I wish that more apps that have a queue or list of media you want to consume (Netflix, Sonos, Spotify, etc) would let you enter a note with a reason when you add an item. GoodReads has this, and I'm often grateful to be reminded of *why* I wanted to read a book. 1/2

It's getting harder and harder to avoid the AI writing suggestions in gmail. Seriously: it's G+ era invasive. 😢 Sadly... it doesn't know my style very well (despite having a decades-long archive to learn from).

I've been using Instapaper to manage my article reading list since 2011. 🤯 This has evolved to almost exclusively using its text-to-speech version of articles. 🎧 They just updated the voices in the Android app﹠the quality is much better. Some kinks to be ironed out, but 👏

Hmm... I'm not sure if ordering both of these Nespresso coffee capsules made sense, but... here we are. 🤔☕

📚🎅 I mostly knew David Sedaris from Six to Eight Black Men. The Land and Its People was my first full book of his, and the live audiobook proved quite entertaining. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars ★★★★☆ Full review: puf.io/books/the-lan...

📚💨 I enjoyed Wind and Truth, but it also confirmed why I limit myself to one Brandon Sanderson book per year. It is good, engaging, and packed with events, but at 1,330 pages it completely takes over my reading schedule. Rating: ★★★★☆ Full review: puf.io/books/wind-an...

📕The Martian Chronicles is a loosely connected chronicle of humans colonizing Mars. Ray Bradbury shows little interest in scientific plausibility, using Mars as an imaginative backdrop for emotionally charged, atmospheric storytelling. ★★★★☆ More: puf.io/books/the-mar...

Today I learned the term "salmoning", which is when a a cyclist or scooter rider travels the wrong way against the flow of traffic. It's a common occurrence on San Francisco bike paths nowadays and hella dangerous for everyone. Cute name, bad move! 🛴🚲🙈

I use NotebookLM for quick introductions to new-to-me topics. It is great at summarizing multiple sources into a cohesive, entertaining video. But then at points, it makes a silly mistake such as: > This funnel chart shows the typical drop off rate for beginners 👀

📚🗽 *The Land and Its People* was my first David Sedaris book: essays full of wit, snark, family, travel, Duolingo, affection, grief, and mortality. The live audiobook is quite entertaining. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars ★★★★☆ Full review: puf.io/books/the-lan...

Nothing in the schedule, but there's some planned!

No, but this is brillzzzz!!

What do you think: did somebody press the wrong button here? (it restored itself within minutes btw)

I'm not a fan of these security questions to begin with, but this one is its own special UX fail.

Anyone else using this approach to signal that you want to pay with your phone?

📚 A Blink of the Screen ranges from a two-page poem to the novella-length The Sea and Little Fishes. I didn’t enjoy the collection as much as most of Pratchett’s work, but there were still some excellent pieces. Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 of 5) Full review: puf.io/books/a-blink...

When I hiked in Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve recently, I noticed these "dollhouse" structures on a few tree trunks. A very cute distraction on an intermediate hike in one of the many beautiful parks in San Francisco. More: puf.io/socials/2026-...

I was studying the height map and route of the San Francisco marathon today, and realized: The flat parts of SF are as flat as the Dutch mountains are mountains. 🌉⛰️🇳🇱 Congrats to everyone who participated in the event! 👏🎉

OK friends. Is Gemini/Google AI Search trying to be funny here, or something else? > Yes, there is no 1/2

Taking my first steps with Gemini Spark, which presents itself as a stateful agent. The naming suggest that this is a fully stateful computer, which it isn't. It's more like a stateful browser, similar to what Tasklet.ai offers. I wish the naming reflected that 🤨

📚⛈️ I discovered Brandon Sanderson relatively recently and still have plenty of his prolific output to explore. I limit myself to one of his books per year though, as The Stormlight Archive books are very, very long﹠tend to disrupt my reading schedule. 😅 More ⬇️ in 🧵 1/3

📍🗺️ Geoqueries on Firestore used to mean geohashes and 5.4x read overhead. 💸 With multi-field inequalities, you can now drop that overhead to ~1.3x. But there's a catch: you now pay for index scans. Those *are* much cheaper, but... details 👇 puf.io/posts/how-to-... 1/2

📚 Much to my surprise, I didn’t enjoy A Blink of the Screen as much as most of Terry Pratchett’s other works. The longer the story, the more I enjoyed it, with The Sea and Little Fishes the clear standout. 🧙 Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 of 5) Full review: puf.io/books/a-blink...

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

Is it judging me? 🛒🥾👞👞📦

A beautiful Google doodle today to celebrate the world cup final. 🇦🇷 ⚽️ 🇪🇸

Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve in San Francisco has a dense forest area, with eucalyptus trees (up to 200 feet tall), and lots of underbrush (lots of ferns, blackberries, and ivy) rolling over the hills. It's a great area for intermediate-level hiking on a hot day. More 👇 1/2

❤️🌁 The Hearts in San Francisco statue series never disappoints. Here's Open Heart, which has been at the end of Pier 39 since 2014. So if you're visiting Fisherman's Wharf, grab a shot of this one after you've seen/smelled the sea lions. 🦭 puf.io/tags/hearts-i...

For those who fear knowledge work is going away: the biggest constants I've brought to all my tech jobs are: * Unbridled curiosity * Belief in/insistence on forward motion * Healthy disregard for the impossible Nothing has changed there. Skills change, values are more stable.

OK, an empty battery is prolly not the unboxing experience anyone hopes for. But look at that cute "charge me please" screen! (for those curious: PicPak uses an e-ink screen, so *showing* the image consumes zero power)