Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world

I wake up. Not groggy, not tired, but alert. Something woke me up. I'm getting less sleep these days. Probably the weather changing; it rains at odd times, sometimes at night. The thunder wakes me up too. And sometimes passing vehicles that sound just a little different from the regular traffic. Ha, guess I'm just a...

Our damson tree had an unusually large crop of fruit this year, so I decided to make a batch of jam. The recipe below details what appears to have worked well. It was adapted from a plum jam recipe found in the book Jams & Chutneys, although the original recipe was for about half the quantity and gave the...

The second hand is sweeping ’round the clock. It mocks the man who strives to make it stop; Who deems that time is money ─ not enough hours In a day; who vainly seeks to increase his powers. And still the falling finger moves ahead, Uncaring, wilting petals from the flowers, Ever reaching to cut the living thread.

Getting into a Waymo driverless car for the very first time. There’s a visceral reaction when the idea of an autonomous car is brought up. “No way!” “I don’t trust robots.” “How can that even be safe?” These are commonplace in the discourse of driverless vehicles. Some protestors have even placed cones on the...

Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git 2024-09-20 I recently began the process of setting up my self-hosted1 cgit server as my main code forge. Updating repos via cgit on NearlyFreeSpeech on its own has been simple enough, but it lacked the “wow-factor” of having some sort of automated build process. I...

I've added a tiny block of code to Tinble, and now you can pin articles, so they always appear at the top of the article list no matter the date they were published on.

Shit, ich bin spät dran; aber falls du das heute noch liest und ein paar Taler übrig hast, überlege doch kurz, ob du diese nicht in die Rettung des Hafenklangs in Hamburg investieren willst. Für mich steht das Hafenklang vor allem für das Punk-Rock-Festival Booze Cruise, aber auch schöne Einzelkonzerte habe ich in...

A couple of days ago I did something I haven't done before; a super local photography walk.

I came across this submission to Not Always Right today, and it got me thinking about some of the attitudes towards technology I’ve seen over the years. There is a contingent of people in many workplaces who believe they can do a perfectly good job without investing the time in learning about the tech they use each...

Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! Phew, what a week this has been. Uni has officially started for me, which ultimately meant one thing: My schedule is way more packed now than a couple of weeks ago. It’s not really stressing me out, but the fact that I could easily fall asleep every day at 8pm shows pretty well,...