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## Posts
- [I jailbroke my Kindle today](https://johntracy.com/2026/09/i-jailbroke-my-kindle-today/): I jailbroke my Kindle today, mostly because I discovered KOReader and got curious about what else the hardware could do. Now I have an open-source reader, more control over my books, reading statistics, and a lot of settings I don’t understand yet. Which is usually how the interesting projects start.
- [Book review: 11/22/63 – stephen king](https://johntracy.com/2026/09/book-review-11-22-63-stephen-king/): I went into Stephen King’s 11/22/63 expecting a time-travel story about changing history. Somewhere along the way, almost without my noticing, it became something else entirely: a love story about the life we find while pursuing other plans, and what remains when time refuses to let us keep it.
- [August](https://johntracy.com/2026/09/august/): August pushed work stress to a breaking point and forced me to think more seriously about what comes next. I’m making changes, considering new opportunities, and trying to separate the desire for meaningful change from the urge to simply escape. Outside of work, cooking, time at the lake, and a little creative space have helped me remember what feeling engaged and optimistic can look like.
- [august, in pictures](https://johntracy.com/2026/09/august-in-pictures/)
- [Held Together with Dental Floss and a Prayer](https://johntracy.com/2026/05/held-together-with-dental-floss-and-a-prayer/): Finals week in an independent school is a strange mixture of exhaustion, ceremony, logistics, and controlled chaos. Between AP exams, commencement events, MacBook collections, foundation repairs at home, and a neighborhood power grid apparently held together with dental floss and a prayer, this week has felt like an extended exercise in keeping systems, and myself, running just a little longer.
- [Dinner at SpringHouse](https://johntracy.com/2026/05/dinner-at-springhouse/): we went to dinner at SpringHouse near Lake Martin.
- [The MacBook Neo, After Hands-On Time](https://johntracy.com/2026/05/the-macbook-neo-after-hands-on-time/): I went into my hands-on time with the MacBook Neo expecting compromises, and there are a few. But after actually using it, most of those concerns faded pretty quickly. It’s not trying to be the best Mac Apple makes. It’s trying to be the right one for most people, and it succeeds.
- [nye nyc 25-26](https://johntracy.com/2026/01/nye-nyc-25-26/): We left Montgomery on Sunday morning, December 28, already packed and ready to start our journey. That morning was really just coffee, breakfast, and the quiet routine I do when I know we are about to be away from home for a few days. I took Maverick around the block for a walk, the same way we usually do in the mornings. He had no idea what was coming, but I did, and I wanted that little bit of normal before we got in the car.
- [Holiday Cooking, Food Gifts, and a Christmas Brunch at Home](https://johntracy.com/2025/12/holiday-cooking-food-gifts-and-a-christmas-brunch-at-home/): The holidays are my favorite excuse to spend more time in the kitchen, making food gifts, cooking for family, and turning leftovers into something worth writing about.
- [Leftover turkey… pot pie!](https://johntracy.com/2025/12/leftover-turkey-pot-pie/)
- [Even the A.I. takeover is exhausting](https://johntracy.com/2025/12/even-the-a-i-takeover-is-exhausting/): Every movie I ever saw and all the books I ever read about its takeover are only ever from the perspective of those living post transition or in a very rapid development process.
- [My adhd realization](https://johntracy.com/2025/11/my-adhd-realization/): I swear this is as explained so much about me and how I interact with people… and how I forget to interact with people… and how I’m afraid to interact with people because I forgot to interact with those people!!!
- [my “un-birthday” party](https://johntracy.com/2025/11/my-un-birthday-party/): I want to talk about what an absolutely wonderful and memorable evening I had this weekend. It is a reminder of what is really important in this very strange life that we all share slices of, and I couldn't be more grateful for what happened.
- [Seriously wtf? “I, [then state your name]…”](https://johntracy.com/2025/11/seriously-wtf-i-then-state-your-name/): Historically speaking, he may not be the actual worst president that there ever was; he is definitely the dumbest.
