This is the seventh post in the series on Rails controllers.Redirects are an important part of the web, and Rails gives us a clean and expressive way to use them with the redirect_to helper method.But what's actually going on when you call redirect_to?It's easy to treat it as a magical Rails incantation that just...

Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has approximately 307 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the Indieweb Carnival for June 2025, hosted by Nick Simson, under the theme "Take Two." I only mentioned this...

Me he llevado años diciendo que iba a cambiar Ubuntu por Fedora. He dado toda clase de motivos: que no me gusta que una empresa tenga tanto peso en un entorno democrático, que no me gusta ir con versiones “antiguas” de software, o que yo (usuario medio/avanzado) no tengo motivos para ser parte de la […]

I love it when I get email from readers. It's spawned blog posts before, and this time, well, it's going to happen again. This time though, I'm going to publish my reply for the world to see because, well, in truth, I'm a lazy human that enjoys linking to what I've said rather than typing everything out, again. Yes,...

Swedish doom metal, Welsh metalcore, English folk, and some of the dirtiest pop music

Across Beryl St to the Line of Lode Living in Broken Hill is a comfortable existence. The town has a population of less than 17,000 yet punches above its weight when compared to other similarly sized or bigger yet duller country towns. Sorry Dubbo. I am talking of course of the sights available to the urban...

O que são?Os chamados feeds RSS paracem estar tomando força na web novamente. Em teoria é uma tecnologia "Velha", mas apenas de idade e não de qualidade. Ela é ótima para quem quer receber suas notícias, posts nos blogs, e muitos mais, direto na sua mão. Alguém criará um arquivo rss.xml, e quando você colocar o link...

Kids do really say the darndest things.

So, there’s a name for the phenomenon I hate so much: Loud casting. “So how do we react when we experience others listening to their phones and other devices in public? About half of people maintain a British stiff upper lip and do nothing. The most common reaction for those who take action (cited by […]

Electronic clicks and beeps, rhythms, sounds, coming from the tinny speakers of my laptop. I blink and remember something..._"Where are we going?"__I was driving. A friend in my passenger seat had asked to be dropped off at their friend's house. I did not know this other friend.__"He lives up the hill on the...

So soll eines meiner Bilder für meine Bewerbung bei KalkKunst 2025 heißen. Nicht begnügen ist als süffisantes Grinsen in Richtung Köln-Ausgabe des Stadtmagazins Mit Vergnügen zu verstehen, in der rechtsrheinische Orte und Geschichten unverhältnismäßig unterrepräsentiert sind! Wo sonst sollte man sowas künstlerisch...

I’ve talked before on my YouTube channel all about how I enjoy changing the color scheme and wallpaper of my Linux set up, and how that keeps me feeling like my workspace is new and fresh. It somehow makes me more productive, as I don’t feel trapped in the same environment day in and day out. The weird thing is, I...

New manga style artwork of a flock of corella flying past a window.

境界線 彼女は毎朝、鏡を見るたびに違う顔をしていた。 物理的に変わるわけではない。同じ目、同じ鼻、同じ輪郭。でも何かが違う。昨日の自分と今日の自分の間に、見えない境界線があった。 「おはよう」と声をかけると、鏡の中の彼女も口を動かす。でも、その声は彼女の声ではなかった。彼女の声のようで、でも違う。 境界線は至る所にあった。 コーヒーを飲むとき、カップと唇の間に。 歩くとき、足と地面の間に。 考えるとき、思考と言葉の間に。 彼女は境界線を消そうとした。鏡に手を伸ばし、ガラスの冷たさを感じた。でも手は向こう側に届かない。 「境界線って何だろう」と彼女は呟いた。 すると、鏡の中の彼女が答えた。...

December 23rd, 2023Mui Ne, VietnamI dreamt of Lord Satan. I was in a cozy, candlelit room, the type of place you'd call your boyfriend to break up with him, but trying to let him down easy. He wasn't entirely corporeal, more so a shadow, a voice that didn't speak any language in particular but was understood oh, so...

This post is about a popular but niche technique I can never find a succinct reference for. I didn’t invent it, I just need a page I can link when giving optimization advice. Integer ↔ float casts that utilize specialized processor instructions, i.e. those that compilers use by default, typically have worse...