I promise I won’t post every Spam message. I just wanted to illustrate that if you’re seeing it more, lately, you’re not alone.
Telegram Spam tonight:
"Have a wonderful Wednesday, my friend!"
Good grammar! But not someone I know.
SMS Spam tonight:
"You’ve been on my mind a lot these past days."
and
"I’ve been thinking of you more than expected."
Two different numbers. Yeah. No. I’m not that popular.
Coffee did its job to get me through my day. But Monday hit hard. I’m spent.
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R 
Hot fire on a clear night! 6F and slight breeze 
Crucial Track for December 25, 2025 https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/12/25/crucial-track-for-december/
Status
#solstice #yule 
Working with the Forever✱Notes scheme in Apple Notes and I find that there are wonderful reasons to use Notes for the purpose. And I’m learning there are some things that I wish notes could already do.
I wish individual Notes had anchor tags, like old HTML, so I could have a sort of table of contents for ... 1-1.hjalmer.com https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/12/16/working-with-the-forevernotes-scheme/
Out of twenty things in the list, I have only not owned an encyclopedia, though many of my peers did. The rest of the experiences were all very normal at various points in my life. Just like sniffing freshly mimeographed worksheets at school. Remember worksheets, anyone? Carrying dimes and quarters for a p... 1-1.hjalmer.com https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/12/14/out-of-twenty-things-in/
That feeling when you learn your phone is still in your car because your glucose monitor app is reporting a lack of communication with the sensor.
Stands to reason.
#mnwx #aurora #msp 
#aurora #mnwx #msp 
Northern Lights visible in Northern sky and overhead in St. Paul, MN. #mnwx
TIL, with a heavy heart, that the browser extension for Bear and the Stop the Madness extension on iPadOS make Safari open new tabs with every link.
It does not at all seem to be related to any of the Safari Settings themselves. It is also not every extension.
I have studied Plex a little more over the past few days, and found a way to improve recognition of lesser-known films and learned how to show more than one version of the same movie. It’s about metadata in the file names.
Multiple Editions - Movies
New Files Not Appearing After Library Scan https://support.plex.tv/articles/multiple-editions/ https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-files-not-appearing-after-library-scan/840987/4
Have learned a bit more about T2 Intel Macs and Apple Configurator. Love it when the envelope gets bigger. Confounded that DFU uses different tools depending on the device you’re working on.
So crestfallen that Apple Magic Keyboards — at least circa model A1644 — will only pair to a single device. That is awesome with Universal Control, but not awesome when you are away from that station
My kid’s listening to Laurie Anderson. Excellent!
The feeling you get, as you rush to head out the door in the morning, when you pour hot water out of the coffee pot—instead of the coffee that you thought you brewed.
Oof.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1975.
Just 50 short years ago. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail