Mon Oct 27
Last week was a crazy ride in my personal life. Here are my notes for the week. đ» Work I only worked two days. I took Wednesday through Friday off to handle personal matters (more on that below). The short week in the office was calm for a change, which I appreciated after the chaos before. I cleared out emails and...
I see that another statue of Jane Austen has been unveiled, this time in Winchester Cathedral close. Fair enough â it's her 250th anniversary year, and she died at Winchester and is buried in the cathedral. The statue is by Martin Jennings, who has a good record with this sort of thing, having created the excellent...
Problem statement: Given a PostgreSQL DB, obtain its total size, preferably in a human-readable format (pretty-printed). Option 1: SQL query SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('dbname')); 11 GB Option 2: psql CLI \l+ dbname List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges | Size |...
My Facebook ad traffic dropped from 15K to nearly zero sessions in September. Here's what happened, what I learned, and how I'm building more resilient traffic sources.
The scary podcast Uncanny draws me in with much-needed conversation
Haven't posted in a month, it's been a while. This month I picked up a new hobby. I was in Denver two weeks ago to go see Madeon (my favorite artist) debut his new live show at Red Rocks. During this trip I ate around Denver a bunch and went to this place that mostly specialized in Jerk/Jamaican food, but had BBQ on...
Any serious reader of Newmanâs Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and of the many controversies appertaining thereunto, will repeatedly face a certain kind of problem. I will explain by reference to one example, though I could choose dozens of others. In late 1845, when Newman had recently swum the Tiber, âthe editor of a...
"La scopa privilegiata" (The privileged broom) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Finally someone reminded themselves that there is life outside of the bridge. Jeneway goes on a mission with a few underperforming crew mates hoping to mentor them. Cpt. Picard is known to be greatest manager of all time. Jeneway... is not. She is overconfident, even if Delta Quadrant warrants that. Here, she has...
The day after a vacation is often dedicated to playing catchup and re-establishing priorities. As I find myself with a more open calendar, I pondered the weight of sorting through 2000 photos from the trip, creating a portfolio to find work, or get a haircut. I chose the latter.Currently Listening: Energies,...
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My article on calculus of variations assumed without explanation the basic form of the Euler-Lagrange equation. This article attempts to demonstrate how an Euler-Lagrange equation arises, by solving a variational problem algebraically using Maple.
I started a linked data catalogue experiment, and it is so pretty! #books #cataloguing #library #data #linked_dataThank you for following my feed! â„ Leave a reply here.
Lynis es una herramienta de software libre con la que podrĂĄs auditar la seguridad de tu sistema GNU/Linux y otras derivadas de Unix como FreeBSD, Solaris o MacOS.
This is so jank but I was frustrated with how the rest parameter redundantly has all the keywords left in (unlike stragglers in define-options) so I did a grobian solution at least for now: (define (strip-keys keys) (fn (strip-keys x keys))) (define (strip-keys lis keys) (cons (car lis) (strip-keys (cdr lis) keys)))...
Whilst I can appreciate the strength and technique, I don't find speed climbing particularly captivating to watch. In fact, I think it's quite dull. The route never changes and each race is over in five seconds. To me, it feels more like a muscle memory competition. Having just watched the first three rounds of the...
Con il buon vecchio Ron grumpygamer Gilbert ci eravamo lasciati qualche anno fa con il suo Return to Monkey Island e, come ben sapeva chi lo segue nel Fediverso..
Thoughts on how losing a job can make you feel more lost than found, and how meaning doesnât always return just because you have time.
There's been a recurring thought I've been having as I've gotten older and I'm coming up on being in tech for 30 years. Granted, that would make me 14 when I started, but yes, I was that young when I realized I wanted to make this my career. As I've seen a lot change in those three decades, I've come to care less...
A principios de mes, Google JapĂłn presentĂł su Ășltima creaciĂłn. Se trata del Gboard Dial Edition, una especie de teclado que se maneja con varias ruedas, como si fuera un telĂ©fono antiguo y permite controlar dispositivos girĂĄndolas. GBoard Dial Edition nace de un experimento del equipo de Gboard, encargado de la...
