This is definitely a niche topic, but I thought it was an interesting design decision. I wrote a few months ago about how much I enjoy watching professional disc golf on Youtube. The channel I usually do that with is JomezPro. One of the things that puzzle me a bit about their coverage is how… Continue reading On JomezPro Back 9 scoring graphics

I’ve done quite a bit of travel over the past 7 years; 30+ countries at this point. One of the things that’s dramatically changed my experience traveling to a new country is the availability of transit apps, both ride sharing (Uber/Lyft/Bolt/Careem), and local bus/train apps (Trafi). Before I had a phone with a local SIM… Continue reading On transit apps and international travel

I’ve written about this before, but I was recently listening to an episode of the ZigZag podcast and it re-connected, so I thought I’d mention it again. The episode was an interview with the CEO of Mailchimp, who talked about bootstrapping his business and other related topics. I found it interesting when he was talking… Continue reading On Websites as a Commodity

Recently, there was an article where someone tried to verify the Domino’s Pizza Tracker to see how accurate it was. It’s a fun read on it’s own; the TL;DR is that the tracker is a lie, and updates based purely on the expected amount of time a task should take, not the actual time in… Continue reading On Pizza Trackers

We have a good public transit system in Klaipeda; lots of busses, running regularly. (It helps that the city is long and thin, so the busses can mostly just run down the main street!) You have options for buying a bus ticket; paper or on a card, discounts for students and seniors, monthly/yearly passes, etc.… Continue reading On Bus Ticket Checkers

I wasn’t familiar with Send to Kindle until recently, and it’s really handy. You email a PDF or e-book file and it puts the file on your Kindle for you. You can also send it a PDF with the subject line ‘Convert’ and it will attempt to adapt it so that it’s in Kindle format,… Continue reading On Send to Kindle

Sometimes, when my Chromebook updates, it resets my default search engine (back to Google, instead of DDG) across all of my Chrome instances on all computers. I’ve had this issue a couple of times, so I figured I’d mention it here; I don’t know if others are experiencing it. (If you have this issue, here’s… Continue reading On Chromebook updates and anti-competitive behavior

I’ve previously written about my appreciation for AliExpress and online shopping; that lead me to purchase a pair of Bluetooth headphones. More specifically, I already had cheap wired headphones, and nice noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones. I wanted cheap bluetooth headphones to wear while walking around town. Not expensive, not noise-canceling, without a need for a long… Continue reading On Bluetooth headphones and quality management

I’ve enjoyed watching DRL (drone racing league) for a couple of seasons now. They’re the most professional of the broadcast drone races, have high production values, and are generally well put together. It’s clear they’re developed by an experienced production team. I also am not in the US most of the time, which makes it… Continue reading On DRL and Twitter video distribution

I have a Chromebook which I highly recommend as a second computer. It’s light, affordable, has great battery life, and can do 95% of what I need day-to-day. It could work as your only computer in most cases – I just find it underpowered for some tasks. Today, however, I want to write about the… Continue reading On Chromebook as Chrome minority