In terms of traffic this blog has always been driven by code. Extracting step counts from Google Fit, automating Azure monitoring, pushing the limits of Apps Script, and so on. Over the past year referral traffic is solid, but Google Search isn't interested any more. It's the same trend as Stack Overflow - programming questions are now answered by LLMs. I do the same thing and so I'm responsible as a user (I used to answer my own questions disturbingly often), and as a content creator (according to WaPo this blog is 0.00002% of CommonCrawl: transformers also die in darkness).

Can I be a social network instead?

I have had a vague integration with Bridgy Fed for a while. This syndicates posts into the Fediverse and will accept comments back but has always been a bit one sided. I just tightened this up a bit and added support for follows, and did a little following. Implementing all the microformats is a lot easier with LLMs. I'm never going back to a social network that I don't own, even a well intentioned Mastodon server. But I'll interoperate all day and iterate in an IndieWeb direction.

You can follow @ithoughthecamewithyou.com@ithoughthecamewithyou.com and starting now I can follow back.

I have been in the habit of posting each plane I fly on for a long time.

This started on Twitter, where for a while there was this #boarding hashtag so you could chat with people in transit from the same airport by IATA code (like #boarding #sfo). That dropped out of usage, because why would you do that, but I continued on Facebook until I deleted social media in 2018. After a brief lapse I started posting to my blog. I have a vague intention to resurrect some older flights with AI and build out a more complete history.

After adding flights here for a few years it seemed like a good idea to do some visualization. The image above (click for a larger version) is my current route map, updated after each flight. The routes are great circles rather than the actual track (created via the .net version of GeographicLib and this geolocation of airports). You can view individual flights here. I could probably use a carbon offset or two (unless this).

Required disclaimer:

This site or product includes IATA/ICAO List data available from https://github.com/ip2location/ip2location-iata-icao.

Updated 2026-02-07 23:07:

The vague intention turned into a mild obsession and so I mined email for more flights. I have email going back to 1996 and quickly whipped up two scripts via GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4.5 to process them. The first searched and downloaded any likely candidates from gmail and converted the HTML email to markdown to save on tokens. The second ran all the candidates through GPT 5 mini to extract the details. I then added a few older flights from memory resulting in the image above. There are some work emails I don't have access to so I'm sure it's not totally comprehensive, but I'm now up to 277 flights and approximately 779,883 miles.

Abolish ICE protest at Ocean Beach on Jan 31, 2026. We're in the top right of the B. Photo from Yahoo News.

Google Pixel 8 Pro 2mm f2.0 1/1,500s ISO41

AA 810, A321-231, 06236

Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/15s ISO96

AA 51, 777-323, 31549

Starmer might start to do better in the polls if he arms Denmark with Trident. Trump seems to respond better to strength rather than weakness, and a deterrent if Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa [1] ever goes off the air could be established.

This might seem impractical. The UK needs a nuclear option and doesn't have much to give. But we don't need to hand over subs and train the Danish navy. Unlike the US there isn't a complicated nuclear football and authenticated launch sequence. We could just add the Danish prime minister to the chain of command. Some simple enabling legislation, and two envelopes in the safe instead of one. Only Mette Frederiksen would know the contents of the second envelope.

This is crazy, but it hasn't been a normal January and at some point the policy of appeasement has to end.

[1] I once listened to a Radio 4 Today Program interview with a Trident submarine commander. He said that every morning at 6am they came up to periscope depth and listened for the Today Program. If he couldn't find it then it was safe to assume that civilization had ended and he was free to unleash armageddon. The very next day the Today Program was off air due to strike, and I was briefly terrified. It turns out they check three times.

ITHCWY has been running on ASP.NET 4.8 for a long time. I've been putting off the upgrade as the official Microsoft documentation says something close to 'your funeral'. Visual Studio Copilot added a modernization agent. It claimed to have generated a plan, but the file it insisted it had just written was hallucinated. So I rolled up my sleeves and did it the hard way.

Hard is an overstatement. I did some much needed refactoring and jettisoned a bunch of dead code. The regular Copilot (via Claude Sonnet 4.5) was a big help on things that didn't exist any more or needed to be done differently. The new OutputCache refused to disengage until I entirely killed the default and I need to spend some more time there. It seems to matter which order you enable server features which is moderately terrifying but probably doesn't need to be touched often. It's certainly better than poking around in web.config and hoping for the best. If you're reading this then it has been served by asp.net core 10.

Probably some subtle things are broken and it usually takes a while to mop everything up after a migration this big. If you run into any problems please get in touch.

Hyperlapse from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe:

I-80, SR 49, SR20, I-80 some more, SR 267 to Kings Beach.

This didn't look like a terrible idea the morning of December 26 (Boxing Day), the weather forecast was good. Google Maps predicted a little under four hours. Then it started to snow. And then there were many crashes, I-80 shut in both directions and the resulting jam took over six hours to clear.

Most of the hyperlapse runs at a 80-130x speedup. The jam portion is over 1000x.

In case you are insane here is the full drive, minus charging and food stops:

Shot on Rivian Drive Cam, post-processed as per this post, edited in DaVinci Resolve Studio, music hallucinated by Eleven Labs.