- [fortnightly roundup in pictures](https://johntracy.com/2025/10/fortnightly-roundup-in-pictures/)
- [Meet Olive](https://johntracy.com/2025/10/meet-olive/)
- [Looking back at Summer Break 2025](https://johntracy.com/2025/08/looking-back-at-summer-break-2025/): Some summers have their own rhythm. They allow time for slow mornings, long afternoons, and evenings that stretch lazily into the night. This was not one of those summers.
- [Starting at the Hour](https://johntracy.com/2025/06/starting-at-the-hour/): Over the last several months, I’ve been slowly working my way into the world of watchmaking and repair. It started as a curiosity. I wanted to understand how something so small could be so precise. And now I’m learning just how much there is to it—mechanical movement, finishing, hands, case alignment, tolerances, materials, tools, mistakes. A lot of mistakes.
- [Backpacking cheaha with Thomas](https://johntracy.com/2025/03/backpacking-cheaha-with-thomas/): We left this morning around 10:30 and drove to Lineville, AL to have lunch before we embarked on our short backpacking trip we stopped at Jack’s. I got a chicken sandwich. It was literally one of the best chicken sandwiches I’ve ever had. It just needed to be spicier. Jack’s is a favorite of Thomas’s so that’s why we went there.
- [Midnight magnolia](https://johntracy.com/2025/02/midnight-magnolia/)
- [League curling](https://johntracy.com/2025/02/league-curling/): So… I did a thing: I joined a curling league... did I mention that before?
- [Garlic chili crunch](https://johntracy.com/2025/01/garlic-chili-crunch/): Ingredients:
- [cybersecurity gray hairs](https://johntracy.com/2025/01/cybersecurity-gray-hairs/): Yesterday was a day. Not just any day, the kind of day that makes you want to crawl back into bed, hug your favorite blanket, and whisper, "Not today, world." Because while my network was behaving itself (thank you, firewall gods), the same couldn’t be said for one of our servers managed by a vendor. Yep, someone decided our data looked like a tasty snack, and I was left to clean up the crumbs.
- [So this is the new year](https://johntracy.com/2025/01/sothisisthenewyear/): I think the problem with New Year’s, as a concept for me is focused so heavily on the clean slate aspect that it makes resolutions that are not about reinvention seem unworthy of the event. I want to be clear in how I say that is, with full understanding, from my point of view I’m not assuming that this is how those people see this.
- [Ice skating is a cultural phenomenon, I guess](https://johntracy.com/2024/12/ice-skating-is-a-cultural-phenomenon-i-guess/): Yesterday I took Thomas and a friend of his to the Montgomery Whitewater Park, which is, as the name might imply, a kayaking and rapids obstacle water course, it was recently used as the time trials for the USA Olympic team to determine who would make it to the Olympics.
- [I killed podcasts and you can too](https://johntracy.com/2024/12/i-killed-podcasts-and-you-can-too/): I stopped Listening to podcast probably sometime at the end of summer or the very beginning of fall.
- [Curling](https://johntracy.com/2024/12/curling/): Curling is such an expensive sport. It really is insane that it can exist in anyway you have to have sheets of ice that have the right type of pebbling that gets applied to you have to have outrageously expensive stones that way 40 to 50 pounds and I do mean expensive these stones are $10,000 apiece. It takes eight of them to form half of a set so one team stones just really a lot to think of and keep up with just to even play the game.
- [Birria tacos](https://johntracy.com/2024/12/birria-tacos/): That's it, that's the whole post, so good!
- [Day 2 – Toledo: Foggy Beginnings and Grand Endings](https://johntracy.com/2024/12/day-2-toledo-foggy-beginnings-and-grand-endings/): The day started early, with all of us groggily boarding a bus bound for Toledo, an ancient gem of a city about an hour south of Madrid. Toledo isn’t just old—it’s really old. As in, "Hey, this bridge was built in the first or second century BC" old. The city is a tapestry of temples, moss-covered walls, and cathedrals that could probably tell a thousand stories if you listened closely enough.
