Nostr notes by Brian Ward

Trombone Shorty at Marymoor Park! ...

2026-08-20T01:53:01Z

Trombone Shorty at Marymoor Park!

During our block party yesterday, it came up that none of us get ...

2026-08-05T21:01:25Z

During our block party yesterday, it came up that none of us get very good over-the-air TV reception due to the local topography in Leschi. It would be awesome if @theseattlecouncil passed a rule to require OTA broadcasters to provide free digital streams of their channels to area residents. https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/08/04/block-party-with-the-neighbors/

You can read a book forever ...

2026-08-05T20:23:35Z

You can read a book forever https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/08/05/you-can-read-a-book/

A great game! ...

2026-07-19T04:50:44Z

A great game!

For the love of all that is holy @threads, don’t show me a ...

2026-07-03T23:59:16Z

For the love of all that is holy @threads, don’t show me a bunch of stuff on app resume only to snatch it away from me a second later to update it after I’ve started reading. Either show me only the new thing, or tell me the view is out of date and let me choose to pull to refresh myself. FFS. 🤦‍♂️

Apparently this is called a supernumerary bow. Probably the best ...

2026-07-03T23:51:21Z

Apparently this is called a supernumerary bow. Probably the best shot I was able to get of it yesterday. Cool rainbow! 🌈

We shipped Camelot Unchained update 0.44 live today: ...

2026-07-03T19:30:14Z

We shipped Camelot Unchained update 0.44 live today: www.camelotunchained.com/2026/07/0… https://www.camelotunchained.com/2026/07/03/patch-notes-0-44-update/

We marched with Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington on Sunday at ...

2026-07-03T19:28:27Z

We marched with Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington on Sunday at Seattle Pride! ✊

I saw some of the brightest rainbows I’ve ever seen before last ...

2026-07-03T15:42:59Z

I saw some of the brightest rainbows I’ve ever seen before last night on Lake Washington, and between Renton and Maple Valley, and it turns out other folks did too! www.kiro7.com/news/loca… https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/double-triple-quadruple-rainbows-were-spotted-around-puget-sound-heres-why/FGT6WUDKB5DJJLUW7QVNR7JJ6I/

Here’s another bee in my bonnet: Please, @synergy_app, figure ...

2026-07-03T00:25:25Z

Here’s another bee in my bonnet: Please, @synergy_app, figure out how to cleanly close your app on macOS. On exit, I end up with like 3 or 4 orphaned services that are impossible to kill via the terminal. Also, you present a Finder menu bar item, so why do you insist on appearing in the Dock? STAHP.

I’m gonna be a really happy camper if this actually makes its ...

2026-07-02T20:59:12Z

I’m gonna be a really happy camper if this actually makes its way into the app.

World Cup USA vs. Bosnia! ...

2026-07-02T05:04:26Z

World Cup USA vs. Bosnia!

Here’s a @1Password feature that I’d love to see: If I have ...

2026-07-01T19:14:42Z

Here’s a @1Password feature that I’d love to see: If I have access to a shared vault from someone else, and that vault has favorites they set in it, I don’t ever want to see those favorites suggested to me. I don’t care about your favorites. I need access to the vault, but I wanna mute all entries.

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2026-06-28T22:52:38Z

❤️🧡💛💚💙

Good seats at the game today! ⚾️ ...

2026-06-22T01:36:53Z

Good seats at the game today! ⚾️

Check out the new big screen TV at Pacific Place! ...

2026-06-20T22:15:41Z

Check out the new big screen TV at Pacific Place!

We didn’t win that game last night, but damn… the ...

2026-06-18T19:37:36Z

We didn’t win that game last night, but damn… the back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the 9th were sure exciting! ⚾️

Don't let your ISP take your ONT away from YOU. ...

2026-06-17T23:16:14Z

Don't let your ISP take your ONT away from YOU. https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/06/17/dont-let-your-isp-take.html

Losartan might be a really bad medication ...

2026-06-15T01:16:25Z

Losartan might be a really bad medication https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/06/14/losartan-might-be-a-really.html

The MMO I work on at my day job just went into early access on ...

2026-06-02T23:39:59Z

The MMO I work on at my day job just went into early access on Steam today. Check it out: www.camelotunchained.com/2026/06/0… https://www.camelotunchained.com/2026/06/02/live-now-on-steam-early-access/

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2026-06-02T03:21:06Z

Just witnessed Colt Emerson’s third major league homer! ⚾️

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2026-05-31T06:35:24Z

Campfire

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2026-05-31T06:34:07Z

Haystack

Greetings from Cannon Beach! 🏖️ ...

