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November 2025. Lydd. Kent. What’s that bit of land a few miles east of Romney Marsh ? “Boulogne” something something ? A small Channel Island presumably. Probably sells Butcombe, must investigate. Just as I got to investigate Lydd (pop. 6,567) on Saturday, as it (remarkably) makes the Beer Guide for the first ever,...
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There are two smartphone features that I consider sacred and believe they must never fail: phone calling and the alarm. There is an unspoken contract between users and vendors. Sure, innovate away, change the UX at will, whatever. But you can't fail at making phone calls and sounding the alarm. I missed the alarm...
There's 'inspired by'...and then there's whatever this is Over the last month or so on any platform I use where ads exist (Which like let's be clear, is mainly gmail and google news which is on me for using either - I get that) I have been repeatedly served an add for an upcoming tabletop game called Twilight Sword....
I found myself needing to design some reinforcement learning for some of my work and came across this fantastic video. Definiately worth sharing for anyone interested.
Since resuming a regular notebook-keeping habit, I’ve started collecting the “junk” of every day life–tickets, flower, receipts–to have tangible reminders of moments lived. Yesterday a friend of mine (the same one who bought star fruits for me the other day) gave me a little tamarind roll, the wrapper of which I...
YuliaAndreeva, Repetition (1995). CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons Thanks to Simon Critchley’s use of it in Mysticism, I dove this weekend into Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm. Dillard comes in in part to help Critchley illuminate medieval Christian mysticism’s materiality—the fact that all the visions and the...
Biasalah. Tiap habis laporan "kerjaan lagi sedikit" mendadak kerjaannya jadi nambah banyak hahahha. Minggu ini saya puyeng karena mendadak ada tiga proyek sekaligus yang berjalan di waktu bersamaan, di luar pekerjaan rutin biasa. Semua proyek besar dan melibatkan banyak unit. Kayaknya saya melewatkan hari Jumat...
I have a new tenting setup for my split mechanical keyboard that works with magnetism. Behold: Thanks to Arialdo Martini, a fellow keyboard and Emacs enthusiast, for gifting me these stands. You can read more on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/1lk02oo/how_i_tilt_my_split_crab_broom/. Works great and...
So, I wrote in one of my link posts that I had decided to buy a Platinum Preppy fountain pen. I’ve now done that, and I have to say, I love it. I’ll do a full review of it soon, but I am a convert. So much so, that I hopped on Amazon and bought myself some more fountain pens. I found this multi-pack with loads of...
Todas las personas que fui seguramente sea la lectura más rápida en ser comentada en esta bitácora (si estás apuntado a la lista de correo sabes porqué lo digo) Leído ayer mismo, sin lugar a dudas, la obra de Alfonso Casas merece la pena. Estamos ante al tercera parte de una serie de obras que van mostrando los...
Tengo que retomar la costumbre de tomarme una infusión antes de dormir. Creo que me sienta bien. Me gustan las infusiones y tomo varias al día (sin contar el café, que técnicamente es una infusión también). Ya escribí alguna cosa que pienso sobre ellas: creo que todos deberíamos tomar más infusiones. Foto de TeaCora...
Two weeks into the SailNavSim Jules Verne Trophy the field starts to spread out. Something tells me I’ll not be in the very front once the race ends. Reply by email
Despite what sites like ProBlogger say, I don’t have a niche, and I don’t try to grow my audience (I don’t even know how big my audience is). I just write whatever is on my mind at any given time, and people usually get in touch with me to discuss the topic. It’s fantastic. Kev Quirk I enjoyed Kev's post and would...
I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection. This is the way that I have finally gotten it working. What I need I need to install windows 11 on my Linux Mint laptop and be able to do the following: Install and run ETAP Install...
Suppose that you’re writing a static analyzer and you want to write a diagnostic for match arms with equal bodies: match number { 1 => { // <-- let x = 1; f(x) } 2 => f(g(h())), 3 => "", 4 => { // <-- let x = 1; f(x) } _ => unreachable!(), }
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, posting on X: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it’s supposed to do! It finally does what it’s supposed to do. Am I to think AI agents were not supposed to include em-dashes in their input (and here I go) — unless said use was...
