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A detailed guide on shucking WD Elements 20TB drives, including testing, performance benchmarks, and stress testing.
Looking back at the entrance to Rokuoin Temple. 鹿王院の入り口を振り返る。
Or: Why some posts are tools, some are evidence, and some are just interesting The Problem With Judging Things Here’s a pattern that shows up everywhere: the way you measure something determines what you find valuable. If you judge fish...
Clayton Errington A Webring is a collection of websites that share something in common with each other. In this case, it’s a static site generator website showcase. With 40 members now, at the time of writing, I never thought it would be...
I face this annoyance all the time: thiago.perrotta@thiagoperrotta-MacBook-Pro ~ % python zsh: command not found: python 127 thiago.perrotta@thiagoperrotta-MacBook-Pro ~ % python3 Python 3.14.0 (main, Oct 7 2025, 09:34:52) [Clang 17.0.0...
NotesDamn… the new #Cloudron UI revamp is sick 😲 loving it! cloudron.io
Like many of us, I’ve become the family IT person for a lot of situations. My grandpa got hit with a pretty good (“good”) scam lately that I’ve had to clean up. His email password was taken, and a bunch of us in the family got emails...
Yesterday I was in the wicked city, having lunch with an old friend and visiting the pointillism exhibition, Radical Harmony, at the National Gallery. This display of paintings from the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, seems to have had...
Blessings often come in small packages. Blink, fret too much, or get distracted by the hurry of life and you are likely to miss these little bits of encouragement. An example. This morning, as I was having coffee and reading at my desk,...
This morning I was lying in the chair at the dental hygienist. With all kinds of tools, all the gunk that had built up on my teeth over the past year was scraped off. Because it was my first time at this place, I got a goodie bag with...
This is a small Emacs package that automatically highlights the current line after certain functions are invoked. It can also highlight a line or region on demand. The idea is to make it easier to find where the point is, what was...
SPONSORE A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more The day is Sunday.The air is cold and crisp.But there is still time to vote for us for Chill Subs’ Best Lit Mag Awards. This week was supposed to be a productive one for me....
De Geocities à Neocities et Nekoweb, un parcours des espaces de publication amateurs à l’âge des IA génératives.
Urban fantasy hard magic I couldn't put this book down! This is the new series from Benedict Jacka, who wrote the Alex Verus series. This book is in a different urban fantasy universe. Stephen Oakwood has a book protagonist's tragic back...
November 2025. Norwich. 10 minutes out from Norwich market along residential Unthank Road to my new GBG tick, a genuine new pub from the Fat Cat stable rather than an old one you’ve walked past a hundred times and thought “Wonder when...
Two friends of mine (brothers, actually) got laid off from their job at a megachurch here in Austin. We met through a mutual friend that started attending their church. Our kids hang out on Roblox, so we’re connected through dadship and...
Simplify Go error handling by consolidating validation and system errors. Learn when to return boolean vs error for clearer failure modes.
It’s 1970. You walk into the store, grab a bunch of apples, go to the cash register, pay with cash, and walk out. What kinds of data have been automatically processed about you while doing that? Very little. Most likely, none, as CCTV...
I'm a little surprised that I haven't already posted this recipe in my recipe format, so this post is to remedy this. Its a recipe from the Longbourn Farm blog that we make most weeks. Although I do use less flour because 8 C makes...
I just finished my first japanese book after 7 months — I think — and started a new one! The kobo helps a lot. But about 75% , I was able rely less and less on the dictionary!!! That being said... starting a new book means using it...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 451 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1600 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
Added an ‘/ai’ page to my site to disclose my use of generative AI, inspired by Damola Morenikeji’s /ai ‘manifesto’.
The first snow of the season called for a short winter hike — no grand plans, just a quick round in the nearby mountains. Some nice motives, a surprising encounter and a reminder to think about some winter basics were all along the way.
BBCHernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.Bombing boats from Venezuela without any (publicly released) evidence, while...
Dear Ciara, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks patiently sitting in my garden, mostly beneath the lemon tree, waiting for birds to arrive. Birdwatching, it seems, requires significance patience. Some birds have finally begun to use the...
Posted on November 30, 2025 Remember roundups of links? That was the original web logging, my friends. And I’m feeling old-school. Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era — a troubling tale of fake journalism (which isn’t...
I've been two-sentence journaling for a bit now, and I'm digging it. I first heard the idea from Alexander in his post, Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal (which is also where I discovered Thousand Year Old Vampire): What I...