- [Day 1 – USA to Spain](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/day-1-usa-to-spain/): Our trip to Spain started with a delay, as all great travel adventures do. The flight was overbooked, and the airline went full game show host trying to get volunteers to stay behind. They started at “$500 and a hotel stay,” worked their way to “$1,200 cash plus food vouchers,” and still no one budged. Eventually, they had to pull two unlucky passengers off the flight, which meant we all sat there, staring at each other, while someone rooted around in the cargo hold for their luggage. Riveting entertainment, let me tell you.
- [Madrid](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/madrid/): I decided to continue my quick digital sketches and try to do one for each town I visit. I expect none of these will be good on the first post, but I do plan to continue to work on them overtime. I just wanted to go ahead and get these out of my sketchbook..
- [43 🍸⛈️](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/43-%f0%9f%8d%b8%e2%9b%88%ef%b8%8f/)
- [Week 46 wrapup](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/week-46-wrapup/)
- [🖤](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/%f0%9f%96%a4/)
- [Yet another reason I think humanity was a mistake](https://johntracy.com/2024/11/yet-another-reason-i-think-humanity-was-a-mistake/): I’ve been turning over this question of legacy for a long time. And while it might be the kind of thing we usually get around to in middle age, it’s been on my mind for at least 15 years. Maybe that’s why I’ve collected the quirks and flaws I have. But legacy has a grip on me—what it means to leave something meaningful, something that won’t be lost in the noise of the world we’re building.
- [Lake in October](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/lake-in-october/): Sunset just over the tree line
- [Miscellaneous storage](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/19675/): Today I spent most of my day in the small storage building in our backyard. We call it the studio or the pool house.
- [Exhaustion… yai is coming to a close](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/exhaustion-yai-is-coming-to-a-close/): yai = yet another initiative
- [Milton post storm](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/milton-post-storm/): It should probably go without saying that Milton thankfully was not the massively destructive storm that we all thought it would be however, I don’t think everybody’s out of the woods just yet, a lot of rain fell, and the area was already saturated.
- [Milton as a category 3 hurricane](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/milton-as-a-category-3-hurricane/): I'm still watching more coverage, keeping an eye on radar. I'm following the discussions on nhc.noaa.gov. It's all rather upsetting.
- [Is climate change real?… ayfkm?](https://johntracy.com/2024/10/is-climate-change-real-ayfkm/): I am watching the weather a lot lately. the u.s. has just had one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit our country and here we are not more than a fortnight from that disaster we are facing another catastrophic storm.
- [Pickled Red Onions](https://johntracy.com/2024/09/pickled-red-onions/): ★★★★★
- [What a strange timeline](https://johntracy.com/2024/07/what-a-strange-timeline-2/)
- [Dr. Beat TikTok trend](https://johntracy.com/2024/07/dr-beat-tiktok-trend/): I love this video because it speaks to how insanely organic some of the trends on TikTok can be and where this music comes from is not the normal pathways we expect for catchy viral music to come from.
- [Mac Admins 2024](https://johntracy.com/2024/07/mac-admins-2024/): So today was my first day at the 2024 Macadmins conference; today was the workshop day and today did not go as well as the speakers planned it to go.
- [This earworm of a song… lost to time.](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/this-earworm-of-a-song-lost-to-time/): music.apple.com/us/album/long-distance-runaround/1049008924
- [WWDC 2024](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/wwdc-2024/): I’m gonna attempt to summarize what my feelings are about WWDC 2024. My biggest takeaways from the event are that they blasted through all of their OS announcements. Every single OS was announced in under 10 to 15 minutes apiece in some cases closer to five minutes. These are the entire reason for being at WWDC. It is a developers conference, not a hardware event not a flashy sales event. This is meant to make developers want to develop for the latest operating system, and in the first half hour of this presentation, they only hit on a few things that seemed compelling at all.