TitleThe Left Hand of Darkness CreatorUrsula Le Guin Year1969 Kindbook Read2025-11-17
Holding on tight, so tight it's cracking into jagged pieces. I won't let go, not now, in vain. Tighter and then release. Broken. Sudden Relief.
Courtesy of Katherine via Nic Chan's "People & Blogs" interview, I learned about intentionally blank pages. Having read a book or two in my time, I've seen these blank pages; usually a quirk of the way books are bound in bundles of evenly numbered pages that doesn't always align exactly to the number of...
non sono così tanto spendaccione, come ribadisco sempre da anni gioco solo su Steam Deck e Miyoo Mini Plus (eventualmente valuterò la Steam Machine, ma nel caso se ne riparla nel 2026)
Previously. I couldn’t resist creating a pre-commit hook for this: repos: - repo: https://github.com/thiagowfx/pre-commit-hooks/ rev: v0.0.11 hooks: - id: check-bash-shebang types: - shell In action: % cd {pancake} % pre-commit run -a check-bash-shebang Check bash scripts use portable...
Here we are, living these lives bright and perishable as a poppy, hard and shimmering as obsidian. We know that they are entirely improbable, that we bless their bright improbability with each flash of gratitude for it all, that if we pay attention closely and generously enough we are always repaid in gladness, that...
love shooting maple leaves lit from behind, which makes them glow like stained glass. They are highlighted by the morning sunlight filtering through the trees. カエデの葉を後ろから照らすと、ステンドグラスのように輝いて見える。木漏れ日が葉を際立たせている。
How long till someone holds Uber and Lyft accountable for false advertising on estimated wait times? It seems like “1-3 minutes” is always “20-30 minutes”. Read More
When we took over our new house, we noticed that it already had a resident: a sparrow living at the rooftop. It greeted us with its cheerful chirp, and we promptly named it A318.
I like to sit in the living room every morning while eating breakfast and looking east out the window. Weekday mornings this time of year I don't see much. It's still dark. But on weekends, when I can stay in bed and eat breakfast later, I see more. Breakfast is almost always a bowl of cereal. The cereal is almost...
How to save matplotlib figures deterministically 2025-11-17 I have been working on plots at work, and I would really like our test suite to use snapshot testing: [W]riting tests where you compare the output of some function to a previously saved version, and can re-generate that version from scratch any time...
I’m looking for a new job, which is to say, i’m spending an awful lot of time on LinkedIn. A lot of friends suggested i cold connect with total strangers. “You should expand your network”, they say, “everybody should know you’re available”, they say, “they might be your future colleagues”, they say. “You should be...
I’ve always loved space. Up until I was six years old I lived close by to an air and space center which I visited often. I read books about the Apollo missions, saw one of the capsules at the space center, even watched Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks at the ripe age of four. Even as I got older I would watch PBS NOVA...
I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi Many of us spend a lot of time worrying about what other people think. I don't have immunity, or a remedy. I am, by nature, a people-pleaser. While this isn't inherently bad, it has been the cause of a great deal of stress over the years,...
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Recently, I was greatly inspired by Roma Komarov to add another, audible layer to my blog posts… At the beginning of the month, I complained to myself in my post Stoned Jesus, Bandcamp and the Necessity of Music that I hardly listen to music anymore, even though it seems to help me in stressful times. Just as I...
They were obliged to camp out that night under a large tree in the forest, for there were no houses near. The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely....
A colorful composition through a window screen, extra cruddy from the phone's zoom and compression. I've decided it's perfectly adequate.Currently Listening: Brendan Walter “Normal Day”Reply via email
I’ve often been confused when reading religious or spiritual texts that talk about Truth (with a capital T). What do they mean by it, and why the strange capitalization? The confusion usually arises because what these texts are pointing to is often conflated (due to poor translations) with the general, everyday use...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 377 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/7.1 – ISO 500 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
I know I daydream about throwing away the internet entirely but for this one post let me pull back on that fantasy, almost all the way back, and instead just make a much more reasonable and smaller request: Give up on all “push algo” apps. Yes, all of them. You can keep all other apps if you want, including...