Mon Dec 01
Voyager is going through a nebula and needs to power down, and therefore going into complete blackout. Neelix decides to comport the borg-kids by telling them a scary story. The most surprising aspect of this episode was that I did enjoy it. Neelix telling a scary story sounds terrible, but I was proven wrong. While...
An essay I have long meant to write bears (will bear, might bear) the following thesis: The last great masterpieces of the modernist epic are an anthropologist’s memoir and a work of literary criticism: Claude Levi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques (1955) and Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era (1971). Kenner thought about that...
Bring Back Doors. A hopefully growing list of hotels where there are doors to the room’s bathroom. I’ve emailed hundreds of hotels and I asked them two things: do your doors close all the way, and are they made of glass? Everyone that says yes to their doors closing, and no to being made of glass has been sorted by...
As a unicyclist, I draw a certain amount of attention, and whether it be a busy sunny Saturday morning or 21:00 on a grim Monday evening, people are inclined to ask me questions. I imagine the spectacle and presumed friendliness of someone riding a unicycle contributes to people’s willingness to enquire, and I’ve...
Things to be thankful for today: Improved condition after detox last week--am almost 100% today; Survival of this trip of many weeks and miles and states; Time to be with family and friends, most recently, with DD these last days. ¶ Lord permitting, tomorrow we head home. Will be a night flight. We might make it...
This is a mostly verbatim transcript of my lecture at the TU Delft VvTP Physics symposium “Security of Science” held on the 20th of November. Audio version (scroll along the page to see the associated slides): Thank you so much for being here tonight. It’s a great honor. I used to study here. I’m a dropout. I never...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 2500 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Philosofriends, here’s an opportunity to do some good. Once again, Malte Hendrickx, a philosophy graduate student at the University of Michigan, has set up a charity “competition” for philosophy departments to raise money for the Against Malaria Foundation. He says: There’s no lever, no bystanders, and no...
It is strange how one can live for years near to places of beauty or interest but never get around to visiting them. There always seem to be other things to do and of course these places will always be there, won’t they? And we will always be able to get to them whenever we like – yes? Elinor and I decided to visit...
I wanted to go on a long ride at least twice a year. I was not even thinking of really long rides, just a decent three or four day ride. Last year, we could ride to Gokarna in WN-05/2024 and to Valparai in WN-40/2024. But this year’s beginning was very painful due to radiculopathy. It was so bad that I thought I...
Here we are again, back for Advent of Code day 2! Check out my full solution for day 2 at GitHub. I'll refrain from writing out the whole problem description, as you can find that on the website itself. What it boils down to is this: given a number (or a list of characters, actually), decide if it contains a...
About a third of the way into this film I realised two very important things; 1) this isn't a Christmas Film and 2) that guy is not James McAvoy. The absolute worst kind of cosplay Irish stereotype –how Americans think Ireland is– because sure it's a wall-to-wall stout drinkin', jig dancin', sheep shearin' country...
Here is where I’ll post my solutions to Advent of Code using zshbrev. Spoilers ahead, and no promises that I’ll make it through the entire 12 days. Dec 1 (define (turn) (define-parameters zero 0) (fold (fn (with-result (when (zero? (save (modulo (+ (string->number (strse x "L" "-" "R" "")) y) 100))) (zero (add1...
November 2025. Mayfield. East Sussex. My penultimate East Sussex Beer Guide tick takes us deep into the Weald, but only half an hour from Mrs RM’s in-laws (and Kentish Paul, coincidentally). Mayfield lies deep in the teenage Miss Spencer consciousness, for reasons we’ll see shortly, but first it’s lunch at the white...
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When working with web apps (boo) such as Confluence and Jira one occasionally wants to grab a tab and have that side by side with another tab. Yes you can drag it free with a mouse (yuck) but that can be fiddly when you have a window manager running. It can throw a wobbly and do a weird flicky thing. Chrome, for...
What does winter feel like I sometimes hear about how winters are nothing like they used to be. Were they really worse in the 80s? Memory is foggy. Averages and trendlines can be hard to relate to subjective personal experience. The average annual temperature in Minnesota has increased by 3.2°F between 1895 and...
Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there. Even though I’m not that much into music and […]
Day 1 part 1 p = 50 puts $<.count { |i| p = (p + (i[0] == ?R ? 1 : -1) * i[1..].to_i) % 100 p.zero? } Day 1 part 2 p = 50 puts $<.sum { |i| r = i[1..].to_i d = i[0] == ?R ? 1 : -1 c = (r + p * d % 100) / 100 p = (p + d * r) % 100 c } Day 2 part 1 puts $<.read.split(',').sum { |r| a, b = r.split('-').map(&:to_i)...
powRSS is an RSS feed aggregator created by Pablo Enoc. As a lover of RSS and RSS-related tools, I reached out to see if I could get this very site added to powRSS. I'm excited to share that ashryan.io is now on powRSS.One fun feature of powRSS is a "Random" button where you get a random post from one of the blogs...
Un relato sobre cómo el brillo de un producto de Apple puede ser nada más que un espejismo, una cárcel muy lujosa y cara para sus «fanboys» Una pequeña ficción sobre una historia de uno de esos dispositivos de Apple, que su márketing hace que lo necesites y después de unos años te dice que eso ya no es «cool» que...
I’m one big broke person. Subscribe to my Patreon if you want to change that, as me getting a good job is impossible and also laughable considering current circumstances I’m facing as a first year student. I’ve never had the latest and greatest hardware. At all I started out with a hackintoshed PC, then an HP...