- [Additional thoughts](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/additional-thoughts/): I kind of feel like this book is gonna make me rethink a lot of classes that I had in high school and college with psychology and sociology. Fundamentally, the biggest revelation to this book that other areas don’t address is specifically about the requirements of a growing person and what they need developmentally to look forward to a long content lifestyle.
- [Thoughts on Anxious Generation](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/thoughts-on-anxious-generation/): I’ve been reading the book Anxious Generation for the last few weeks and I have a lot of thoughts now that I’m nearing the end of the book. Primarily, my biggest take away is the lack of community that we have currently during adolescence.
- [Can I pet that dawwwg!?](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/can-i-pet-that-dowwwg/)
- [May in Pictures](https://johntracy.com/2024/06/may-in-pictures/)
- [Fake Plastic Trees](https://johntracy.com/2023/12/fake-plastic-trees/): I'd forgotten how good this song is. There is a line in the song that kills me every time: “If I could be who you wanted, all the time…”
- [Solo Sipsey Loop](https://johntracy.com/2023/11/solo-sipsey-loop-2/): Day 2 - Needle's Eye - Auburn Falls
- [Solo Sipsey Loop](https://johntracy.com/2023/11/solo-sipsey-loop/): I drove to the tipsy today I stopped in alabaster to charge up, and I stopped again in Cullman to charge up and have lunch. I continued on to the Thompson trailhead.I parked my car at the end of a bridge that was marked do not use. I took my trekking poles and climbed over the bar that prevented cars from going across the bridge and started my journey.
- [Great Smokey Mountain National Park Loop](https://johntracy.com/2023/10/great-smokey-mountain-national-park-loop/): Day 1 - Uphill to Gregory Bald
- [Cloudflare servers don’t own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-anymore-so-how-do-they-connect-to-the-internet/): Historically, we have rarely talked about how our servers fetch
the content from the Internet. In this blog we’re going to cover
this gap. We'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses
used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress
network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use
of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology.
— Read on blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-anymore/
- [Bike with RGB lights in the wheels](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/bike-with-rgb-lights-in-the-wheels/): Sergii Gordieiev retrofitted the tires of his bicycle with an RGB LED light strip.
- [pwn.college](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/pwn-college/): pwn.college is an education platform for students (and other interested parties) to learn about, and practice, core cybersecurity concepts in a hands-on fashion. In martial arts terms, it is designed to take a “white belt” in cybersecurity to becoming a “blue belt”, able to approach (simple) CTFs and wargames. The philosophy of pwn.college is “practice makes perfect”.
— Read on pwn.college/
- [Why everything looks the same](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/why-everything-looks-the-same/): Real-time paradigm shifts like no-code, cloud computing, drop shipping, AI, and remote work are democratizing entrepreneurship in unprecedented ways.
- [Ruffner Mountain](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/ruffner-mountain/): As a quick day trip we decided to go to a spot we'd never been before, Ruffner Mountain. Ruffner offers several different trails, most of which come off of their main gateway trail called Quarry Trail. We decided to do the out and back of Quarry Trail 2.4 miles, or 1.2 miles one way.
- [Incredible Lego Engines running with compressed air](https://johntracy.com/2022/11/incredible-lego-engines-running-with-compressed-air/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asynnXWJzxo
- [SOBO – Benton MacKaye Trail](https://johntracy.com/2022/10/sobo-benton-mackaye-trail/): It has been quite some time since I last did any type of backpacking. I have been wanting to get outdoors again for months. Originally, the plan was to do the gap left on the AT from a section inaccessible because of snow - Dick’s Creek Gap to Albert Mountain. I need about 3 to 4 days to do that section, so a new trail was selected, because why not?!
