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Good Enough — Batteries, Beta Tests, and Plugins

Hey folks, Josh here. This week's got a little bit of everything: a tool-cost gut check, a new streaming platform to keep an eye on, and a quick open-source update. Let's get into it. I'm also trying out a different format for

The Maker Dad · EN

I'm Done Playing the YouTube Game

There are countless gurus out there preaching that you need to keep your video content siloed so your audience, and YouTube itself, doesn't get confused when there are videos of different genres on your channel. They say this helps with viewer retention and helps YouTube figure out which

The Maker Dad · EN

My YouTube Channel

My YouTube channel is a work in progress. i’ll be adding to it more videos to it over time. YouTube Channel

Second Wind Cycling · EN

Her YouTube Channel

Her YouTube channel is also a work in progress. She’ll be adding clips to it over time. She wanted to say that she started this channel is order to participate in Coach Julia’s 2025 online international Christmas program (link below). Coach Julia needed access to the video, and we bought Debbie a DJI Osmo Mobile 8 gimbal for self critique during practice and to shoot the video. (What a terrific product. Tracks her with her own iPhone while recording video.) 🎥 Debbie’s YouTube Channel ⛸️ Coach Julia’s Program 2025

Second Wind Cycling · EN

Journal Entry About Blogging

From this morning's journal entry: Strangely, my blog helps me organize my thinking about myself and my posture/relationship with the world. I think it helps me solidify a vision of what I want my life to "look like". (basically that I want to be fit and to have my place and affairs in order; and then to just play! 😀) I retired to play; like when I was a kid!

Second Wind Cycling · EN

Getting Blog Tables Right

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Second Wind Cycling · EN

Gamification is fun!

Gamification works, and it’s fun! We had a relative who became interested in fitness tracking soon after she bought herself a treadmill. I shopped around and suggested this “Samsung Galaxy Fit 3” for her as a start. As it turns out, she has become as diligent as my wife at closing her fitness rings! (And, Debbie has closed her Apple Watch fitness rings 1764 days in a row!) I think the gamification of fitness habits is a good thing!, but it doesn’t stop there. Gamification of projects like my current facia board replacement project (documented here on my blog) is a motivator too! It’s fun track

Second Wind Cycling · EN

Seriously fun things!

Seriously! , sometimes you've just gotta go have some fun!, to re-center yourself, or…just to go have some fun! These things have risen to the top of our list as "quick fixes" in the fun category: Since I didn't hide the brand on the non-motorized one I'll tell you that the motorized one is a BackFire Ranger (direct drive, solid wheels…offroad capable). And these things: They put you in flow. All of them do. We have two of each of the skateboards too, one for each of us. …and while I'm typing this I'm getting Medicare mass emails about "managing chronic conditions"…aw man! Go out and play! See

Second Wind Cycling · EN

I know what you're thinking...

Uh huh...I know you're thinking, "Injured toe, huh; I knew all that skateboarding and stuff was dangerous." I'm being mean, or maybe defensive 😀,but actually (referencing my habit tracker) I didn't hurt it doing anything fun. With all the rain here in Florida, I slipped on some of that Nostoc algae (some call it dog doo algae) in the yard. My feet went out from under me and I landed in an "almost down" push-up position. I had caught myself not to face-plant on a stepping stone. I don't know how my big toe got so black and blue, except that I was wearing Crocs and I guess it jammed to the grou

Second Wind Cycling · EN

Mini Photo Safari

What kinds of things for an average dude to blog? I would think we’d want to blog things that would impact others to read, epiphanies, extraordinary happenings, etc. It’s not a journal after all. But, I don’t mind reading the musings my fellow bloggers post. So, maybe I’m being too critical of my blogging choices. Here’s something. I bought one of the latest smart phones half a year ago and have been refining my photo app “quiver”. I don’t want to plug certain brands, so I’ll keep it generic. Besides the one that came with the phone (which is pretty good), I now have one that makes manual focu

Second Wind Cycling · EN

models are getting even thinner

yes, thinner than before

The Second Button

Our Own Little Golden Era

The 1930s-1940s era of tailoring is widely beloved. We call it the "golden era." But we can choose to view 2026 as a different kind of golden era. Let's look at the good in the present.

The Second Button · EN

A Trip to Florence and Milan

I went to Pitti Uomo and Milan Men's Fashion Week. Here's what I did, wore, and saw.

The Second Button · EN

A Selection of Sales for Memorial Day Weekend

Forty-two sales and counting, including sales on clothing, shoes, accessories, skincare, home and kitchen goodies, tech, and very tasty tinned fish.

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Celebrity Styling Cheat Sheet

If you want to be a celebrity stylist, here's step one.

The Second Button · EN

How to Talk About Denim

I started writing "How to Talk About" guides with a mindset that nobody should have to feel stupid talking about clothes. If you're reading this blog—there are no stupid questions. This guide will cover everything from "what are jeans?" to "what are sanforization and mercerization?"

The Second Button · EN

Rediscovering Black

Many of us need to unlearn everything we know about black, learn something new... and then do it all over again. Let's find our way back to black.

The Second Button · EN

Fatigues are Better than Jeans

The best pair of day-to-day-pants has cool pockets, and it comes in olive green.

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French Communist Party Congress: Fabien Roussel to be Presidential candidate.

Roussel got 2.3% in the 2022 Presidential Elections. Fabien Roussel a été réélu ce dimanche à la tête du Parti communiste français, et bientôt candidat à l’élection présidentielle de 2027 ? Le secrétaire national du PCF Fabien Roussel a été reconduit dans ses fonctions avec 70,1 % des voix lors du congrès du parti à Lille. Sud […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN

Green Party ‘anti-Zionists’ organise.

Zany Zak the mythomane is in the news for his contrition over tax-dodging, “Polanski says he will pay any council tax owed linked to houseboat. “Zack Polanski has confirmed he will pay any outstanding council tax he owes, saying he believed he was not liable for the charge while living on a houseboat in London.” […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN

Farage and Marine le Pen: a Tale of Two Artful Dodgers.

“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. France 24: Live: Le Pen holds party meeting after Paris court clears way for a 2027 presidential run French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was holding a meeting Tuesday at her National Rally (RN) party headquarters following […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN

Call for Popular Unity behind Count Binface.

The International Committee of Pabloite liquidationism and the Posadist Fourth International have issued this statement: “The Intergalactic Count Binface is a doughty class warrior who has stood up for the rights of working class croissant eaters. He has a long class struggle history. All progressives should unite behind him.” This principled position stands in contrast […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN

Piers Corbyn to stand in Clacton, splitting the far-right vote.

Said to have some support from Farage voters by Frinton Greensward. Vote Piers Corbyn for Clacton Proper representation and accountability in science and politics — taken straight to Parliament “End Net Zero, rebuild the economy Scrap the punishing Net Zero agenda that drives up energy bills and kills industry. Rebuild a real, productive economy.” “No harmful […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN

Far Right ex Leftist Spikey ones attack Comrade Binface.

“Remote and ineffectual Spiky one. That dared attack my Binface.” Baroness Fox with friend: Brendan O’Neill Ex-RCP/Living Marxism. Spectator. Nigel Farage isn’t the one behaving badly in Clacton “The chattering classes are having a good old laugh at Nigel Farage. His triggering of a by-election in his own constituency of Clacton has descended into “farce”, […]

Tendance Coatesy · EN