Sat Aug 23
Otra de Chuck Lorre que me termino estos días (aunque me quedaba solo una temporada). En su momento vi The Big Bang Theory y me gustó, y (quizá siendo esto una opinión impopular) creo que tuvo un final satisfactorio. Y empecé Young Sheldon para ahondar en la historia de uno de sus protagonistas, y reconozco que me...
Maybe I just have odd ears, but I’ve never found a pair of in ear earbuds that actually fit my ears. Oh, if they have wings on them or whatever, they’ll stick in, but that seems like cheating, and those too can be very uncomfortable. The promise of earbuds is that you don’t have to have heavy, hot, and obnoxious...
I mentioned in my last post that I was going to write a bit about my experience with UTR (Universal Tennis Rating) matches. I played two more of them this month, in August, and I won one of them and lost the second one. But both matches were very good and competitive. The second match even brought my UTR up a little...
AI could generate a thousand images of urban decay or rural neglect, each technically superior to anything any human has captured. But it couldn’t tell which stories matter, which moments demand preservation, which truths need dragging into the light. It cannot feel the weight of responsibility that comes with...
Saturday evening, curled up in my chair, anxiety a second heartbeat behind my real one. I've wanted to cry all week from the sheer number of tasks I have to do, but the tears just won't come out. And it's only the first Saturday of senior year. I hate to bring this energy back to my blog (undiscoverable post again!...
I used to be a Windows user, but I was always interested in Linux and I played around with various Linux distros since the late 90s, and I finally made the switch to using Linux as my main OS in 2007, because I needed Linux for a University project. The distro I chose back then was Ubuntu 7.04. The old Ubuntu...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. This may all ultimately be a moot point if Microsoft goes all-in on their shift to publishing cross-platform games and becoming a Steam-like service rather than nurturing the Xbox as a competitive dedicated platform. Gaming in a post-Xbox Era?, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was...
August 23, 2025 I’ve been tinkering with the site’s design and layout the last couple of days. The new color scheme is my take on Dracula (the theme, not the vampire), and navigation has moved to the footer. I like this version better since it’s mine, unlike the old 11ty-base-blog setup.
The humble chef's knife. (Photo by Kevin Doran from Unsplash) The modern kitchen is filled with purpose-built gadgets whose functions were at one point previously accomplished by a single tool: the chef's knife. Garlic-presses Multi-function onion-choppers Avocado-slicers Mandoline-slicers Apple corer/slicer What...
It often feels like optimism is an act of revenge, an act of spite or rebellion, because optimism requires diligence and effort whilst pessimism feels like the default, the thing requiring no energy or effort. Mike Monteiro wrote along similar lines in How to stay hopeful: The problem with dystopias is that...
Organising my feeds using Permaculture principles Ever since I’ve the personal web, I’ve been following personal websites in my feed reader. To make sense of it all, I first tried to organise my feeds by topic. It quickly became obvious to me that this wouldn’t work: most personal websites don’t fit one particular...
Unhealthy relationship with caffeine. An added feature of aging is wondering if a headache is from withdrawal or some kind of cancer. My right leg hurts when I rest the left across the right—am I dying? More quickly than expected, I mean. What’s the expected rate of death anyway? If eighty years is the average...
Egune AI, is part of a growing movement to build LLMs in low-resource languages to expand AI access for underserved populations. Despite a shortage of training data, compute power, talent, and funding, these small models are attracting government clients and individual users keen to safeguard their language, cultural
I read an interesting post by Juha-Matti Santala (a new addition to my feed collection) on linking to books online. He had complained on Mastodon about the lack of Mastodon alternatives, but was heartened when he received recommendations for Bookwyrm (a Fediverse Goodreads alternative), Open Library (an Internet...
Weeknote #9, like coffee, I’m still on the grind. Some Links Worth Sharing Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments LinkedIn does not equal opportunity: Bold move changing one’s LinkedIn employment history to a review of what it’s like to work at each company! I love...
Molt breument, a instàncies de Dinamarca, molts estats membres de la UE exigeixen que els serveis de missatgeria com WhatsApp/Signal/etc. estiguin obligats a inspeccionar totes les nostres fotos i enllaços mitjançant IA. Si la IA té el més mínim “dubte” que pugui ser pornografia infantil, la vostra foto, ubicació,...