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Mirroring your socials Ever since I left Twitter, back in 2022 ...

2026-10-31T13:14:38Z

Mirroring your socials

Ever since I left Twitter, back in 2022 when the world's saddest loser bought it, I've had a fraught relationship with social media. I was pissed that I put so much time and effort into something one jerk could buy outright one day and ruin instantly, so I moved most of my posting energy to this blog and then my mastodon account.
Mastodon is my first choice because it's distributed and no single shithead can ruin it for everyone. It also lets you post up to 500 characters as well as endlessly edit your posts for typos (seriously, why is that impossible on every other social network?!).
But Mastodon has some major drawbacks like occasional cranky weirdos in your replies and a byzantine system of interlocking servers that never quite feels user-friendly to newcomers. So naturally, many of my friends went to Bluesky instead, which works a lot more like early twitter (but with a 300 character limit). It's way easier to sign up and use, and has most of the good energy Twitter had in its early days.
The L in Chicago
An ugly hack
A couple years ago, as I was bouncing between the two services, I found an app that let me post to both of them, but it was mobile-only and added a significant barrier because I could only make my posts in a (paid) app then wait as it attempted to publish to multiple networks.
Later, I found a service called "Bridgy" which basically copied all your posts on one network to the other, but it had a lot of drawbacks. One, it gave you an ugly username like mine, which was @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy, which honestly just rolls off the tongue. You also couldn't log into Bluesky with your alternate account, so you couldn't edit or delete posts or reply to anyone directly. People didn't know if they should reply to this ghost profile of your other online presence, or @-mention you directly with your "real" Bluesky account.
I still enjoy the service for being able to read occasional Bluesky-only posts from friends when I'm reading in Mastodon, but it fell way short of an ideal, which is having a frictionless, fully distributed social network no matter what service people were using to read it.
Bridgy always felt like an ugly hack, so I finally decided to fix it.
A December morning at 7:30AM, looking east from my home
A better way
In my ideal setup, I wanted to remove the mirrored bluesky version of me that I couldn't control or tweak to my liking, and I first checked to see what services are available for people in my situation. There are a handful of paid services that will take your content from one social network, log in as you automatically in another, then repost things on your behalf. You can still log in to those other accounts and control them fully, but I balked at the best option costing $30 a month just to do this one task for me.
Last night I started building my ideal version using Codex and after a couple hours of tinkering and testing, I got something I really like.
It's a bundle of python scripts that run in a Docker container on my home server, and it runs unattended, basically forever. Every couple of minutes, it checks my mastodon account and takes any new post and sends it to my Bluesky account.
If my post has images, it shrinks them to under 2Mb so the Bluesky API doesn't refuse the new post. If there are over 300 characters of text in my Mastodon post, it automatically creates a thread of two posts with the text spread across them (and checks for orphaned words/characters). If I reply to my own Mastodon posts, it gets posted to Bluesky too, as a reply to my original post. You also get a local dashboard website with your posting history so you can debug any issues.
Download my code to build your own version
Here's a generic copy of the code I'm using on my Synology server, over on my GitHub account. You can point my GitHub repo at Codex or Claude, and ask it to tweak it for your own servers and services, and run a similar version in Docker on almost anything (if you've never used Docker, ask Claude or Codex to get you up to speed on that too, it's a pretty amazing utility).
GitHub - mathowie/mastodon-bluesky-mirror: Self-hosted Mastodon-to-Bluesky crossposter for Docker and Synology, with images, threads, self-replies, and durable SQLite mappings.
Self-hosted Mastodon-to-Bluesky crossposter for Docker and Synology, with images, threads, self-replies, and durable SQLite mappings. - mathowie/mastodon-bluesky-mirror
The end result
I am really stoked on this new setup and I finally feel like a full participant in Bluesky for the first time. I have my own service that does exactly what I need and I will continue tweaking it as I find any shortcomings. Also, if Bluesky is one day taken over by a shithead, I can simply pick a new destination for my Mastodon posts and keep using it.
Honestly this code not only fixed what was broken but removed all the friction from cross-posting. Since it's totally automated and does exactly what I want, I'm already posting more often to both networks as a result. I'm also having more fun interacting with people on both networks when they reply and I'm really glad I finally got this all set up and working.
My next revision to this codebase will automatically send any new blog posts I publish here to both of my social networks as well.
But that's a project for another day. Today is a day to play in social spaces.
Santa Barbara, 2019

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Chasing the last of the Fall color I drove around Portland today ...

