The missus had to work this weekend, and there was nothing exciting going on in NUE, so I decided to go for an overnight trip to MUC. Besides capturing airplanes, my plan was to field test my "meal kit" consisting of a Trek'n Eat main course for dinner and The Brew Company coffee brewer along with RUF porridge for...

A new wiki appears! Here's the thing I alluded to in the previous two entries. It's one of those "mini-sites" that appear on this feed from time to time with: A project page, a repo, and a 5-part "making of" article series that I hope is fun and interesting...

After quitting social media 6 years ago (wow it's been that long), I've been hesitant to post online about anything, my scrappy art, my weird days of personal realizations, the tech I enjoy, the science I am curious about, my feelings on transitioning, none of it. While I still use platforms like Reddit and YouTube...

Una serie que comienza siendo una inocente serie de aventuras con mostruos, alienígenas y un chaval torpe de buen corazón se convierte en sus cinco temporadas en una serie que te habla de distintos modelos de familia, de responsabilidad emocional y de traumas familiares. Y lo hace sin volverse oscura y desde un...

There’s a genre of mastodon post that I occasionally enjoy recapitulating, and I call it my “tin cup sermon”. It’s never quite the same twice, but it usually goes as a lament that socially, our conception of what I’m going to call the “ease of zen” is exoticised. That is, when we picture zen surroundings or zen...

The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be called “stratagems”,...

I built my own solution for social sharing images for my blog, and you can too!

Read on the website: We keep losing context and computation when running programs. But we don't have to. Let’s see how this lost compute can be avoided.

Day 5: What is the most memorable job you’ve held? Easy enough. My most memorable job was one my father gave me in the summer of 1996. I was presented with a few tons of sand/dirt that had been moved from a sewer trench – not exactly the glamorous of summer gigs most teenagers dream about, but it would become...

Note: This is an edited re-post of something I wrote in 2019 on a now-defunct blog, apparently a month before I started my first job in tech. I need to reference it in a future post. As a result, it is a little bit different stylistically from my current writing. I hope you enjoy it anyway! I'm talking about the...

I restarted this website in 2023 to prove to myself that I can keep up a steady stream of written ouput … that I have something to offer and that blogging is fun… nay, necessary again. 94 notes later, I consider this trial period done and a success! It’s high time to turn this list of blog posts into an actual...

I have played video games for most of my life, but I did not truly consider gaming my hobby, and myself a gamer, until I attended university more than a decade ago. It was during the time when I discovered Fraps, the first screen capture and screen recording software I ever used. I am primarily a PC gamer, and enjoy...

AI and LLM are taking a front seat in the marketing hype bubble. It is destroying lives and reducing cognitive abilities from humans. This is why I am not a fan of the bubble. I lay out my initial thoughts and regularly update the related reading and articles.

I finally have a blog! I think the last time I had a blog was back in 2012, during the Tumblr era. I plan on using this as a place to talk about random thoughts and ideas, science, tech, research, activism, advocacy, projects, business, photography and of course music. So if this sounds interesting to you, feel free...

artist talk, june 17th 2025, online (hosted by the maltings berwick) On June 17th I will give a talk on my three-month residency aiteann (https://shanefinan.org/VAP/15_aiteann.html) as part of the research project FIRECULT. The project is exploring the relationship between fire and loss of cultural heritage. I will...