Dan Lyke 20:59:44+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Email subject line: "Chevrolet is teaming up with Electrify America for you". Given the compatibility issues I've had with Electrify America chargers and our 2022 Bolt EUV, I think "against" is a more apt word than "for".

Dan Lyke 20:44:16+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Apropos of nothing at all, I think https://ghostty.org is my new favorite thing this morning. If you had told me in 2026 that a terminal could be snappier, I'd have laughed at you in "modern software sucks", but damn this is cool.

Dan Lyke 20:19:11+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

An Atlas Shrugged rewrite where the "I'm more of an ideas person" people fuck off to Galt's Gulch and the rest of us just take care of the backlog of shit that needs to get taken care of.

Dan Lyke 20:02:48+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Crap. Somewhere recently (past month) I read about a personal search engine that used browser plug-ins and history. I cannot find that link now. I'm thinking that this would be really really useful. And I'd rather build on someone else's code. Any hints?

Dan Lyke 19:49:06+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Time Magazine article titled "‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI" offering a chatbot with "ask me anything" placeholder text... :are_we_the_baddies_dot_gif:

Dan Lyke 18:51:54+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Hmmm... when the grant application is deferred "if Dan doesn't have the bandwidth for [that]". I mean, I'm loving helping various groups move forward, but I need to make sure that where I'm in the critical path it's about capacity building...

Dan Lyke 17:55:51+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

One of the hardest parts about growing up rural and suburban is getting to late middle age and realizing just how much I've missed because of the anti-city prejudices of my youth. Feeling like I now live in a place where old people cosplay as having culture, rather than actually having a culture.

Dan Lyke 00:18:59+0000 (2026-02-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Charlene is frustrated with phone addiction and would like to either get a dumb phone, or find some tools to help her manage screen time better. WisePhone seems like a $400 configuration of a Samsung. Carrier is T-Mobile. Current phone is a Pixel 7. Input and suggestions gratefully received.