Sat Nov 22
After a failed attempt last week, I made it up to Mbankolo this morning. Romero joined me and we ran into an LGF at the base of the hill. This place is pretty neat and way better than Mt. Febe! So glad I decided to give this another shot. On the way back, instead of coming via the market, we decided to climb up...
I barely have time to sit by the computer, work has picked up and I love it. But it means less time to play. However... I'm ITCHING to redesignthe layout — not the style — of the website to look like my old blogs with the 2 or 3 columns. 😅 #website Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Plop Fizz POP !!! Inverted rain, but yeah, tastes like blue sherbet on the tongue. In fact, there was blue all around, cuz this killer headache won't stop me. Won't stop me from writing. Won't stop me...
For years, I’ve just used the Kindle app to read on my Android or iPhone. It was easy, and send to Kindle is awesome. The UI, while cluttered with Amazon nonsense, was pleasing enough to get along with. But I now host all of my own eBooks, and I am trying to divorce myself from Amazon as much as I can. The issue...
The Cowardly Lion was much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch had been melted by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at once unlocked the gate of his prison and set him free. They went in together to the castle, where Dorothy’s first act was to call all the Winkies together and tell them that they were no longer...
Yesterday we held our first Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!What we worked onThe idea behind the hack day is let people choose their own adventure, with an emphasis on community-oriented projects where possible. Projects included:A first revision on the base...
Sunrise over the Mediterranean as seen on my morning run. Most of this week was spent in Barcelona at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. It’s the third time I’ve been1 (see my previous write-ups of 2023 and 2024), and I now feel I know exactly how to get the most out of my time there. The view from the 22nd floor of the...
I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by removing the friction that slows teams down and using smart metrics. I put it on my...
Dzisiaj będzie o architekturze sieci, jaką planuję uskutecznić na moim homelabie. Założenie cały czas jest takie samo - wszystko na jednej maszynie. Komputer ma dwa gniazda Ethernet. Do pierwszego wpinam kabel wystający ze ściany, od teraz serwer ma (będzie miał) dostęp do internetu. Do drugiego gniazda podłączam...
Over in the Renegade Bookbinding server, someone was having difficulty with kaomoji. These Japanese-style emoticons can be tricky to typeset. The story in question used these kaomoji (in text messages). ( ˘ ³˘)♥ (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ (≧∀≦) (；￣Д￣） ( ᗒᗣᗕ ) ՞ (♥ω♥*) (*╯-╰)ノ ｡゜(｀Д´)゜｡ (*≧▽≦) (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ My colleague didn’t understand...
This year (2025) marks my 10th year as a professional audio engineer, and it’s also the year I decided to officially retire from professional audio engineering work. My audio engineering stats, generated in June 2025 It’s been a long and mostly awesome journey, and I want to give myself a chance to reflect on why I...
Most of us take RSS for granted. It’s old, outdated, and perhaps “useless” to many. I would assume a large number of Gen Z doesn’t even know what it is. Despite what you may think of RSS, it represents a crucial belief in the internet: openness. With an RSS reader you can subscribe to feeds from multiple sources,...
At work, we have a livestream show called Rubber Duck Thursdays where we talk about open source and code each week. It’s really fun and you can find it on GitHub’s YouTube, Twitch, and LinkedIn channels. This past week, on the stream someone in the comments mentioning they didn’t know how reducers worked, so I took...
A view of the garden from inside the former Mitsui Family Villa at Shimogamo Shrine. 下鴨神社の旧三井家別邸内から庭園を望む。
Long before we get to the point where a machine is a moral agent, we will have machines that are capable of suffering. - Ted Chiang I want to write out some thoughts to revisit later. It can be easy to get revisionist about what you believed and when, so here is a list of things I thought were true in late 2025...
