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Committed to going snowboarding next Friday for the first time in ~3 years! Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.

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📣 NEW blog post: "A year of childhood cancer: 10 lessons that changed me" open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...

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🗣️ I'm off work for three weeks, so I did the next logical thing: start a Substack! I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection." Read the intro post 👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...

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I'm officially off work until January 2, thanks in part to Washington FMLA. Time to reflect on a hell of a year. No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video). First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲

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I just got notified a USPS package got delivered 9 hours in the future, but I did just see Interstellar so I'm not really surprised.

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🤔 At what point can we graduate from the term "modern browsers"? What does that even mean?

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"It is far more radical and dangerous to have hope than to live hemmed in by fear." – Suleika Jaouad

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❓ Legitimately curious: how do you decide on social communities and content to interact with? Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few. What's your approach?

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In a year orbiting around our 5-year-old son's leukemia treatment, today I'm acutely thankful for: - Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life - Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation 💛🎗️

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Excited for December primarily to build holiday LEGO. I'm up to 5 sets and bought white bases for a lil village 🎅🏼🧝🏼‍♂️🎄🏡

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~15 years on Twitter, a stint on Bluesky, a year+ on Threads. I still gravitate back to these apps, though the fragmentation has killed a lot of value for me. Personally I have less to say, so it's becoming mindless consumption. What keeps you here? Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?

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I resisted this, but I may need to segment my social apps with a purpose instead of following everyone everywhere. Since the network effect was lost, it's been exhausting to know where to post and spend time. - Bluesky: tech/web/career - Threads: photo/video/creativity - Twitter: stragglers ???

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Ok, the summer 4-day weeks at my new job have been amazing: 1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff. 2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack and have fun.

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Well, I think I have to quit Wordle now.

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Someone at work mentioned Crash Test Dummies— Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧

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I can't stop thinking about what we're trying to accomplish with our time and technology. Convenience? Speed? Connection? Happiness? Play? What makes you optimistic (or pessimistic) about where technology is heading?

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every now and then, whoever is in charge of salt and vinegar flavour at the pringles factory, goes absolutely rogue with the seasoning i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me

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As a kid, I never owned a Gameboy or any console. Sometimes I played N64 Mario Kart and Tony Hawk at friends' houses. Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘

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Every January: "I'm gonna write more blog posts this year!" Every other month:

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I'm taking an absolute 🔪 to old emails, subscriptions, newsletters, etc. I had rules piping this stuff to folders but I NEVER READ THEM. What a mental relief to unsubscribe from all but a few and start fresh ✨

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It's 2023 and we're still charging separately for print and ebooks...

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I'm restarting Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks" with a couple of friends and who knows, I might highlight the other half of the book...

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My excitement of new glasses is always instantly tamed when they show up and make my eyes look way smaller than when I tried the frames at the shop

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The past few months have ushered in a golden era for CSS and Web UI. Here are 20 of the most exciting and impactful features that landed recently or are coming soon. Authored by @una.im, @nerdy.dev, and yours truly. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/whats-new-css-ui-2023/

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There's very little like the feeling of losing a key fob that would cost $400 to replace. I'm mad at myself mostly, but for that price you think there'd be emergency tracking built in or something.

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@jaketapper.bsky.social bro can you stop perpetuating "skeet" so hard?

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Some coworkers talked about their home espresso machines and suddenly I'm oddly OK with the idea of spending $3,000 on a machine 🤦‍♂️☕

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A job is just doing homework all day

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Reminder that no matter how the economy is performing there will always be a loud group of people saying: - Big recession around the corner - Hyperinflation imminent - The dollar is doomed - The Fed broke everything - Stocks are overvalued Been like that for 100+ years.

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Curious about WA state parks' cancellation policy for tent camping reservations? ⛺Don't worry, they made the fees nice and simple for us:

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Yesterday we drove by a Honda dealership and my 4yo yelled at the top of his lungs: "HONKER!!!" It occurred to me that he thinks the logo on our steering wheel is a horn symbol 😆

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Finally got access to Arc!

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Yeah, tying terms to the other/similar/previous thing isn't a good long-term play.

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Vanguard just allowed me to CLOSE an account... online... without having to talk to anyone or mail anything. I cannot explain how victorious this feels, and I should probably quit while I'm ahead.

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