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Streetcar in Kenosha, Wisconsin

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Kenosha Streetcar

My daughter and I decided to take a trip up to the Kenosha HarborMarket and check it out late this morning. Why not? It was only going to be in the mid-90s today... Kenosha's streetcar system had it's ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 17th, 2000. The cars

By Jason Kratz 27 Jul 2025
Mildliner highlighter color reference - in hex

Mildliner highlighter color reference - in hex

I saw this the other day, Robb Knight’s Mildliner highlighter color reference. He’s created a reference of the colors with hex codes included to use them in web projects (or any project for that matter). Cool website too!

By Jason Kratz 26 Jul 2025
My obsession with daily notes

thoughts

My obsession with daily notes

I was just reading the subreddit for the Craft notes app and in the announcement thread for the public beta of tags someone said: Please please PLEASE: add the calendar sidebar to the main navigation in all screens not just on Daily Notes!! It's such a weird UX

By Jason Kratz 26 Jul 2025

thoughts

Respect

Mad respect for anyone who blogs for any length of time. Double it for those that can blog on a single subject.

By Jason Kratz 26 Jul 2025
Welcome to “The Mercurialist’s Journal”

blogging

Welcome to “The Mercurialist’s Journal”

“The Mercurialist's Journal” is the new name for my online notebook. I chose this name for the site because I've got a...ahem...history...of being very, very mercurial in my blogging and social media habits. I loved the idea of using the word in the

By Jason Kratz 26 Jul 2025

ai

Chatting with AI

This morning I was chatting with Claude about LLM first principles, some of the issues involved, explored potential solutions, etc. It was a very interesting chat. And you know what? I didn’t get any “hot takes”, uninformed opinion masquerading as facts, plain-old hate, etc. It really was quite enjoyable.

By Jason Kratz 24 Jul 2025

thoughts

Why blogging matters

This article hit like an atom bomb this morning. I ran across it while reading a series of posts that the author, Jon Evans, wrote on his Substack newsletter a few years ago (long read but pretty interesting if you're interested at all in the weirdness of the

By Jason Kratz 23 Jul 2025

thoughts

The Case for Publicly Funded Media and Innovation

I had to chuckle when reading the comments to this story in the New York Times: “Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades” A reader wrote the comment: In response to a letter to my Congressman Chuck Edwards, supporting continued federal funding of CBP, I

By Jason Kratz 22 Jul 2025

apps

Find Any File for Mac

The file search utility you didn’t know you needed

By Jason Kratz 18 Jul 2025
Jason Snell needs a history refresher

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Jason Snell needs a history refresher

A trip down Faulty Memory Lane

By Jason Kratz 16 Jul 2025

art

Great art on the Internet

Thanks to Dave Winer and his blogroll for not only letting me rediscover the “Great art on Bluesky” account but also noting that there are RSS feeds for daily/hourly updates! Hourly isn’t bad in a social media context but for my subscribed RSS feeds it’s way too

By Jason Kratz 16 Jul 2025
So long HEY. It’s been a slice.

apps

So long HEY. It’s been a slice.

It’s been a great 4 months.

By Jason Kratz 13 Jul 2025
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