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alabut

@alabut@techhub.social

šŸ’¼ Designer & startup vet

šŸš“ Amateur bikepacker

šŸŒž Pro Californian

Fun: #SanDiego | #bicycle | #bicycles | #cycling | #bikepacking | #bicycletouring | #bikecamping | #camping

Work: #startup | #startups | #design | #product | #productdesign | #productmanagement | #ui | #ux | #UIUX | #UXUI

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vanderwal, to random
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Over the past few weeks Iā€™ve been pushing at cultures and their impact on how we and global regions of the world think and process the world around them in very different ways. It has long been a known (going back to college and before) growing up on the West Coast and the interwoven and collision spaces where western and Asian cultures intermingle, but also woven with Latin American cultures. Then living in Europe.

There was a term used, but I canā€™t sort what it was.

alabut,
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@vanderwal this is fascinating stuff. Sounds like youā€™re on a fun and rewarding intellectual journey? The last time I dove deep into similar topics was courtesy of Jared Diamondā€™s seminal Guns, Germs & Steel. Itā€™s the only book Iā€™ve recommended to my parents that they actually liked šŸ˜‚

I saw him speak at a commonwealth club lecture at the Castro Theater, it was an absolute highlight.

vanderwal, to random
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This isnā€™t a bad line-up and scored early. No Sterling and with Mudryk in things are moving and there is aggressive play on offense.

The Mudryk yellow was pure BS.

alabut,
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@vanderwal fun game! I came back from a long bike ride and watched the highlights with my wife, who has an incredible poker face (literally, as in she won the only tournament she ever played in) and so I thought maybe the disasterclass continued.

I canā€™t tell from the highlights if they were good or Bournemouth were bad, but Iā€™m at least glad to see youth getting a chance. I read a long thing (in The Athletic I think?) about which players would do well under Pochettino ā€” the two younger guys they mentioned both started and one scored.

alabut, to random
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Proof that I love using my Apple Watch as a phone replacement. Anyone got a lower score?

motoridersd, to random
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Going to a cousin's wedding in Temecula

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alabut,
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@motoridersd looking smooth!

pinskal, to photography
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Lineup
Photographer Jon Pinter

alabut,
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@pinskal whoa, these are gorgeous. Where in San Diego is this?

JustTooOdd, to random

Verstappen's lack of self awareness is remarkable. Not surprising, but remarkable.

alabut,
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@jewishreader @JustTooOdd he got into a shouting match with Russell in the pits.

motoridersd, to random
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Aww, Nate Silver is out at ABC/Disney

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alabut,
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@motoridersd why the schadenfreude?

anouk_ver, to animals Dutch

Can't believe this worked, but I made Bennie look like this today, to make me feel better. It helped.

I also had a good courier shift. Easy on the amount of deliveries and sunny weather. Worth a smile on the way back home.

I feel slightly better now. Tomorrow a check up at the vet for Ben, so šŸ¤žšŸ» everything looks okay. That would also help ease my mind for a bit.

Selfie picture of a female cyclist wearing colourful shirt and green helmet. She is riding a road bike in sunny weather.

alabut,
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@anouk_ver Bennie looks like your cycling team doctor, haha.

jina, to random

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Sad to have learned that my Uncle Dave passed away. We were trying to do a family trip this year to see him. Sad we werenā€™t able to make that happen in time.

Uncle Dave was a kind and generous man. When I was 7, my brother and I lived with Uncle Dave and Aunt Nimfa. It was supposed to be a temporary summer arrangement. But on my 8th birthday, his home burned in a fire.

ā€¦

alabut,
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@jina Iā€™m so sorry, he sounds awesome.

NatHeathir, to random

Carbon River hiking today!!! 13+ miles today!!!

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alabut,
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@NatHeathir beautiful shots, very inspiring!

motoridersd, to random
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I should play with his ears, shouldn't I?

alabut,
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@motoridersd I nibble on my chihuahuas ears. Or rather, I try to ā€” theyā€™ve got great reflexes and judo out of the way somehow.

