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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/09/2026

20 year olds aren’t ready to be married. Which is why I married my first wife at 20.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 12/09/2026

I don’t think he was ever on screen with Threepio in the OG trilogy.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 09/09/2026

It’s really just a folding grater with a different handle

The Le Creuset Star Trek grater fully unfolded on a wooden cutting board with grated cheese and a wedge of hard cheese.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 09/09/2026

The only time I’ve ever skipped that phase was by finishing the slides at the last minute.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 05/09/2026

It’s the type of thing someone who doesn’t understand either football or war would say. The more you think about it the sillier it gets.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 03/09/2026

As someone who flew a ton for a decade or so, arriving just in time to check in and go directly to bed became my primary goal when flying. Even if I have to arrive a day early.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 02/09/2026

It’s mostly that every octo reader I’ve known skewed toward broader awareness of the world, but maybe that’s a Canadian thing.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 01/09/2026

This feels a bit like slander against octogenarian book buyers.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 28/08/2026

My dad’s Scottish Rite, pretty sure 33rd, Shriner, Desert Rider, Jester… but if he’s a furry he’s played a very long con.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 28/08/2026

Do you need it all in a single laptop? Windows in Parallels would be much slower than a cheap mini PC and a KVM, if you have a desk / monitor still. My monitor has a thunderbolt hub so I’ve got thunderbolt for the MacBook and a usb 3.0 + DisplayPort/HDMI two cable setup for a second computer.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 28/08/2026

One of my older kids fell down the tankie TikTok rabbit hole five years ago and this was the starting point of my sermon on the evils of the USSR.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 28/08/2026

The same helicopter flew over a No Kings protest, which was the bigger issue they were trying to cover up.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 28/08/2026

Realizing that my dad and Boozy are both Masons has made today a little extra weird, for which I’m always grateful. And oddly makes me more curious about Freemasonry.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 26/08/2026

The eastern front of WW2 is such a mess of nationalism and small powers stuck in the middle. The seven minor Axis countries like Finland / Hungary largely get ignored in the West.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 24/08/2026

This was one of the three big problems I knew had to be solved with Mozilla Social: how to enable a well-moderated default experience across the network, regardless of instance. My bet was that if we could be a trusted source of moderation decisions we could be a first line of defense.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 23/08/2026

At least it'd be original instead of the first hit on Google for Harry Potter vs Voldemort...

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 23/08/2026

My absolute favourite part of this clip is that at absolutely no point do you see him doing anything beyond a slow jog. He jogs well forward, receives the ball out wide and passes inside, then meanders into a central position where he gets ignored long enough to have space to score.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 23/08/2026

I was going to say that seems wildly optimistic but their net profit margin is 5-8%, so they might even make it true until people stop buying direct because they know they'll get ripped off.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 21/08/2026

The Vision Pro failed because it was the Apple Pro product for a non-Apple market. Imagine an iPad Pro releasing in 2006 for $2k, before the iPhone and regular iPads built the install base / ecosystem for it to make sense as the top end iOS product.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 15/08/2026

In a number of US states this is a legislated requirement for employers. Connecticut (where she apparently lives) requires two hours training within six months of hiring for all employees.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 12/08/2026

Ok so I somehow wasn't following you here so I was reading old posts, but you did this a the end of your vacation? Bold, but on brand.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 12/08/2026

Soccer remains relatively unhinged. Especially outside of the top flight.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 31/07/2026

People who delete comments when corrected are the worst for this.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 31/07/2026

The non-sarcastic answer would be the ability to generate aerial views of a planned development, transit project, etc.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 26/07/2026

I think he got hit in the back of the head and then had a secondary impact with the ground. Ambulance on the pitch is rare and has me thinking TBI. The double impact is the scariest part.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 26/07/2026

I haven't watched any Nashville this season, is this a weird graphic or a really weird 4-3-1-2?

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 21/07/2026

Those might be the only wards that are >20 km from downtown, everyone else in that category is probably going to the 905 or across the city.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 21/07/2026

sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Hoover_... "Citizens are only allowed to listen to state approved music, mostly mellow and wholesome standards sung by the likes of Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain."

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Hoover Double Prime

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Julius and Ethan Rosenburg, spies who stole atomic weapon secrets from the U.S. and were executed. After their death sentence was carried out, FB...

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 20/07/2026

In Montreal for IEEE PES, booked a hotel off Trivago mostly on price/proximity, only to discover this terrace, which is a lovely place to sit and not talk. And I'm pretty sure I was at an event here with @stevetex.bsky.social in 2023.

Fifth floor balcony view of downtown Montreal and the SAT.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/07/2026

I hope you mean on a lake. If you've got people you can be honest with and who'll call bullshit on you, you're on the right track. Therapy helps but can never replace those things.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/07/2026

88% is brutal especially if there's residual heat at pitch level. 79 plus humidity gets into the wet bulb territory for hydration breaks.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/07/2026

I've used a variant on "tell me about your biggest mistake" as a hiring question for a really long time. The only disqualifying answer is not having one, some of my best hires had great stories. The goal is always to find the folks who try, learn, and try again, not the ones unwilling to risk it.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/07/2026

I was in many ways the wrong person to try to make Mozilla Social happen, but I knew it was important enough to try anyway. It ended poorly, but every time I open Bluesky I feel like I picked the right hill to go out on.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 09/07/2026

The "real" VC-25Bs won't have aerial refuelling either. The plan would be to switch to an E-4 in the event of war.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 04/07/2026

This framing evokes Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man Month, where he contrasts the amount of work to develop a Program (single user on a single machine) against a Programming System Product (generalized and well integrated platform, 9x more complex to build). Coding is the easy part, design is hard.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 04/07/2026

Psyched to see you tomorrow (maybe twice!)

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 30/06/2026

The alt text is the *perfect* kicker.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 05/06/2026

And I cannot stress this part enough, do not do so while completely naked. "We found no explanation in the record for why Mr. Martinez wore no clothes."

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 02/03/2026

That was always how big changes to Firefox have been received, even before 1.0. Visual redesigns especially! Just ask any of the OG UX folks. That said, I tend to read "not listening to users" as "the product hasn't noticeably improved" rather than a feedback problem.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 04/01/2026

The short version is that they don't need to catch it or even fully avoid it, just deflect it. Presumably easy enough to passively defend by not squaring up.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 17/10/2025

Jeddah and Riyadh have been hosting the Italian and Spanish "super cups" for soccer for a while now.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 27/09/2025

This is GenX's Nuts'n'gum.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 08/09/2025

Aw, I was thinking that'd be perfect. Maybe I can sneak in a detour. Ajax plays at home the Wednesday before.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 08/09/2025

The degree to which Pocket was on an island until 2023 makes me incredibly sad. Separate office (until 2020), Slack, etc. Deep integration couldn't have happened without major culture shifts on both sides.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 08/09/2025

That said, I don't think the constraint is "browsers can't do this" but "no one currently making a browser wants to do this" and that's a problem. Someday we need a serious whiteboard session.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 08/09/2025

I have so many feelings about what that integration could have been with product alignment and creativity. One of the things I really wanted near the end was for Pocket to build on top of Places and richer, usage driven annotations (like full text). Imagine if every article you'd read was in Pocket.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 01/09/2025

My hometown was a three way hub for multiple national railways. Last train was 1996.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 25/08/2025

Airline might have their AVOD selection online?

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 23/08/2025

Not Intel, as far as I can see. Their old CEO was gone Dec 1, new one was appointed in March.

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