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Title: Percept Index Website: perceptindex.com RSS Feed: perceptindex.com/rss.xml Percept Index is an ongoing record of consciousness, art, and observation; part journal, part field study. Essays, field notes, and illustrations trace the...
I consistently receive requests from the team to reduce tech debt. Every time, I say similar things. I want to share them here. As a software engineer, you have more power than you think. When you're coding for a new feature, you have...
My thoughts about the sixth book of the Expanse!
Camping and Birding on the Hatteras National Seashore
Read on the website: ed(1) is a versatile programming system. Yet no one talks about metaprogramming and algorithms in it. Now someone did, and that’s me!
I’m in Chhattisgarh for field practice until mid-December. For the past two weeks I’ve been living, for the first time, the hostel life, although it is nowhere as adventurous or eventful as the experiences I’ve heard about from other...
October 2025. Peles Castle. Sinai. Romania. Mrs RM was so determined to squeeze a Transylvanian castle into her blog our trip that on our final morning in Romania we woke at 6am, took a Bolt to Brasov station, and an hour later were in...
Exemple → css, flex
Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled Atlas, their new app, which is, in a nutshell, a Chromium-based browser that integrates ChatGPT and connects web pages and the A.I. in all kinds of smart ways. Atlas is not the first browser like this, as some...
I've never read Marie Kondo's book on organizing, the one where she talks about only keeping those things that "spark joy" in you. Furthermore, I've never been to the container store. When it comes to tasks like finding cleaning supplies...
Ya os conté que tengo un mini PC que utilizo para trastear con Linux, y que me pasé a KDE. No quiero decir que estoy practicando el distro hopping, porque tampoco diría que estoy cambiando tanto de distribución, pero sí estoy enredando....
I’ve seen an increase in talk about this relatively new Wayland compositor called Niri recently and I decided to test drive it for a while. The big thing that sets Niri apart is that it’s a scrollable tiling window manager. If you’ve...
coffeetree: the chatbot paradigm is literally an infinite feed baconlad: hard disagree on this. Its not feeding you content. coffeetree: That’s like saying “I only use this one tiny feature of Facebook, and no other features, and no...
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Book of Matthew, written around 60–70 AD, presents Jesus as the promised Messiah and King of...
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The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2025. Photograph by the author. This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s torchlit procession. I wrote about this last year in a piece called...
After Rome and Valencia, Vienna finally pushed me to start writing down Routes Unknown, a running diary of a fat man exploring cities on foot
October 21, 2025 I've been with Geico for the past 8 years. Eight years! I was the definition of a loyal customer—the kind insurance companies love because I just kept hitting "renew" every six months without asking questions. Until this...
Experimenting with photo manipulation filters in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
15 things: 1 quote, 2 random thoughts, 3 things I'm working on, 4 gratitudes, and 5 things to share. Once a week. Maybe more. Or less. It just depends. Kindness is the only non-delusional response to the human condition - George Saunders...
Master Go context keys with custom types, avoid collisions using empty structs, and learn accessor patterns for safe request-scoped values.
A prince is turned into a "shadow puppet" who will bond with the first person who gives him blood. That turns out to be the female general from an enemy kingdom. Sometimes, a drama can be bad, yet highly enjoyable at the same time....
It’s International Open Access Week. In honor of the occasion, I invite those who have authored or edited an open access book in philosophy to share it in the comments here, with a link to where it is available. Open Access Week is...
Nueva edición del Steam Next Fest, en esta ocasión con los lanzamientos que se podrán ver de aquí a final de año y a comienzos del 2026. Cómo siempre, una pequeña selección, aunque he sufrido un poco con algunos de los videojuegos porque...
I've hit the last straw with Mozilla's antics in Firefox. I've been a Firefox champion for years and years. But every danged upgrade has some new insane junk I don't want or need and they keep popping up these little "tips" to rub my...
