Thu Oct 09
Lichfield was a great centre of what we now call the Midlands Enlightenment (I'd prefer to call it Mercian myself). Erasmus Darwin was the focus, but there were other luminaries in town, none of them stranger, or more besotted with Ideas – specifically those of Rousseau – than Thomas Day. The link below will take...
Had a long standing contract wrap up at the end of September. I'm still making sure everything is buttoned up, but starting to find myself with time.
In psql, null values are displayed as blank strings by default, which can be confusing to read. However, you can customize this behavior by setting a specific character to represent null values, making your output more readable and easier to interpret: \pset null '-x-' All null values will become -x-, which is much...
Via Jelloeater on Bluesky, Jeppe Larsen’s early memories of the web, from the late 1990’s: I remember the ISP was called get2net and it came with both email and web hosting. The last bit was particularly exciting as get2net had a listing of all homepages made by its customers on their website, which was an […]
KlimBecause every creative endeavour has a small part of your soul and spirit, it would be too vulnerable and unbearable to admit the real cost and fear involved in making something new and offering it up to the world, to our customers and savage imaginary contempt of our peers.
I work at a company that is truly invested into AI and LLMs, to the point that we can internally use (following some guidelines) quite a few tools in our day-to-day work: in particular, we have Gemini, Google NotebookLM, and Cursor available to all employees.
A self is a personal mythos — a story through which we sieve the complexity and condradictions of lived experience for coherence. The cruelest price of success — that affirmation of the self by the world — is the way it can ossifty the story of person, ensnare them into believing their own myth. In this regard,...
September 2025. Cambridge. The town of my birth, if not my heart, was experiencing a quiet period in the week before the students return. Cambridge gets steady Asian tourist trade, most of which succumbs to the charm of foppish undergrads and books a £30 (ouch !) punting tour by the Quayside. If you do one… Continue...
Ricardo Ander-Egg suggests to use executable scripts instead of shell aliases: I stopped using shell aliases and moved everything into executable scripts. I’ve been slowly doing the same. From his post, adapted: Main Benefits: No need to source your shell rc after adding new scripts Use immediately without reloading...
“The web was always meant to be a tool, never a lifestyle. — Yours truly”
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Mysterious Letter to Roshan.jpeg}}|thumb|right]] A few months ago I received a mysterious letter addressed to me. I do get a lot of junk mail, but this one was to an old address which usually means I forgot something important. When...
Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been using it for 3 months now and here are a few notes. why helix:...
This was a disappointment. I get the book. But it was definetly an over hype. I did write on my notes that it might have been better if the book was longer. Right now it was too flat. It was vibes. I was looking for mind bending reality. I guess with so many people dealing with depression this book got popular. But...
A philosophy professor has a question about teaching that I think will resonate with many readers. . This professor teaches many lower- and mid-level philosophy courses in ethics and epistemology, but sometimes other subfields as well, and they have a problem they’re hoping some of you can help with. They write: I...
Troubled development cycle, more layoffs, and the end of the overgrowth
A reflection on tracking work hours, why it often feels pointless, and the one reason it might actually matter.
Mingei (Japanese folk art) sculpture and furniture displayed at the former home of renowned 20th Century potter, Kawai Kanjiro. 20世紀の著名な陶芸家 、河井寛次郎の旧宅に展示された民芸の彫刻や家具。
I need to get back on the monthly routine because I’m squinting back at August like Uuuuuuuuuuh I vaguely remember it so anyway let’s see how this goes. Piglet by Lottie...
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. I usually post a link to any new blog post on my social media accounts, but it’s very easy for people to miss a single social media message amongst the torrent of a typical timeline. Subscribe via RSS (and other) feeds...
En mi homepage de YouTuve veo entre mis recomendaciones un video con la frase «Hora de decidirse» en relación al lateral de la selección mexicana rumbo al mundial del próximo año. Y eso me hace pensar en cuántas decisiones importantes no habrán sido tomadas abruptamente con la intención de saciar la desesperación y...
I started reading Demon-Haunted World : Sagan, Carl, Druyan, Ann. It’s about cultivating a scientific temper, promoting critical thinking, and fostering skepticism. One paragraph in the preface made me think about my parents and thousands of others as well. You don’t have to be a scientist to have a scientific...
La empresa californiana Qualcomm se está moviendo mucho en el tema de alianzas y adquisiciones, la italiana Arduino ha sido su última compra. Arduino es la plataforma más popular de electrónica abierta, está basada en hardware y software libre, flexible y fácil de utilizar para los creadores y desarrolladores. Este...
A list of my favourite musical artistes — one for each decade I have lived in
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "Please let Bluesky be the last time y'all fall for this trick." Five Things for October 9, 2025 Five Things: October 9, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....
It's Friday again! Which means tomorrow is Saturday, and tomorrow is Retro Computer Festival at HNF in Paderborn, Germany. HNF is an amazing computer museum which alone is worth a visit, but RCF makes it all the more interesting because it's an exhibition of all kinds of retro computers by hobbyists who present...
I've been wanting to test out Liberapay for a while, because I liked the ethics it was founded on: it's for people who create free art, research, or other contributions to the commons. I can fit into that group because I offer most of my art and writing as a free, noncommercial experience. That's part of why I use...
I had a Microsoft Teams call with my boss. I run Teams in Brave on my Linux workstation. My sound set-up is two Creative Pebble Pro speakers, with the left speaker having 3.5 mm jacks for a headset and microphone. For whatever reason, he could not hear me through my mic (a small MOVO brand […]
Introverts share why they chose a small city hall wedding over a big celebration—and how COVID helped them avoid family pressure for the perfect day.
Framework, which makes and sells modular, repairable computers, is facing a small uprising on its official forum after announcing sponsorships of the Hyprland and Omarchy projects — a Linux window manager and a pseudo‑distro based on Arch, respectively. Both projects are led by extremist figures, critics say: Vaxry...
Not a long post today. Just me crying about my football team being horrible. We won the Super Bowl last year. We shouldn’t be so bad the year after that when we have so much talent. But they’re losing to the lowly NY Giants who are playing a rookie QB and don’t have their best WR. It’s sad. Six weeks into the season...