Brian Jones @jonesbp@sunbeam.city

Columbus Marathon starting area

🎵 Quality time with the PayPal Subscriptions API and the Friends of Dean Martinez cover of “Wichita Lineman” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7Xhb3R83o

This episode of Upgrade with James Thomson is interesting throughout, but particularly enjoyed the final third or so where a history of DragThing provided lots of 90s Mac shareware development nostalgia (ColdWarrior, Kagi, etc.) https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/267

So stoked on Kipchoge’s sub-2-hour marathon yesterday in Vienna. Seems like it must be only a matter of time now that one will happen in proper race conditions. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sports/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-record.html

When trying out a Chromebook a few years ago, I remember being impressed by the Markdown editor Caret, but more as a parlor trick than a reliable tool. Revisiting it at version 4.0, and it has come a very long way. https://caret.io/

Avoiding starting to work by creating unnecessary git repositories that will never be filled with documentation.

I miss Phinery tapes. Always simple, beautiful packaging. Writing documentation and listening to this 2017 Vales release. https://phinery.bandcamp.com/album/tile

Pre-sunrise, post-rain frog song coming in through the window over the heavy drones from this Luciernaga/John Lindaman split from Oxtail Recordings. https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-6

Proud of Amy for bothering to say something about the Nike “Lost Cause” campaign and making something happen https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/12/how-historians-got-nike-pull-an-ad-campaign-under-six-hours

1970s space colony art from NASA Ames Research Center https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/