Faves

I feel like I bring more effort to trying to get into stuff for the first time when I’ve gotten assurances from someone whose opinions I repsect that it’s worth it. “I like this stuff, mabe you will too.”

This is the stuff I say that about.

Artists

Paul Rickards - Paul collects and uses vintage pen plotter devices to use with modern computers and code like Python to create new works of art. I’ve got a bunch of Rickards stuff up at home.
Leagh Gardner - Leagh started oil painting in 2020 and by 2021 was a working artist. I’ve got an original pigeon at home.

Authors

I have been trying to post what I read to my BookWyrm for a few years but I’m a completionist and will pre-order when it comes to these authors (why link to Auster, Dick, Le Guin, King, Vonnegut, etc who I also enjoy?) so they get a special link section.

Patreon posters

Video stream and VOD posters

Tonight We Race

Apps and services

1Password — password manager.
AllTrails – I use this a few times a year but pay because I never know when I’ll want to get to a trailhead and have a map of it.
Amethyst – Mac tiling window manager. I use full screen and split screeen only.
AmpliTube – With headphones, the ultimate practice rig.
Anylist – Our family plans groceries and menus in Anylist. I’m super bummed there’s no export as I’ve got a hundred recipes or so, but it works well so whatever.
bandcamp – “at the show”, “wherever the artists says to buy it”, “bandcamp”, in that order.
bandsintown – get notified when artists you like are playing in your town. This is what I used to use last.fm for before that got crappy and I deleted it for reasons I forget. It’s ok. the mac app is buggy as hell but the service works ok when I remember to keep adding artists to it.
CityStrides – I’m trying to walk every street in SF so I pay CityStrides to import my Strava, who I also pay but don’t list here, to keep track. I would skip the Strava step if I could.
CyberChef - computer stuff.
Fastmail - I finally stopped hosting my own mail and switched to fastmail in 2013 and have never looked back.
FitBod - one hour a day, “bodybuilding” profile, do whatever it says, it’s great.
Guitar Pro - guitar sheet music and tablature! invest in tools to learn, stop using bad ascii tabs.
Home Assistant
inoreader
iReal
Ivory
Marked 2
Patreon
Pocket Casts
Signal Messenger
Strava
Sublime Text
Transit
Wipr

Podcasts

Magazines

Music streams

Posters

Or Bloggers, and Magazines, and stuff like that?

My webring

A bunch of people I shoot the shit with from time to time, that I internet-know, and some real pals I like, actually go get dinner with also have old sites like this one. Good for us.