Week Notes (May 25 2025)

weekly overview

Another week done and a weeknote that is actually on time! That seems a rare enough occurrence these days. As weeks go, it went by pretty fast. With my wife out of town, I was in charge of managing the last week of school for the kids plus trying to stay healthy at the same time (which didn’t particularly happen).

In other news, the neighborhood pool opened this week which the kids loved. We didn’t get to do our other key planned summer activity though: Bowling. I’m particularly keen on doing this with the kids as much as possible (assuming everyone is healthy).

I’m contemplating turning my weeknotes into a newsletter. It’d primarily be for my wife - she doesn’t “get” rss and wants an easy way to keep up with what I write. Sending it out via a weekly email like this makes sense I think. Would anyone else read? (If it matters I’m looking at Beehiiv not Substack - as the button in my footer says, we gotta Fight Fascism)

What I wrote...

• In longform posts, I only reviewed Journelly this past week.
• In shorter form posts I hit CrucialTracks every single day:
• Grendel by SDRE on Monday, FSF’s cover of Bye, Bye, Bye on Tuesday, Sunrise, Sunset by Bright Eyes on Wednesday, The Happiest Place on Earth by Desaparecidos on Thursday, Wanna Start a Band? by Sleigh Bells on Friday, Everything’s OK by Reggie and the Full Effect on Saturday and finally, Loner by Value Pac today!

Links Worth Sharing...

• A fascinating look at architecture vs content.
• This new site could easily become a necessary follow for tracking how our government is being broken. It’s quite new but I’m following closely. The are looking for help as well!
• Think Telegram is secure? Think again. It’s always been problematic and this just confirms it.
• The MIT Technology Review has an incredibly in depth article on AI & energy consumption. And here is another look from the indieweb!
• If you use Tailscale, make sure to enable the tailnet lock! Here’s a wild Reddit story about someone randomly joining a tailnet because the initial user’s domain was classified as a company domain rather than a public domain. More details can be found in the thread (including what Tailscale is doing to mitigate this).

• Looking for a cool new old school web directory of links? Check out url.town! It’s setup by Adam, the proprietor of omglol.

What I Listened To...

In the last week

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