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Na de Baltische Staten zijn we verder naar het noorden gegaan, omhoog door Finland, en via Zweden naar Noorwegen. We bezochten twee bibliotheken, waarvan we er één terug zien in een crime-serie op de NPO. Na een prachtige traject (de...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a busy week so let's jump in! Tues 11/18/25 - Oshawott Man I've got no attachment to this thing but it IS cute and I legitimately hate how it's final...
The Long Road to War es un documental que puede verse en Netflix sobre el comienzo de la I Guerra Mundial. Se trata de una producción serbia que analiza los años anteriores a la Gran Guerra. Tanto los movimientos del Imperio...
Social media gets a lot of bad rep, most of it deserved. For me, social media, specifically Instagram, is a way to meet people and find connection and meaning. Being late deaf has isolated me a lot from society, but thanks to Instagram I...
Red leaves illuminated by the sun, over the pond in the villa's expansive garden. 太陽に照らされた紅葉、別荘の広い庭の池の上。
Given /Users/thiago.perrotta/Corp/gitops/apps/overlays/hoth. Assume I am in /Users/thiago.perrotta/Corp/gitops (a git repo). Problem statement: Copy the full path of apps/overlays/hoth. Option #1: cd apps/overlays/hoth && pwd, then copy...
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To be fair, I'm pretty sick right now. Just messing around with pixel art as a way to free myself from the grip of my current art block :)
I was flattered to get a reply from Anil Dash to my post about the backlash Mozilla faces for its plan to add AI to Firefox. I’ve read Anil for a long time and admire his work. That said, I respectfully disagree with his arguments —...
I’m slightly sorry that you got a bunch of my old posts if you are following this blog via ActivityPub/Mastodon/… – I was just moving them to a different category and it seems like that was deemed worthy of an update by the ActivityPub...
In Data Analytics, there’s one phrase I hear over and over—so often it’s become a reflex: “We need clean data before we can do anything.” And honestly, over the years I became really annoyed by the sentence. Don’t get me wrong: “Shit in,...
Like Jack, I've been dabbling in Linux. At home, I've been setting up a Linux server to act as my primary desktop machine and homelab of sorts. It's an old machine I bought for $120, and it's flying with Fedora i3 Spin. Meanwhile, at...
I expect Fox News to make bad charts as part of its predisposition to promote right wing views. But today I saw an incredibly bad chart that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t promote its usual awful agenda. It’s terrible for politically...
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Which is the easier way to get to a phone you can feel safe using, without your personal data being sent to goodness-knows-where?
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with...
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Nos comptoirs virtuels La façade d’un grand café parisien. Zoom sur l’enseigne un peu décrépie ornée d’un pouce blanc sur fond de peinture écaillée : « Le Facebook ». Intérieur bondé. Moyenne d’âge : 55-60 ans. Les murs sont recouverts...
So now that I’m actually self hosting my own music collection (which I’ll write more about soon), something I’ve noticed is that music sounds better now. It isn’t actually better, though. I always listened to lossless when I could and...
“Hold up!” I hollered over to Tom before we broke out paintbrushes for the afternoon, “There’s a deer over there!” He laughed and moved past saying, “There’s deer everywhere.” I am easily entertained.Currently Listening: GOON “Closer...
For a long time I was a craft beer guy, but as I reached my thirties beer just left me feeling dehydrated and groggy. I started picking up Lidl wine for a whopping $3 and it tasted fine to me. Over time I slowly started spending a little...
So. That was stupid.There’s a cliché in the movies—a trope. Something terrible is about to happen; you know it, I know it, everyone in the audience knows it. The close-up of a nut vibrating its way free from a bolt in a rotor means fate...
I set out on the first of November with noble intentions to share a learning every day. I'd been doing well, my statistics for November were looking like a nice solid block of colour! But then life happened. Work got busy, home got busy....
“There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.” —Frank Chimero in Beyond the Machine: Creative Agency in the A.I. Landscape
How France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout. How China raced ahead of the US on nuclear power. Book Review: Storia do Mogor, by Niccolao Manucci. At some point, in the Springtime of your life, you bumped up against the...
