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@mark@tapbots.social

Designer/co-owner https://tapbots.social/@tapbots. Currently busy building https://tapbots.social/@ivory, a Mastodon Client for iOS and the Mac with @paul and https://tapbots.social/@todd!

Obsesses over bikes (MTB, Trials, Dirt Jumpers) Apparently I get hurt too much doing dumb (yet fun!) things on bicycles for a kid in his mid 40's. Before bikes I obsessed over racing cars and go-karts on the track for 10 years.

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I really want to get this plate for my wife's Model Y. If only it wasn't such a hassle to change it.

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Speaking of terrible build quality of Teslas, I came home and noticed the trim falling off of my wife's car for no reason. She didn't hit anything. It just came apart on its own. Took a second to pop the clips back in, but why is it coming apart in the first place!? The other day the front tow hook cover was hanging by a cable for no apparent reason too. 🤷‍♂️

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@WTL But I was never drinking the koolaid. When I bought mine, there were no other good EV options out there with this combination of range, performance, and price point.

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@ssamulczyk I can see that in some places, but not in my town and where my wife is going. It’s definitely not that.

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@ssamulczyk I know where my wife parks the car. The car records video 360 degrees and gives alerts if someone touches the car and we can review video. Trust me, no one touched it. Teslas are just terribly built pieces of garbage. I've had countless things come apart on this car already for no reason. Interior as well as the plastics that protect the underbody. Those carbon lip spoilers that they put on the back of the performance models? Those don't even fit the car. They eventually fall off.

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This past weekend was pretty memorable. Went to Bentonville, AR for Bike Fest. I only brought my e-bike as our goal was to get as much riding in as possible over 3 days. Broke my lower cage on my derailleur, rain dumped on us in the morning of day 2, and day 3 was just perfect. Officially clocked 92 miles of riding during our trip.

Photo of my broken rear derailleur maybe an hour into our first ride. I was riding a bunch of skinnies (elevated wood beams that you can ride across like an obstacle course to test your balance) and I pretty easily cleared them all. But as my front wheel rolled off the last part, I started to pedal and I guess my back wheel was on the very left edge of the wooden blank. I think the power of the e-bike motor caused the wheel to spin and my back wheel slide off the end of the plank on the left and my derailleur landed right on the plank causing it to snap. It was a very costly mistake. I called all the bike shops and luckily found one that had a spare that I could purchase. Stayed off the skinnies for the rest of the trip. 😅 It was painful every time I passed them because I love skinnies.
My bike covered in mud. Not shown is the whole backside of me covered in mud as well.
Photo at night of a party going on at the YT Mill. YT is a (German??) bike company that is pretty popular in the US. They just opened a new shop in Bentonville.

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Unfortunately on the night before we were going to head home, a Tornado rolled through the area and caused major damage all over town. My car sustained a bunch of hail damage, but luckily nothing worse. Large trees fell over many homes and cars. Power lines down everywhere and trees blocked most of the streets. We were lucky enough to just barely make it out. The event had to be canceled for Sunday because of all the damage.

Another photo of debris all around the tiny home.
Photo of the streets as we were driving out. Covered in debris from trees.
Screenshot from my car’s dash cam showing trees fallen all over the streets. There’s a small opening in between the trees that I was able to barely squeeze through.

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We got to see some great shows at the event, check out a bunch of booths of our favorite biking brands, and just be around like-minded people who have a passion for bikes and riding.

Photo of a pro rider spinning his bike 360 degrees in front of him before landing a jump. I don’t know what this trick is called, but it looks incredible. 😅
Photo of a pro rider doing a backflip over a jump. A few of them did front flips as well which are much harder to do.
Photo of a rider completing a tail whip over a jump.

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Here's a short clip of one of the trials riders practicing for an upcoming event. A lot of the riders were here from all over Europe since this was a UCI event.

Video clip of a trials rider hopping up to a tall log, balancing on his rear wheel and then hopping off.

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Carson Storch is a pro redbull sponsored rider (who rode redbull rampage). Here's a clip of him going down the jump line.

Video clip of Carson Storch doing tricks on 3 different jumps.

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Here's a video clip of me riding down one of the jump lines at the castle.

Footage of me riding a jump line. I have a DJI Osmo Action cam mounted to the chest area of my backpack.

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And this was a very fun trail that had a bit of everything. We rode it about 4x to get more comfortable carrying more speed, but I couldn't get myself to go faster to clear some of the jumps. But some of the locals say this is one of the fastest trails in the area. It's called Interplanet Janet. I know everything looks flat in the video, but it was mostly downhill and had great features.

Video clip of me riding down a trail called Interplanet Janet. A fast downhill trail with rocky/chunky areas, jumps, and great berms.

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Neighborhood snake crossing. 🐍

Video shot with my iPhone of a snake crossing a sidewalk in to the grass one afternoon while we were walking our dog.

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@fahrni Don't think so. But I'll keep my distance from any snake if I can. I've run over a few with my bike on trails and those are always the most terrifying moments.

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Are movie theaters dying or is it just at my locstion? About to watch IF with the family and shocked that there’s almost no one here today. 🤯 This is a pretty nice theater too. We are the only people in this movie besides one senior watching solo.

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Pro Tip: In a pinch, you can charge your Apple Pencil on the back of an iPod.

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Texas has some of the strangest town names.

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And then there's places like Paris, Texas that has an Eiffel tower monument with a cowboy hat on top. Though in this small town, they hold the Redbull UCI Pump track World Championship qualifiers. I've ridden there once, but should probably get out there more often. https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/red-bull-pump-track-world-championship-paris-texas-usa

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Been working on a redesign of our website for awhile and I keep looking at the current homepage (https://tapbots.com) and still think it looks great (okay, maybe not the mobile version). Makes it hard to keep pushing forward on a new design when the "work in progress" doesn't look nearly as good as what's already there. I'm sure something will click if I just keep pushing forward. Design is hard.

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to share a candid photo of my furry pig… (Edit) I mean dog.

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Was trying to rent a truck at Home Depot to transport something and was turned down because my driver's license expired at the beginning of April. 😳 Not sure how I missed that. Went back into my car, pulled up the Texas DOT website, paid the fees ($30) and my license now expires in 2032. Walked back into Home Depot, showed the guy my temporary ID from my phone and rented the truck for $24 (had to return within 75 minutes). That was easy considering how things started!

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My first NAS. I should have gotten one years ago, but better late than never. I retired my 12 year old Promise Pegasus 2 R4 which has been running flawlessly on the original drives, but getting it to connect consistently after the move to Apple silicon Macs has been annoying.

What I'm more excited about is the fact that I just cancelled my Dropbox account after what must be around 15 years of use? Their service has gotten worse over the years and I'm glad to be done with it. Notes in ALT text.

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@andycarolan The software has been great so far.

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If you have a Synology NAS and use Safari's "Add to Dock" feature for your DSM, I threw together a quick icon for it.

https://d.pr/f/EjNwMC

There's probably better ones out there, but I did a quick search and didn't see anything so I just created this one. Figured I'd share it.

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Synology and DreamMachine icons are like two peas in a dock.

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@masukomi it’s just the web interface with safari’s “add to dock” option.

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