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Since my last update to this page in February 2025, I

• was in a car accident and sustained an acute nondisplaced fracture of the transverse process of my L2 vertebra, which means both that I broke my back and also that I am fine
• have had multiple health challenges (not including the above) for myself and in my family with attendant mixed feelings
• am hanging in there

This page is my contribution to the /now page movement by Derek Sivers.

The weekend begins…

My mum wanted to go see 28 Years Later, so I took her tonight.

Absolute dog shit. Don’t waste your time. Ralph Fiennes was about the only good thing in it.

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Seeing quite a few more music concerts than usual this year. Here’s a few coming up:

• Bandits on the Run
• Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls
• Reneé Rapp (Beatrix going with a friend)
• Bob Mould (Bethany going while Beatrix and I are at…)
• Laufey
• David Byrne

Gemini CLI continues to get hung up on fairly simple things. It’s the free version, using a lightweight model, so I don’t mean to complain too much. Sort of stuck in a loop of trying to update CSS files:

I apologize for the repeated issues with the replace tool. It seems I’m still struggling with the exact string matching. I will try a different approach to remove the old media query block. I will read the file content, manually remove the block from the content, and then write the modified content back to the file. This should bypass the strict matching issues.

Still pretty amazing, though.

After road trips across the country, to California multiple times, all over Texas, through Utah, and to New York… My good luck with the Honda Element ran out this week. Fender bender in a parking lot ripped off my back bumper. It was cracked anyway, so guess it was past time to replace.

Great point from Jeff Johnson on the arbitrary tier 1 / tier 2 differences in Apple’s proposed EU rules:

What I found striking about the search differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 is that in creating this distinction, Apple clearly considers App Store search to be a developer feature rather than a user feature. In other words, the user’s interest in finding an app via search is disregarded, and Apple is willing to be less helpful to users to the extent that app developers pay a lesser commission to Apple.