive note, in dusting off the wiki app, I found a roadmap I made for myself in 2023, and I'm pleasantly surprised how many of the things I though were just wishful thinking at the time are now basically done: mobile apps, rewrites I wanted at the time, videos, .... The main big area I've neglected is developer experience: type checking, integrated debugger, autocomplete, git integration, and things like that. That was deliberate, and I'm OK with that.
07/10/2026, 01:05:58 AM
I took a half day and Friday off to go to a "remote workers" meetup in Saranac Lake. I have been try to attend one of these for about a year. I had zero expectation going in, and I was lead to believe there would be a presentation or two, but it turned out to be solely socialization.
I had fun! Everyone here seems to be a programmer and paddler. It felt like I found my people.
One person is trying to make the .adk (ie, Adirondacks) top level domain a thing. He has his business reasons, but it seems like a good idea to me.
I think I came from the furthest away for the event, but I'll stay the rest of the weekend paddling and enjoying the area.
One person was at the river cleanup two weekends ago.
Is this what community is?
06/29/2026, 05:34:02 PM
I had a really good paddling experience this weekend. I booked a room just for myself up in the mountains for two nights. Saturday I did a long, lazy paddle in service of training for the 90-miler coming up.
One for @IBob, I ran into a volunteer crew doing work on the canoe carries and signs. They were super friendly, chatting about my boat, the trail, the race stickers I had, although one encouraged me to help carrying 2x10's, and I had to politely decline, as my arms were mush. They did a great job! I saw it all on the way back.
On Sunday, I noticed there was a river cleanup event nearby and changed my plans to attend that. We paddled about 2.5mi down Saranac River and picked up trash.
I had only paddled this river once before. The weather was perfect, and I spent most of my time just wading and swimming around one section concerningly named "glass island." Lots of beer cans, wine bottles, beer bottles, and bits of ceramics apparently collect there. I am most proud of finding a pocket electronic dictionary (non-working). Pulling tires out of the muck was way more work than I would have guessed. One we only managed after taking several turns each trying and then someone in another boat bringing a shovel they found.
I am a bit torn on humanity with the selfish people who caused this trash to end up in such a beautiful river in the first place vs. the community that organizes so enthusiastically to clean it up. Not only were the people giving their time and risking tetanus great, but there was a quite large list of local businesses who gave food and supplies to the effort. I would do this again in a heartbeat.
06/20/2026, 02:17:09 PM
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
I found myself at the Scotland vs. Morocco World Cup game, and my knowledge of statue hats came in quite handy to understand what was going on around me.
I didn't really understand the game at all, but the fans were all a lot of fun and very polite.
06/12/2026, 10:19:32 PM
Midnight Murder Club left early access and saw its full release yesterday.