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We celebrated my 40th birthday by attending the 25th anniversary screening of the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring.

It was great to see one of my favorite scenes on the big screen again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9xPQHI9G0

Crucial Track for January 16, 2026: "Best Mistake" by JamisonParker

More feels from the turn of the century.

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So I guess this is what 40 feels like.

📌 Just bookmarked:

GitHub - mr-karan/doggo

Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang

https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo

#bookmarks

"Just breathe normally."

Sorry doc, that's impossible now that I'm aware of my breathing.

Crucial Track for January 14, 2026: "Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)" by Taking Back Sunday

Let's emo like it's 2002.

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🚦 Oh the embarrassment of not realizing I'd stalled my car until after the traffic light turned green, and then having to scramble to restart the engine and (smoothly) take off.

In my defense, I've only been driving a stick shift for over 20 years...

Crucial Track for January 13, 2026: "Better Days" by Yellowcard

I greatly enjoyed seeing Yellowcard a few months back with A Day To Remember, and I just bought tickets to see them again later this year with New Found Glory.

It's really got me thinking about Better Days.

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Crucial Track for January 12, 2026: "Summon the Fire" by The Comet Is Coming

Some weird sax stuff for a weird Monday morning.

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Well here I go scraping the chrome off of another Chromebook.

Sharing a post I read:

📑 How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE | Electronic Frontier Foundation

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

#postroll

Sharing a post I read:

📑 Phrack Magazine - The Conscience of a Hacker (by The Mentor)

The Hacker's Manifesto turns 40 today.

https://phrack.org/issues/7/3

#postroll

Crucial Track for January 9, 2026: "Halcyon and On and On" by Orbital

This feels like a fitting track for a rainy Friday morning.

(Plus it fits with yesterday's "hacker movie soundtrack" theme. )

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Tom Morello's "Fuck ICE" playlist, because fuck ICE.

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmpyPyUIDX64mMr_w-0jUYQxPXWsru8g4

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5M4GjeLsxGsK7SPtnBasBr

Qobuz:
https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/35599022

Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/us/playlist/14206367621

Let me know if you have a link to it on another service and I'll add it to this post!

Crucial Track for January 8, 2026: "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine

I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to send out this post, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you.

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🫤 I'm baffled by the number of services that will let me change my birthdate but not my email address.

Sharing a post I read:

📑 Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026)

"AI can write code, but AI can't do software engineering."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

#postroll

Sharing a post I read:

📑 LLM problems observed in humans

A reflective essay exploring how classic LLM failure modes---limited context, overgeneration, poor generalization, and hallucination---are increasingly recognizable in everyday human conversation.

https://embd.cc/llm-problems-observed-in-humans

#postroll

n8n is pronounced like "natin'", as in "go away, I'm natin'!"

Crucial Track for January 7, 2026: "Planet Rock (Original 12" Mix)" by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force

Gotta rock it, don't stop it

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