Last Notes
I'm ready to leave this week behind 😮💨. The scene in this photo after today's rain looks a little spooky 👻, but it's also so unique and stunning. It sums up my week perfectly, and I can't wait to rest this weekend 😌.
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🌍 The U.S. Air Force Birthday — celebrating global vigilance, reach, 🎉 and power. ✨ #AirForceBirthday #Celebration
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Public Information Should Be Public
Government updates belong in an open feed By Mark Kennedy Founder · via Open RSS Blog Read original post → I saw this blog post from OpenRSS in my RSS reader, and it...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/10/01/public-information-should-be-public/
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Domains Cost More, Blogs Disappear
I have been noticing a couple of disturbing trends this year outside of the AI/LLM bubble. Has anyone else noticed them? First, domain registrars seem to be raising...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/30/domains-cost-more-blogs-disappear/
Share Buttons: Yay or Nay?
I saw this blog post on https://bubbles.town, and the title caught my attention, so I clicked through to read it. It was also timely because just a few days earlier I had added share buttons to...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/29/share-buttons-yay-or-nay/
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🌍 Strong hearts make stronger 💖 communities. ❤️ #WorldHeartDay #HeartAwareness
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WordPress Drama: Is It Worth It?
I have been holding off on writing about Matt Mullenweg and everything happening around WordPress because I wanted to make sure I wasn't just reacting to the latest round of...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/27/wordpress-drama-is-it-worth/
Beavers built dams that outlasted 130 engineered flood barriers, study finds
I thought this was interesting when I saw this pop in my social media feed. Beavers make better dams and they last longer than...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/25/beavers-built-dams-that-outlasted/
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Okay, let me tell you about my day. I took today and tomorrow off because I am almost maxed out on my vacation time. That is a separate story and not really important to this one. I went to Costco to get a new pair of...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/24/okay-let-me-tell-you/
Hold the presses! After using computers (mostly Windows) for decades, I finally bought my first Mac! I've owned iPads and iPods, but never a Mac. I'm going to use it as part of my local AI plan. Excited to learn macOS and see what I can do with it. 🙂 #Selfhosting
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Another Home for My Writing: Introducing https://Inkwell.social
I found another independent blogging service in the same general vein as https://Micro.blog, https://Scribbles.page, https://Pika.page and https://Pagecord.com. It is called...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/20/another-home-for-my-writing/
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Had a long, productive weekend. I finished a bunch of blog posts I've been working on for a while, so look out for those over the next week 📝. September is my Blaugust 🍂. Finally back to about 90 percent recovered from my cold🤧. Also found a new service this weekend https://inkwell.social. #Blogging
Their fight is our memory. POW/MIA: You are remembered today and always. #POWMIADay
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Got my new glasses today 🤓. Distance & close-up vision are great, intermediate is awful. I have to look over them or switch to readers, now I carry 2 pairs. My computer is fine without glasses straight on, not from the side. 💻 Not sure what to do, especially since Costco won’t redo them for free.
📺 Watched Silo (2023) on Apple TV+
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (4.5/5 stars) Episodes: 10 | Aired: 07-02-2026 The whole season was fantastic. I was worried about the series after Season 2...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/17/watched-silo-on-apple-tv/
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Well, off to bed for me 🛏️. I’ve been sick all weekend and still feel a bit under the weather, but I’m about 70 percent back 💪. Work tomorrow, bills don’t pay themselves 💼.
I started my own Pylova instance, which is a fork of Piefed. I'm trying it out, and it seems good so far 👍. #OpenSource #SelfHosting #PieFed #PyLova
I hate having a cold. Can't sleep and want too. Ugh!!!
Well, it’s official 🤧. I’ve got my first cold of the year 🥶. Feeling awful, but at least I don’t have a fever and I’m not coughing my lungs out. Can someone please pass the tissues? 🧻
The ironic thing is that I just got my flu shot on the 2nd. At least it’s not the flu!
Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance: we remember, we honor, we never forget. ✨ #PatriotDay #Remembrance
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iPhone Duo, not sure this will succeed. Ask Microsoft how their Duo phone went. That price too ouch!
Star Trek at 60
Star Trek aired three years before I was born, yet it has had a significant influence on my life. The only thing more profound and more influential has been my faith and salvation in Jesus Christ, my Lord and...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/08/star-trek-at/
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Been raining here most of the day. Got to work early tomorrow. I am tired. Needed this long weekend. Going to bed! Good night everyone!
On Labor Day, we honor the workers whose skill and effort keep our communities moving. 🛠️
#Holiday #LaborDay
Wishing my dad Steven an amazing 🎉 birthday! 🥳 #birthday
🍿 Watched The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) on Disney+
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (4.5/5 stars) Overall, I liked it a lot. I think Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau do the Star Wars...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/06/watched-the-mandalorian-and-grogu/
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Whatever changes OpenAI made to Codex, I’m running out of credits faster than ever. It feels like Claude and OpenAI have switched roles. OpenAI is catching more bugs 🐞, and Claude (not Fable, since I’m not paying extra for that) seems less smart 🤔. Consistency, people, consistency, please!
TiVo Charging for Skips?
TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement Service By Luke Bouma · via Cord Cutters News Read original post → TiVo, there is a name I...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/09/04/tivo-charging-for-skips/
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🍿 Watched Slingshot (2024) on Prime Video
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS My Rating: ½ (0.5/5 stars) Don't waste your time. It looked interesting and had some big-name actors and actresses, but it wasn't...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/30/watched-slingshot-on-prime-video/
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This has been some week for hardware and appliance problems in my household. Thursday, I had a silent hard drive crash. It could have happened before then, but I didn't notice it until Thursday. The drive was there...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/29/this-has-been-some-week/
Well, the new drive from Amazon arrived today, and it’s defective. It would not even initialize. Replacement for the replacement is coming. #SelfHosting
Well it was the drive lost everything. The drive is 10 years & 3 months old. Powers up but not found by windows. New one coming. Bad time for this with shortages. #SelfHosting
Lost access to a hard drive that’s still physically there but not showing on Windows 💻. It holds some irreplaceable data, though I have an outdated backup. Hard drive prices are sky-high 📈, so I’m trying another PC to recover the data before considering replacement. Fingers crossed! #SelfHosting
Hope your Senior Citizens Day is filled with love and laughter! 😊🎉 #SeniorCitizensDay #Celebration
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Took Them Long Enough, Huh?
Here is another example of what I was talking about in a recent blog post TV Isn't What It Used to Be. According to IGN, the first season came out 3.5 years ago. That is a long time to...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/16/took-them-long-enough-huh/
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🍿 Watched Altered (2025) on Prime Video
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: FULL SPOILERS My Rating: ⭐ (1/5 stars) Not worth watching there were several times I wondered why I was watching this. Plot was kind of a mix of...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/16/watched-altered-on-prime-video/
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No Man's Sky 10th Anniversary
Happy Anniversary to Hello Games, No Man's Sky. It is 10 years, and hopefully another 10. A sequel would be great. Thanks, Sean Murray, for a great game that started rough but has...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/12/no-mans-sky-th-anniversary/
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I’ve been seeing all these new blogging platforms being built on top of ATProto, and it got me thinking: why haven’t we seen more full-fledged blogging platforms built on Nostr? And what about other things like email or chat? #Tech #ATProto #Nostr
TV Isn't What It Used to Be
I don't watch this series, though it has interested me. Still, its general theme fits what I want to talk about here. People wonder why TV viewing and TV series are dying. Well, when you...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/09/tv-isnt-what-it-used/
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It’s been a productive weekend. I got my Tempest Weatherstation set up 🌦️ and moved the Nest TowerCam to the backyard for better views 📸🌳. Now I’m focusing on refining the software side of things in my homelab. So many projects, not enough time ⏳. #SelfHosting #HomeLab #WeatherStation
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Happy Blogiversary to Me, 25 Years!
August 6, 2001, 25 years ago. I started blogging. I had a website made by Microsoft FrontPage and hosted on GTE (now Verizon) in the homepages they offered back in those...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/08/06/happy-blogiversary-to-me-years/
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Learning to Live Without My Glasses
I saw the title of Antonio’s post the other day on https://bubbles.town, “I Couldn’t Live Without My Glasses”, and it intrigued me. The first thing I do when I wake up isn’t checking my phone...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/28/i-saw-the-title-of/
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I know this might be controversial, but ChatGPT 5.6 SOL is really, really good. The tables have turned now, it’s Anthropic’s new model, Claude 5, that reminds me of when ChatGPT first introduced something that felt like a step back. Even in coding, it seems to be outpacing Claude, probably because they hobbled it for the government.
Do you ever have a bunch of blog post ideas bouncing around in your head but no idea where to start, what would actually be interesting, or how to flesh them out? That's been me lately. My vision is improving, but my...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/25/do-you-ever-have-a/
I just wanted to say I saw the news of John C. Dvorak passing yesterday. I hadn't heard much from him in years and often assumed he had retired. I was first introduced to him by watching Leo LaPorte and TechTV back in...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/23/i-just-wanted-to-say/
Responding to the AI Image Debate
I was browsing topics and titles on https://bubbles.town when I came across a post by Panagiotis Vryonis, AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. It reminded me of another...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/19/responding-to-the-ai-image/
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Cheers to 100 Years, Moody Radio
This is a year of anniversaries. Moody Bible Institute turns 140 and Moody Radio turns 100. I listen to Moody Radio almost daily. I think Moody Church and Moody Bible Institute...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/18/cheers-to-years-moody-radio/
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I stumbled on PinePods 🎧 and gave self-hosting a try by setting up my own Docker container 🐳. I’m really liking it so far 👍 and even updated my nostr relay to the latest version . A great way to kick off the weekend . #Selfhosting #Docker #PinePods
France, Spain, & England are in the World Cup semifinals, along with Spain’s former colony, Argentina. It feels like we’re back in the 16th & 17th centuries, when these European powers fought one another & sent privateers after their rivals. Let the privateering begin! 🤣
My Vision's Big Comeback
I just shared good news about my heart journey, and now I can finally share another medical milestone for 2026: my cataract surgeries are done and my vision is back. For the last couple of...
https://mitchelltribe.com/2026/07/10/my-visions-big-comeback/
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