While the concept of “forest bathing” is popular, I prefer to think of my explorations as “forest diving.” #hiking

1. Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is quite different depending on how you read. Looking at a Hokusai picture (via @soonleenz@wandering.shop) 📖

2. An amazing infographic (created by @leahdriel@fediscience.org): A classification table of mother sauces and their common derivates 🍳

As a devotee of RSS, the rise of newsletters continues to mystify me. But I’ve adapted. Today, there are some newsletters I enjoy, but I’ve never liked inbox delivery. So this is the best thing I learned about this week: kill-the-newsletter.com 📖

Well this is new to me and I love it: Music for Programming 🎶

I upgraded to Fedora 37 and like it. I intend to write a longer post to explain why I run this in a VM on a Mac Studio. But perhaps the root of it is that it just makes me happy. That said, there’s more backstory to share that’s about the joy of reviving old laptops — a minor obsession that began with Puppy Linux in 2007.

Remember Letterpress? I began a match in March that is still underway. We have yet to use 3 letters on the board (Z,M,K). We are avoiding these tiles at all cost. I don’t know why. It was an unspoken, organic decision. We just hit 401 words. This match may not end. 🕹️

This evening, I am perusing Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman. A good reference book to understand the evolution of USB and Thunderbolt. 📚

Affinity V2 universal license (no subscription) for $99 is looking pretty good to me, especially considering I bought V1 Affinity Photo in 2016 and Designer in 2015.

Our sour cherry tree really produced this year.

Look at all of these nice cicadas a friend gave to me. Looking forward to trying them out.