- [This is a test](https://johntracy.com/2022/10/this-is-a-test/): I am testing what it is like to type with a small Bluetooth keyboard that folds for my iPhone so that I cam post while traveling. More specifically, so I can post while backpacking. Here goes nothing..
- [The Onion has filed a real brief with the Supreme Court laden with parody in effort to protect parody](https://johntracy.com/2022/10/the-onion-has-filed-a-real-brief-with-the-supreme-court-laden-with-parody-in-effort-to-protect-parody/): I urge you to read the amicus brief in its entirety, but here are some excerpts.
- [Every David Bowie Hairstyle](https://johntracy.com/2022/10/every-david-bowie-hairstyle/): Helen Green Helen Green
- [Another new year…](https://johntracy.com/2022/01/another-new-year/): 2022 is here, and I think we can all agree a change of pace is needed from the last two years. The pandemic has been exhausting, especially for healthcare workers, parents, and educators.
- [Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend](https://johntracy.com/2021/05/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-weekend/)
- [Saturday Morning wake up](https://johntracy.com/2021/05/saturday-morning-wake-up/)
- [Pinhoti Section 7](https://johntracy.com/2021/03/pinhoti-section-7/)
- [Christmas evening](https://johntracy.com/2020/12/christmas-evening/): I never post pictures of myself. I’ve always been very self-conscious of how I look. I want push myself to share more. Here I am.
- [Afternoon Croquet](https://johntracy.com/2020/04/afternoon-croquet/)
- [Apple looks to switch Mac architecture to ARM.](https://johntracy.com/2020/04/apple-looks-to-switch-mac-architecture-to-arm/): Ars Technica:
- [Srsly, WTF?](https://johntracy.com/2020/04/srsly-wtf/): Trump Today:
- [FIGHT!](https://johntracy.com/2020/04/fight/)
- [Quarantine Makeover](https://johntracy.com/2020/04/quarantine-makeover/): A thought that I have continued to come across with all of the news and confusion of the day, the lives lost; what was their story? You are the only one who can speak to your emotions. Only you can describe how something makes you feel. This is the human experience.
- [Human Rights are only ever exploited for profit or power](https://johntracy.com/2019/10/human-rights-are-only-ever-exploited-for-profit-or-power/): I have been following this story for some days now, and I can't figure out why US companies and brands are standing up for freedom of speech. The worst offender in this, in my opinion, is Apple, the so-called champion of privacy and human rights in the tech industry.
- [Sufjan Stevens and the Curious Case of how Pitchfork remains relevant today](https://johntracy.com/2019/07/sufjan-stevens-and-the-curious-case-of-how-pitchfork-remains-relevant-today/): The article is supposed to be about the 50 states PR move around the, then new, artist Sufjan Stevens. It is about that, but this is the piece that kills me:
- [The North Face Cheated Google Search Results by Mass Editing Wikipedia Articles](https://johntracy.com/2019/05/the-north-face-cheated-google-search-results-by-mass-editing-wikipedia-articles/): I find this disgusting. Yes, the brand violated Wikipedia's Terms of Use, but more importantly, they promoted a company by violating the integrity of one of the few remaining ideals of the Internet.
- [Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone](https://johntracy.com/2019/05/scene-report-from-the-chernobyl-zone/): Amazing account of hiking through Chernobyl. Some of the details they recount are incredible, for instance, the levels of radiation at the same building being drastically different based on assumed conditions at the time of the explosion.
- [One-Ring Scams](https://johntracy.com/2019/05/one-ring-scams/): The FCC details a common phone scam strategy, the one-ring scam.
- [Hilma af Klint Show  is the Guggenheim’s Most-Visited Exhibition Ever](https://johntracy.com/2019/04/hilma-af-klint-show-is-the-guggenheims-most-visited-exhibition-ever/): .
- [How the SNL Portrait Became Its Own Art Form](https://johntracy.com/2019/04/how-the-snl-portrait-became-its-own-art-form/): The show’s official photographer runs us through 11 of her favorite shots.
