Sun Nov 30
Erkki Voutilainen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the second time I’ve taken this effing hat apart, unraveling hours’ worth of work and starting again from almost the very beginning. I’m not a bad knitter, but when things get complicated or a new-to-me technique is required, my tendency to rush ahead...
Before you read any further, it's important that you see the EPOCH video to get the required context. I've been working on ATLAS, the systems programming club I founded with Nikhil in my college and setting up something ambitious. The Background One of the big things we envisioned was a community of people building...
———————————————————————— Texto: Javier Aparicio Maydeu 1.- La obra entera de Enrique Vila-Matas se diría un homenaje a sí mismo, cuando es un homenaje a la mejor literatura. Su complicidad con las formas de autoficción no alcanza a la prevalencia de su complicidad con las obras ajenas. 2.- La materia literaria de su...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also includes games, movies, and any other media of note that I engaged with. Do we have...
If you can't run an alternative, privacy-sparing firmware on your Android device, you can still assert a measure of control by disabling certain packages. You don't need to root the device to do this, and Canta is an app that sets out to make it easier.
I suddenly felt the need to self-host my git repositories after spotting cgit on Valhalla’s blog. The ghost of covetousness appeared and I wanted one. Unfortunately, as I’m on a shared-host, it is not possible to have much fun with the likes of cgit. I can however, install the PHP gitlist, so I tested it but could...
I checked out Practical Approximate Analysis of Beams and Frames from the University of Illinois library a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t dug into it deeply yet, but I smiled in recognition of some of the early material. Here, for example, are some poorly reproduced photos of beams being bent by end loads and...
Another of these liminal weeks. There’s a lot of stuff I’d usually get pretty excited about and yet, what I mostly notice is the fall weather. Oh well.At least I went to the Christmas Markets in Basel already. Cleverly enough I had so much food at my sister’s birthday brunch that I didn’t really feel the need to...
This book is placed in a highly political context: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s about inner moral conflicts, daily racism and the consequences of our actions and the fear of doing the right thing. It’s an exiting and emotional book. I really enjoyed the read.
I love this time of year for the satisfying blocks of website tinkering. There are big mornings and long afternoons spent with a new CSS feature. Or a whole weekend rewriting the about page, fixing dark mode, poking, prodding. Every morning I head to a cafe and see what’s possible. Being productive or making...
It’s not the most pressing thing in the backlog, but it’s time again for the monthly post of what has struck me as interesting from around the internet. Since we’re not starting off in the middle of the month like last time, this month is a bit more robust: John Scalzi uses himself as a guinea pig to evaluate Elon...
November 2025. Rye. The usual routine. 2 days in Waterbeach, leave a bag of washing in the garage for pick up later, pack light for trip to Rye via London. I cannot believe how much luggage folk drag around the capital. 22 minutes between trains.at Kings Cross St Pancras. You’ll recognise the lure of this place, but...
So, I use Hugo for this site. And I used 11ty for TLC for a long while before moving that to Hugo as well. I’m pretty good with Hugo but I will admit that they can be complicated to set up. But in his response to the article that Jan wrote, Kev says this: Yes, setting up a static site is definitely more involved...
Que vaya por delante que no soy un experto en Arduino pero cuando decidí empezar con ello tenía claro que quería programarlo en C puro y duro, y que de entrada compraría algo compatible en lugar que el original para ver si me iba a interesar o no. Probablemente porque sea programador me pareció mucho más interesante...
The ebike arrived yesterday and I was able to assemble it super quickly. The Lectric XPress 750 ships almost fully-assembled, and all you have to do is unbox it, attach the front wheel, and connect whatever addons it came with. I wasn’t able to install the upgraded comfort seat because the factory seat was attached...
Dave Winer, an American software developer and blogger, is working on a blog discourse system. In short, this is a blog commenting system, allowing you to comment on someone’s else blog post, potentially this one you’re reading right now, but via your own blog or website: The first thing to know is that all comments...
I just discovered a new way to tell if a blogpost is AI slop or at least if someone blindly copied and pasted commands from Claude Code: the first line of a group of commands isn't indented but the rest are, like this: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt autoremove sudo apt autoclean This happens because the...
We had the pleasure of speaking with Kinmoku about their incredibly nostalgic visual novel VIDEOVERSE, which recently got a Japanese translation! We spoke about the nostalgia of 90s and early 2000s Internet culture and how the relationships we make in games like VIDEOVERSE reflect the ways we interact in online spaces.
The story line of this movie is set in 60-70s on some other Earth. Fantastic four are celebrated superheroes and people love them. Then one day, on this happy planet, Silver-Surfer arrives, which means Galactus is coming. The rest of the movie follows Fantastic Fours planning to defeat the Galactus. It was a nice...
24th November - 30th November It's mid week. The temperature is skirting zero and the skies are clear and bright. Everything has a slightly ethereal tinge of frost and that wintery haze from evaporating ground frost. I've done the school run, dropped my wife at the station, and I'm stood in the driveway just looking...
Welcome to the 87th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Considered Harmful. In this edition: We weigh the historical and philosophical implications of the phrase “Considered Harmful”. In our Vidéothèque section, we watch Phil Nash explain which parts of OOP can be considered harmful. In the Library section, we...
I didn’t realize I never posted my October Microthoughts, so here’s a very late update. I also didn’t realize I posted this much in October... though most of it lived on an isolated status page where no one really pays attention to them (or can even respond). It’s basically me talking into the ether, which is fine....
I bought a cheap push-button combination lock and fell down a rabbit hole when I realized it didn't matter what order you entered the code in. I ended up doing a teardown of the entire mechanism and designing some 3D models to explain how they work (and why the manual’s advice to set a 5–7 digit code is so...