The main axis is silence and discretion, between the two the first is exponential in ensuring privacy. Cypherpunk’s Manifesto switching software starter consumer baseline Hide My Email Google Voice stealth mode Fraidycat Kali Linux...
It's the year of the empty bin
Das Kernstück meiner KalkKunst-2025-Ausstellung steht und ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dem Ergebnis. Vor allem wenn ich daran denke, wie meine ersten Visualisierungs- und Plot-Versuche ausgesehen haben. Ich bin heilfroh, dass ich die...
Entre perfumes de musk / O Capital do chacal / Arreganha os dentes / Perde a graça.
The Transformations, the new novel by Sydney based Australian author Andrew Pippos (Instagram page), will be published next week, on Tuesday 28 October 2025. This is a story for the times, if the synopsis is anything to go by: In the...
Looks like we picked the wrong week to fly to a popper-fuelled party at Everest Base Camp. Two and a half years after it happened the first time, my wife developed another detached retina, this time in the other eye. Late on Friday...
Just deleted/signed out of almost all of my social accounts that I've used over the past decade. I'm a firm believer that the endless feeds of slop by corporations is doing nothing good for my brain, and today I'm putting my money where...
So, this has happened. Again. I rewrote my entire static site renderer from scratch and what you're seeing is "msite 2.0". It should differ very slightly from what was here yesterday, but with time, I want to make some cool things. Those...
by Joel Glover
Tried the new Koss Porta Pro Wireless Arctic White headphones and instantly fell for their retro charm, foldable design, and easy everyday wear.
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing the output of people like me in order to...
Three things, among the many, that I'm grateful to God for: Daughter is better after a bad night; Good rest the last several nights after long and stressful days; Coffee, tea, and other fine beverages to enliven the mind and body. ¶ My...
Printing Films es un proyecto de Doug Wilson, diseñador, director y apasionado de la tipografía conocido por su documental Linotype: The Film. Al terminar la película, Wilson siguió recopilando materiales históricos relacionados con el...
I feel like a pot of boiling water that has just a bit too much water in it. If I don't turn the heat down a bit, I'll start leaking out the pot and make the fire heating me blow up. But there is no turning down the heat, unless I go out...
One of the most frustrating things over the last few months has been dealing with my website getting constantly hit with requests from malicious bots repeatedly hammering and scraping my website. Back at the beginning of August I...
Bookmarked “Million-Mile Tech ” by Naz Hamid: Durability is the ultimate feature. I wish the technology industry operated with a longer term mindset. Even if we had highly efficient recycling programs (which we don’t) our devices should...
Human cemeteries are fascinating. no question. We try to infer stories about people’s entire lives from just the information on the gravestones. We make assumptions about cause of death based on the date they died. We quietly mourn...
Took the leisurely way up to Lynchburg. This would prove to be a very pretty and most mellow path of the trip. Got there and stayed up late. +
You listen to a song, it expresses your own frustrations with society, you feel down; those moments becoming days, into weeks, becoming into a certain breaking point. Throughout all this, this one song keeps you moving, and you even end...
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul,” Seneca wrote in considering true and false friendship two millennia...
⚠️ This is written from the perspective of Ghost theme development. If you're an author/end-user, this information likely won't be helpful. Also, I'm pretty new to Ghost theme development, so it's quite possible I don't have the full...
Eu ando muito a pé. Na verdade, passo mais tempo dentro do ônibus, mas caminho entre meus destinos e os pontos de parada. Depois que comecei a dirigir, passei a prestar mais atenção no trânsito. E algo que chamou a minha atenção nos...
Ok, ottobre ricchissimo, con ogni probabilità personale record per questa mia rubrichetta e, siccome mi perdo tra tutti i consigli, ringrazio direttamente Efi e Zel che hanno diffuso molta di questa bella roba!
I’ve had some blog stats available on my About page for a while, but I wanted to see if I could make my script a little more robust. For one, I wanted more stats, but I also wanted graphs. What I had before was a simple bash script that...