chris "fool" mccraw
@fools.website
community builder, Tex-pat, cyclist, jackass of some trades, tech refugee.
it's not just burnout. You deserve to be you! Some suggestions and encouragement in rediscovering your why: brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/ - h/t @whitep4nth3r.com
Eject disk.
A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you.
What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to ...
brilliantcrank.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
it's not just burnout. You deserve to be you! Some suggestions and encouragement in rediscovering your why: brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/ - h/t @whitep4nth3r.com
"one day, you will die, and your legacy will be washed away when someone forgets to renew the DNS." (I wonder if you'll enjoy the journal I read that from as much as I did: stillness.digital)
Stillness.Digital | A Place To Rest
A website built just for you, which expects nothing of your time. Breathe freely, old friend.
stillness.digital
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"one day, you will die, and your legacy will be washed away when someone forgets to renew the DNS." (I wonder if you'll enjoy the journal I read that from as much as I did: stillness.digital)
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March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The world can be much better. This article is somewhere north of hopepunk - maybe just hopeful or even promising? Maybe it'll cheer you up in a constructive way, too: ourworldindata.org/much-better-.... H/T @whitep4nth3r.com whose newsletter (buttondown.com/weirdwideweb...) is always tasty.
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
ourworldindata.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The world can be much better. This article is somewhere north of hopepunk - maybe just hopeful or even promising? Maybe it'll cheer you up in a constructive way, too: ourworldindata.org/much-better-.... H/T @whitep4nth3r.com whose newsletter (buttondown.com/weirdwideweb...) is always tasty.
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"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin
February 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin
Did you know Amazon is turning off "download-ability" of the content you've purchased from them, starting tomorrow?
(cf news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307...) It's not too late to back up what you've bought! This is the tool I used: github.com/treetrum/ama... (h/t @calavera.dev ).
(cf news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307...) It's not too late to back up what you've bought! This is the tool I used: github.com/treetrum/ama... (h/t @calavera.dev ).
GitHub - treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader: Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already...
Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased. - treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-...
github.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Did you know Amazon is turning off "download-ability" of the content you've purchased from them, starting tomorrow?
(cf news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307...) It's not too late to back up what you've bought! This is the tool I used: github.com/treetrum/ama... (h/t @calavera.dev ).
(cf news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307...) It's not too late to back up what you've bought! This is the tool I used: github.com/treetrum/ama... (h/t @calavera.dev ).
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Portland! If you're interested in bicycle touring, a few others and I are giving presentations about past adventures tonight (Thurs 20 Feb) at Migration on North Williams. I'll speak first, at 630p. Hope to see you there!
February 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Portland! If you're interested in bicycle touring, a few others and I are giving presentations about past adventures tonight (Thurs 20 Feb) at Migration on North Williams. I'll speak first, at 630p. Hope to see you there!
12 hours into civilization 7 and it's twice now crashed and lost hours of work each time. Really pretty, but really poor quality experience on the PlayStation overall. Will I learn to save more often, or will I learn it's not worth my time to keep playing?
February 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
12 hours into civilization 7 and it's twice now crashed and lost hours of work each time. Really pretty, but really poor quality experience on the PlayStation overall. Will I learn to save more often, or will I learn it's not worth my time to keep playing?
spent a couple weeks riding up and down the central California valley, and now you can read along if you want to: foolishtravels.com/vsummary
Central California Valley Bike Tour, January 2025
foolishtravels.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
spent a couple weeks riding up and down the central California valley, and now you can read along if you want to: foolishtravels.com/vsummary
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for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do
Back on the road again, a couple weeks in so-far sunny central California. You can follow along at foolishtravels.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Back on the road again, a couple weeks in so-far sunny central California. You can follow along at foolishtravels.com
has anyone ever sold their twitter handle to a stranger, and if so, how did you handle the handoff (so you got your money and they got their handle)? I think I'm ready!
January 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
has anyone ever sold their twitter handle to a stranger, and if so, how did you handle the handoff (so you got your money and they got their handle)? I think I'm ready!
Give yourself a Christmas present and just delete some stressful old email you don't want to respond to. Kudos to my therapist for that gift!
December 26, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Give yourself a Christmas present and just delete some stressful old email you don't want to respond to. Kudos to my therapist for that gift!
It was a privilege to be a small but early part of this revolution. Thanks so much for all of the safety, @letsencrypt.bsky.social !
Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
December 22, 2024 at 3:22 PM
It was a privilege to be a small but early part of this revolution. Thanks so much for all of the safety, @letsencrypt.bsky.social !
