Bryan Smith

Kirtland Signature warblers are better than name brand warblers.

I can’t overstate how much you’ve bummed me out today. There are so few things that can bring joy to a Seattle-Bellingham drive, but that sloth was one of them 💔

Well you have me shopping for lenses for my phone camera. The perspective with the moss is really cool.

Seems like I always start noticing them around the time I’m feeling sad about chanterelles and other fall mushrooms tapering off and they cheer me up!

Amazing photo! Never seen anything similar.

Vibrant orange slime mold spreading over white crust fungus on an alder tree (closeup)

Vibrant orange slime mold spreading over white crust fungus on an alder tree, mossy forest in background

Here’s a nice slime mold I found today

Same. Dog people behavior became so much more infuriating for me when I had kids… giant dog knocks my kid to the ground and half the time the owner has a comment like "it's ok, she's friendly! Just excited!" Kid is clearly scared. How do you think this is ok?

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Red mushroom on brown dirt surrounded by dry brown ferns

Orange-yellow mushroom on green moss

Orange-yellow mushrooms on green moss

Lots of hygrocybe today. Looking fabulous as usual!

Oh, I have that same book but didn’t check it. Good to now I haven’t been miss-identifying at least :-) thanks!

Thank you!

Would you know anything about the classification/naming of these? I've been calling these Sarcomyxa serotina, and after seeing your post and doing a little Googling I'm a little confused about the preferred or correct name.

Bird’s nest fungus on dark wood chips with dry leaves

Birds nest fungus is so strange and cute

Gomphidius? I always love the yellow!

I found a resume template I like, except that I have pretty unfortunate initials to stamp boldly at the top of a resume. [BS]

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Screenshot of React 19 release notes describing a common pattern with arrow functions implicitly returning a meaningless result to a ref callback that was acceptable in previous versions, but has different behavior in React 19. Screenshot taken from https://react.dev/blog/2024/12/05/react-19

I've almost entirely stopped "nitpicking" in code review, but one nit-picky thing I've held onto is avoiding meaningless implicit return values from arrow functions that perform side effects. React 19 release notes include a great example of why I think this very common pattern should be avoided.

Wait I actually love thinking of undefined as hanging on in quiet desperation.

Onion: Cancelled Tsunami Nominated for HUD Secretary Cabinet Position

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

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Dewy grey-green pixie cup lichen

Dewy grey-green pixie cup lichen closeup

Dewy grey-green pixie cup lichen top-down

Beautiful dew-covered lichen i spotted today. I love how the dew makes the photo appear pixelated. I don’t know my lichens well; guessing a pixie cup?

Impressively large chanterelle mushroom

It’s December and Chanterelles are STILL happening

Purple mountain bike at a viewpoint with Mt Baker in the background

Dark cup fungus in green moss

White club fungus in green moss

Lovely day in the woods

Freshly baked sourdough bread loaf in pan

Actually only in charge of gluten for tomorrow

My microwave’s defrost mode says about 2 hours should be good for 16lb, so I guess I’ll wait until the morning

Excited to cook my first turkey tomorrow! Should I take it out of the freezer before bed tonight or fine to wait until the morning?

Elfin saddle mushroom in the forest. Helvella Vespertina.

Bird’s nest fungus on the forest floor. Crucibulum sp.

I don’t believe you

You posted this suspiciously close to becoming the only person to like my post.

Purple mountain bike on trail in front of cleared storm blow down

Handsaw part way through tree blocking trail. Bright orange witch’s butter fungus on tree, mountain bike in background.

Storm damage to trail: large tree uprooted, collapsing trail edge into a gully.

Some light forestry work on my lunch ride helping clean up after the storm. Bonus witch’s butter.