- [Kindness != Jackpot](https://johntracy.com/2019/03/kindness-jackpot/): The person even allowed a fellow customer to get in front of the line at the store to make a Mega Millions lottery ticket purchase, according to a commission statement. "A simple act of kindness led to an amazing outcome."
- [Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/apple-blocks-facebook-from-running-its-internal-ios-apps/): The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app
- [Expert level off-season speculation in /r/baseball today](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/expert-level-off-season-speculation-in-r-baseball-today/): Mike Trout was worth 9.8 fWAR for the Angels in 2018. He's the standout star of a team that only won 80 games last year. In theory, if Mike Trout didn't play for the Angels and was replaced with a replacement level outfielder worth 0 fWar, they'd only win 70 games.But what if Mike Trout could influence his teams' performance in other ways?What if Mike Trout quit baseball to become the greatest meteorologist of all time?A meteorologist so talented that his weather predictions are always true... no matter when he makes them or how outlandish they may seem.In fact, had Mike Trout become this type of supernatural meteorologist, he would've been worth exactly as much to his team as he was when he finished the season with a 1.088 OPS and 39 home runs.
- [Microsoft is making big changes from its past: Cortana and Windows Phone](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/microsoft-is-making-big-changes-from-its-past-cortana-and-windows-phone/): Microsoft is limiting Cortana instead of competing with Google and Alexa, it will work with them
- [Less is more](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/less-is-more/): The first stories of the iPhone XS battery cases all immediately looked at the mAh capacity of the battery. I assumed Apple put a smaller battery in the case because the battery in the phone was larger, thus needing less weight in the case to more than make up the total charge time. Turns out, I was wrong.
- [System has four stars and a planet-forming disk oriented vertically](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/system-has-four-stars-and-a-planet-forming-disk-oriented-vertically/): A solar system has been identified with two sets of binary stars.
- [2,630-Calorie Meal](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/2630-calorie-meal/): His former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wrote, in “Let Trump Be Trump,” his book chronicling the campaign, that “on Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke,” and that his boss’s go-to McDonald’s order was two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fishes, and a chocolate milkshake.
- [Downtown gets free 1GB Wi-Fi; ‘smart parking’ next](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/downtown-gets-free-1gb-wi-fi-smart-parking-next/): Montgomery has launched free 1-gigabyte Wi-Fi through the central part of downtown, and bigger changes are on the way. Plans include street cameras, a fiber network, 22,000 new LED lights and “smart parking” through an app, all part of a wider effort to create a “Smart City Living Lab” in the heart of the city.The free internet service quietly launched along Commerce Street and Dexter Avenue earlier this month, paid for by the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce.
- [Molly](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/molly/): It has been a tough week. We had to put our dog Molly down after a long decline with a tumor. She was never in pain until this weekend, and I am thankful for the extra 18 months of life since discovering the tumor.
- [I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.](https://johntracy.com/2019/01/i-was-a-cable-guy-i-saw-the-worst-of-america/): She said she was sorry about him. I said, “It’s fine.” I said there really wasn’t anything I could do. She blinked back the flood of tears she’d been holding since God knows when. She said, “It’s just, when he has Fox, he has Obama to hate. If he doesn’t have that ...” She kept looking over her shoulder. She was terrified of him. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I just need him to have Fox.” I got out of my van.
- [Chewacla](https://johntracy.com/2018/12/chewacla/): We took a nice little day trip to Chewacla State Park the other day.
- [Mentone](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/mentone/)
- [Just before the world changed](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/just-before-the-world-changed/): I bought the album Toxicity by System Of A Down the day it came out. I forgot how close to 9/11 it was; released exactly 1 week before the terrorist attack on the USA. 
- [No Connection](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/no-connection/): I spent the last 4 days without ANY connection to the Internet. I can't remember the last time I had that much time away. It is kinda strange because I remember when having an Internet connection was a big deal, and a hard thing to come about; now it is nearly ubiquitous. 
- [Aggressive driving](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/agressive-driving/): There was an old man driving in a white pickup truck behind me for the largest part of my drive down I-65 south today. He continued to ride my tail and get upset with me. Eventually, when I would need to pass somebody, and change into the left lane, (the lane he occupied constantly) he would turn his high beams on and speed up until he was only a few feet away from my bumper. He would then back away, then turn on his hazard lights. After a few more seconds he sped up again, and was riding my bumper.
- [HWB 11-16](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/hwb-11-16/)
- [This evening by the fire](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/this-evening-by-the-fire/)
- [Handwritten Blog](https://johntracy.com/2018/11/handwritten-blog/)

## Pages
- [All posts](https://johntracy.com/all-posts/): Everything I’ve published here, newest first.
- [](https://johntracy.com/career/): résumé
- [Privacy Policy](https://johntracy.com/privacy-policy/): Last updated: August 31, 2026
- [](https://johntracy.com/crunch/): A small jar, made for a small group of people
- [Links archive](https://johntracy.com/links-archive/): The 50 Largest Cities in the World, Ranked (2026) Sep 21
10 Amazing New Museums That Are Architectural Masterpieces in Their Own Right Sep 21
125 Tests of the New AI Siri - by David Pogue Sep 21
Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead - Ars Technica Sep 21
Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026 - Ars Technica Sep 21
The map fiction missed Sep 17
The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall | Nieman Journalism Lab Sep 17
I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it. — Suganthan Sep 17
Max Verstappen vs. 100 Normies in Go-Karts Sep 17
Seneca on True and False Friendship – The Marginalian Sep 17
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It Sep 17
Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years — chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering unlocks MechaCon secrets | Tom's Hardware Sep 16
Usenet-Rewind - Search Usenet newsgroup archives — text posts from 1981 to present. Sep 16
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost - Ars Technica Sep 16
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations Sep 16
I wish you the best in the Offline - daverupert.com Sep 14
Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You. - The New York Times Aug 31
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online Aug 31
Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America. Aug 31
What We’re Reading: Should Short Flights Be Banned? Aug 24
5,000 Vintage Movie Posters Just Went Online For Free | Moss and Fog Aug 24
Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes | Nieman Journalism Lab Aug 24
Why plugging in all those EVs could actually save the power grid | Grist Aug 24
Photographer Captures Day-Old Goslings Leaping From Their Nest | PetaPixel Aug 24
(468) Inoreader - Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again. Aug 24
The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago Aug 24
Can a blog post be handwritten? Aug 24
Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed - Ars Technica Aug 24
Open and move windows between displays automatically – Six Colors Aug 24
Walking The Length of Manhattan — Ridgeline issue 232 Aug 24
Pigeons May Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field Using Superparamagnetic Immune Cells in Their Livers | Sci.News Aug 24
(173) Inoreader - Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds Aug 19
NASA Images Confirm Moon Crater Made by SpaceX Rocket | PetaPixel Aug 19
Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Aug 19
In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests since 1354 Aug 19
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? - IKEA Sweden Aug 19
How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare Aug 19
Are Walmart And Ionna Starting An EV Fast Charging Price War? It Sure Looks Like It Aug 18
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware | WIRED Aug 18
MAGA GOP Keeps Taking Ownership Stakes In Private Companies, Then Warning You The Communists Are Coming | Techdirt Aug 18
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action - MacRumors Aug 18
28,000 cameras and counting, but Atlanta's clearance rates aren't rising Aug 18
An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides The Internet Aug 18
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 | Tom's Hardware Aug 18
Sea Turtle Sex Crisis: Why 99% Are Now Female Aug 17
Guilloché Pattern Generator — Free SVG for CNC & Watch Dials Jul 20
College students who cannot read Jun 9
Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly | NBER Jun 8
The Desert’s Night Lights – Now I Know Jun 8
Speedtimerkollektion - Watches and Parts for Collectors May 22
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