In one of my recent blog posts, I talked at length about the virtues and advantages of building personal information intake system around RSS feeds. You get privacy and ownership over the distribution of information without any black box algorithms deciding what to show you (which inevitably ends up focusing on ads...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2025-62229 for the project X.Org X server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free bug in the XPresentNotify extension. This is due to the affected components being written in C,...
I'm working on building new benchmarking tools for fuzzing. As part of this, we need to snuff out potential sources of measurement bias. One such source is described in 3.6.2 of the fuzzer evaluation guidelines, but I thought I'd reiterate it here with an example. The "unwitting student" statement Suppose that Alex...
Having enjoyed Kaj Kandlerâs presentation at the 25th 11ty meetup July 2025 I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic. Schema files Structure in 11ty I have created a schema directory in the includes directory and keep all the...
Sunset on a dirt road, near my home. Today, I feel like writing about home. I have lived in Arizona for nearly half of my life, but I "grew up" in rural Kansas. For me, Kansas is home. Fields of wheat, alfalfa, and corn. The cold air and scent of pine trees on our family's Christmas tree farm. Ponds stocked with...
For a new section of my blog, Iâve been experimenting a bit with CSS over the past few weeks to find the right layout. Even though Iâm not using the following snippet, I want to save my future self from having to research again how to rotate an element with inline CSS in a narrow range around 0: style="rotate: <%#-...
Yesterday, I participated at the Lausanne Marathon â my first-ever race at that distance. Now, on the day after the big event, I want to recap a bit and write about my experience. For future me and maybe for you as well, if youâre interested and perhaps even want to run a marathon yourself. The result First things...
I covered how to disable Firefoxâs new AI âfeaturesâ in my previous post. While browsing my feeds, I came across a new AlternativeTo post on another enabled-by-default addition to Firefox titled Firefox tests privacy-focused direct results in the address bar with possible sponsorships. This new âfeatureâ was already...
Une liste de ressources pour une vie numĂ©rique plus saine et sereine. SĂ©currĂ©nitĂ© numĂ©rique Lien vers âSĂ©currĂ©nitĂ© numĂ©riqueâ # Cette page a pour objet dâaborder briĂšvement des enjeux de sĂ©curitĂ©, dâauto-dĂ©fense, et de « sĂ©rĂ©nitĂ© » dans lâusage dâoutils numĂ©riques. Les propositions ci-dessousc nâabordent que...
Hace un rato reflexionaba sobre un tema. Existe una palabra en muchos idiomas que representa el periodo de tiempo entre la puesta de sol y la hora de dormir, la noche de verdad. Gallego: serĂĄn1 CatalĂĄn: vespre InglĂ©s: evening Italiano: sera FrancĂ©s: soirĂ©e Rumano: searÄ AlemĂĄn: Abend Y me estaba extrañando que en...
Iâm resisting buying a new keyboard. I have promised myself that my need to collect new keebs is over, and I can be happy with what I have. I tell myself that at least once a day. I have a problem. The thing that is prodding me towards breaking my âno new keyboardsâ streak, is that my current dactyl doesnât have...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts Iâve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
Itâs not just budget cuts that are leading some colleges and universities to get rid of their philosophy major programs. Sometimes its legislation. For example, as reported this summer, the state legislature of Indiana passed a bill that requires BA major programs to have a minimum average of 15 students graduating...
The most profound experiences of our lives are unphotographable, untiktokable, irreducible to representation in image or gesture, for they summon the totality of our being: sensation and perception, thought and feeling, the pleasing propulsive confusion we call curiosity and the bright ablution of certainty we call...
A recording of Alors on danse, news of a new exhibition of Michelangeloâs work, an event on creative writing, and information about art history courses all exist side-by-side in the ever-changing landscape that is my browser tabs. Every one is a train of thought: the tabs on music often recommendations by friends,...
You Already Know Somethingâs Wrong Youâre interacting constantly. Texting, commenting, video calls, group chats, âstaying connected.â And somehow you feel more alone than ever. Not because you donât care about people. Not because they donât care about you. But because somewhere along the way, almost everything...