MartyCormack, to random
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Day 35
After 15 miles of commuting to/from a road safety seminar, I went out on the first club group road ride this evening. It was the first nice day in a couple weeks and everyone and their dog were on the trails, which made the road parts of the ride easier to navigate. We had a good group at a good pace for an early season group ride. The ride was 25 miles, but I added 14 getting to/from the start for a 54 mile day.


Blue and black Roubaix bicycle leaning against an old fencepost at dusk. There is an open field behind, hills in the distance and the sky is mostly pink with backlit streaks of clouds. The rear red light on the bike is pretty bright.

alabut,
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@MartyCormack thatā€™s a really great shot of the bike at dusk, very evocative.

motoridersd, to random
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Ordered some Shimanos that one of my friends loves. Overnight shipping rate is decent, so, I should have them before my trip.

I need cycling shoes if I'm going to be riding in France. That is, if the weather allows it.

alabut,
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@motoridersd I have some Shimanoā€™s that are supposedly the wide version and they still pinch a little. A got great tip from ā€œbike Mastodonā€ that the Lake brand is the go to for people like me with platypus flippers.

alabut,
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@motoridersd youā€™re so lucky! Iā€™m practically Fred Flintstone.

joeyabanks, to random

Still havenā€™t gotten COVID (knock on wood), and still wearing a mask everywhere I go. Anyone else?

alabut,
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@joeyabanks glad to hear it and Iā€™m right there with you. I wish it wasnā€™t so damn rare but at this point Iā€™m just happy that masks are normalized enough around here that I donā€™t feel like a freak and get weird stares.

But I still keep seeing pics from design conferences and other industry events without a single mask in sight and Iā€™m like wtf?!?

jina, to random

Been watching The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. I like that they normalize talking about death.

It also makes me want to get rid of stuff. Not that I plan on dying soon. But anything can happen. Canā€™t imagine leaving all my stuff behind for my family to go through. šŸ™ƒ

alabut,
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@jina oof, that gives me flashbacks to the death doula episode of Atlanta shudder

alabut, (edited )
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@jina thatā€™s cool. Grief is like my kryptonite though and I donā€™t handle it well, so even super uplifting stuff like Coco totally destroys me. To each their own!

motoridersd, to random
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The Spotify app sucks. It only pulls the song data once, and then it displays this same information over and over. It's also closed source so I can't run it locally. Lame

alabut,
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@motoridersd oh, that definitely is cool. Iā€™m tempted to get one and pair it with my stream deck to make an Apple Music dashboard with cockpit controls.

Hereā€™s my handy little toy, itā€™s particularly invaluable on Zoom calls.

alabut,
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@motoridersd itā€™s been a gamechanger just for the Zoom calls alone. I hated fumblefingering the key combos to mute before a cough or to hang around on-camera while trying to exit the room or end a call.

Even whenever I did it fast, it just felt weird to contort into the finger kungfu positions, and of course every app has different shortcuts. E.g. Discord, Google meet, etc.

Now itā€™s fast like lightning and fun like a game!

alabut,
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@motoridersd And if you plug it into home assistant and other things, it extends really well too. At first I made separate folders right on the main screen and would dive into them manually, now Iā€™ve learned to set up different profiles that get triggered depending on the active app.

Itā€™s like Appleā€™s Touch Bar but physical and satisfying instead of confusing and unreliable smooth glass controls.

alabut,
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@motoridersd right on! One thing to note, in case you care ā€” they came with a step up model after I got mine that has dial knobs that you can use for all kinds of stuff, not just volume. So like color temp and brightness of a compatible external light, or whatever.

https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck-plus

I really like having old school stereo-style real knobs for volume, so I ended up getting a cheap standalone one off of Amazon and am pretty happy with it, but figured Iā€™d give you a heads up.

alabut,
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@motoridersd right on! Iā€™m sure youā€™ll take pics so I can live vicariously through your purchase šŸ˜‰

alabut, to animals
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Got up at dawn and took my little four-legged rooster to his happy place.

alabut,
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@Aviva_Gary thank you! Heā€™s 15 but full of energy (too much honestly)

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

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    alabut,
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    @Rycaut @atomicpoet @fediversenews exactly right ā€” a competing new thing has to be much better than an established incumbent, not just replicate existing features and sprinkle a bit of ā€œbut itā€™s open!ā€ on top.

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