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Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke.bsky.social
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Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
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"🎶So make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into...🎶"
Hand painted lettering on a commercial glass door saying "follow steps arrow for entry", with an arrow, in the sense of "use other door".
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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It's kind of amazing how these things jump out at you in the dark. Maybe if there were a light on it or something the driver might have seen it...
A light pole in the middle of a parking lot, on top of a large concrete pedestal, bent over and leaning at a 45 degree angle. The potential fall area is surrounded by caution tape and traffic cones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Went over to the Sonoma community center to see the elephant sculptures. Worth the trip, these are cool. thegreatelephantmigration.org
A sculpture of an elephant, made from long thin branches nailed on to a substructure, with surprising detail around things like ear curves and the tip of the trunk. Two life sized elephant sculptures, in front of the entrance pillars of a large brick building.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Not sure if hungry or brazen, but out in broad daylight in our neighborhood...
A raccoon on a walk beside a house.
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
Sitting on a router table, it's a handle carved from a medium colored hardwood, with a hacksaw blade protruding from it.
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Wacky... Lemme try some other browsers. This was in Vivaldi (Chromium rendering engine).
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...
www.kluweoc.com
screenshot of the Gmail line saying "Chris Kluwe for Ass.", and then the subject and first line, "What I'm bringing to this race" and "An unwavering and unapologetic attitude."
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".

Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...
A screen shot of the top right of a MacOS desktop, with the pull-down for wireless and audio settings having a completely transparent background over the windows behind it.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma
The backs of a lot of people holding up various signs, with the heads of the "ride on" inflatable unicorn costumes that Charlene and I are wearing in the foreground.
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.
A screen capture of a transparent "Comet Helper (Plugin) wants to use your confidentail information stored in "Chrome Safe Storage" in your keychain. To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password.", with transparent background,superimposed over a combination of Apple System Settings, and the Comet splash screen, in a completely unreadable mess.
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Yesterday I went to a Catholic funeral, my first time attending a service in that sect. This morning I walk by St Vincent de Paul and there are food vendors and the churros truck has "come to sin" painted in the side, and... I'm tempted.
A "Churroteka" food truck parked in front of the reaching spires of the church. The food truck has the slogan "come to sin" painted on the side.
October 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Stolen from bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/...
Welcome. This place is a blessing and part of a system of blessings. Cherish it deeply! Sending this blessing was meaningful to us. We considered ourselves a joyful community. This place is a place of honor. Many cherished deeds are celebrated here. Everything valued thrives here. What is here was nurturing and delightful to us. This blessing is a message of hope. The hope is in a special location, it radiates outward from a center. The center of hope is here of a unique shape and size and beneath us. The hope is ever-present, in your time, as it was in ours. The hope is for the spirit, and it can heal. The form of the hope is a flow of light. The hope is shared freely when you lovingly engage with this place physically. This place is best embraced and cared for.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Facebook threatens me in the notifications: "you could be on the public engagement list for 'The Information' this week." A good reminder that laugh reacts to the AI shill posts are still engagement.
Screencap of a Facebook notification reading "you could be on the public engagement list for 'The Information' this week."
September 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Variety with a link to the monologue: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...
200 station affiliate owner Nexstar: www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-...

Matt's prescience:
xoxo.zone/@mathowie/11...
A screen cap of a November 6, 2024 post of Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone: "I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we’ve hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately".
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I think it's the "Translate to English" on this YouTube "Ah ffs man" comment that really makes it shine.
A screen capture of a YouTube comment by "@bevmaddison8159 5 years ago" that reads "Ah ffs man", below which is a button offering to "Translate to English".
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The amaryllis belladonna have been lasting a lot longer this year, but alone the road I've been ready to say that the naked ladies have lost their bloom. But in the shade
Several pink flowers, on long stalks, rising beside the corner of a barn, in spattered sunlight and shade. Several pink flowers, on long stalks, rising along the side of a barn, in spattered sunlight and shade.
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Sunday in Petaluma
Picture, through the chain link fence at the Fairgrounds, of crushed cars. Presumably from the monster truck show.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This is helping me coalesce my thoughts around a few groups* that I'm trying to turn from a scene into a culture...

(* Square Dancing generally, and Petaluma Urban Chat, but probably also applies to discussions about portions of the social web...)
A screen shot of a comment on Metafilter by the user "clew" reading: "I find this distinction useful: if a group isn’t multigenerational it isn’t a culture, whether main or sub; it’s a scene. Scenes are much more common but they don’t often last long."
September 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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To be fair, ChatGPT is operating at the level of a number of PhDs that I've met over the years...
A conversation with ChatGPT in which the question is "How many strawberries are in the word R?", the response is "The letter "R" has 3 strawberries."
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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The polyurethane I used on this counter sucked, so I'm sanding it all off, inlaying some Ipé around the sink to replace the damaged wood, then gonna finish it with rolled on 2 part Stone Coat.
An empty sink hole in a maple countertop, with spring clamps holding pieces of Ipé in place.
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Thank you Google AI overview: "No, the year 2000 was not 25 years ago; in fact, the year 2000 was exactly 25 years ago in the year 2025."

(Found 'cause it looks like they fixed the "Was 1995 30 years ago" bogosity that's floating around.)
The Google Search AI overview for the search "was 2000 25 years ago", which reads "No, the year 2000 was not 25 years ago; in fact, the year 2000 was exactly 25 years ago in the year 2025."
August 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The SFBABC.org in conjunction with Beautify Petaluma put two benches in at Bob's Beach this morning.
Beside the Petaluma River: A brownish orange bench in the foreground, with a woman standing behind it pushing gravel into place, in the background another bench with people sitting on it.
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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WTF is this? MashDigi is giving this word salad, the headline suggests "Chromebook sales will reach 2023 million units in 1700". Can't tell if this is a machine translation error, or just malicious prose.
A screen capture of a MashDigi page headlined "Market research data: Chromebook sales will reach 2023 million units in 1700", and the body text reads "Although many people are not optimistic about the development of the Chromebook market, statistics such as sales on Amazon's service platform show that Google's revenue in this area is not bad. In fact, sales grew to 2015 million units in 540, which is higher than Apple's Mac series. Market research statistics also indicate that Chromebook market sales will grow to 2023 million units in 1700."
August 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Archive.is just asked me to prove that I'm not an automobile driver in order to proceed.
A captcha image of a street intersection, with "Select all squares with crosswalks".
August 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"🎶I need a gyro 🎶 I'm holding out for a gyro till the end of the night🎶"
August 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM