Mark Palfreeman

What are the best AI-assisted PKM tools out there? Ideally I want a combo of Readwise, Granola, and Obsidian—all kinds of notes, manual or captured, with a way to quickly recall, aggregate, and gather insights. I know there's Claude MCP connectors, etc., but has someone built this app? 📑🧠🎙️💡

I've been 👻 public work/tech/web spaces for *a while* but I'm popping my head up for @cascadiajs.com! I'm a frontend-focused engineer, utterly confused at what my job will look like in 2-3 years 😂 Would love to say hi and meet new faces too 👋 #cascadiajs

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Thanks again @cascadiajs.com for a friendly, quality conference. I've been publicly nonexistent for two years tending to our son's leukemia treatment, and it was nice to dip my toes back into the broader web industry in a small way. Excited for next year 👋 #cascadiajs

Our company @planningcenter.com just announced we're moving to 4-day work weeks in 2026 🙌🙏 www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-b...

Two months ago, we made a video for my wife Anna's song "My Love," about her unwavering commitment to help our son walk through child cancer treatment. I love that we got familiar scenes at our very own @seattlechildrens.org 💛 🎥 Video: youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8 🎵 "Frontline" album: found.ee/frontline

Thank you Seattle's Child for writing an article about Anna's new "Frontline" album (and release show) this Friday 6/20! www.seattleschild.com/anna-palfree...

🎤 CONCERT reminder: we're playing through Anna's "Frontline," an album processing our son's leukemia treatment 🎗️ Fremont Abbey, June 20 at 7:30 🎟️ TICKETS: lightcollectivepnw.ejoinme.org/frontlinetic...

Anna's first song, "My Love," from a new album Frontline, is out now. We even made a video with footage from home and Seattle Children's Hospital, where Emerson is being treated for leukemia. I hope it helps anyone going through the unthinkable 🫶🎗️ 🎵 song.link/i/1808909182 🎥 youtu.be/eqcqLGJbDr8

Committed to going snowboarding next Friday for the first time in ~3 years! Time to completely reevaluate my gear and spend 4x the price of a lift ticket on things I'll wear a few times.

📣 NEW blog post: "A year of childhood cancer: 10 lessons that changed me" open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...

🗣️ I'm off work for three weeks, so I did the next logical thing: start a Substack! I'm calling it "Best Attentions: calm reflections on being, focus, and embracing imperfection." Read the intro post 👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/markpalf...

I'm officially off work until January 2, thanks in part to Washington FMLA. Time to reflect on a hell of a year. No, I will not be doing any technical side projects (just writing, reading, photo, or video). First up: 4-day family trip to a cabin in the woods 🌲

I just got notified a USPS package got delivered 9 hours in the future, but I did just see Interstellar so I'm not really surprised.

🤔 At what point can we graduate from the term "modern browsers"? What does that even mean?

"It is far more radical and dangerous to have hope than to live hemmed in by fear." – Suleika Jaouad

❓ Legitimately curious: how do you decide on social communities and content to interact with? Between the infinite sea of podcasts, Discords, social media feeds, I tend toward apathetically avoiding it all instead of engaging with a select few. What's your approach?

In a year orbiting around our 5-year-old son's leukemia treatment, today I'm acutely thankful for: - Modern medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital for saving his life - Friends and family who've supported us in our suffering and isolation 💛🎗️

Excited for December primarily to build holiday LEGO. I'm up to 5 sets and bought white bases for a lil village 🎅🏼🧝🏼‍♂️🎄🏡

~15 years on Twitter, a stint on Bluesky, a year+ on Threads. I still gravitate back to these apps, though the fragmentation has killed a lot of value for me. Personally I have less to say, so it's becoming mindless consumption. What keeps you here? Learning? Influence? Fun? Identity?

I resisted this, but I may need to segment my social apps with a purpose instead of following everyone everywhere. Since the network effect was lost, it's been exhausting to know where to post and spend time. - Bluesky: tech/web/career - Threads: photo/video/creativity - Twitter: stragglers ???

Ok, the summer 4-day weeks at my new job have been amazing: 1. Built-in pressure to stay focused, eliminate distraction, and finish stuff. 2. Even if I "let housework slide" during the workweek, a 3-day weekend is enough to pick up the slack *and* have fun.

Well, I think I have to quit Wordle now.

Someone at work mentioned Crash Test Dummies— Went on and listened to "God Shuffled His Feet" in its entirety, and was absolutely not disappointed 🎧

every now and then, whoever is in charge of salt and vinegar flavour at the pringles factory, goes absolutely *rogue* with the seasoning i want them to know they are perfect and loved by me

As a kid, I never owned a Gameboy or any console. Sometimes I played N64 Mario Kart and Tony Hawk at friends' houses. Yesterday at 34 I bought a Switch 🎮🤘

Every January: "I'm gonna write more blog posts this year!" Every other month:

It's 2023 and we're still charging separately for print and ebooks...

I'm restarting Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks" with a couple of friends and who knows, I might highlight the *other* half of the book...

My excitement of new glasses is always instantly tamed when they show up and make my eyes look way smaller than when I tried the frames at the shop

The past few months have ushered in a golden era for CSS and Web UI. Here are 20 of the most exciting and impactful features that landed recently or are coming soon. Authored by @una.im, @nerdy.dev, and yours truly. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/whats-new-css-ui-2023/

@jaketapper.bsky.social bro can you stop perpetuating "skeet" so hard?

Some coworkers talked about their home espresso machines and suddenly I'm oddly OK with the idea of spending $3,000 on a machine 🤦‍♂️☕

A job is just doing homework all day

Reminder that no matter how the economy is performing there will always be a loud group of people saying: - Big recession around the corner - Hyperinflation imminent - The dollar is doomed - The Fed broke everything - Stocks are overvalued Been like that for 100+ years.

Curious about WA state parks' cancellation policy for tent camping reservations? ⛺Don't worry, they made the fees nice and simple for us:

Yesterday we drove by a Honda dealership and my 4yo yelled at the top of his lungs: "HONKER!!!" It occurred to me that he thinks the logo on our steering wheel is a horn symbol 😆

Finally got access to Arc!

Yeah, tying terms to the other/similar/previous thing isn't a good long-term play.