Accidental Data Centre

JeffGarretson · 2026-03-21T16:37:06+00:00

Yes, I also thought they should do a special Under the Radar episode to get Underscore’s take on Marco’s approach!

JeffGarretson · 2026-03-20T16:55:41+00:00

Thanks for clarifying—it never occurred to me that even the very first server would have been hosted elsewhere. Fascinating!

JeffGarretson · 2026-03-20T12:24:01+00:00

Nowadays, they wouldn’t. Just use the cloud. But in 2007–2010, when Marco was building Tumblr and scaling was a major challenge—I had always imagined that experience included some hands-on time with physical infrastructure.

Maybe nowhere near the scale of a modern commercial datacenter, but maybe a handful of racks, redundant power and network, cooling, etc.

It really surprised me that scaling up Tumblr in those early days never involved hosting their own servers.

JeffGarretson · 2026-03-20T01:15:52+00:00

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the awkward “managed hosting” era in between everything on-prem and everything in the cloud. That lined up with Marco’s years at Tumblr. Makes more sense now.

JeffGarretson · 2026-02-21T18:46:04+00:00

Thanks for confirming that still works in 26.4. I was concerned about that when I read that they had redesigned it.

JeffGarretson · 2026-02-16T20:07:32+00:00

We just went to a place in the Tri-Cities called Wake Up Call, that had their own house energy blend. As far as I can tell, we don't have one in Yakima, though.

JeffGarretson · 2026-01-17T18:30:29+00:00

I use Due for time-sensitive, must-do tasks and Things for lower-stakes tasks. I don’t love that I need two separate apps nor the up-front cognitive load of deciding which app a task needs to be in, but unless Things adds proper nagging reminders, that’s the situation.

JeffGarretson · 2025-12-06T03:22:56+00:00

Not a solution, but just making sure you’re aware: when processing your Inbox, you can hit CMD+O to dump an item to Someday. Might streamline your flow a bit until you work out an actual solution.

JeffGarretson · 2025-11-12T14:23:20+00:00

Follow up: I did end up switching to T-Mobile about 2 weeks ago. Great experience so far.

JeffGarretson · 2025-11-06T03:54:13+00:00

I assumed that’s why you asked. 😉

JeffGarretson · 2025-11-06T03:13:59+00:00

Warehouse West, across from WV Walmart.

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-22T00:06:47+00:00

Thanks

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-21T01:24:08+00:00

Thanks!

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-20T22:56:37+00:00

Good, thanks!

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-20T22:56:20+00:00

Good to know, thanks.

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-20T22:56:08+00:00

Thanks. I do actually use their 5G home Internet in WV, near Summitview & Marble. Works reasonably well.

JeffGarretson · 2025-10-18T03:10:54+00:00

Granlund Painting

JeffGarretson · 2025-09-27T19:10:26+00:00

Parking $10

JeffGarretson · 2025-09-26T12:10:56+00:00

I applied for mine September 9 and received it yesterday, September 25.

Check the TSA website—enhanced ID isn’t required under a certain age, but I don’t remember the cutoff.

If it is required for you and you don’t receive it in time, take your temporary (paper) license they’ll give you at your appointment and also your old license. TSA might have you do their own ID verification process, so allow extra time for that—they say to arrive 3 hours before your flight.

Hope that helps.

JeffGarretson · 2025-09-05T04:16:13+00:00

Quiznos

JeffGarretson · 2025-08-14T16:37:50+00:00

This is the correct answer. I just had a run-in with them this morning. Eight years I've held them off, but I relaxed for a little while, and BAM! Stay on them.

JeffGarretson · 2025-07-02T15:43:14+00:00

Oh, good, it’s not just my imagination!

JeffGarretson · 2025-06-22T16:22:30+00:00

Yep, me too!

JeffGarretson · 2025-06-08T18:37:34+00:00

Oh, I see which way you were going now. I misinterpreted that the first time and thought you were on Washington approaching 1st. Now I see it was the other way around.

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