2026-10-30T16:03:39Z

Chasing the last of the Fall color

I drove around Portland today looking for the last of the Fall color and wasn't disappointed. Here are a few shots from the Portland Japanese Garden.
Then it was a quick jaunt after lunch over to Multnomah Falls
The old Columbia River Gorge road between Multnomah Falls and Troutdale was incredible looking, I wish I took some photos of it because the color along the route was unforgettable.

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Finding a better keyboard setup From the 1990s into the early ...

2026-10-26T13:05:57Z

Finding a better keyboard setup

From the 1990s into the early 2010s, I always used ergonomic keyboards hooked to a PC or Mac (Microsoft Natural Keyboards were a favorite). But once I started spending most of my time using a MacBook, I got used to using the flat, basic keyboards attached to Macs and when I later moved to desktop Macs, I used Apple's own wireless keyboards for the next decade and a half.
When they added a Touch ID sensor on the Apple Keyboard, I was instantly hooked, and got accustomed to using the sensor to unlock my Mac, buy stuff, and log in to stuff automatically. It really did feel like a magic technology.
But I disliked the flat, sterile, white plastic and gray aluminum keyboards and wanted something that looked cooler, could do more things, and was more comfortable.
It was a journey that took about a year and a half of experimenting but I really have come to love it. I wanted to share my setup.
Plunging into the mechanical abyss
I've always had coworkers who loved a chunky, clacky, old-school keyboard, but I didn't personally try them out until a couple of years ago.
Keyboards can look and work like almost anything you can imagine so you first have to limit your choices to the options you prefer. There are the number of keys and different layouts (both of which correspond to the size of the final keyboard), then you have to pick a height, and then there's the whole world of custom keys and functionality.
I've tried several models from companies like Keychron, ordered custom keys off AliExpress to swap, and tried out different switch types in all of them. I built my own wrist rests out of wood and 3D printing before trying ones that came with keyboards. I went through 4 or 5 different layouts, sizes, and heights before finally settling on one that worked best for me.
I have come to love this setup
Since the start of this year I've used a NuPhy Air75 V3 in black with brown switches (gives it a medium sound). I use their Oblivion keycap set for its retro look and bought their Walnut wrist rest that fits better than anything I would have built.
It's 75% wide, has low-profile keys, rainbow backlighting, and a metal base that gives it some real heft. The wireless Bluetooth features are incredible in that I only charge it once every six months, when my Apple keyboards usually needed a monthly top-up.
My favorite feature is the spinner control in the upper right, which I have set for volume and it also lets you tap it to mute and un-mute your computer instantly.
What happens when you get rid of the fingerprint sensor?
I thought losing Apple's Touch ID would be a dealbreaker but when I found that I missed it, I came up with something as close as possible to it.
There are products you can buy to become a Mac's thumb sensor (or you can build your own), but I found something a couple years ago that works as well, takes up a smaller footprint than a big sensor, and is cheaper too.
I have a YubiKey 5C Nano that is always plugged into the front of my Mac Studio. I used Yubico’s configuration app to set it up as a "static password" with an append option. This means whenever I touch my finger to the Nano, it auto-types out my Mac's password and hits enter, instantly.
Now, I can wake my Mac by tapping it to login and also use it to do anything that needs administrator access on my machine.
I don't have to charge it or worry about extra cables or how much space it takes up on my desk. It's always plugged in and easy to reach and use. Granted, the tradeoff to convenience is that anyone with physical access to my computer can make it enter my password, but it's in a locked house random people don’t have access to.
Only Apple keyboards support a "touch to pay" feature, so these days I have to tap my phone or watch to complete Apple Pay purchases on my desktop, but the YubiKey Nano can do everything else my old Apple Touch ID sensor used to do for me.
Apple makes good stuff, but sometimes you can find better options
I tend to use Apple's accessories for all my tech as I find most things they produce are simply better than any third-party products. But sometimes you can find something that ultimately works better than Apple's own hardware, does everything you need it to do, and does it with more style.
I love my gently clacky keyboard in just the right size and width, with an instant way to tap to log in, as well as gives me a way to manage my music and sound. My wrists feel better with the thicker keys and 10° raised position and I now appreciate the chunky feel and sound and can't see myself ever going back to an Apple wireless keyboard that feels like a deflated pancake whenever I have to type on someone else’s Mac.
This all started when one day I just really wanted a compact, black, wireless Apple keyboard and found they didn't make one, so I tried out a bunch of different options until I found exactly what worked for my needs.