2026-05-31T00:55:41Z

Greetings from Cannon Beach! 🏖️

The world might have been a better place if their names had been ...

2026-05-12T17:26:18Z

The world might have been a better place if their names had been Steve Naps and Bill Bridges. Think about it.

This RYB color tool is bitchin'! rybitten.space 🎨 ...

2026-05-01T23:24:22Z

This RYB color tool is bitchin'! rybitten.space 🎨 https://rybitten.space/

My latest project: A photometric lighting viewer for macOS! 💡 ...

2026-05-01T22:23:30Z

My latest project: A photometric lighting viewer for macOS! 💡

The mountain is out! ⛰️ ...

2026-04-26T19:30:49Z

The mountain is out! ⛰️

Happy birthday, Devin! 🥳🥳 ...

2026-04-25T20:38:13Z

Happy birthday, Devin! 🥳🥳

I’ll believe it when I see it: ...

2026-04-24T20:34:40Z

I’ll believe it when I see it: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft… https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-will-let-you-skip-updates-pause-longer-and-avoid-forced-restarts

Boat ride! ⚓️ ...

2026-04-11T21:26:33Z

Boat ride! ⚓️

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2026-04-11T00:14:01Z

Splashdown! 🚀

I hit that Mail bug again on iOS. Been careful since to only ...

2026-04-10T19:21:16Z

I hit that Mail bug again on iOS. Been careful since to only multiselect messages that are unread, but there’s definitely a problem with the state of the button toggle. It erroneously presented me with a Mark as Unread button.

Re: micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/04/0… https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/04/01/itd-be-real-sweet-if.html

I wish I’d had NFOViewer back at Runic. Before I went to bed, I ...

2026-04-10T18:11:19Z

I wish I’d had NFOViewer back at Runic. Before I went to bed, I added a global search feature. This was finicky to get working at first, but it works. The other issue I had to fix was when filtering thousands of items, I’d hit a deadlock while rendering the UI, but we debounce and stream in now.

In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but ...

2026-04-10T05:09:41Z

In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but those pesky Windows System Information (*.NFO) files kept getting in the way. So tonight I built NFOViewer, a simple macOS app that opens them with zero friction.

Tonight I went through the process of bringing the classic Mac OS ...

2026-04-09T09:04:09Z

Tonight I went through the process of bringing the classic Mac OS X app Backhoe (a terrain editor for Second Life) all the way from Objective-C and AppKit on Mac OS X 10.4 (PPC) over to Swift, Apple Silicon, modern macOS – and running on the iPad!

Fats Navarro w/ Don Lanphere www.youtube.com/watch 🎵 It blows ...

2026-04-03T22:35:58Z

Fats Navarro w/ Don Lanphere www.youtube.com/watch 🎵 It blows my mind that I studied with Don and knew him a little bit. He was a musically-demanding perfectionist, but was a good guy with a kind heart. He used to tell me how much he and Charlie Parker hated Paul Desmond. 😆 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUzQl8oLxaM

Anybody else notice an annoying little hitch lately when dragging ...

2026-04-03T21:59:26Z

Anybody else notice an annoying little hitch lately when dragging and dropping files on macOS, like into Claude or a web browser drop zone?

Got an old project up and running again in a docker container ...

2026-04-03T03:48:10Z

Got an old project up and running again in a docker container tonight. Hello, old friend!

It’d be real sweet if Mail got an update sometime to make ...

2026-04-01T21:27:52Z

It’d be real sweet if Mail got an update sometime to make marking all messages as read not suck. Twice this year I have inadvertently flagged all messages on all my accounts by mistake, usually due to some kind of UI lag bug on the iPad.

Last weekend visiting the cherry blossoms at the UW campus. ...

2026-03-29T17:59:30Z

Last weekend visiting the cherry blossoms at the UW campus.

We went to a No Kings protest yesterday afternoon in Ballard. ...

2026-03-29T17:56:28Z

We went to a No Kings protest yesterday afternoon in Ballard.

First time at opening week! A good effort tonight even if we ...

2026-03-29T06:34:10Z

First time at opening week! A good effort tonight even if we didn’t win. ⚾️

Some news from my jobby job: We shipped Camelot Unchained into ...

