The Promise Of The Fediverse

The open web, one free from big corporations is alive. You just have to try it, support it, read about it. I know... reading in 2024... ugh.

Comment on The Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 by The Jarbochov Stratagem - Aurora Borealis At This Time of Year? In This Part of the Country?

[…] eyes4 and not primarily through a camera. I’m delighted I’ve experienced both this, and a total solar eclipse in 2024. What’s next? The apocalypse? I’ll make sure to have my camera […]

Aurora Borealis At This Time of Year? In This Part of the Country?

I saw the aurora, and did my best not to reference that Simpsons meme the entire time. Also photos.

Comment on The US Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 by The Jarbochov Stratagem - The Total Solar Eclipse of 2024

[…] and I started planning for this year’s eclipse right after we experienced the one in 2017 in Nashville. During that trip, I didn’t know what to expect, and while I was able to get some photos of the […]

The Total Solar Eclipse of 2024

I experienced a total solar eclipse TWICE and lived to tell the tale. Also, I got some good shots.

Dumb Technology

TXT files in 2024? In the past few years, I’ve simplified what applications I’ve been using, and in a few ways gone “backwards”

25 Years & A New Look

I updated my website, and reminisce about my humble web beginnings. New year, new look, same me!

Smash Bros. amiibo

I’m still surprised in 2023 that Nintendo is still releasing amiibo for some of the biggest games, and that every Super Smash Bros. character will have an amiibo as well. They may not have much functionality these days (never forget Mario Maker for the Wii U), but they sure are neat.

Comment on How a Social Network Fails by Anonymous

<a href="https://wyomingjarbo.com/blog/@wyomingjarbo" rel="ugc">@wyomingjarbo</a> <a href="https://social.4score7pongs.com/@jarbochov" rel="nofollow ugc">@jarbochov</a> yeah, like he decided it was his way or the highway and it was crazy how many people hit the highway. What a shock

Comment on How a Social Network Fails by Jared Cherup

<a href="https://wyomingjarbo.com/blog/@wyomingjarbo" rel="ugc">@wyomingjarbo</a> neat

How a Social Network Fails

How a Social Network Fails – The Atlantic “Many core social-platform functions, such as the hashtag, reblog, and retweet, were not invented by Silicon Valley tech geniuses. Instead, they were pioneered by enthusiastic users who loved the products they were using, and they were only later formalized into the apps themselves.” “Elon has these really […]

Comment on Weather Geek Apps by The Jarbochov Stratagem - My Weather Resources 2023

[…] been a while since I posted about the weather apps I use but it’s time to update with the times. Some apps have disappeared, some were […]

My Weather Resources 2023

Everyone is always asking me... what weather apps I use. Well it's been since 2016 since I made a post about it, so I'll go ahead and share.

Now With ActivityPub

My blog now supports the protocol that supports the Fediverse. Which means you can now follow this blog on your favorite Fediverse platform such as Mastodon. @wyomingjarbo

Further Down The Tetris Rabbit Hole

From the oldest scriptures, mankind has been pursuing the merging of chicken nuggets and video games for over a millennia.

Historical Video Game Records

These are just some image manipulation experiments I did in Pixelmator Pro to approximate a dithering style I saw somewhere. I personally like how the pixelation is less pronounced and how they sort of look like old photos in a newspaper. This was just for fun but I wanted to share them.

On Reddit

I just wanted to post real quick about what’s going on with Reddit. You can catchup here: API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours | Ars Technica For all the faults of Reddit and there are quite a few1, Reddit was one of the first places I discovered where my weird brain […]

Signs of Spring

Timelapse

2022 Video Games in Screenshots (Nintendo Switch Edition)

A summary of games I took screenshots of on my Nintendo Switch in 2022. "A surprising lack of Tetris!"

Mastodon

Yeah, I'm on that mammoth site now.

Twitter

With Twitter’s possible inevitable collapse, I find myself wanting to go back to the blog. You know, before the whole microblog. Twitter was never perfect and maybe it can and will be better. Time will only tell. RSS never died. Podcasting and feed readers still power the truly democratized web envisioned decades ago. Newsletters are […]

Recently got to take the new iPhone 14 Pro Max out into a good photography moment of the Columbus skyline facing east during a sunset. If...

Recently got to take the new iPhone 14 Pro Max out into a good photography moment of the Columbus skyline facing east during a sunset. If you zoom into the wide angle photo, you might exclaim “that’s a lot of pixels”.

The Weekly Jarbochov Roundup [Not So Weekly Edition] (September 2nd, 2022)

Ask your doctor if the Weekly Jarbochov Roundup is right for you. Side effects may include: not as weekly as suggested, footnoteitis, video games, probably something about Flickr.