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour, check my ef-themes package. For something in-between, which I would consider...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 150 mm focal length – 1/420″ at f/8 – ISO 125 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
The following post is from 4 Gravitons here, (not me). If you enjoyed it, go subscribe to them! 4 Gravitons Sometimes, the world is silly for honest, happy reasons. And sometimes, it’s silly for reasons you never even considered. Scientific projects often have acronyms, some of which are…clever, let’s say....
November 2025. Cambridge. Forgive the dull blog title; I’m just back in Sheffield from Rye (via Waterbeach) and a bit brain dead after the UK’s slowest rail journey, in which the train seems to be subject to weird gravitational pulls either side of Grantham. Mrs RM seemed a bit worried about me as I left Rye Harbour...
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Access—a non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose volunteer pilot network transports clients seeking abortion or gender-affirming...
Recently I've been ill and so I spent a lot of time at home on the couch with nothing to do and not a lot of energy to do anything anyway. And what do you do in 2025 in a situation like this? Of course. I got my phone and my laptop and spent an ungodly amount of time online, watching YouTube, scrolling social media,...
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a...
There was a big snowstorm yesterday, and apparently it's still snowing outside. We unfortunately had to cancel our plans to drive to the big city due to it, but after our short trip to the nearby village post office, I'm glad that we had not. Our car was really having a bad time in that snow so we had to drive at...
My copy of Stephen King’s On Writing has been sitting on the shelf for a while. Why I stopped reading the book is one of those things lost to time. But about two weeks ago, I went to my bookshelves and picked out the two books that I had started but not finished yet. I could finish these now, I thought. I remembered...
Thanks to help2man: help2man produces simple manual pages from the --help and --version output of other commands. […] This program is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Given a program which produces reasonably...
“Whenever assembling a new release… “The approach is always the same,” explains Savage. “It begins with an idea, then the next stage is that we send each other CDs and start breaking it down into four segments of about 20 minutes each to fit [on to] a double LP. John then handles the licensing and the cover, which...
If you were worried about tracking cookies, you really don't want to know about browser fingerprinting.
I just published my thoughts on chapter 2 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions. I also played through the intermission between chapters 2 and 3, so I will offer some brief takes on what I saw and did. A new area opens up in the over-world in the second intermission: Harajuku. The main highlight besides new side-quests and...
Playtiles is a new, indie product that lets you play Gameboy-emulated games on your mobile device. It’s a little, credit-card-sized device that “sticks” (not permanently) to your mobile’s screen and gives you buttons that press onto the screen to work as a controller. I won’t post images or detailed descriptions....
"I Procuratori di S. Marcho" from the "Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
Prosody XMPP server in the home lab Local XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W This is an article about a local server only, not reachable from the internet. The differences with a XMPP server that is connected to the internet and does federation with other XMPP servers is in the infrastructure: TLS-certificates...
“A feisty princess locked in a tower must save the kingdom from an evil sociopath” is right up my street! The entire film is basically a lengthy, well-choreographed fight scene that showcases the princesses prowess as well as witty one-liners that 1980s Schwarzenegger would be proud of. It somehow reminded me of...
What does one do when all one can think of is spending hours in a library and buying new books for one’s collection but can do neither of those things because they’re broke and hundreds of kilometres from said library and any decent bookstore that’s not stocked just with textbooks and exam guides? Read a book about...
There is no need to expose your ADS-B receiver and feeder to the Internet, unless you need to access ADS-B data from outside your local network. But how would you actually pull ADS-B data from outside your network without exposing your entire machine to the Internet? More specifically, if your ADS-B station uses the...
I got a haircut today at Great Clips. In my area, a standard haircut costs $21 before tip, but I had a $3-off coupon so it was $18 today. I usually tip $7 because that's the middle of the three suggested tip amounts. So today I paid $25 out the door. I tried to find Great Clips haircut pricing info from 2019 but I...
I have two pending offers on my car: $13,300 from Carvana for a straight sale, and $14,372 from a local dealership for a tradein. Here’s some of my thought processes about which one to take. Car-free pathIf I just sell it outright to Carvana, I then have $13,300 available, and an empty carport. I could use a chunk...