Sun Oct 05
The cool comics I picked up in this year's ShortBox Comics Fair! Get your fresh new indie comics before they're gone!
A reflection on mindful living and family reconnection. Finding calm, balance, and meaning in everyday routines while navigating a long distance marriage period.
Recently I've returned to "outside in" style development. This used to be really popular ten to fifteen years ago, but kind of vanished. I suspect the reason for this is because it's a style of development that does not fit when your application is split across multiple code-bases - not for micro-services and, more...
An overview of the web application that I built to display all the coffee shops in Minnesota. Complete with open hours, directions and Google AI summaries.
Szybki wpis, bo jest już późno. Cały dzisiejszy dzień spędziłem na tworzeniu całkowicie nowej sekcji na mojej stronie: Arteka. Co to jest Arteka? Nie wiem. Szukałem słowa, które najlepiej odda to, co ma się tam znaleźć: wszystkie twórce dzieła kultury i sztuki, z którymi miałem do czynienia: muzyka, książki, filmy,...
Demonstrating how to use a small paperclip to eject SIM card trays and showing off my sturider SIM ejection bit from IFIXIT.
What a version. I love this, for it shows how universal music truly is. It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World (Official Live Performance Video) James Brown, Luciano Pavarotti
Adventure games had all the best characters growing up. George Stobbart. Nico Collard. Guybrush Threepwood. Elaine Marley. Then a few decades later we got Harry Dubois and Kim Kitsuragi. I love adventure games because they consistently do this magic thing where you enter into the minds of these characters. Just like...
I wouldn't have known about the Mammoth Music & Arts Festival in Newport, Kentucky if it wasn't for a social media post from Mike Montgomery. Marketing is roulette. + photos
Every time I play around with ActivityPub I get a bit of an headache. And my respect for @pfefferle grows that he can handle that and WordPress. (Also: I wonder if this link to his profile translates into a mention.)
After a delightful day at the garden festival, we set out on a fresh hiking adventure in the Black Forest National Park, exploring a straight-line trail from Zuflucht to Ruhestein. The day was a mix of sunshine, wind, serene solitude, striking landscapes, and unexpected encounters along the Western Way trail.
Donald Trump is a fascist. He and his rogue's gallery of a cabinet, family, and circle are uniformly unfit to hold office. Everyone in the Republican Party is a fascist at this point—you cannot belong to the party attempting to overthrow democracy and still claim to
The leaves of the cherry trees turn color and fall, long before the maple leaves. Here are some in the morning sunlight at Arashiyama Park. 桜の葉はモミジよりもずっと早く色づき、そして散る。嵐山公園で朝日に照らされた葉である。
Última actualización: 5 de octubre de 2025. Estoy desarrollando apps para iOS para distintos clientes. Es lo que llevo haciendo mucho casi desde que empecé a trabajar y no tengo intención de parar pronto. Sigo formando parte de una asociación de música tradicional, investigando, preparando e interpretando canciones...
It feels slightly unreal to say that, but we've bought a house in Denmark. It has been a somewhat protracted and nerve-wracking process, so when on October 2nd the last piece of the puzzle fell into place, it came as a huge relief.
Phil Christman has said that Adam Roberts, Francis Spufford, and I form a kind of writerly school — though he has yet to define its parameters. I kinda hope he does that one day. UPDATE: Phil has written firmly to me: Now, listen here — I did not call you and Adam and Francis a […]
UNSCRIPTEDLife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of EntrepreneurshipAuthor: MJ DeMarco This book felt so similar to The 4-Hour Work Week that I experienced deja-vu several times while reading it. In the end, I didn’t finish it. The tone of UNSCRIPTED is lighter than Tim Ferriss’s book (or maybe I’ve just grown used to the...
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of cohesion, predictable and perfectly...
Yesterday I talked about some of the things I’ve done on the blog. Well, today, I’ve been under the weather a little, so I decided to go ahead and tweak my blog some more. If you’re on desktop (i.e. not on mobile), look down at the lower right hand corner. See the theme name? Click that. Change to one of the...
Born on this day 100 years ago, in South Africa, was Herbert Kretzmer, a man with an unusual combination of careers – journalist and songwriter. In the latter capacity, he co-wrote the best forgotten Peter Sellers/Sophie Loren song, 'Goodness Gracious Me', wrote the English lyrics for 'She' and 'Yesterday When I Was...
One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish. These changes are now live for testing, but with an extremely small corpus of...
Motivation When training on multiple data sources or domains, it is often desirable to smoothly interpolate between two distributions rather than switching abruptly. This ensures stable optimization and avoids sudden shifts in gradient statistics. We can achieve this with an annealing schedule that gradually shifts...
Looking back on a local race, where a relaxed mindset and strategic pacing led to a strong finish. It's a reminder that running your own race often brings the best results.
TMR provides facilities for setting timers using a convenient notation. Lots of commands are available to operate on timers, while there also exists a tabulated view to display all timers in a nice grid. Package name (GNU ELPA): tmr Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/tmr Change log:...
I had been using Balena Etcher to write Linux ISOs to USB sticks since I installed Linux on my current workstation back in 2020. I read something late last year or early this year about Etcher sending telemetry about the ISO being installed, regardless of the user settings. From there, I read a recommendation to […]
Think this is my third visit to the Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition and the first I have managed to capture my favourites and cobble them together in a post. I know very little about art, I couldn’t comment on the motivation behind each piece of work. I have no idea how brilliant, stimulating or...
Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced everyone that you only get one chance to improve society every five years. Didn’t succeed this time? You’ll have to wait...
How forcing University of Toronto staff back to the office five days a week undermines the university’s own diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
As you probably know, I've been playing different genres of games for almost my entire life, and the fighting genre was always something that I loved to play, even though I never managed to master any specific title like the older Street Fighter, Tekken, or Soul Calibur games. I always just enjoyed and kept playing...
September 2025. Bury St. Edmunds. T’other Bury, the one without black pudding, is a beguiling place (as is the real one, obvs). Two new Beer Guide entries, a new Tap in an old building for Nethergate, and an unexpected debut for the overlooked Masons Arms. At least, I think it’s a debut; I’ve completed Suffolk…...
3 October is a public holiday in Germany: Unity Day. As it fell on a Friday this year, my wife and I had a relaxed 2.5-hour journey to Stuttgart to see our favourite band, DISTURBED on their 25th Sickness Anniversary Tour. What we didn’t realise, however, was that Europe’s second-largest folk festival, the...
Welcome to the 85th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Memory Management, starting our 8th volume. In this edition: We look at the strategies used by major programming languages to manage memory. In our Vidéothèque section, we learn how C and C++ manage memory in a video by Ryan Baker. In the Library section, we...
