John Beales
@johnbeales.com
#Webdev & #Indie Life.
🚲 Urban & Winter #cycling & cycling advocacy.
🌱 #Gardening
🌲 Environmental stuff.
🚚 #Trucking Thoughts
📷 Photos!
🔗 johnbeales.com
🚲 Urban & Winter #cycling & cycling advocacy.
🌱 #Gardening
🌲 Environmental stuff.
🚚 #Trucking Thoughts
📷 Photos!
🔗 johnbeales.com
Nice waffle setup!... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-12-14t113655-0500/
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nice waffle setup!... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-12-14t113655-0500/
@Manton - He talked about it on Mostly Technical just over a week ago. IIRC he's coming from Feedly.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-12-05t103541-0500/
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@Manton - He talked about it on Mostly Technical just over a week ago. IIRC he's coming from Feedly.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-12-05t103541-0500/
Just dumped a semester's worth of reading on my Books I've Read page.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-11-27t212853-0500/
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just dumped a semester's worth of reading on my Books I've Read page.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-11-27t212853-0500/
I hear a U-Haul being loaded under cover of darkness. ?... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-30t204442-0400/
October 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I hear a U-Haul being loaded under cover of darkness. ?... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-30t204442-0400/
Test image micro post. Will delete later.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-26t164520-0400/
September 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Test image micro post. Will delete later.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-26t164520-0400/
Happy Friday!
🚚Truck Spice No. 5 is out: Giant Lottery Cheques Edition.
Boring news week, but I found some gems.
Spend 5 minutes reading them at www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic...
#truckspice #trucking #truckdriver #truckingindustry
🚚Truck Spice No. 5 is out: Giant Lottery Cheques Edition.
Boring news week, but I found some gems.
Spend 5 minutes reading them at www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic...
#truckspice #trucking #truckdriver #truckingindustry
Truck Spice No. 6: Giant Lottery Checks
The news is boring this week, but I found some weird stories that are actually interesting.
www.truckspice.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy Friday!
🚚Truck Spice No. 5 is out: Giant Lottery Cheques Edition.
Boring news week, but I found some gems.
Spend 5 minutes reading them at www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic...
#truckspice #trucking #truckdriver #truckingindustry
🚚Truck Spice No. 5 is out: Giant Lottery Cheques Edition.
Boring news week, but I found some gems.
Spend 5 minutes reading them at www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic...
#truckspice #trucking #truckdriver #truckingindustry
Finally got into testing Claude Code tonight and so far I'm impressed. It got the most severe bug from Sentry, proposed, and implemented a solution, and changed course when I wanted to do things differently.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-08t213935-0400/
September 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Finally got into testing Claude Code tonight and so far I'm impressed. It got the most severe bug from Sentry, proposed, and implemented a solution, and changed course when I wanted to do things differently.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-08t213935-0400/
On the phone with PayPal customer support - they're pretty helpful, but this is becoming a tech support ticket... Hopefully it gets resolved before a customer gets double-billed!... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-05t172234-0400/
September 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On the phone with PayPal customer support - they're pretty helpful, but this is becoming a tech support ticket... Hopefully it gets resolved before a customer gets double-billed!... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-05t172234-0400/
🚚Truck Spice No. 4: CDLs Everywhere!
This week featuring continued fallout from the Florida U-Turn, Zero-Skill CDLs, and non-Compliant ELDs.
#truckdriver #truckspice #trucking #truckingindustry #cdl
This week featuring continued fallout from the Florida U-Turn, Zero-Skill CDLs, and non-Compliant ELDs.
#truckdriver #truckspice #trucking #truckingindustry #cdl
Truck Spice No. 4: CDLs Everywhere
We seem to be focused on CDLs this week.
www.truckspice.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚚Truck Spice No. 4: CDLs Everywhere!
This week featuring continued fallout from the Florida U-Turn, Zero-Skill CDLs, and non-Compliant ELDs.
#truckdriver #truckspice #trucking #truckingindustry #cdl
This week featuring continued fallout from the Florida U-Turn, Zero-Skill CDLs, and non-Compliant ELDs.
#truckdriver #truckspice #trucking #truckingindustry #cdl
Reposted by John Beales
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
🚛 Truck Spice No. 4: Breaking Through the Sameness 🚛 Dive into fresh trucking news! No driver shortage, just tough conditions. Plus, a $15M truck heist! Read more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics #Trucking
Truck Spice No. 4: Breaking Through the Sameness
Most news this week is left over from last week, let's try to find something fresh.
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August 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚛 Truck Spice No. 4: Breaking Through the Sameness 🚛 Dive into fresh trucking news! No driver shortage, just tough conditions. Plus, a $15M truck heist! Read more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics #Trucking
Noticed a referral to my site from copilot.microsoft.com just now. Nice to see some LLMs link back to sources.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t140035-0400/
August 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Noticed a referral to my site from copilot.microsoft.com just now. Nice to see some LLMs link back to sources.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t140035-0400/
Posting to legacy social media platforms when promoting something sure feels like throwing a speck of dust into the algorithmic wind and hoping something big happens.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t135830-0400/
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Posting to legacy social media platforms when promoting something sure feels like throwing a speck of dust into the algorithmic wind and hoping something big happens.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t135830-0400/
🚛 Truck Spice No. 3: Florida U-Turn 🚦 Dive into the fallout from the Florida U-Turn crash and its impact on the trucking world. Read more on this week's headlines: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #FloridaUTurn #Trucking #TruckingIndustry
Truck Spice No. 3: Florida U-Turn
We look at the Florida U-Turn Fallout and more.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚛 Truck Spice No. 3: Florida U-Turn 🚦 Dive into the fallout from the Florida U-Turn crash and its impact on the trucking world. Read more on this week's headlines: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #FloridaUTurn #Trucking #TruckingIndustry
Posted about performant homepage hero units with video backgrounds: johnbeales.com/2025/perform...