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Exit 8 (film) On a recent flight, the entertainment system had a ...

2026-10-25T18:20:21Z

Exit 8 (film)

On a recent flight, the entertainment system had a movie I'd never heard of in its list of recent releases called Exit 8. I watched the trailer and was instantly transfixed.
A couple nights ago, I finally sat down to watch it and I really enjoyed it. It's a sci-fi/horror film about being trapped in a Japanese subway station and that's what drew me in immediately. One day in Tokyo, I spent about 30 minutes walking in circles inside the Shinjuku station, getting increasingly frustrated by all the construction that closed the paths I needed to take to get where Google Maps kept telling me to go.
I love that the entire budget for the film was barely over $1M. We all have such great cameras capable of great things in our pockets, yet most films today are $100M franchise pieces that don't excite me enough to even go to a theater. The movie also has some aspects of Edge of Tomorrow, one of my all-time favorite movies, though it's not exactly like time travel.
It's probably longer than it should be, to be honest, as tense moments are drawn out to stretch this into a 95 minute film. I'd call this movie perfect if it were about 60 minutes long (and more likely aired as something akin to a Twilight Zone episode).
Films based on games
When I was looking up more information about this film, I found out it was based on a small indie game "The Exit 8" that came out in 2023, so I downloaded it onto my Playstation 5. Since I just saw the film, I knew the game's premise and in about 20 minutes I beat the game after a few frustrating loops where I missed some key details.
I'd suggest anyone wanting to check out either of these things to follow my lead and do the film first, then the game. If you played the game, the movie would likely seem slow as it explains game mechanics you already know. It would also spoil some surprises if you played the game first. The movie is much richer in story telling so playing the game after was really a fun little challenge to test myself in the role of the movie's main character and since it was a free game on my Playstation plus pass anyway, it didn't feel like a rip-off to complete the game in just a few minutes.
Lastly, I've seen a ton of films based on video games and they are usually pretty bad but this is a really good adaptation that takes the game as its base and really fleshes out a larger story from there. It's fair to say it might be one of the best video game adaptations to date.
Highly recommended.

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A day in Portland Finally got around to checking out one of the ...

2026-10-23T03:26:12Z

A day in Portland

Finally got around to checking out one of the Northwest Trolls, this one nearby in Oregon, with most being up in Washington state. I love how these look in person and now I want to see them all.
Then I headed up to the Japanese Garden to see how the Fall color was coming along. The famous tree looks like it already lost most of its leaves before the whole gardens have turned but here are some color highlights.

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Dodge/Jeep made yet another EV that no one wants, nor needs, nor ...

