mrtechnodad.bsky.social

mrtechnodad.bsky.social

@mrtechnodad.bsky.social

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It's 2026 and #Photoshop lacks any ability to extrude text. Not because it's too hard, but because #Adobe actually REMOVED IT. The workaround is to manually duplicate and offset 25 layers like a medieval monk illuminating a parchment under dying candlelight. Oh, and layer 14 is off by 2 pixels.

Uploaded my carefully framed 1080x1920 video to Instagram. Default handling: cut off the top and bottom and force it into a square. Square video? Truly Quibi-level product design. Turns out there’s a tiny icon you can click to let it stay the way you made it. Brilliant.

In a video meeting does anyone else move closer to or farther from their camera to maintain the median headsize for the group? I don't want to be that too-close, big head guy, or that far-away, tiny head guy. Ima goldilocks that headsize.

Curious, I went to meta.ai and got the usual LLM interface. I typed a test query, hit submit and got nothing except "please log in". There is no way to just try it out. It looks like you can query it, but you can't. So that experiment confirmed my feeling that I can safely ignore meta.ai.

I took Floof for a walk today, wearing my awesome Technoblade jacket. I was overtaken at some point by a couple of high school students. As they passed me, they each said "Technoblade never dies!". I gave them a thumbs up and a "right on." The legend lives on.

This morning my laptop refused to boot up and wasn't responding to any of my usual tricks. I asked Gemini for advice, and it listed a few different programs I could run to diagnose it. On my laptop. That wouldn't boot.

Demeter is out of town so our family structure has collapsed. I went to check on whether Apollo had eaten, and found him searing potatoes and sausage over a hot flame. In a survival game. I asked if he'd eaten anything IRL today and he said 'no'.

Two things in this aquarium are about 9 inches long, black, and wider at one end. One is a bristlenose plecostomus, and the other is a filter intake extension tube. The tube keeps getting knocked loose from the filter, I think because the pleco wants to "date".

I dreamed that I met Hank Green. Then I woke up. Then I went to a wedding, and Hank Green was there, who I got to talk to. Then I REALLY woke up. And as I was slowly coming awake that morning, I had a hard time figuring out whether I had actually met Hank Green or not. Turn out not.