Tue Jun 17
Thinking about how consumerism influences and interferes with political aspirations.
This post shows how to inspect the sequence of before, after, and around callbacks in Rails controllers by adding a small initializer. Useful for understanding callback order in applications with complex controller hierarchies or shared concerns. I learned this trick while reading the Rails tests.
Excite portal, July 1998. When BowieNet was “pre-launched” on his main website at the end of June 1998, commentators saw it as an attempt to “creatively up the ante in the portal war,” as Beth Lipton wrote in a CNET report. “Large Net gateway sites such as Yahoo and Excite seek to be the home page for as many users...
[Week of June 11, 2025] Recommendation for the background is My baby (Got Nothing At All) from The Materialists DataYoga: 3 Dineout sites: 13 Chorizo and poee: 2 Highest steps: 9026 Lowest steps: 2760 The 2 PM pill bottleLike clockwork my existentialism comes. The mornings are kind and I make through with discipline...
Day 11, What is your current relationship with technology? Do you enjoy it? Does it cause you anxiety? Its complicated. I love technology but its lately been giving me more an more anxiety. Mostly because I was one of those people who drew alot of self satisfaction at being a programmer. Specifically, spending the...
Not sure I do... All of my life I have loved the letters my Ma writes. Likewise she has a knack for picking out beautiful books to read. I thought I'd had a brainwave last January when I bought her a Storyworth for her birthday. The idea behind the service is that the family provide writing prompts and my Ma writes....
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Tuesday evening. I need to do the dishes, but I want to sit down and write first. I went shopping for toiletries yesterday and school supplies today, so I'm a bit appalled at how fast money's been flying out of my hands. I definitely need to eat more meals at home this week. After running around the block with my...
More strangeness from Hastings’ antique shops. Out of shot are a small coffin and a stuffed badger. Photograph by the author. Here in Hastings the summer is starting to manifest itself in the form of warmer and sunnier days and, consequently, the number of tourists is starting to rise. That’s good for all the local...
From the ashes of WYSIWYG rises a lightweight markup language "interface" to the HTML pages in the wiki, and I think this is going to work...
TitleThe Witcher 3: Blood and Wine Year2015 Kindgame Played2025-06-18