Continuing the biennial "completely rebuild my #backpacking water filtration and storage system" (DIY quick release bite valve so I can plug in my gravity filter to the same inlet)
@Verso I'm using Porkbun as my registrar and for dyn dns. Many of the common dynamic dns tools seem to now support the porkbun api for updating. I'm specifically running opnsense as my router and it uses the popular ddclient on the backend for updating, which now has porkbun support: https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient . ddclient is on homebrew if you wanted to try it out on the command line first (could script it up via cron on a dedicated box, which I thought about doing till opnsense updated ddclient).
@marioguzman Smart Keyboard Folio is my preferred as well. Classic design that works great. I really can't stand the weight and thickness of the floating style smart keyboard.
Starting to write the R values on our sleeping pads now that we have apples-to-apples ASTM numbers available. Some of the revised ASTM values are a significant drop from original claimed R values. #camping#backpacking
@Verso R value in this case is insulating rating (0-1 = nada, 1-2 = summer only, 4+ now we’re getting somewhere). Manufacturers for years had no common standard set for this so some were just sort of making it up. ASTM institute set industry standards just last year so after a century of outdoor gear sales we finally have some way to truly know how warm a sleeping pad will keep you.
Seattle Public Schools is really going to suffer from cutting off HCC and advanced academics. Seattle private school applications are through the ROOF right now because of this. SPS will end up losing students, losing funding, and slip into a precipitous decline even worse than it is now.
(my kids both go to public, my wife teaches in public… we’re advocates for public education but none of the current SPS policies will result in positive outcomes for public education)
@cheribaker Plenty of schools will end up reducing staffing even further as a result of this. I know private schools that are head hunting teachers out of public in seattle right now. this is going to be a brain drain of talent and capability but it will have eliminated some bad looking numbers for SPS that, rather than address, they chose to just erase by killing off these programs.