Four To-Do Items

A Friday Hodgepodge

Four web things of general interest popped up during my weekly review. Here they are..

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1. I'm interested in doing some strength training, and found mention of an app I want to look into on the subject:

What it offers: 100% open-source, MIT-licensed - 1200+ exercises (with videos, attributes, translations) - Progress tracking - Multilingual-ready - Self-hostable

My general idea is to develop some simple routines, probably also borrowing ideas such as from here and here. I'd like to do this as portably as possible, while also not wasting time and money.

I want to work out to live, not live to work out, as they might say.

2. Earlier this week, I blogged about a deportation that would be funny if it weren't so sickening, given the ridiculous image at the center of the story.

"That would make a great custom bowling ball," I thought at the time.

While I'm not sure I'd use that image, it can be done.

We were on vacation last week and had a good time bowling. There are lanes near home. This is potentially a future gift idea. (Moves item to someday/maybe list...)

3. As part of gearing up for spring cleaning this year, I made a note to start tracking a Substack blog called Ask a Clean Person.

I give it a mixed/overall positive review: On the one hand, there is lots of good thinking behind the cleaning advice -- as one can see in this post giving help to the "clean but not organized."

On the other hand, I find some of the posts to be all over the place, and chattier than I care for. (This is probably my personal stylistic preferences at work. Jolie Kerr is a successful writer, so this aspect of her writing likely appeals to most people, and I am an odd duck...)

4. Here's one for the Open Source Software/Android crowd: Fossify, "a suite of open-source, ad-free apps."

I want to look through these to see if there are any I might want.

-- CAV