Fri Oct 17
Spend the birthday weekend at Kumarakom. It was a slow and lazy weekend. It reminded me of a similar slow and lazy birthday weekend thirteen years back. Time does fly fast. The post Weekly Notes 42/2025 first appeared on Thejesh GN.
I talked about this back in May, but I've sometimes go out and play around with different generative AI products just to see what they can do. I never share what I "make," and I never even mention what I'm using because I don't want to be seen as promoting this stuff. My attitude generally has been that I believe...
I suppose it was a nice gesture by the British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader's pass for what was then the British Museum Reading Room, though it is clear that its original revocation had nothing to do with the nature of his crime (as it then was). It was routine for anyone with a criminal conviction to...
Tumbleweed es una distribuciĂłn de GNU/Linux "Rolling Release" o de actualizaciĂłn contĂnua. AquĂ puedes estar al tanto de las Ășltimas novedades.
Discussed on lobste.rs here. I recently stumbled across this post on lobste.rs about a project called traceboot which allows visualizing the Linux boot process using lightweight ftrace events and Perfetto. The author had some commentary about their experience trying to order tracks in Perfetto: Ordering tracks with...
Time for some quick, back-of-the-digital-napkin birthday mathematics â astronomy style.
One of my goals for this year was to read 10 books start to finish. I havenât really read for recreation since I was a child, so I felt 10 was a high enough number to have to work towards but still low enough to be attainable. So far, I have finished 7 books, so I thought Iâd write out some brief thoughts on them....
There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently. For the first time in years, I recently looked into the stylesheet of this very website and decided to modernise a few bits. As part of this, I looked into some resets carefully crafted by others, and wanted to share my thoughts, things I liked,...
I famously do not run any kind of analytics in this blog, neither server-side or client-side. I genuinely have no idea how many people subscribe to it via RSS, and how many âpage hitsâ it has been accumulating over its lifetime. This is very clearly stated in the homepage. I take it as a badge of honor. That said, I...
Este es de los problemas que te encontrarĂas solo por hacer las cosas de forma manual, no tendrĂĄs que prestarle mucha atenciĂłn con un sistema completo como MailĂș, del que ya hablĂ© alguna vez. La entrada ResoluciĂłn de problemas: Not owned by user postfix se publicĂł primero en Interlan.
One of my friends questioned some design choices in Sipp, mainly the replacement of NanoId for creating short IDs/slugs for snippets. They make some good points and while I don't think a response is necessary, I thought it might be good to expound a bit more on how I'm currently viewing dependencies in software. In...
During last month's trip to Germany, something about my beloved VoigtlÀnder Nokton 35mm f1.4 Classic MC II lens didn't feel right. For whatever reason the front element started wiggling where it shouldn't, and a few days later the aperture ring became looser and looser. Here's what it looked like : Thankfully I got...
I don't know who these 10 people who read my blog are or why people read it, but I'd love to hear from you. Yes, you, your random thoughts, the mundane things you found on the blog, weird disagreements. I haven't written enough to have deep thoughts, I agree. In that case, just say hi. If you especially study, do or...
People usually read fiction before going to bed. I have a strange habit of reading the Rails source code at night. Not because it puts me to sleep, but for some reason I find the process of opening the Rails codebase, picking some feature, and just reading Ruby for an hour or two strangely calming. It lets me forget...
Sora is both interesting and scary. Interesting because it lets anyone direct short, realistic videos with synced audio on a phone. Scary because it turns identity itself into a shareable asset other people can cast. Those two truths sit together in one app. OpenAI says Sora 2 improves realism, physics, and...
People are masters of complaint. Yet their feet keep walking the same path. They donât surrender, retreat or abolish whatever they are not happy about. They are on a crusade with perennial whining. I, too, do the same. I complain about my job and my responsibilities. I hate doing certain things again and again. I...
If you drive, I want you to think back to the very first moments you got behind the wheel. Every turn, every traffic light, every approaching car, was a challenge that required your full attention. Now, you split your attention between the road and the radio effortlessly, often forgetting the time you spent driving...
2025-10-13 Squat: 8 @ 375# (RPE 7) 8 @ 390# (RPE 8) 8 @ 405# (RPE 9) Shoulder Press: 8 @ 140# (RPE 7) 8 @ 145# (RPE 8) 8 @ 150# (RPE 9) Wide Grip Bench 10 @ 195# (70% of 1RM) 2x12 @ 175# (63% of 1RM) DB Lateral Raises 3x12 @ 25# 2025-10-14 Deadlift: 8 @ 435# (RPE 7) 8 @ 450# (RPE 8) 8 @ 465# (RPE 9) Bench Press: 8 @...
I was talking to a friend about pencils a few weeks ago. I noticed she had a Blackwing 602 and asked her about it. She told me she never got along with mechanical pencils. The leads break too easily and the erasers donât lastâonce theyâre worn and need to be adjusted outward, they tend to slide back into their...
Mechanical keyboards are tools that can improve the comfort of computer work: to have a setup that allows for sustainable long-term use. Two years ago, I was suffering from RSI. Switching to a split mechanical keyboard while also taking care of all other variables in my office setup helped me recover from the injury...
October 2025. Brasov. Romania. Following lard and brownies at Szimpa Mrs RM needed something more substantial before we left Sfantu Gheorge alone to the tourist rush these last posts will no doubt create. So, for the record (i.e. to jog Mrs RMâs memory when she comes to her own blog), hereâs the carbonara and UrsusâŠ...
A week or so ago, I did a clean install of Debian 13 on my Sky scraper station, and I had to re-install all ADS-B feeders too â including fr24feed. Since Flightradar24 provides an installer script that automates the entire process, it took only a few minutes to get it up and running â or so I thought. It was running...
How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are. What you make of your suffering is the abacus on which it all adds up. It is there that your capacities to love and to give contract or expand, there that you feel most alone, there that you touch most directly the thread of human...
Maybe itâs because I edit for a living, but I hate editing my own blog posts. I write them, why should I also have to edit them? đą But I do it. Maybe I donât do it as well as I do it for my job, but I do it. I think mostly itâs shame that drives it. I donât want to put something out there, even if its for free on my...
Hit the road a bit after 1pm and headed directly to Milton, West Virginia. When we arrived at Blenko we had less than an hour to browse the store and small museum upstairs. + photos
Roshan: [[File:Julie's Notion GPT - Custom GPT.png|thumb|Complete with unique logo]] I was a bit sceptical about OpenAI's [https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/ Custom GPTs] when they launched but that's because I did not know that they have 'Actions'. One of the things that Julie has wanted for a while is an...
âThe paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests.â And âit has had little impact on the general culture and on other parts of the academy.â So writes Tim Crane, professor of...
My diary was back-to-back this week, with very little discretionary time to get anything done. Iâm going to have to do something about it to stop it from becoming the norm. Over the past few weeks Iâve been finding it increasingly difficult to get these weeknotes written. I still find the practice very useful, both...