My second half marathon in as many weeks—and a final tune-up before Ironman 70.3 Coeur d’Alene.

Clickbait summary: Here's a fun thing you can do with Post-it notes that might save your poor brain from a meltdown...

The Adam Freeland Song “We Want Your Soul” was released in 2003, and while the world was going through a transitory period, we are realizing the entirety of the soul sucking nature of modernity today. This version of the music video includes some of the more iconic advertisements of the 20th century, including the...

Introduction The advent of the latest release of Neovim (0.11) brought some changes and improvements in the area of LSP and diagnostics support, covered nicely in the post What's new in Neovim 0.11 from Gregory Anders, and also in David Kunz's video Neovim 0.11: What's New?. I have tried to embrace the new...

residency, june 8th-24th 2025, visual arts in rural communities and forestry england I have arrived back in Northumberland to do a 2-week residency partnered with Forestry England revising the Kielderhead Wildwood where I was also resident in 2020-21 (see https://shanefinan.org/VAP/10_woodwideweb.html). I will be on...

Motywacja Oglądam właśnie WWDC 2025 - konferencję Apple'a na temat ich nowego oprogramowania. Całkiem niezłe rzeczy dodali, np. dostęp do lokalnego modelu językowego. Zmienili też radykalnie interfejs wszystkiego na Liquid Glass, który wygląda jak Windows Vista (to synonim do "wygląda okropnie"). Ale nie o tym...

Lately, I find myself juggling a lot of personal and professional projects that wildly differ in complexity and shape. To keep my focus sharp while also allowing for inevitable context switches, I have been happily using James Lyons’ Pomodoro. However, having to open a browser to start a corner stone of my...

You can safely extract options hash from the end of an argument list using the extract_options! method in Rails. Not only it simplifies the method definition but it keeps the method's API flexible, allowing you to add new options without breaking existing callers.

I toss. I turn. I make myself a burrito in my blanket. I stick a leg out and let it dangle off the mattress. I say fuck it and grab my phone and start writing this post. I am not a great sleeper, at least not at night, not when I’m supposed to be sleeping. This isn’t something new, not some side effect of growing...

Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways. For those who haven’t come across this newsletter before, Cormac runs Temporal Boundary Press, a small press that publishes a number of zines including Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion (in which, I...

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has compiled or give up”. “Hope someone...

Is Star Wars trending these days ? If not, then it's probably time to chime in.