Wishlisting cameras to replace our Ring system, and holy shit marketing departments are failing. Looks like Reolink is the leader, but digging through each product description and trying to figure out how these things fit together is a total pain in the ass. User stories, folks. Use them.

A few thoughts on Assaad Abousleiman on LinkedIn's suggestion that "The last decade of software was built to capture attention. The next decade will be built to give it back." https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/35465.html

Thinking about those videos that came out of the occupation of Iraqi cities of US forces shooting up commuters and people just trying to get around and live their daily lives, and how somehow our political process decided that it was a good idea to bring that chaos domestic policing. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/11/ninas-coffee-ice-car-crash-st-paul