Roshan: /* My Stuff */ [[File:Screenshot - overmod.org.png|thumb]] [https://overmod.org Overmod] is a small program and directory that allows blocking and highlighting users on Hacker News. Other users can subscribe to my blocklist or...
As a person who makes creative projects and publishes them on the internet, there's a push to find the largest audience possible. Modern social media focuses on follower count and reaching as many folks as possible, but the more I think...
Let me show you the city I was born into. Well, not me, but through a lot of drone footage somebody else took and posted on YouTube and elsewhere. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, relax, and imagine you just spent quite a few hours flying...
This bike and hike adventure had been on my list for years. Starting with a long ascent on forest roads, the real challenge began when I switched to hiking—navigating faint trails along steep meadows. The reward was breathtaking views,...
I don't want to write today. I really don't. There's such little payoff to doing this, but I've put myself in this box where this is all I'm letting myself do. In my mind, there's a sense of delayed gratification, that all of this...
Watching movies at home in the mid-1980s, one had a few choices: Broadcast TV. Premium cable channels like HBO, Cinemax, or PRISM for movies a year or older; Expensive pay-per-view (or as I remember it being branded in the greater Philly...
On my way out to the farm for my niece's birthday this weekend, I hit a deer. I lost. The deer also lost. It is statistically inevitable, living where I do, that some percentage of drivers will hit deer in any given fall. It's actually...
Like many people in tech nowadays, I use LLMs at work. I like using GitHub Copilot, genuinely, not just because I’m a GitHub employee. It’s not perfect, no tool is, but it helps make easy problems easier, and I can focus on thinking on...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 327 mm focal length – 1/480″ at f/8 – ISO 800 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
During my decoupling from almost all online services and apps I had (2016-2018), I was prone to looking at the people around me with concern and judgment about their digital consumption. It was the typical sort of short-term...
A dusting of snow blankets hills in the distance, left over from the snowfall two evenings ago. There are thin light clouds above the hills through which the sky peeks. On the horizon, separating the snowy white hills from the light grey...
Murmurings of a “capacitive button only” iPhone have been floating about for a while. This rings alarm bells for some, excites others, and I wanted to formulate my thoughts on the idea. The downside comes from concerns of reliability and...
This was previously published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making me Time. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn "I noticed something," my friend Ashley said. "Your bookshelf is empty." I nodded...
November 2025. Brighton 2 pints before 12.30, and no breakfast. Bad idea, right ? Time for something healthy like a burger. I could have popped in one of the North Laines GBG pubs for grub, the Nelson or the multicoloured Albert, but the...
“They” say that my main internet writing project, The New Leaf Journal, is one of the “most popular” websites on the world wide web. Many fledgling websites link to my writing because of my big popularity. For example, last January, some...
As I already mentioned in another post here, I really enjoy fighting games and I've been plaaying a lot of them for a long time now. I never considered myself as a amazing player or even a competitive one since I truly suck into the...
Good news from Birmingham (for a change) – the city is to unveil a Blue Plaque at its fine neoclassical town hall to commemorate Dickens's first public reading of A Christmas Carol.A contemporary report chronicled the event thus: 'The...
Today I took a chance on buying a used early-1990s Pioneer HiFi system I saw listed in an online classified ad. CD player, dual cassette deck, and stereo receiver for in great cosmetic shape for $45. The seller said the CD player and...
E anche questo mese, il prog metal salverà il mondo! Grazie all'algoritmo di Efi e una loro dubbia promozione memosa scopriamo questo nuovo gruppo prog-blackgaze-postmetal britannico che, aldilà del modo scelto...
Whenever I make a big purchase—a TV, a new computer, a car, an A/V receiver—I inevitably enter a long period of internal debate, arguments and counter-arguments, pros and cons. It doesn’t matter whether I’ve set money aside for this, how...
This week was kind of weird. I didn't really come across a lot of interesting stuff online, even though I was online a lot way too much. Maybe the Cloudflare outage killed all the interesting things on the internet? This site is not...
Ahoj Pán Hornád, (Hello Lord Hornád) Veľkolepý riečny duch, (Grand river spirit) Our guardian and judge, Strong father, the nurturer. You wrap around us like a snake Just as dangerous, but gentle. Every splash of water, Is a heartbeat...