jthingelstad 9 months ago

Great start to MnTech Tech Connect 2025 this morning with Joel Crandell starting things off and then John Sweeney leading a wonderful keynote on having an innovative mindset and being comfortable being uncomfortable. 👏

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JOHN SWEENEY

John Sweeney - Event Speaker | Brave New Outpost

Event Speaker: With over 25 years of experience, John Sweeney transforms audiences worldwide, captivating crowds with his insightful talks.

jthingelstad 9 months ago

I created my 100th photo collection on micro.blog today! It has been a very useful feature.

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Movie: Fighting With My Family

Movie: Fighting With My Family

We fired up some popcorn and watched Fighting With My Family this evening. It was a good story mostly about the relationship between siblings that ...

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Finished cycling 11.6 miles in 62.6 minutes. First time outside on the bike this year. Very nice and lovely ride around the lakes. 🚴‍♂️

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Growth Cup Goes to Warsaw

Growth Cup Goes to Warsaw

When I visited our new Warsaw office I was able to meet several brand new TeamSPS members as well as many of our Kyiv-based team that I hadn’...

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Happy Star Wars Day — May the 4th be with you!

Star Wars Day - Wikipedia

jthingelstad 9 months ago

I love the passion and excitement that people bring to the Mega-Minne-Multi-Indie-Mini Arcade at Minnebar.

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Great to have so many #TeamSPS folks here at #Minnebar19! Know more to be more! 💙

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Stats on Minnebar 19: Largest minnebar ever 167 sessions Over 2,000 registered attendees Wow! 😮 Super strong kickoff to Minnebar — one of the best I can recall. Great energy, logistics well orchestrated, materials very well done. Amazing. 👏👏👏

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Hey #Minnebar19 attendees — you can get your awesome Minnebar 19 POAP by tapping your phone on the “NFC discs” at the t-shirt table, newbie desk, or by the main stage!

https://poap.gallery/drops/189532

jthingelstad 9 months ago

A reasonable mental model for X.com is as Elon Musk’s personal blog, with commenting enabled. It is no more a “platform” than a casino is a park.

jthingelstad 9 months ago

We saw Thunderbolts tonight (opening night) and it thought it was pretty cool. It had a bit more complexity to the story than your average Marvel movie.

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Finished 2.78 mile walk in 52 minutes (18.71 min/mile). Nice walk catching up with friend. 🚶‍♂️

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Standard Water is putting drain tile into our basement to better manage ground water. What a crazy process and it shows how much this is going to help. There was a literal stream of water when they jackhammered the route. Wish I could have watched the action!

Standard Water

Standard Water Control

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jthingelstad 9 months ago

I had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS was lacking, not recognizing acronyms and with poor inflection. And I couldn’t even just ask “read this”, that failed. Instead I had to manually select the text and then press “Speak”. 😬

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival Roundup

Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival Roundup

I’m wrapping up my very first time hosting an IndieWeb Carnival. After a good amount of deliberation I set this month’s theme of Renewal. I...

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Musical Renewal

Musical Renewal

I remember at some point in my early 20’s being curious why, it seemed to me at least, that as people aged they listened to less new music. T...

jthingelstad 9 months ago

Finished 2.54 mile walk in 60.9 minutes (23.98 min/mile). Delightful evening for a cool neighborhood walk with Lucky. 🚶‍♂️

jthingelstad 9 months ago

It was eight years ago today that I started using micro.blog. Seems wild that it has been that long. It has grown into a really great blogging platform. I’m looking forward to the next eight years. Congrats @manton!

Jamie Thingelstad

I’ve been looking forward to the launch of micro.blog and am excited for it to be here. I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about ...

Micro.blog - @manton

jthingelstad 9 months ago

My favorite Indieweb services — Micro.blog and Buttondown — have had a tough week. They worked through it.