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I’ve been making a lot of mini foldy zines recently. Some of them are me revisiting old zines, some are new. My next job is to get them all listed in my shop. Slight tangent, but speaking of shops, if you prefer to use a marketplace type...
Dear Colleague, I understand that you wish me to participate in your protests against the Trump administration’s proposed “compact” with American universities. I will do so on one condition: that you openly acknowledge (a) that you were...
Corbusier Chapel, Ronchamp, France, 1955, René Burri, Swiss, 1933-2014 8:55 am October. whenever Normal Living
Coming back to this blog feels like sneaking into my own apartment, trying to be quiet, even though this is my apartment. I guess that's just how it feels to come back from internet death. I didn't mean to disappear for the whole of...
A love letter to Markdown's footnotes.
I subscribe to DistroWatch’s feed in Miniflux. Through this, I learn about different Linux distributions. Today I saw an update for FunOS. That is a fun name, but what is FunOS? [A]n Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the...
Ten years after cellphone manufacturers stopped putting headphone jacks on their devices, you still can't buy a USB-C headphone adapter that you can be sure will work.
What I've been reading.
Some things just don't hit
The Wanted Detective was a surprisingly entertaining costumed detective drama during the busy CDrama summer months of 2025. An original script ( a rare breed) with tight plotting and fascinating characters.
My most recent charity bookshop purchase was a slim volume of essays by Clive James titled Latest Readings. 'Essays' is pushing it, actually: most of these pieces are little more than jottings occasioned by James's most recent reading...
In this ~2-hour video, I talk with Ovidiu “Ovi” Stoica about programming in Clojure and using it for business, the use of Emacs, and various topics related to AI. About Clojure, I ask Ovi what the language is good for and which sort of...
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Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an...
I have a job with a company laptop. They use Google Drive for their project folders, and this is not something that I will ever change with them. The also use Salesforce for almost all the things, and that is worse than any business...
October 2025. Bucharest. The last of the Bucharest posts, you’ll be delighted to know. If nothing else, Mrs RM will find them useful when she comes to her own more forensic blog and wonders “Where was that fancy meringue ?”. This was...
Dana G. Smith, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald; People who have strong relationships generally live longer, and the unicorns known as “super-agers” — older adults who have the memory abilities of someone 20 years younger — tend to...
Blog post where I discuss my thoughts on one of the game routes and the accessibility add-on, Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered.
Title: Run. Bike. Code. Website: runbikeco.de RSS Feed: runbikeco.de/rss I mostly write about running, with some technical topics thrown in for a good mix. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a...
I almost forgot how to write these. On Monday morning my roomba (which isn’t a roomba) managed to ram itself under my couch. It usually doesn’t fit underneath the strut in the front, but sometimes, with just enough speed, it can get it....
Do Product Owners "Own" Their Own Product? This is a question I've been asking myself for a long time, and I still can't answer it with a simple "yes or no." The classic answer, "it depends," could be well applied here. I mean, my answer...
There’s something exhilarating about taking a shower and stepping out into the city, a light breeze whipping through your damp hair. You’re coming down from a weightlifting session—a disappointing one—but the subsequent shower has lifted...
by Mark Keane
One of my biggest concerns, and also a challenge many people are facing, is the reduction in the number of entry-level jobs, primarily due to AI; everyone is now looking for an experienced employee. Especially in a sector such as tech,...
Testing out Helix as my new text editor I first tried out Helix several years ago before I even gave Neovim a real shot. I’ve seen a few posts pop up about Helix this past week, so I had the idea to ditch Neovim and give it another go....
Other photos to show the size of the pizza (or conversely the baby) were in focus, but this one had the best expression.
Ten years ago I had some thoughts on turning 40. Now I’m at the next milestone birthday with a few more thoughts to share. A lot of life has happened in ten years. Let’s start with some birthday facts: Fifty years ago today, it was a...
There are few experiences where the situation is so incongruent that you are left utterly speechless at the absurdity of it all, your mind incapable of processing what just happened, after feebly trying to search for an explanation. One...
You are sending a PR upstream. You accidentally commit it with the wrong email. First, you prevent this mistake from happening again by updating your ~/.gitconfig. And now you need to fix the most recent commit. You can easily do so...
On the sixth day of our Black Forest trip, we visited two special spots at a gentler pace after five active days. First, we explored the picturesque yet tourist-frequented Mummelsee, then hiked towards Hornisgrinde’s moorlands before...
🌐 Distributed Training 🚀 Scaling: Overview ✅ Goal: Minimize: Cost (i.e. amount of time spent training) Maximize: Performance Note📑 Note See 🤗 Performance and Scalability for more details In this talk, we will explore the intricacies of...
I wish I could’ve seen it when you blew up your television —Baxter So this review is going to be very spoilery so please just go read the book; start with other Gibson books (like Burning Chrome, which is referenced and spoiled here in...
This question has been doing the rounds in my head for a while since completing #PaPy. Why does a blog’s sitemap.xml need to have <lastmod>? According to the specs, the tag is not mandatory and besides that, it does not really fit into a...
One of my sporadic reviews
Ayer se acabo el ciclo oficial de soporte para Windows 10 poniendo fin a 10 años de esta versión del sistema operativo de Microsoft. Fue la elección que tomé al volver al mundo PC, sobre todo después de tener la Raspberry 400 para usar...
La comunidad de KDE cumple 29 años lleno de vitalidad. Un proyecto que sigue evolucionando y mejorando es un proyecto vivo.
Vembanad Lake is one of the longest lakes in India and the largest in Kerala. It touches three districts in Kerala. So when we thought of exploring Kerala, we wanted to start with nature, and backwaters were the first thing that came to...
When a German Government Airbus A350-941 is scheduled to appear in NUE, no self-respecting airplane photographer would miss the chance to capture it. This explains why I got up at 7:00, and after a quick shower and breakfast, I jumped on...
I've recently been listening to a bunch of really awesome DJ sets. I listened to that new Skrillex album and not a single track misses. For my workouts, I find that I can put on a new DJ set and listen to it the whole way through while...
During a break today, I watched a YouTube video about how to promote yourself, and the creator talked about newsletters. Now, maybe I’m out of touch, but I thought newsletters were a thing of the past. I know anything like that on my end...
A few weeks ago, I mentioned in a footnote that I have a script that takes a URL on the clipboard and makes a Markdown reference-style link in BBEdit. Actually, I have several link-making scripts for BBEdit. I’ve written about some of...
“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.” “based on a philosophy book…” “I’m listening.” “by an actual philosopher.” “Go on.” “That is, a philosophy professor.” “You don’t say.” “An analytic philosophy professor.” “Sold!” Okay,...
