My son loves audiobooks, and we did not want to give him a phone. Over about two weeks I built him his own audiobook player, then built two more when his siblings saw it.

My DAS has a physical power button, so my drives don't remount after a power outage. A $25 SwitchBot, a Claude-written login script, and a 3D printed mount fixed it.

I started a nonprofit that connects kids in early childhood education with healthy meals.

I wanted some random things to do with my kid on sunny days, so I picket up a magnet fishing kit. Basically, you throw a really strong magnet on a rope into water (lake, river, etc) and see what…

I have only done something like four posts in the past 3 years on this blog. In that time I have moved across the country, had three kids, rebuilt a company to survive the pandemic then transitioned…

We (Custom Camps) recently finished running the week long, 430 person Dweb Camp 2022. This gathering of technologists took place in Navarro CA, in the ancient Redwood forests. We got a beautiful note…

In April our family moved 2600 miles across the country from Oakland, CA to Asheville, NC. Like many others, the pandemic influenced our timing but we are also part of the first wave of US climate…

I still use RSS to pull information from the internet to my eyes. It is the most efficient way of gathering information from multiple sources without having to manually dig, and it avoids the brain…

My brother Matt asked why there is no useful comparison of the cost of newspaper subscriptions. Some Googling made it clear – this consumer comparison does not exist. So, I took a few minutes to…

https://www.thesimpledollar.com/solar-cost-comparison-state-by-state/ Andy Bowen gives a great breakout, with more charts on the costs of going solar at The Simple Dollar.