I’ve really enjoyed David McCloskey’s spy/espionage series. If you’re into the genre, start with Damascus Station—it’s CIA-focused and mostly set in Syria. The next books take you to Mexico and Russia. McCloskey is a former CIA officer and co-host of The Rest is Classified podcast.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Vivaldi and Zen browsers. What are you using on macOS and iOS? I’ve been 100% Safari for a long time, but open to exploring options.

Taking the family to Mardi Gras parades today. The in Louisiana but not in New Orleans kind.

Finding the Best Wallet

I share my positive experience with the Lochby Sidekick wallet, highlighting its functionality and capacity for an EDC setup compared to my previous slim wallet.

What do you use to track TV Shows/Seasons? I don’t need social features, etc. Something to basically allow me to add shows, mark episodes I’ve seen, & see what’s up next. I’ve been using TV Forecast (connects with trackt.tv). No complaints, but I’m up for renewal and would like to see options.

Bayou Theme has been updated to version 1.2. Included in this version is the option to define how many microposts and longform posts are shown on the homepage, change the categories for microposts and longform posts, set the site language (en, de, es, fi, fr, it, pt, ru), and change the date format.

Support for Summaries is now rolling out for Tiny and Sumo Theme.

Braves fans first. But baseball fan overall. My phone surfaced this photo from a few years ago today. Son had been begging to catch an Astros game.

A smiling family of three is sitting in stadium seats, wearing casual clothes and caps.

Updates coming this week for Tiny, Sumo, and Bayou themes include a newsletter fix, improved support for social media images (particularly for users with multiple blogs), improved support for the new summary feature, and a few bug fixes.

As a ProPresenter + Multitracks + Live Streaming producer, today was a rough day. Dealing with MIDI/Network issues can age you a few years within a few hours.