The Weekly Cache #1

What I wrote

Installing Linux onto Windows with WSL - Steps for installing WSL, Linux, uninstalling Linux, and checking versions.

What I did

I moved my personal blog to Ghost, hosted through MagicPages.co, which looks promising. I’ll be migrating content for a while. I like it and have used Ghost before, without the newsletter component.

I switched from an iPhone 14 Pro to a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, moving from iOS to Android. I do this every few years to keep things new. I’m familiar with Android, and not much has changed in the OS recently.

What I learned

I want to do some old-school development. I was an ASP.NET C# developer but got pulled into SharePoint and Microsoft Power Platform. My primary role is architecture, determining how everything works together to create a solution.

I write Power FX and occasionally HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but I miss programming.

I’ve been interested in Ruby for a long time and started dabbling with it. I just started learning to setup WSL on Windows.

What I read

I finished reading Scythe, book 1 of the Arc of a Scythe series, by Neal Shusterman. It was a thought-provoking story. I enjoyed the book and I'm ready for more! Here's my review.

I started reading AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. It’s about what AI is and isn’t.

What I watched

My family and I saw Superman (2025). The movie has the same comic-book goofiness as Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, where Superman isn't the strongest and got his ass whooped. I'm glad they took this approach. Its theme is about Superman's humanity, and it remained fun and lighthearted.

What I discovered

I discovered Tollbit through the Crazy Stupid Tech newsletter. It’s a new service that monetizes AI traffic to your site. Recently, Cloudflare started Pay Per Crawl, which is similar. AI web scraping has opened new revenue opportunities for companies to protect content. How much will go to the content owners?