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, it was a short week which was very welcomed. Here’s a quick rundown of what went down last week. 💻 Good ’ol Work Nothing much happened at work last week. It was a pretty quiet week overall, which was nice. Since I stepped back from doing as much of the hands-on IT...
Melodía sentimental de Tadao Tsuge es un manga que recopila diferentes historias publicadas a finales de los años 60 en el país nipón. Estás historias están inspiradas en las vivencias personales del autor durante la posguerra en la ciudad de Tokio. Los barrios más marginales donde la prostitución y el crimen campan...
⚠️ Want to learn what these Micro Thoughts are? Read the explanation here November 30, 2025 @ 6:27 PM📆 Last day of November. I'm honestly not sure if I have much to show for this month. I survived. Barely. That means something, at least, right? November 10, 2025 @ 8:05 AM📧 Just another Monday staring at my inbox...
Howdy y’all! I’m starting my latest Blogvent series, where I write a useful blog post each day in December! If you wanna see last year’s roundup, check them out! Oh no, stale things! You don’t want old pull requests and issues to clog your backlog of your open source projects, no matter how big or small. I ran into...
Since the day I started my journey of self-hosting, I had been eagerly waiting for the day when Plex would offer a discount on its lifetime subscription. I was so excited about it that there was rarely any week when I didn't check the prices. Finally, last week, I saw the Black Friday deal, which was offering a...
Para mi escribir se siente como hablar en voz alta, en ambas actividades expresamos cosas solo que por diferentes medios: con la escritura usamos papel, lápiz, pluma o un teclado, y al hablar usamos la voz. En ambos los pensamientos se vuelven más reales, como al pintar no se ve la imagen hasta que se traza con un...
Oh man, the year is basically over, I’ll be writing my yearly summaries for my favorites of the year pretty soon, and I have no idea of how to deal with how fast the year has gone already. November was a pretty interesting month, I barely watched movies, I barely read books, I really can’t tell how my mood shifts in...
Deleting, scrubbing, redacting old shell history entries is now easier than ever, thanks to atuin. shell Copy % atuin search '^aws_login_headless' --delete deleting 019ad59e973b7c139c4a1d67fe2155be deleting 019ad59e973b7c139c4a1d40a0da15f1 First do the search without --delete, and then re-run the command with...
Illuminated holiday sculptures reflected in the pond at dusk, at Umekita Park adjacent to Osaka Station. 大阪駅に隣接するうめきた公園の夕暮れ時、池に映る冬のイルミネーション。
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course, broadband penetration would continue to...
Not every hike needs to be epic to leave an impression. A short November walk to Seekarkreuz in Lenggries—familiar trails, hazy views, and a surprisingly sharp wind—reminded me that even common summits can feel extraordinary when the weather plays along.
“Live by the Claude, die by the Claude.” In late 2024, a meme captured something unsettling: the “Claude Boys”—teenagers who “carry AI on hand at all times and constantly ask it what to do.” What began as satire became earnest practice. Students created websites, adopted the identity, performed the role. The joke...
I can empathize with using AI sometimes; like when a search engine shows no fitting results, or when searching for a loose synonym or jargon with a vague description. Another use case would be generating silly, annoying filler text no one wants to write (like motivational letters) or when you’re not understanding a...
Updates from the Bridge: I'm back! Been AFK as I've been traveling for Thanksgiving and in a bunch of transitions. Excited to blog some more 🌝 Big update: I'm now working as a DX Engineer for NameHash Labs! 🎉💫 I'll be building dev tools for ENS and helping push the adoption of ENS as a whole. It's a core protocol to...
I really think I’ve gotten better at writing since school. Granted I’ve been a writer professionally for nearly 20 years at this point. But, one thing I’ve struggled with is the changing tone of the writing I do. It’s hard for a writer to write in a professional tone and then do a blog post in a conversational tone....
Back in August, I noticed that a web crawler had requested a “carbon.txt” file (see my recent article on a less friendly web crawler). I had never heard of a carbon.txt file, but I assumed that it would be conceptually similar to the humans.txt file I wrote about in November 2022 (and similar to the ubiquitous...
I have been in communication with Darialalala in relation to PaPy and she raised an important question which I never before paid much mind to. She asked: Would it be possible for me to use your pa.py script to run my blog on web? Do you plan to change your license “All right reserved” to some MIT like license? I own...
December already, and Advent. I was in the cathedral yesterday for a candlelit ceremony of readings and music, including the Great 'O' Antiphons. The choir was on top form, creating some quite extraordinary harmonies; the cathedral was chock full; and the whole occasion was beautiful, numinous and joyful. I'll be...
In my career I invested a lot of time in an effort to be good at my job. Perhaps, too much. My sense of identity was closely tied to my work. People knew me as, "Jeff -- the principal at Willis Junior High School." I like to believe that I did my job relatively well, focusing on the things that mattered most--the...
El fin del deseo A la vuelta del verano terminé una lectura a la que llegué por casualidad y que como tantas otras veces, resultó ser un método infalible para encontrar buenos libros. Se trata de Retorno de las estrellas de Stanisław Lem. De Lem solo había leído Solaris y me encantó así que, tal y como lo cogí del...
People and Cyberspace Monday 01 December 2025 Ava published a great piece on the way social media platforms exploit our desire for human connection. Which is why the need for connectivity in the way these companies mean it and push it is a big lie just to further their financial interests and has nothing to do with...
2025-12-01 No puedo negar que me ha costado más escribir en este año. He comenzado a sentir el efecto del qué hable este año, de aventar agua al mar de textos y que a pocas personas les interesa qué existan, y claro, puede ser un cambio respecto a otras épocas donde las redes comerciales daban la ilusión de que...