2026-10-20T03:15:16Z

Dodge/Jeep made yet another EV that no one wants, nor needs, nor will buy

Stellantis, the company behind car brands like Fiat, Dodge, and Jeep, has a rocky history of releasing plugin hybrids that burst into flames as well as EVs that are consistently reviewed poorly and sell in ridiculously low quantities.
Let's recap their EV journey so far.
The Jeep Wagoneer S
In 2024, Jeep released the Jeep Wagoneer S, a pure EV luxury SUV that was a little odd. For one thing, the Wagoneer badge had come from a classic off-road ready family hauler, but this is a 600hp pavement monster not designed to touch gravel roads. The name they chose for it is confusing because Jeep already has a relaunched Grand Wagoneer model that they've sold for a few years but it is more of a competitor to the Chevy Suburban, a family-sized luxury truck. So this Wagoneer S EV shares nothing with its namesake vehicles.
The Wagoneer S came out two years ago, and right now you can find these $72,000 luxury EVs selling for below $30k. It sold so poorly that Jeep canceled it in 2025 and there are no 2026 models.
The Dodge Charger EV
The Dodge release of an all-new Charger, their long beloved muscle car brand, as a pure EV in 2024 was a spectacular failure.
First, they tried to sell these cars to guys in America who wear their preferred internal combustion engine like a badge of honor. No amount of "but an EV has way more torque and will be faster than any gas version of this same car!" would convince them that this wasn't a "wimpy EV" that they wouldn't be caught dead in. A typical Charger customer probably makes a derogatory joke about a Toyota Prius at least once a week in their daily lives, and Dodge thought they'd buy this?
Masculinity is so tied to the Charger brand that I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to make a new version of the Charger, initially available only as an EV for their existing customer base. They could have named the car anything else so there was no confusion for their biggest fans, but they didn't.
The second biggest mistake was that they made a gas version of this car, but it didn't come out until a year later, so fans of a new Dodge Charger knew they wouldn't get the car they really wanted for a whole year. When that did come out it had a smaller engine than previous versions and that's not selling too well these days, though people are still lining up for the souped up Hellcat model.
Every review I read about the Charger EV said it felt half-heartedly rushed to market, had a dumb super loud fake exhaust speaker to sound like a gas car (who wants that?!), had no EV trip planning software in the dash (bold choice, Cotton, let's see how that works out for them), it was overpriced, and it was made for a driver that doesn't currently own (or even like) any of Dodge's cars.
On the plus side, I think it's still the only 2-door EV you can buy in America, which is kind of cool, but this car arrived on Dodge dealerships in January 2025 and less than two years later can be found gently used down to $25k (original list price was $60k).
Jeep's plugin-hybrid disaster
This one hits close to home because I actually own a 2022 Jeep Rubicon 4xe plugin-hybrid that I've built up into a capable off roader. I've written about its checkered history in my own garage, but the short version is my Jeep has spent weeks to months in the shop getting recalled parts replaced, including the entire battery system earlier this year.
Personally, I wanted this kind of "best of both worlds" Jeep to work, since it lets me drive it as a pure EV on errands around town, but I can also drive it to Utah (while getting 15mpg, lol) to explore trails out there. What I've found in practice is that it gets about 12-15 miles of electric range so I can run one or two errands in the city on a full charge. The added weight of batteries and all the extra wiring does hold it back off road a bit, since similar Jeeps save about 500lbs of weight over this model. The 4xe trim also limits some of the modifications I can do to it.