#webdev #webperformance #frontend #html #css
#webdev #webperformance #frontend #html #css
Performant Video Hero Backgrounds - John Beales
I just put a video in the background of the hero area of 4RoadService.com, and spent a bit of time making it so it performs well. Mostly, this post is a place for me to remember the ffmpeg incantation...
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August 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Posted about performant homepage hero units with video backgrounds: johnbeales.com/2025/perform...
#webdev #webperformance #frontend #html #css
#webdev #webperformance #frontend #html #css
I just put a video in the background of the hero area of 4RoadService.com, and spent a bit of time making it so it performs well. Mostly, this post is a place for me to remember the ffmpeg incantations that I used. Video Size The... https://johnbeales.com/2025/performant-video-hero-backgrounds/
August 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I just put a video in the background of the hero area of 4RoadService.com, and spent a bit of time making it so it performs well. Mostly, this post is a place for me to remember the ffmpeg incantations that I used. Video Size The... https://johnbeales.com/2025/performant-video-hero-backgrounds/
Doing a rare bit of video editing and telling myself that it would justify a new computer.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-16t145044-0400/
August 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Doing a rare bit of video editing and telling myself that it would justify a new computer.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-16t145044-0400/
🚛 Dive into Truck Spice No. 2: Heavy Hook! Explore air freight, towing, and the latest on environmental (de)regulations. Who's suing who? Find out more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics
Truck Spice No. 2: Heavy Hook
Back with air freight, towing, environmental (de)regulations, and who sues who.
www.truckspice.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚛 Dive into Truck Spice No. 2: Heavy Hook! Explore air freight, towing, and the latest on environmental (de)regulations. Who's suing who? Find out more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics
So I got #BlueSky cross posting working from my #WordPress #Microblog... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184509-0400/
August 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
So I got #BlueSky cross posting working from my #WordPress #Microblog... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184509-0400/
Made a change to a new thing I’m working on. One of the hardest things to do is to just let the change do its work and not stare at analytics all day.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184413-0400/
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Made a change to a new thing I’m working on. One of the hardest things to do is to just let the change do its work and not stare at analytics all day.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184413-0400/
Importing a giant SQL file to recover some old data.
Fortunately it looks like it’s going to take as long as it’ll take me to make a cup of coffee.
Fortunately it looks like it’s going to take as long as it’ll take me to make a cup of coffee.
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Importing a giant SQL file to recover some old data.
Fortunately it looks like it’s going to take as long as it’ll take me to make a cup of coffee.
Fortunately it looks like it’s going to take as long as it’ll take me to make a cup of coffee.
For anyone looking for a Garmin watch this summer, I updated my printable to help choose a watch size: johnbeales.com/2025/2025-ga...
#Garmin #Forerunner #Runningwatch #Running
#Garmin #Forerunner #Runningwatch #Running
2025 Garmin Forerunner Watch Printable - John Beales
A couple of years ago I made a printable to help me decide which Garmin running watch to buy. That is one of the more popular posts on the site, so I decided to make a new printable for the 2025 lineu...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
For anyone looking for a Garmin watch this summer, I updated my printable to help choose a watch size: johnbeales.com/2025/2025-ga...
#Garmin #Forerunner #Runningwatch #Running
#Garmin #Forerunner #Runningwatch #Running
This is looks like fun, but I've got no clue what I would build!
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TRMNL e-ink devices is hosting a bookreader plugin hackathon.
"There are four (4) prizes available. First, a single winning plugin will be chosen for each category:
Plugins for 📚 Librarians
Plugins for Book Clubs
Plugins for Book Readers"
usetrmnl.com/blog/hackath...
"There are four (4) prizes available. First, a single winning plugin will be chosen for each category:
Plugins for 📚 Librarians
Plugins for Book Clubs
Plugins for Book Readers"
usetrmnl.com/blog/hackath...
July 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is looks like fun, but I've got no clue what I would build!
Spent the afternoon working on reducing N+1 queries on 4RoadService, and I managed to reduce a page from 150 queries to 29.
I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed!
#Laravel #PHP #Performance
I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed!
#Laravel #PHP #Performance
July 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Spent the afternoon working on reducing N+1 queries on 4RoadService, and I managed to reduce a page from 150 queries to 29.
I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed!
#Laravel #PHP #Performance
I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed!
#Laravel #PHP #Performance
@manton.org I believe you have mentioned that the Mac & iOS clients for micro.blog are open-source. If I’m remembering correctly, where is the source so I can take a look at it?
I want to make my WordPress blog know when I’m posting from the micro.blog client.
I want to make my WordPress blog know when I’m posting from the micro.blog client.
Micro.blog
Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.
micro.blog
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@manton.org I believe you have mentioned that the Mac & iOS clients for micro.blog are open-source. If I’m remembering correctly, where is the source so I can take a look at it?
I want to make my WordPress blog know when I’m posting from the micro.blog client.
I want to make my WordPress blog know when I’m posting from the micro.blog client.