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For a long time I wanted to write a blog post about stow. My procrastination has paid off: pbrisbin has written one first. I recently migrated my dotfiles from rcm to GNU Stow. I didn’t really have a reason, I wasn’t unhappy with rcm at all, but I saw Stow mentioned somewhere and felt like trying it out. After...
The Budget, 2026 Edition Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Updated network test parameters for 2026 are: 9 Mbps downlink 3 mbps uplink 100 millisecond RTT Regarding devices, my updated recommendations are the Samsung Galaxy A24 4G (or equivalent) and the HP 14.The goal of these recommendations is to emulate a 75th...
We are all Earthseed So I finished up Parable of the Talents by the incredibly talented Octavia Butler. Wow. If you haven’t read Parable of the Sower or Talents, TL;DR: go pick it up! I was surprised by just how engrossing the world is. The narrative is told from journal entries of the protagonist, and I loved it....
17th November - 23rd November This time last year, my garden was under 6 inches of snow. This year the "cold snap" has barely resulted in ground frost. I remembered an old laptop in a box so I tried setting up a local shared server. Now I have a nice little system involving a mounted cloud drive, a cron job, samba,...
🗓️ // November 16 - November 22, 2025 I’m writing this on time for once, mostly because my record of posting late and quietly backdating things has... not gone all that well. I’d love to say that my recent silence here is because I’ve been off finding myself, but the truth is I’m still just as lost as ever. Lately...
I suffered from insomnia around age 8 when my cat hook died, and it has never gone away. I suffered from depression in 7th and 8th grade after my parents separated. I suffered from alcoholism in my teens and early 20s, and weed addiction, and depression and anxiety and loneliness. I still live with mental illness....
You will remember there was no road—not even a pathway—between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City. When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her. It was much harder to find their way back through the big fields of...
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use? Are you afraid of the amount of work it takes to get out? – I totally feel you! But the best is to just start. Start with one service at a time. Don’t overthink it […]
Here is a close-up photo of a flower taken using an iPhone 13: The smudginess in the out-of-focus areas—especially the stem and the base of the flower—is very jarring to look at. Recently, whenever I’ve tried to take an image with even a modest digital zoom of 1.5x-2x—whether it’s of a bird, natural scenery, or a...
2025-11-18 No cabe duda que descansar, y tener que pausar todo por un resfrío, hace que tu imaginación se eche a volar. No es muy atractivo leer cosas malas en un medio donde esperamos que nos inspiren, que nos llenen de buenos deseos, así que toma la entrada con esos granos de sal. No me sentía en mi mejor momento...
This is a follow up from something I wrote in 2020 titled The End of Ownership in a Digital Age where I discuss (ie complain) about what it means to "own" something in the modern digital age. I've recently experienced a kind of digital revocation of a purchase through Bandcamp - a company I've only had positive...
For the third year I am participating in the #30DayMapChallenge. Creating a map per day for the whole of November is challenging. The challenge is in finding the sweet spot between doable,[1] and worth doing. Worth is a moving target. If I learn something new—a technique, a new-to-me matplotlib feature, anything in...
I mentioned in my last post that I bought the complete series Home Improvement, which (translated back to English) is called Look who's hammering in German (I originally said Listen who's hammering which is a more literal translation, but look is probably better English). That caused some amusement on Mastodon, and...
I recommend this guy on Instagram (great name). He answers questions about life, the universe and everything from his sofa. “What’s important, Martin ?” Well, obviously for me, it’s living long enough to see Simon complete the GBG, my lads join CAMRA, and me visit all the Chinese takeaways in the UK. OK, I’ll settle...
The Cybersecurity Weekly Roundup is back! I have been on a brief hiatus from writing these weekily summaries, but I am resuming them. I summarize the most important cybersecurity news stories, focusing on practical takeaways for security practitioners. No fluff, just the signal. 🧭 Overview The last seven days were...
Well, that was a fun weekend. I have spent half of my time reinstalling MacOS Sequoia, and trying to get it back the way it was, while trying to avoid losing important files. You see, on that chilly Saturday afternoon, I wanted to take care of my ageing computer, and tried an app that was supposed to clean the old...
We have been having some work done to the house, requiring a lot of decisions. Colours of things, types of things, position of things, order of doing things, do we want to do this whilst I’m here things? Couple this with the early decision making on Christmas, what presents would you like, when should we organise...
Envious Casca by Georgette HeyerThis 1941 detective novel has been republished recently under the title A Christmas Party, part of what I think is an attempt to capitalise on the popularity of classic crime novels for the festive season. As Heyer expert Jennifer Kloester explains here, this was a phrase that Heyer...
Esta historia empieza el pasado lunes 17 de noviembre. Yo no odio los lunes, pero este lunes sí me odió a mí. Por la mañana salí de mi casa en taxi para la estación de trenes, para coger un tren (8:50) a Sevilla. A las 10, cerca de Dos Hermanas, el tren se enlentece como pocas veces. Al rato (10:20) se detiene en la...
Jag har ju protesterat mot KD:s kärnkraftshajpande energipolitik förut och kommer göra det igen tills dom skärper mig men jag har alltid svårt för dåliga argument om än för en god sak som i den här DN-essän. Väldigt tragiskt. Det är gripande att läsa om deras livsöden och hur hemsk den här sjukdomen som även jag...
On the phone, I use Signal’s note-to-self to record on-the-go thoughts or to quickly bookmark stuff. Later when on the laptop, I migrate these to my Trilium notes. After years of dabbling between multiple ’notes’ applications, this has stuck. Using the default messaging app as my notes ‘filter’ definitely...