Jeep has had to recall the 4xe several times, including the letters I got from Jeep on two separate occasions that urged me not to park my Jeep in a garage for several months because a few dozen of them spontaneously burst into flames across the country.
Jeep's new Recon is pretty weird (and not in a good way)
Jeep's newest off roader is the Recon. They boast about how it's "trail rated" so it can go deeper off-road than other EVs, but that's an extremely low bar. They also talk about how fast it is, with its 600hp motors, but going fast isn't really what is needed in off road capable jeeps.
The Recon EV is chunky, blocky looking, and comes with all-terrain tires. What I've found after driving thousands of miles in EVs is that tire rolling resistance and aerodynamics are some of the biggest deterrents to an efficient EV. I've watched early launch videos of Jeep enthusiasts driving the prototype Recon and even at 100% battery, the dashboard frequently shows a range of 195 miles or so.
A sub-200 mile range for a $60-70k EV is going to be a tough pill to swallow.
My Jeep, sans doors
Doors off
The doors coming off is another big draw in the Recon marketing, but honestly, as someone who owns a Jeep and has taken my doors off, I only use the feature for spotting rocks on particularly gnarly terrain. I would never take a Recon on hard trails because no matter how much they protect the battery pack underneath, I wouldn't feel comfortable dragging the belly of this EV across rocks and expecting nothing bad to happen immediately after.
I get that people like a doors-off open air feeling at the beach, but the feature was originally developed for hardcore off road use, and it provides no benefit in that regard because you'd never take the Recon on trails that required that level of rock-spotting. The removable doors also make the Recon look uglier and chunkier and I would prefer to see one without them.
Market fit
The Recon is being pushed as something close to a Jeep Wrangler in what it can do, with every photo I've seen of it being tested out in remote wilderness, on rocky trails, and fording streams.
But it's a compact SUV with a little ruggedness added. It's much closer to a Ford Bronco Sport in terms of actual off-road capabilities. It's more of a smaller version of a Toyota Highlander than a Toyota 4Runner.
Jeep keeps pushing the Recon as an adventure vehicle that can do anything and go anywhere, but as someone that has owned several EVs and now an electrified Jeep, I think its trail capabilities are way overblown and Jeep is misleading their customers. Additionally, Jeep's pursuit of adventure in the Recon takes away too much from what makes driving an EV great, like quiet, efficient, comfortable driving.
Jeep produced a new EV that can't really go too far beyond where other EVs can. Realistically, you can take a Recon on gravel roads and up mild mountain passes but given its low ground clearance I would not take this on pretty much any challenging off road trail anywhere.
The Recon also suffers from range issues more than other EVs, with an upper bound at 200 miles for their Moab version. The Recon needs recharging every 100-120 miles in real world driving and that's an issue because the places with trails where you want to explore off road are always an hour's drive or more from any town with an EV charging infrastructure.
Honestly, I'm the exact target market for the Jeep Recon. I'm interested in EVs and have owned several over the past ten years. I love exploring off-road trails so much that I spent the last few years building my own Jeep dedicated to it.
This should be the perfect new vehicle for me, but:
It's not a good EV thanks to a blocky design on chunky tires sucking much of the efficiency out of it
It's not a good off roader because it's just slightly more capable than a Subaru Crosstrek wilderness edition.
I predict the Recon will flop like Stellantis' previous ventures into EVs.