2026-03-28T18:20:03Z

Some news from my jobby job: We shipped Camelot Unchained into early access yesterday! 🎉 massivelyop.com/2026/03/2… https://massivelyop.com/2026/03/28/camelot-unchained-enters-early-access-for-existing-backers-drops-a-spring-content-roadmap/

Love it. Ship it on Windows and Linux too, please. ...

2026-03-24T22:58:26Z

Love it. Ship it on Windows and Linux too, please. webkit.org/blog/1786… https://webkit.org/blog/17862/webkit-features-for-safari-26-4/

I’ve heard that the A18 Pro is basically a tiny M1, so my hope ...

2026-03-24T22:52:39Z

I’ve heard that the A18 Pro is basically a tiny M1, so my hope is that the MacBook Neo pushes Apple to focus a little bit more on performance improvements to accommodate some of the older Apple Silicon out there.

Jerry Bergonzi Quintet livestream from earlier today 🎷 ...

2026-03-19T03:38:15Z

Jerry Bergonzi Quintet livestream from earlier today 🎷 www.youtube.com/watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdiie3ttsg

A minor annoying visual bug on the iPhone lock screen in 26.3.1 ...

2026-03-19T01:35:51Z

A minor annoying visual bug on the iPhone lock screen in 26.3.1 (a). Should I be filing a Radar? https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/03/18/a-minor-annoying-visual-bug.html

Do you think that someday through some combination of AirPlay and ...

2026-03-18T21:17:28Z

Do you think that someday through some combination of AirPlay and other magic, those overpowered Apple displays that have A-series processors in them might one day be able to let you walk up to any random display and keyboard setup and just magically run macOS wherever you go right off your phone?

I continue to wonder when the hell Spotify is going to ship a ...

2026-03-18T20:00:31Z

I continue to wonder when the hell Spotify is going to ship a basic yet somehow novel accessibility feature called light mode. 🤔

I was already into computers, so I got tapped to make a webpage ...

2026-03-18T18:26:01Z

I was already into computers, so I got tapped to make a webpage to promote the CD. The obscenely long URL for which is printed on the back of the jewel case. One notable 90s quirk is that URLs often would often end in htm instead of html. I think this was because I made it on Windows 3.1!

When I was a kid, our 6th grade class recorded an album. My dad ...

2026-03-18T18:21:18Z

When I was a kid, our 6th grade class recorded an album. My dad worked for Muzak, and was able to pull in some favors to assist with its production. The result aired nationally in every McDonald’s for a period of time. Someone’s selling a copy on eBay right now: www.ebay.com/itm/32665… https://www.ebay.com/itm/326650694629

The OOBE and Windows Update experience is patently awful. I’m ...

2026-03-16T23:52:41Z

The OOBE and Windows Update experience is patently awful. I’m really not exaggerating. See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQ6pek3JoM

A lower entry point to the Mac will increase its market share and ...

2026-03-15T05:55:06Z

A lower entry point to the Mac will increase its market share and push Apple to focus on polish. Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo has rebooted the PC war at a time where Apple has footholds everywhere: www.theverge.com/report/89… https://www.theverge.com/report/894090/macbook-neo-pc-windows-laptop-competition-asus-footinmouth

The end of Intel support on macOS draws nearer: ...

2026-03-14T09:21:19Z

The end of Intel support on macOS draws nearer: eclecticlight.co/2026/03/1… https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/14/how-to-survive-the-loss-of-rosetta/

Been trying to reduce my reliance on centralized social media for ...

2026-03-14T08:47:55Z

Been trying to reduce my reliance on centralized social media for news gathering. Recently, I switched away from Reeder over to NetNewsWire, an RSS reader that’s quickly become one of my favorite apps. Has a very clean interface and is FAST to update and sync between devices.

netnewswire.com https://netnewswire.com

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2026-03-11T05:56:30Z

Cancer’s a real bastard. RIP Greg.

Hey @wsdot I’d love it if you guys could please get a grip on ...

2026-03-08T23:04:44Z

Hey @wsdot I’d love it if you guys could please get a grip on all the super dangerous potholes in Seattle! Second time in the last few months. 😡

Lil Finder Guy is adorable! I’d like to see him in a webcomic ...

2026-03-08T19:04:01Z

Lil Finder Guy is adorable! I’d like to see him in a webcomic with Discord’s Wumpus. 😆 basicappleguy.com/basicappl… https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

It’s Self-Check or Get Out ...

2026-03-07T08:56:05Z

It’s Self-Check or Get Out https://micro-blog.brianward.us/2026/03/07/its-selfcheck-or-get-out.html