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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 25/07/2026

I guess now orthopedics AND immunology can share a hatred of trampoline parks. @glaucomflecken.bsky.social (vaccinate your kids!)

Oregon Health Authority warning about measles exposure at Sky Zone Beaverton trampoline park.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 29/05/2026

Vanguard offers different policies you can choose on your proxy vote for mutual funds. corporate.vanguard.com/content/corp... Seems very practical to insist my vote goes towards ensuring the board of directors is at least 2/3 independent. Wish that was enforced by being on a public market 😑

A table defining insider, affiliate, and independent directors.

A definition of conflicts of interest and Board Independence.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 30/04/2026

This is the XTEINK X4. It runs an ESP32 chip and fits great into a small bag. I like it. There is an open source firmware that makes the device better: github.com/crosspoint-r... Then the company announced they are locking the bootloader. It is not going well. www.reddit.com/r/xteinkerea...

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 22/04/2026

I guess it is nice that privately held companies are just flailing capital around just like public companies?

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 15/04/2026

Someone please explain to me why Anxious Generation is so popular. It is the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" of pop social psychology. Read this except then the footnote. WHY!

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 06/11/2025

Quick Hack: Fix epub's for early reader books. github.com/philips/kids... The HTML/CSS of kids early reader books is atrocious and impossible for koreader to render correctly. So, just throw it all out and repack the epub.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 21/10/2025

With how bad robot detection has become across the internet and AI crawling everything in sight it makes me wonder if the future is more like @tailscale.com ACLs and less like the wide default routed internet. Off I go emailing support and asking for an IP whitelist like it is 1999.

Cloudflare's sorry you have been blocked.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 07/08/2025

In 2025 and you can't buy a light switch without brand advertising on it. Lutron, Leviton and Legrand are not high fashion brands- they are light switches. Product manager from Leviton saying "Well everyone else is doing it" www.reddit.com/r/homeautoma...

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 17/04/2025

had this thought today.

In this house we believe there are 3 coequal branches, only congress can levy taxes, due process is a human right, electeds shouldn’t trade stocks, country above party, j6 participants are criminals.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 04/04/2025

Photo apps need the UX equivalent for "sifting through the shoe box". I want to collect the photos worth backing up forever. Google Photos "favorites" doesn't work: you can't bulk favorite items. Adding the photos to an "album" doesn't give indication if they are in or not in "the box".

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 07/03/2025

Gah! Google! I use photoslibrary.readonly to backup my family photos to an external disk via rclone. Google Takeout is a joke. Where do I go now @ente.io? Last I tried it was way too slow on migrating my photo library. I really don't want to self host photos. Gah. What a mess.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 07/03/2025

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... The President aims to ban an entire law firm from Federal buildings. I worked with professionals at Perkins Coie through my time at CoreOS. I hope our judicial system can hold.

Sec. 5. Personnel. (a) The heads of all agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide guidance limiting official access from Federal Government buildings to employees of Perkins Coie when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise be inconsistent with the interests of the United States. In addition, the heads of all agencies shall provide guidance limiting Government employees acting in their official capacity from engaging with Perkins Coie employees to ensure consistency with the national security and other interests of the United States.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 02/02/2025

My confidence in RCV making a dent in all this was quite shaken by the response to 117 in Oregon. I was sympathetic to the folks running elections who were opposed on the grounds that need money/support in their voting systems to implement it. Need to figure out what needs to happen there now.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 04/01/2025

Unfortunately SANE doesn’t seem to enable the very 2008 features like the “email button” on the front panel. gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/030000...

Email button instructions for a Canoscan.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 04/01/2025

I bought a Canoscan Lide 100 flatbed scanner in 2008. I haven’t needed it for years. But, today it came to my rescue! And amazingly it still worked thanks to SANE. www.sane-project.org Thanks for keeping my 17 year old scanner alive SANE devs.

Canoscan Lide 100 user manual showing CD driver.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 28/12/2024

I built an NFC card reader to launch videos. It is an amazing experience for the kids. Built on Home Assistant and @jellyfin.bsky.social github.com/philips/home...

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 15/12/2024

Google Photos needs a way to keep a 1-to-1 backup on a personal hard drive. And Takeout ain't it. I use rclone to accomplish this but... I regularly hit random rate limits on Google's side. P.S. I love rclone (thanks @njcw.bsky.social) for making it possible for me to keep a backup despite Google.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 26/11/2024

Our experiments with YouTube Kids video curation has provided inspiration for my kids creativity. Inspired by David M Birds YouTube videos they made their own Becorns from objects they collected nearby. www.davidmbird.com/pages/becorn...

Little person figure made from found forest objects.

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 15/11/2024

I turned these signs, which are made from a 4mm thick material called coroplast (corrugated plastic), into dividers and bins for my kids drawers. A 3D printer is required but the little doodads that hold everything together are fairly fast to print. www.printables.com/model/106936...

Bin made out of coroplast in another ikea bin

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 15/11/2024

Those pressure washing and political signs that end up in the trash all over North America are an easy building material. And since these signs pop up like weeds constantly (and illegally) in the right of way everywhere- it is like a modern renewable resource. So, what I recently did was...

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