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  Another picture taken at Avila Beach in central Cal for #PhotoMonday. This one gets the #Monochrome treatment. Fitting, as it was a somewhat gray day with on and off rain. Harbor/pier view with a line kayaker heading toward the beach.

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  The azalea cried out to be photographed. #PhotoMonday

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  Why is #macOS deciding to re-mount volumes I explicitly ejected since 26.4? Seems to happen whenever the mac wakes from sleep. Grumble.

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  I was going to take a picture of the cat yard art as I’d just 3D printed it a new body. Then the flowers grabbed my attention. #PhotoMonday

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  A #PhotoMonday image of what I'd have liked to see today, not the gray sky and rain I actually saw. At least the rain broke long enough to take a walk.

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  #SwiftLang odditity. When can't you trust string count? When you need to add a \r for reasons let string1 = “12345\r” let string2 = “12345\r\n” string1.count == string2.count Both are of size 6 which is not helpful when trying to build a network packet and need to count ALL the bytes. Grumble. I kind of remember this from way back when.

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  I really should remove these outdoor speakers. They are 30+ years old and never used because they sound like crap. But the birds find it a place to nest almost every year. This #PhotoMonday image is from a couple years ago. This year the nest is on top of its companion speaker on the other side of an 8' sliding door.

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  After some web site under-the-covers changes I was checking access logs and noticed that 301 redirects never go away, they just get expanded. Example: the site hosts an archive of messages from an email list that went away in 2013. Messages are still being referenced by “http://host.name/path/message.html%E2%80%9D in spite of 301 redirects to “https://www.host.name/path/message.html%E2%80%9D that have been in place a very long time. I guess the redirects I just added do to some renames may nev...

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  A #PhotoMonday image taken years ago. I saw a “door" picture posted by @sidewalksafari and thought “hey, I've got at least one of those” This is the one that came to mind.

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  Avila Beach in Central Cal on an on and off rainy day. #PhotoMonday

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  The status of the web in 2026 from my tiny little corner… I have a small web site. It is mainly for family, a local motorcycle group, and the home page of an app I maintain that has active users. I’d realistically expect to get maybe 100-200 hits a day, sometimes less, probably more after an app update. What do I actually see? ⁃ 10K to 15K daily hits from known bots ⁃ 2k to 3K initial page hits — guess: mostly unknown bots The pages that are hit enough times to make my "top twenty...