Comment on The Weekly Jarbochov Roundup Anniversary Edition (August 13th, 2022) by Chris McLaughlin

I ain’t a vacuum. I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m not… GOOOOOOSE!!!! I learned about that lost Sesame Street episode before, so I’ll need to check it out. Margaret Hamilton felt so bad about scaring kids with it, too. I kinda wonder if it’d have the same effect anymore. I was far more interested in that Excel battle than I thought, watching a good 15+ minutes of it. I guess I’ll have to watch the whole thing sometime as well!

Comment on The Weekly Jarbochov Roundup Anniversary Edition (August 13th, 2022) by Lindsey

A WHOLE ASS YEAR?! CONGRATS! 1. Thank you for doing these- I’ve learned so much 2. But also: I wish I knew less about woodpeckers now… I liked the view that Naturalist at a metro park gave me about their stupid tongues protecting their little peanut brains 3. That lost/found Wicked Witch thing was super cool 4. My favorite roundup??? Probably the one where I get a shoutout, hahaha. No, I’ve learned something cool/interesting/frustrating from each one, which is a total cop out answer… but doesn’t make it less true 5. Gabe’s favorite recipe is just straight pickles

The Weekly Jarbochov Roundup Anniversary Edition (August 13th, 2022)

If there's one roundup that's been around for an entire year providing you free content at the click of a button, this is one of them.

Comment on The Jarbochov Sometimes Roundup (June 10th, 2022) by Lindsey

… uhhhh (Shit he’s onto me)

Comment on The Jarbochov Sometimes Roundup (June 10th, 2022) by Jared Cherup

In reply to <a href="https://wyomingjarbo.com/blog/2022/06/10/the-jarbochov-sometimes-roundup-june-10th-2022/comment-page-1/#comment-381">Lindsey</a>. You want me to reveal all of my super "secret" sources for the roundup in so you can cut out the middle man?

Comment on The Jarbochov Sometimes Roundup (June 10th, 2022) by Lindsey

BDG’s videos have gotten just insanely weirder since he has become his own editor. This roundup was JAM PACKED. Like I feel like I maybe consumed 40% of it and could just keep coming back for more. Can you do a list of your top most watched YouTube channels? Like a top 10, I always check to see if they have a new upload, type of list. Kthx

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (February 4th, 2022) by Jared Cherup

In reply to <a href="https://wyomingjarbo.com/blog/2022/02/04/the-jarbochov-weekly-roundup-february-4th-2022/comment-page-1/#comment-377">Alex</a>. That took a while.

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (February 4th, 2022) by Alex

Guess what, now there's an announcement about the Tumblr CEO leaving... on Tumblr. https://staff.tumblr.com/post/675566135065870336/thanks-to-ceo-jeff-donofrio-for-his-8-years-at

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (January 28th, 2022) by Alex

I watched the Hank Green video at lunch the other day and I've been watching the NFT video today. Get out of my YouTube history.

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (November 19th, 2021) by Lindsey

Man, I'm always learning cool shit from these. Are you going to do your top game(s) of the year rundown?

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (November 5th, 2021) by Lindsey

Christ that bird thing is the stuff of nightmares.

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (October 22nd, 2021) by Lindsey

I still love these I cleaned the cupboards and baseboards in the kitchen today while John read me the thing about that guy applying to all of those jobs and I was like, sounds right. That moon article was hilarious and “I apologize for the thing I said about your Mom” was gold. I feel like we could still find some of those playground features in my old neighborhood on the west side. You know I’m fucking down for some nerd shit in thrift store paintings!

Comment on Tetris Effect by The Jarbochov Stratagem - The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (October 8th, 2021)

[…] classic games in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. Tetris Effect is finally home on Nintendo Switch something I said needed to happen a few years ago. Finally Jett: The Far Shore has been getting some high praise. So, I’m excited for a bunch of […]

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (September 24th, 2021) by Alex

I could lose a lot of time playing with Ambient Chaos.

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (September 17th, 2021) by Lindsey

#3 every day hehehe I love that little cat! I’m not surprised by the FB news… although it does make me incredible surprised they booted Trump. Love how that article about Microsoft being password free sounded like one big ad for a password manager. Still need to watch the other movie things you posted because they look so cool. Thanks for posting the roundup! I’ll look forward to whatever you decide to write this upcoming week. Have fun being #beachjared

Comment on The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (August 20th, 2021) by The Jarbochov Stratagem - The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (September 3rd, 2021)

[…] Of course. A couple of weeks ago I posted about how weeds are becoming resistant to pesticides. But I never thought about robots taking care of the job. If weeds become resistant to lasers, then […]