Recently I wrote about Richard Wilbur's precept: 'In poetry, all the revolutions are palace revolutions' – in other words, all true revolutions take place within the living tradition, the poetic heritage; nothing is overthrown, the tradition lives on (this applies only to true revolutions, not rebellion for its own...
The day before it was cloudy and I couldn't see the mountain from the Shinkansen at all. But last night I had a clear view as I zipped past Mt. Fuji, illuminated by the last rays of the sun. 前日は新幹線から山がまったく見えなかった。しかし昨夜は、夕日に照らされた富士山がはっきりと見えた。
Fortsetzung der TENDLER Programmbeschreibung. TENDLER: 1. Grobaufbau und prinzipielle Überlegungen TENDLER: 2. Benutzung des Programmes TENDLER: 3. Der Prädiktor TENDLER: 4. Die Korrektoriteration TENDLER: 5. Die Fehlerkontrolle TENDLER: 6. Die Schrittweiten- und Ordnungssteuerung TENDLER: 7. Start, Statistiken und...
I recently read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and I was blown away. This book came out in 1993, and I know that makes me really late to the party, as I’ve seen this recommended quite a few times, but I’ve never stopped to read. Joe Crawford threw this title out as the November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club read,...
I have owned netwert.com since 1997. That’s a long time! I have a few dozen email aliases that route through this domain, for everything from work to shopping to family management. I have had Gmail since shortly after it went public in 2004. That’s also a long time! Gmail is my default mail interface. I am...
The Magic of Sleep Thinking is a book by Eric Maisel and Natalya Maisel. It gives practical advice for problem-solving during slow wave sleep and describes the experiences of some of the authors’ coaching clients. Notes The discussion of non rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in the introduction aligns with the...
Since I decided in 2019 to use the static site generator (SSG) Hexo as the foundation for my blog, I have been struggling with the fact that it works with the CSS preprocessor Stylus via a pre-installed plugin. I thought I just needed some time to get used to the simplified but unfamiliar notation and take advantage...
I have seen the famous 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie. But was that the first theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Braum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Had you asked me before November 17, 2025, I may have tentatively guessed it was. But I now know better thanks to Sterling Dudley writing for Internet Archive Blogs:...
This'll be the last Recently in 2025. It's been a decent year for me, a pretty rough year for the rest of the world. I hope, for everyone, that 2026 sees the reversal of some of the current trends. Watching This video from Daniel Yang, who makes spectacular bikes of his own, covers a lot of the economics of being a...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here! Advent of Code 2025 has begun! Let's take a look at day 1. Check out my full solution to day 1 at GitHub. Today's problem features a safe, protected by a dial with numbers from 0 to 99. At the start, the dial points at number 50. We are given a list of instructions, where each...
A new year, a new advent of code. My Pythonista self is always happy. AoC 2025 Day 1: Secret Entrance: Part One python Copy #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys def main(): with open(sys.argv[1]) as input: lines = input.read().splitlines() ans = 0 dial = 50 for line in lines: direction = line[0] assert direction in...
And that’s four weeknotes in a row. Let’s hope i’ll get back to regular blogging soon. Books Le comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. At almost 1,500 pages, this was an ambitious way to reacquaint myself with bigger books. The gamble paid off: whilst there are some traces of the original serialization, i’d be...
"Giuoco del Calzo" from the "Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
Este mes, está siendo un mes de cambios y eso ha hecho que esté intentando adaptarme a una nueva rutina. Sin dudarlo, lo más difícil ha sido dejar de ir a la oficina y socializar con mis compañeros de trabajo. Las primeras semanas aún tenía que asimilar todo los cambios que conlleva perder el trabajo que has estado...
Psychometaphysics .verse { background-color: #f5f5f5; padding: 1em; border-left: 3px solid #ccc; } Substack mirror A long time ago, in a server far far away, I had an argument about a thing I wanted to write about in a blog post. I‘m going to take this opportunity to actually talk about it publicly, because those...
Here is a collection of things I liked and bookmarked during November 2025:Internet is far from being deadI don't care how well your AI worksIs sepia mode the default feature?Do you know color-scheme?Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect themWhat AI is Really...
Walmart sold a whole bunch of different Christmas decorations with two male cardinals, perhaps unknowingly? This made me laugh heartily because I am a child on the inside who immediately drove to see if they had any of these cardinal decorations left at Walmart.Currently Listening: Laufey “Lover Girl”Reply via email
Owning to the lack of interesting to me pictures in (meagre in number) local cinemas, happened to be that this week marks the first time in a couple of years of my visiting cinema: when earlier this week I was told that Yorgos Lanthimos' new film, Bugonia was out in cinemas, it was no doubt that we were coming to...
I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in their own way. I’ll have to narrow it down: Of course having friends, family, a...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 502 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 2000 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Yesterday we were having lunch at my parents’ house. At the end of lunch, my daughter, driven by some unknown motivation, asked her mother if Santa Claus really exists. She’s getting on in years, and we expected the question sooner or later. We hoped later rather than soon. My partner, still surprised, replied that...
Link to the full article from University of Leicester Leicester scientists are sending tiny worms to the International Space Station in 2026 to study the biological effects of space. The team at Space Park Leicester has designed and built a miniature space laboratory called a Petri Pod that will house the worms...
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As much as I enjoy using my ergonomic keyboards, sometimes I still need to use the built in keyboard on my laptop. Transitioning between the two drastically different layouts is no longer an issue, but I find myself having an itch of wondering whether it’s possible to improve the usability of a standard keyboard. I...