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Mon Oct 27
I see that another statue of Jane Austen has been unveiled, this time in Winchester Cathedral close. Fair enough – it's her 250th anniversary year, and she died at Winchester and is buried in the cathedral. The statue is by Martin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Any serious reader of Newman’s 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...
Lynis es una herramienta de software libre con la que podrás auditar la seguridad de tu sistema GNU/Linux y otras derivadas de Unix como FreeBSD, Solaris o MacOS.
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: serán1 Catalán: vespre Inglés: evening Italiano:...
I covered how to disable Firefox’s new AI “features” 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...
You Already Know Something’s Wrong You’re interacting constantly. Texting, commenting, video calls, group chats, “staying connected.” And somehow you feel more alone than ever. Not because you don’t care about people. Not because they...
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...
Yesterday, I participated at the Lausanne Marathon – 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 you’re...
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...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
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...
The scary podcast Uncanny draws me in with much-needed conversation
Já passei por algumas hospedagens e estava utilizando o Cloudflare Pages até agora. Pra quem acessa, não faz diferença nenhuma. Pra mim, não muda quase também também. Continuo publicando da mesma forma, mas agora tirei o Cloudflare da...
Une liste de ressources pour une vie numérique plus saine et sereine. Sécurrénité numérique Lien vers “Sécurrénité numérique” # Cette page a pour objet d’aborder brièvement des enjeux de sécurité, d’auto-défense, et de « sérénité » dans...
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...
It’s 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...
A principios de mes, Google Japón presentó su última creación. Se trata del Gboard Dial Edition, una especie de teclado que se maneja con varias ruedas, como si fuera un teléfono antiguo y permite controlar dispositivos girándolas....
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...
For a new section of my blog, I’ve been experimenting a bit with CSS over the past few weeks to find the right layout. Even though I’m not using the following snippet, I want to save my future self from having to research again how to...
One lunchtime, I stumbled across a portal to the past…
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...
Thoughts on how losing a job can make you feel more lost than found, and how meaning doesn’t always return just because you have time.
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...
I’m 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...
"La scopa privilegiata" (The privileged broom) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Looking at the skyline of Da Nang, with the Bãi Bụt beach in the foreground. ダナンのスカイライン バイ・ブット・ビーチを前景にダナンのスカイラインを見る。
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..
Last week was a crazy ride in my personal life. Here are my notes for the week. 💻 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...
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...
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...
Here are my weeknotes from October 21 to 27, 2025!
A recording of Alors on danse, news of a new exhibition of Michelangelo’s 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...
I started a linked data catalogue experiment, and it is so pretty! #books #cataloguing #library #data #linked_dataThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
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.