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Early morning indie hacking on the back deck with coffee brewing… Bliss ☕💻

A laptop, an orange water bottle, and a coffee press on a table are set against a scenic outdoor background with a cloudy sky and trees.

I cracked open our back door to be serenaded by the birds this morning. Every Spring I’m reminded how much I missed them during the Winter. 🐦

Yesterday I listened to my daughter’s heartbeat. It got me thinking that the heart is incredible. Let’s say you live to be 90 and average 70 beats per minute:

90 years * 365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 70 beats per minute
= 3,311,280,000 heartbeats in a lifetime.

We are a wondrous creation. ❤️

Google Gemini on the Pixel phone is so nice. I got paper mail from my HOA about a meeting and was able to:

  1. Take a pic of it
  2. Hold the power button to open Gemini
  3. Say “add this to my calendar”

All the details, including location, were saved at the correct time on my calendar. Took seconds.

Today I added a weekly microblogs counter to the top of my homepage. Clicking the link takes you to see all of my microblogs. A while ago I changed my homepage to only list long articles. But this made it hard to surface microblogs, especially on mobile. This remedies that. Plus counters are cool!

A mobile interface displays a blog profile for "Jake Weidokal" featuring recent posts with "5 microblogs this week" at the top.

I’ve been on a weight loss journey and decided it was time for a new professional headshot! I’m fortunate to work with a group of NASA photographers and videographers so I was able to do this for free in our studio!

A smiling person wearing a dark suit jacket and a light-colored shirt stands against a blurred dark blue background.

Trying beans from a new coffee roaster today. Really excited about this place. The owner has personally traveled the world to many of the farms where he sources beans and they only serve pour overs in the shop. I haven’t gotten a pour over there yet, but hope to soon. Troubadour Coffee Roasters A picture of a bag of coffee sitting on a car dashboard with a bright, blurry background

I shared this picture of the joke board with our contractor team today (who are still remote for now) and the responses were:

  • “are the ‘jokes’ written on paper towel?”
  • “We are resigned to using parchment like our ancestors”
  • “you shouldn’t write jokes on the dead sea scrolls”
Jokes written on a large piece of paper attached to the back of a tall desk.

My wife picked up a leather bound journal for me at a thrift store today. I like testing a few pens in a new journal to break the tension of the blank page. After I finished the first page, my daughter climbed up on the couch with me and added her own finishing touches.

a collage with a brown leather notebook on the right, and on the left a notebook page is filled with scribbled text including pen tests and ideas for using a journal, with some red highlighted marks