It was time to give my “/tools” page an upgrade! joshuapsteele.com/tools

Any full-time software engineers out there with side hustles / revenue streams in addition to their full-time job? What do you do? Do you enjoy it?

I’m tinkering around with the idea of bringing 8020tools.com back to life, in order to blog about tools, mental models, etc. Since it’s on micro.blog already, I’m going to leverage crossposting. What’s a good Mastodon server to sign up an 8020 Tools account?

Need to make some more money. Is affiliate marketing still a thing?

My fellow Americans: any big plans for July 4th? Are you going with “sackcloth and ashes” or “one last hurrah before the country collapses”? What a time to be alive! 🇺🇸🎇

You wake up tomorrow and you’re the President of the United States. What’s your first “official act”?

Why is Jetpack now trying to charge me for a commercial license just to get basic stats on my personal Wordpress site (joshuapsteele.com)?? Has anyone else faces this issue? Did you switch to something else for basic stats? #wordpress #jetpack

What’s the angriest you’ve ever been at an inanimate object?

Name someone or something you trust more than the US Supreme Court.

Hear, hear. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” ~ Justice Sotomayor

My favorite 4th of July was spent in Mexico City, eating homemade tamales and launching homemadee fireworks. 🇺🇸

If you had to choose, would you rather have the Ten Commandments or these “Elementary Laws of Morality” posted in classrooms? www.artofmanliness.com/character…

Holy shit. “My Unsettling Interview with Steve Bannon” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/0…

Groundhog Day, but he’s got 3 little kids and it takes him the entire movie just to realize he’s in a time loop.

If I really love the following, what else should be on my radar screen? This Old House, Ask This Old House, Essential Craftsman, Project Farm, r/Tools, Cool Tools, The Art of Manliness, Farnam Street, James Clear…

Thinking of starting “Anglicans Anonymous” for people like me who got the heck out of the ACNA. Not to be confused with “Anonymous Anglicans,” AKA the asshats in the comments.

Brb, gonna go become a prepper and dig a bunker for when my country collapses… 🇺🇸

The battery life on my iPhone XR is starting to suck more and more. Thinking about next options. Do I go Android? Stay with iPhone? Ditch the smartphone? What do you think I should do?

Anyone else’s wife walk freakishly fast? Or is it just my wife?

Theologoumenon: Hell is real, but not eternal.