Minggu ini tidak keluar kemana-mana, karena suami saya masih sibuk dengan pelatihannya sebagai Ahli K3 Umum. Pelatihan yang bikin kami ngakak karena training kit-nya datang dengan lencana K3 a la polisi. Pelatihan yang bikin hari Sabtunya habis di depan layar untuk kerja kelompok dan bikin laporan dan persiapan...
Speaking of small seasons, winter descended on Europe in a flash, and it’s been freezing for the last ten days straight. It’s my favourite part of the winter: the air is crisp, the days are as bright as the nights are dark, there’s not a cloud on the horizon, and the colours are magnificent. I do miss the snow,...
Lots of people in Arashiyama today to see the autumn foliage by boat. 今日の嵐山は、船で紅葉を見に来る人が多かった。
Album#9 III 图1 《III》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：III 歌手：頭士奈生樹（Naoki Zushi） 年份：2025-09-05 (这是重新灌录，首次录制是 2005 年) 风格：迷幻民谣 时长：约 50 分钟 忘了是从哪里知道頭士奈生樹，觉得这个歌手的名字还挺特别的。「頭士」会让我想到披头士，而 The Beatles 也是我很喜欢的乐队，出于一种莫名奇妙的联想和爱屋及乌，我对这个歌手产生了兴趣，就把他的歌找来听了听。 他的大多数歌曲我欣赏不太来，比较少会一直循环听。不过有一首曲子我很喜欢，就是《III》里面的 もう一度会えたなら (If I Could See You Again)。...
Over the weekend, we printed out five pieces of short fiction and one poem to mail out to NY. And now we'd like to present our six nominees for the 2026 Pushcart Prize. All available to read for free:🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Dochertya messy mix-upfoofarawfoofaraw⚠️ Cautionary by Laurence Raphael Brothersa...
On Friday, I was working in Safari on my MacBook and needed to sign in to a few accounts. I discovered nothing would log in. Bitwarden’s latest update had broken the Safari extension, leaving me with an endless loading spinner. Good thing I keep Firefox around. I switched over, signed in, and finished what I needed...
Privacy and security are too complex. One of the more complicated elements is a concept called encryption, which gets tossed around a lot, even in products that implement it quite differently. In a lot of privacy policies, companies will state that they “follow industry standard practices, encrypting data at rest...
Joined the Generation Lissa! webring The Generation Lissa! webring is for people who learned how to build their own personal websites with code between the years of 1996 and 2005, and still run a personal space on the Internet. More about the webring Webrings help to keep the web alive Small hand-cafted, non...
Gigabash is actually good without all the DLC but it's nice to see the big three together finally This week, the latest DLC for Gigabash launched which brings characters from the 2023 CG anime version of Gamera to the battle. I've been banging the drum about Gigabash for a while; it's an incredibly fun battler from...
Articles Ayjay - Towards Old Man Willow A well put and succint piece that gives an interesting perspective to explain the pattern we have seen in the last decade of tech megacorps basically strong-arming the cultural zeitgeist into discussing only what benefits them. "People say, You can’t force this on us against...
Another calm-ish week. It’s dark, grey and cold as Novembers tend to be. The result is that my brain went into a weird waiting mode even though I should probably be starting to think about Christmas and finding some gifts. It’s just a few weeks away now. Reply by email
I’ve been fortunate enough to write for a number of publications under some fantastic individuals and have taken away many lessons via observations and from making mistakes while doing so. I figured I’d collate some of them so that I and any similarly incapable fool can avoid future bungles. This article is largely...
I’m a big believer in the philosophy of ‘Post (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere’, or POSSE, as it has come to be known. My website is the canonical place where I post anything I want to get out into the world. The syndication takes place via micro.blog — it reads the main RSS feed and then does an excellent job of...
Try Grid Paper I’ve been getting into drawing dungeons on isomorphic grids. It’s fun but I was a little frustrated with the process of sourcing and printing out graph paper with an isomorphic grid on it. You have two bad options, basically: Download a low-res JPG you found on Google Image search where the grid sizes...
Hay una corriente, los últimos años, para acabar con el anonimato en la red. Aunque la red empezó como un grupo de conocidos, su extensión, ha hecho que el anonimato aparente que puede generar ocultarse detrás de una dirección de correo o un alias, genere una sensación de impunidad. El anonimato, en todos los...
I do not need a vintage coupon organizer with swash type or fun retro illustrations. This envelope works just fine.Currently Listening: Harry Styles “Sign of the Times”Reply via email
Leo este post en el blog Birchtree: “Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?”. Permitidme citar algunos pasajes. Number one is that Microsoft just does not feel like a consumer tech company at all anymore. (…) If you are not a customer who is a major business or a developer creating the next AI-powered app,...
The excellent Public Domain Review recently posted a photograph, from around 1930, of the contents of an ostrich's stomach, extracted post mortem. It's a fascinating collection of objects, including two handkerchiefs and a buttoned glove (this was a zoo ostrich), a length of rope, and various metal objects – coins,...
Yes, locked inside to be specific. As if the days couldn’t get more chaotic. This is the week, for my most hopeful and ambitious travel for my folks. My wife also has a work offsite, where she’s flying out in a couple of hours. It’s nearly 10:30pm. I ordered in some dinner for me, locked the outer safety door of the...
The real enemies of our lives are the "oughts" and the "ifs." They pull us backward into the unalterable past, or forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. - Henri Nouwen I sometimes wonder how much time I've wasted in worry. Lingering on regrets about past decisions or...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 640 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
I don't even know who said it first, but it's a good axiom: the best things in life aren't things. In other words, there are more important things than money and possessions. I'm realizing that I've been stuck yet again in a cycle of obsessing over things like finances and gadgets and technology and collecting...