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An impromptu mega EV road trip A family member needed to move ...

2026-10-18T03:07:18Z

An impromptu mega EV road trip

A family member needed to move from Seattle down to the LA area in a hurry last week, and the best car I had to move a whole apartment's worth of stuff safe and dry was our VW ID Buzz van. But it is an EV and I did wonder how it might affect a long trip, but headed out in it for the first leg of my journey.
This would be my third EV road trip of over 1,000 miles (here's: 1 & 2). This time, I went around 2,600 miles, from Portland up to Seattle and back, then down to Ventura, Los Angeles, and Pasadena before heading back to Oregon. I covered it all from Monday to Friday of this week, and even had time to attend the Dodgers game in LA.
The surprising cost of EV vs gasoline
In total, I charged the car 19 times during the trip using paid, level 3 chargers from Rivian, Tesla and Electrify America. Each stop I spent about 20 minutes charging and it came to $516.45 for the entire trip, while adding 2-4hrs total to my travel time when compared to gas car trips I've taken on the same route.
That may seem expensive, but if you compared it to a gas-powered minivan on a 2,600 mile trip getting 20mpg, with fuel being around $5.50/gallon currently that same road trip would have cost $715.
The wild thing is that when you pay for EV recharges, you pay around 50-70 cents per kilowatt, whereas electricity through my local hydroelectric co-op only runs about 5 cents a kW at home on a L2 charger. Even with profit on top of the real cost of electricity, the EV came out cheaper (if the van got 25mpg, the fuel costs would still exceed the EV costs at $572).
MVP of the trip: A Better Route Planner
When I first picked up the VW Buzz, I checked EV subreddits looking for good EV trip planning software. In the past, I would just use PlugShare or the car's built-in nav with a lot of guessing personally about how far I should go between stops (which can be quite stressful).
Everyone on reddit says ABRP (A Better Route Planner) is the best EV route planning app so I downloaded it and paid for a pro account and tried it on my first trip back to Oregon from Texas with the Buzz last December. I found it was not as good as the built-in VW nav because it had no idea what the actual status of the battery was. I would wildly overestimate how far I could get between stops, and frequently gave bad advice on where to charge. It stressed me out so I stopped using it.
For this trip, I wanted to give the app another try because it felt tedious to use half a dozen map and charger apps to figure out where I wanted to stop every few hours on the way down to LA. On the plus side, I learned while researching ABRP that it could be greatly improved with the use of a bluetooth OBD port tool, which lets the car to talk to my phone and the app, giving it the ability to always know exactly how much battery I had left.
I bought a OBDLink CX halfway through my trip, clicked it into the Buzz and then connected my phone and suddenly ABRP really was the best app I've ever used for EV road trips.
Screenshots of ABRP, the first is the compact view showing all the stops ahead, the second is how the "trip dashboard" looks on your phone, then a daytime shot of the full app in CarPlay
It was honestly a million times better than the built-in nav in the car itself. I customized it to say I preferred Rivian Network chargers, then Electrify America chargers in a pinch, and Tesla if there were no other high speed options. The app immediately conjured up a long list of great chargers in good locations for the whole 950 miles home. I loved how it tells you how crowded a charger is at a glance, by showing you how many chargers were available and how many were taken (showing up in red) in the upper right of the map view.
ABRP natively works with some EV car batteries but if you can connect the OBD port to it via Bluetooth, you will get a route planning app like no other in any EV you drive. At this point I won't use the car's built-in nav again since this is miles better. It's as good as Tesla's built-in software on their cars, which is the gold standard for planning out long EV road trips.
On my trip home, ABRP found fast empty Rivian chargers at almost every stop, which also seemed cheaper than my other options. A small bummer was that Electrify America doesn't have an open API for their chargers, so ABRP couldn't tell me how crowded those charge stops were ahead of time. But given they usually only had 4 chargers total, when I did check upcoming stops in the Electrify America app, every few minutes the stops would be totally busy or empty as people would come and go so the information wasn't super useful.
In general, I really liked the Rivian and Tesla chargers most of all because they were always close to a grocery store and several fast food joints. There was always a place to use the restroom then get water and snacks. Electrify America's chargers were most often at a Walmart or Target, or a supermarket, where using restrooms was a bit tougher.
Dodgers' season ends with a sputter and a whimper
The Dodgers haven't been playing well in the postseason, as most of the team seems exhausted, injured, or both. I didn't have high hopes for another World Series and turns out if you check SeatGeek prices the day before a game, tickets drop significantly, so Greg and Michael and me all got to attend what turned out to be the final Dodgers game of the season.
The Brewers played like the Dodgers of the 2024 season, steamrolling opponents with singles and doubles in late innings and they've looked unstoppable all year long. I hope they take the whole thing.
Final EV roadtrip thoughts
At the start of my trip, I was a little worried about taking a EV on such a long trip without prior planning, but it really turned out just fine. And given how good the ABRP app when connected to a EV, it gave perfect suggestions for stops that never pushed below 20% charge no matter how remote the area I was in. Range anxiety is basically gone now that I have ABRP.
EV road trips are fun if you're not trying to get somewhere as quick as possible. I enjoyed stopping every 150 miles or so to recharge the car and take a break myself for 15-20 minutes. On the trip down I always got snacks and water, on the trip back I slept each time. I've driven to Southern California from Oregon many times and while the trip usually takes about 14 hours, this time that segment took about 16 hours with the extra time for stops.
Overall, I had a great trip. I got to help out a family member, got to push the limits of what an EV can do on a road trip, and had a good time doing it while seeing friends and family. Road trips are usually the biggest sticking point when people consider getting an EV but I can tell you three long trips later, an EV is perfectly fine for distant travels in the US.

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