Feeling better today 🤒➡️🙂—still dealing with some cough, congestion, and hoarseness 🤧😶‍🌫️, but I’d say I’m about 65% back to normal 💪. The only downside? I’m not behind on work! 😅 But hey, I guess that’s just life 🤷.

#CoughChronicles #OnTheMend #SickButSurviving

From Peacock:

• 🎬 The Day of the Jackal – Season 1, Episodes 1–3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

No spoilers!

I’ve been under the weather this week—caught a summer cold and wrote about it. Since I’ve been off work since Wednesday and mostly napping, I dove into a couple of series. This one’s on Peacock, and since I’m canceling the service in July, I’ve got to finish it before then.

That said—this show is really good. I’ve watched the first three episodes, and I have to say: the English seriously know how to make television. Right now, it's better than 98% of what’s coming out of the U.S.—with one exception I'll get to next. Eddie Redmayne is excellent in this, and all the characters are genuinely interesting. 🎬

From Prime Video:

• 🎬 The Chosen – Season 5, Episode 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“No spoilers” doesn’t quite apply here—after all, it's based on the Bible.

This season is diving into what I’d call fulfillment, sacrifice, and redemption. The casting is spot-on, and while I know not every detail is historically or biblically precise, the spirit and themes are respectfully portrayed. The creators, actors, and entire team are doing an outstanding job, and this is currently my favorite show. I’m glad they’re aiming for seven seasons—I’m especially curious how they’ll depict their take on Revelations. 🎬

#TV #Entertainment #Peacock #PrimeVideo

I’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I interact with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate something I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But I do have ideas—and I’ve always wished I could bring them to life. Well, thanks to AI, that’s starting to happen.

I recently started a Sharkey instance for myself. Honestly, I like it better than Mastodon. But I’m not quite ready to give Mastodon up entirely, and I wanted my blog posts to automatically be shared on Sharkey. When I post to my blog on Micro.blog, it uses POSSE (Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)—but Sharkey isn’t included in that.

So AI helped me fix that with n8n. I set up several workflows so that when I post to my website, the RSS feed is monitored by n8n using the workflow shown below. It took a bit of effort—and the help of two AIs.

Funny thing: I subscribe to both Claude AI and ChatGPT, and I often pit them against each other as a sanity check. Since I can’t verify the code myself with confidence, I compare their answers. And when they disagree, I paste both responses into Perplexity or Google’s Gemini to get a broader consensus on the best solution.

In this case, Claude got me about 98% of the way there—but I ran into a formatting issue. So I dropped the whole thing into ChatGPT, and it immediately identified the problem, fixed it, and now my Sharkey posts look just like they came from Micro.blog.

Now I have a similar workflow for this Scribbles site:

• One less node.
• Atom feed instead of JSON.

Without AI, it would’ve taken me a year to figure this out on my own. Honestly, if it weren’t for AI, I probably never would’ve discovered Micro.blog, Scribbles, or anything else—I’d still be stuck on WordPress, struggling to figure it out (which, for some reason, never clicked with me, even after nearly a decade of trying).

AI has been like a private tutor for me. I had always wanted to self-host using a Raspberry Pi, but never managed to start—until now. AI is truly making life better for me.

Sure, I see the gloom-and-doom predictions about jobs being replaced by AI. But that’s not what this post is about. I just wanted to share how I’ve enhanced POSSE for my site with the help of AI.

👉 Follow me on Sharkey: michael@mitchelltribe.rodeo

#n8n #POSSE #Sharkey #SelfHosting 

This review may contain spoilers.

I liked the premise of the movie, but it didn’t feel like the right fit for Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Shailene Woodley—it just didn’t suit their usual style. On the other hand, Richard Madden really looked the part of the villain and played it convincingly.

📷 #mbjune Day 11: Brick
My brick house (cat not included).

I start my first dose of Camzyos tomorrow to see if it helps with my obstructive HCM symptoms. I’m a bit nervous 😟 — there are a lot of black box warnings ⚠️. I have my first follow-up ECHO next month 🩺.

What worries me most, though, is that while insurance has approved the medication and the company provides the first 35 doses free 💊, I still haven’t been set up with my insurance’s pharmacy — and no one has told me what my out-of-pocket cost will be. I’m afraid I’ll start this medication and then find out I can’t afford to continue it 💸.

And to make it harder, it can take up to three months to even become effective ⏳.

#Camzyos #HCM #Insurance

🎉 Happy 21st Birthday to my nephew Landon!
Enjoy your day, keep making us proud, and continue growing into the respectful man you're becoming.

We’re all cheering you on as you step into this new chapter — you’ve got a bright future ahead! 👏

#21stBirthday #ProudUncle #FamilyMilestone

📷 #mbjune Day 10: Rail A rail can keep you safe.

📷 #mbjune Day 9: Wood
Wood makes all kinds of useful things.