If, say, I was out with my 3yo and she had to use the restroom, if there were no single-person option, I would most likely take her to the men’s restroom and use one of the stalls. Personally, I’d feel quite uncomfortable taking her to the women’s restroom. What would you do?
A “Collect” prayer for Juneteenth: joshuapsteele.com/a-collect…
Always fun to get emails related to old blog posts. Today’s was from George, asking for motor-mounting instructions for his old Craftsman 113 table saw! Prompted by: joshuapsteele.com/vintage-c…
Claude, Codex, and I are putting together FGAPerf, an OpenFGA performance testing tool at github.com/joshuapst… Thought I was going to have Fable power throughout, but, Ope, that got ripped out from under my feet! 🫠
My least favorite part of each World Cup is having to listen to Alexi Lalas… Maybe he’s a great guy in real life, I just really don’t like listening to him on TV!
Never too late to leave the SBC!
Just signed-up for my first half marathon in years: the Garmin Toledo Half Marathon on September 20, 2026! runsignup.com/Race/OH/T…
Worth your time: www.theringer.com/2026/05/2…
Sheesh, the furnace scene in Toy Story 3 still gets me every time. 🥺🥹
What’s your favorite song or hymn to sing at Pentecost?
Do you use any AI-enhanced tools for voice-to-text dictation? Which one(s) do you recommend?
Where are my fellow typewriter enthusiasts?
I never thought the Last Days™️ would have such great memes!
Had some fun building “LinkLog” with Claude’s help today. Check it out at links.joshuapsteele.com/. Code is at github.com/joshuapst… Go application running on a DigitalOcean Droplet. Drafts Action hits an endpoint to publish. I can edit/delete via /admin.
Just saw “The Great Gatsby” musical. Great show. But now I’m curious what people would say: Who’s the worst person in the story/book? The second-worst?
Still mostly convinced that this MAGA hellscape is God’s judgment on the USA for becoming the kind of nation that would elect and re-elect a patently evil madman. That he’s had broad evangelical support throughout is absolutely damning. I blame no one who has left the USA church over all this.
I do miss weekly Holy Communion. It was liturgically jarring to hear an Easter sermon on the Emmaus road passage (one that even mentioned the importance of the sacrament) and not receive the Eucharist.
I keep seeing more debates about whether Islam is inherently violent. What’s the best discussion of this issue that you’ve read? I know how I’d argue that Christianity is not inherently violent, but when the Department of War’s plastering Bible verses on their propaganda…well, I get the objections!
Two dishes I reminisce about regularly: Double Spicy Chicken from The Red Pearl in Birmingham, AL. And the Pastrami at The Beast and the Barrel in Chattanooga, TN.
This is a pretty cool interactive map of the power grid(s): opengridworks.com