I just published a short post on The Vending Company’s 2025 snacks and drinks survey focusing on my surprise that Pepsi took the first place ranking over Coca Cola (see survey). I focused on the top two in that post, butt I found another...
Good morning! ☕️ If you were celebrating Thanksgiving like we did I hope you had a great one. We have so much to be thankful for! Some year I will cook turkey and feel really proud of the finished product. That eluded me again this year....
It’s penultimate November and the day after Black Friday, and the leftovers from Thanksgiving — my leftovers, being quirkily Korean, are surely not much like yours, but I have them and they are wonderful — will live again in other meals...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Something that's common these days is for people to talk about how things don't last and so on and so forth, but in my experience things do last a really long time. I only...
This article is a technical counterpart of my previous post Finding duplicated code with tools from your CS course. It is deliberately written in a terse manner, and I’m not going to hold your hand. Consider reading the previous post...
From “I love calculator” by Andrej Karpathy, founding member of OpenAI: The calculator is incredible. […] To perform its function it only requires light (thanks to its tiny solar panel on the front) […]. If you traveled back in time with...
Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and...
My self-instilled gym roadblocks include: Lack of time. I don't have a thing to wear. Other people. These headphones aren't good at all. What locker did I use?Currently Listening: Doechii “DENIAL IS A RIVER”Reply via email
Poundland Chris Evans arrives in town with his adorable daughter in tow and sets up in a local dilapidated mansion. He asks the local contractor to recommend a good interior decorator who just happens to be his ex! Who doesn't know he's...
Setiap tahun, tepatnya bulan Desember, saya mendeaktivasi akun twitter saya, akun tempat saya mengobrol dengan sirkel teman online yang sudah saya kenal belasan tahun. Awalnya iseng, tapi ternyata jadi kebiasaan. Sekarang kayaknya sudah...
看《路边野餐》 Kaili Blues 图1 《路边野餐》海报 佛告须菩提 尔所国土中 所有众生 若干种心 如来悉知 何以故 如来说 诸心皆为非心 是名为心 所以者何 须菩提 过去心不可得 现在心不可得 未来心不可得 最早是听 Aliosha 的 路边野餐 知道了 《路边野餐》 这部电影，最近听了 导演毕赣×罗永浩！清醒、深刻、独一无二的造梦者 才终于找来看了一遍。...
“dubito, ergo sum, vel, quod idem est, cogito, ergo sum” like curiosity killed the cat there’s always more to the narrative
For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault...
Why read the book? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby follows mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby through the eyes of his neighbour, Nick Carraway, during the roaring summer of 1922 on Long Island. Gatsby throws lavish parties hoping...
Prefatory Note: I send out a newsletter every Saturday. You can learn more on our Newsletter Sign-Up page. Our newsletter is hosted with Buttondown. I was planning to send issue 256 today as scheduled, but I am having technical issues...
Brought to you by an episode of Dear Hank & John in which a listener asks if an objective, ‘scientific morality’ could ever be devised1 ; at one point capital punishment was briefly mentioned as an example of things that some societies...
Mkdocs is a very popular library for writing static documentation sites with python, and Material for Mkdocs is the de-facto standard theme to apply. With over 71,000 people stating they use the theme, it was a success both in how it was...
While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the forest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk. The Lion also curled himself up to sleep and Toto lay beside him. The Scarecrow watched the...
We walk this earth as bewildered animals trying to recover the divinity within — descendants of the great apes who invented gods to mirror back to us the best in ourselves and bridle the worst, but we are still and always have been our...
My favorite television show of all time is The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin is awesome, and most of his stuff is just good. The West Wing is my favorite for many reasons, but I loved it because it dealt with human problems in at least...
What a busy month! Crazy at work, but also a lot of prep went into the last NN1 Dev Club meetup of the year. I’m very proud of how this little meetup idea grew to become a solid community of software engineers from the Northamptonshire...
My main computer is a Framework Laptop 13.
Emo relapse in the year of our Lord 2025? Well yes! fall out boyI love Fall Out Boy. I probably love them now more than I did when I was a teenager who dipped her toes into every genre, including emo. There's just something about them...
For seven years in school I had the "pleasure" of learning Latin. I'm putting this in quotes because I didn't really like it, except maybe in the beginning. I was never really good at it and therefore didn't get very good grades, which...
A lot of people wonder why the kindred cardtype in Magic can’t be a supertype or why it’s even necessary in the first place and I’ll explain that here! Why it’s even necessary! It was decided once upon a time that subtypes belong to...