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The holiday movie we've all been waiting for: James Bond on cargo bikes
December 8, 2024 at 12:47 AM
The holiday movie we've all been waiting for: James Bond on cargo bikes
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Bike fun is for everyone — including all the fine folks on #bsky! Head to the year-round Shift calendar to find out about all of the bike fun happening in the Portland area, or post and lead your own ride!
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/
#pdxBikes #bikeFun #shift2bikes
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/
#pdxBikes #bikeFun #shift2bikes
Calendar
Rides calendar
www.shift2bikes.org
December 6, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Bike fun is for everyone — including all the fine folks on #bsky! Head to the year-round Shift calendar to find out about all of the bike fun happening in the Portland area, or post and lead your own ride!
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/
#pdxBikes #bikeFun #shift2bikes
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/
#pdxBikes #bikeFun #shift2bikes
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We believe:
🚲 Change happens quickly
🚲 Our streets can become safer in a day
🚲 There's momentum for climate action & transportation equity
🚲 Bikes & cargobikes are essential
We believe we can go further together.
Will you join BikeLoud as a monthly member? bikeloudpdx.org/donate/
3/3 Thank you!
🚲 Change happens quickly
🚲 Our streets can become safer in a day
🚲 There's momentum for climate action & transportation equity
🚲 Bikes & cargobikes are essential
We believe we can go further together.
Will you join BikeLoud as a monthly member? bikeloudpdx.org/donate/
3/3 Thank you!
Donate
BIKELOUD is all-volunteer and 100% bicycle powered. Every donation makes our actions louder, our programs smarter, and our streets safer.
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bikeloudpdx.org
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
We believe:
🚲 Change happens quickly
🚲 Our streets can become safer in a day
🚲 There's momentum for climate action & transportation equity
🚲 Bikes & cargobikes are essential
We believe we can go further together.
Will you join BikeLoud as a monthly member? bikeloudpdx.org/donate/
3/3 Thank you!
🚲 Change happens quickly
🚲 Our streets can become safer in a day
🚲 There's momentum for climate action & transportation equity
🚲 Bikes & cargobikes are essential
We believe we can go further together.
Will you join BikeLoud as a monthly member? bikeloudpdx.org/donate/
3/3 Thank you!
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Shoutout to all the softies still striving to become the best possible version of themselves while the people who gleefully embrace hatred and greed are rewarded with ever-increasing power. Being gentle and kind will never be a weakness.
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Shoutout to all the softies still striving to become the best possible version of themselves while the people who gleefully embrace hatred and greed are rewarded with ever-increasing power. Being gentle and kind will never be a weakness.
Don't forget to laugh out loud sometime. Even in dark times, there is still some funny ha-ha amidst the funny uh-oh, and laughter has power to move your mind to a place where you can see a brighter future, and help you carry on.
November 17, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Don't forget to laugh out loud sometime. Even in dark times, there is still some funny ha-ha amidst the funny uh-oh, and laughter has power to move your mind to a place where you can see a brighter future, and help you carry on.
Every morning, rain or shine, I take a walk around wherever I am. I struggle to sit and meditate, but I enjoy walking & it hits a lot of the same chords - and helps wake the body up, too. I then get to check "make steps goal" off of my todo list for a nice dopamine boost to start the day.
November 15, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Every morning, rain or shine, I take a walk around wherever I am. I struggle to sit and meditate, but I enjoy walking & it hits a lot of the same chords - and helps wake the body up, too. I then get to check "make steps goal" off of my todo list for a nice dopamine boost to start the day.
What have you found to bring some light to your life in these trying times, friends? Here's some of what I found in my recent emotional spelunking: fool.medium.com/and-then-4ad...
And then?
I’ve been wondering how I am doing lately. Last I was writing here on medium, I was about to set out on my grand adventure…
fool.medium.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:36 PM
What have you found to bring some light to your life in these trying times, friends? Here's some of what I found in my recent emotional spelunking: fool.medium.com/and-then-4ad...
One of my oldest friends (from high school times) wrote to me today after losing touch for about a decade. We are reconnecting, and it is heartwarming and delightful! I bet one of your friends from the past would love to hear from you. It's not awkward at all, and now is a great time to reach out!
November 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM
One of my oldest friends (from high school times) wrote to me today after losing touch for about a decade. We are reconnecting, and it is heartwarming and delightful! I bet one of your friends from the past would love to hear from you. It's not awkward at all, and now is a great time to reach out!
Hello, world. Not sure I'll be very active here but one never knows. I should see your messages though, if you send them! But email/text still preferred for faster notice/response.
November 1, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Hello, world. Not sure I'll be very active here but one never knows. I should see your messages though, if you send them! But email/text still preferred for faster notice/response.