Routine Revelations

Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy - Big Think

I see a couple of problems in this article. First is an assumption that happiness is “the goal.” Another is that the article seems to equate being happy and having a meaningful life and the two are not necessarily the same. I submit that there is more.

Came close to a repeat and rematch fantasy football super bowl, but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. Another ffb season is in the books.

The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times Siobhan Roberts,

With more than one million copies in print, “The Art of Computer Programming” is the Bible of its field. “Like an actual bible, it is long and comprehensive; no other book is as comprehensive,” said Peter Norvig, a director of research at Google. After 652 pages, volume one closes with a blurb on the back cover from Bill Gates: “You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.”

Source: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

At first this background image removal tool looked cool but then I tried it and found it only works on pictures in which there are people.

According to Spotify these are my top tunes of 2018. The problem with the list is, there are some songs in it that I don’t recognize, so I don’t know how Spotify creates it. It looks like a mix of some songs I do play frequently and potential matches. It’s an eclectic mix.

I’ve been groking Federated Wiki and building my site, but I am starting to wonder whether it is still actively in development.

A Simple Proposal for Killing Comments with Annotated Links - Hapgood

I am surprised that Dave never added a “commenting feature” to his blogs where the way for one to add a comment to a site was to place a titled link to their own blog post at the bottom of the page.

Achievement unlocked:

Alexa, turn on the Christmas tree

Paper Thoughts and the Remix Hypothesis, Mike Caulfield,

“We’re computer users thinking paper thoughts” – Bret Victor

Source: Paper Thoughts and the Remix Hypothesis - Hapgood

Google has released the first update to Chrome OS since I’ve owned the Pixelbook and so far it has not appeared. I’m a bit surprised, I would expect Chrome OS updates to hit Pixelbooks first.

For a company that is data driven, I am surprised by how little information Google’s Digital Wellbeing app provides. For example, it doesn’t tell me my average screen on time nor does it tell me whether my use is trending up or down. Trends are key to making decisions and Digital Wellbeing provides none, therefore I don’t understand what decisions I should conclude from the data it does provide.

Finch in the tree.

The sun is shining and the birds are at full throat.

My contribution to decorating the tree is the smart switch that controls the lights.

I’ve successfully moved my Philips Hue lights from the original version of the Hue bridge to the latest (version 2) version. If you read the page on which I narrated my work, you should reach a conclusion about the state of the Internet of Things.

It seems that one thing common among micro-bloggers is that they have a Now page on their site for the purpose of sharing what one is currently working on.

I followed that trend but have not been in the practice of updating it as there is simply too much friction to do so. Instead, I find having a Now page in my Federated Wiki to be much more useful and dynamic. If you want to edit a page frequently, you need the easiest way to do so.

On the docket for this weekend is migrating my Philips Hue lights from the original version of the Hue bridge to the latest (v2) version of the Hue bridge.

I am having a lot of fun in my online garden.

I’ve long supported the idea of reverse chronology in blogs because I always want the current stuff at the top of the page. However, I am finding that when reading through a blog site archive I prefer to see the archived content listed in chronological order because it provides context.