Fri Sep 05
I’ve talked about my note taking “issues” in the past. I’m pretty happy with my current digital setup. I use obsidian on the desktop and I use QuillPad on my Android phone with Nextcloud in the middle. I will admit that things there are messier than they were a few months ago. I’m going to have to work on...
Encountering a bird crossing sign near a bird-named venue in Roslyn, New York.
Alpha and Omega, originally published in 1915, is the third title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the new edition, as it appears in on its pages. “Have faith,” someone I loved said to me, holding my face in her hands — the face of a lifelong atheist. And suddenly, there in the lacuna between love...
Just a quick recap of what we've been up to lately. We spent the last week of summer in Zurich. Right after breakfast on Sunday, I headed to the airport, and later that day I joined an Airsidefoto tour.
I published an article on The New Leaf Journal about how the 2024-25 Miami Heat had the worst win-loss record (37-45) of any team to make the NBA Playoffs in the 16-team playoff era (beginning in 1983-84) with a positive net rating (N.A. Ferrell at NLJ, March 22, 2025). In short, the Heat actually outscored their...
This one is about tomatoes. I had a lot of fun making this zine. It was part of the Sunday Zine Club #13. I had been making little paper cut tomatoes all summer so the theme being tomatoes was perfect. These tomatoes really do look delicious. I’m thinking about making them into a sticker set […]
I’ve been using the CoPilot plugin for IntelliJ on and off for the last few years, and while initially pretty enthusiastic, I’ve come to first disable it and then delete it altogether along with JetBrains’ local AI-completions, and generally felt this has been an improvement in productivity and a reduction of...
It's been a bit since I've checked in with everyone. About a week after my last post I found out that I'd been moved back to day shift at work. Through a miscommunication I found this out the hard way, which is to say right after logging in one evening my boss wanted to know where I'd been all day. Long story short,...
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), and we have an...
Sam AltmanCo-fundador e CEO da OpenAI If only we knew who was the “genius” who started all this mess…
The website is now using PhP and Javascript to handle form data instead of sending form data to a Discord Hook.
I've been off gallivanting again, but am now back home. This gallivant was a two-day walk (rather little of which was spent actually walking) down in Sussex, with my brother and the doughty remnants of the walking group. We spent the first day and night in Chichester, that fine town, where my brother, an expert on...
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It's been a little over two weeks since I got back home after staying away for 3 months.
About forty engravings from the early 1600s, with dresses, attires, ceremonies, feasts, regattas and much more.
Three things I thank God for, yeah, four: Bad scare this morning, with the specter of surgery, turned out to be much less serious than suspected. Great time last night doing a last-minute online group, sort of an “Ask Anything” within the biblical field. Close to 30 participated. Great conversation with a friend...
No, really. In Naked Economics, Charles Wheelan lists several factors essential to the growth and development of a national economy: effective government institutions property rights no excessive regulation geography openness to trade responsible fiscal and monetary policy human capital democracy peace woman power...
Switching phones got me to sift through my Shazam tracks. Some of them date back to 2016 … Ten years of musical serendipity. That’s so wild! For two of those tracks I bought the respective release for Bandcamp Friday today: Go Solo led me to buy The Pleasant Trees (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) by Tom Rosenthal. His full...
Nilay Patel sat down for a Decoder interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott to talk about NLWeb, an open source effort to allow an LLM-style indexing of small websites and provide local search. Instead of having large centralized search indexes like Google or Bing, the indexing shifts to sites having their own local...