Sat Dec 06
God be thanked for: time to rest and recuperate from our trip; confidence that the saints continued steadfast in the faith and work during our six-week absence; comforting promises of God that keep the heart from despair and nurture our hope. ¶ It's amazing the difference a day can make, be it in productivity, mood,...
"Procuratore, e Cavaliere" (Procurator, and Cavalier) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
CGI-git is an attempt at making a fast web interface for Git with Python using only stdlib and no external dependencies. It lives inside a CGI script and can be run safely from even the most humble shared-hosting service with git enabled. At time of writing, I’m on about v0.9 with quite a bit of work still to do,...
An mp3 player for daily use and thinkering! More than a month ago, I wrote about listening to full albums again, a post that gathered some interesting conversations and emails from people who shared their thoughts about it. Another thing that happened was that my post was shared to Hacker News by someone. It didn’t...
Just a quick note documenting some recent changes to the blog. Nothing groundbreaking, but enough accumulated updates that I wanted to write them down. Homepage Redesign The homepage used to be a chronological list of articles; your classic default blog format. I’ve redesigned it into more of a two-pane “dashboard”...
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. — G.K. Chesterton Each Wednesday, I am responsible for picking up my nephews from school and keeping an eye on them until my brother gets off work. The youngest just turned four, is in pre-school, and is enthralled with any kind of heavy...
This is such a beautiful book about finding home away from home. It made me feel I'm not alone when I look at the skyline of the Rotterdam bridges and think every single time "ik ben thuis" (I'm home).
NotesPhoto près de mon nouveau chez moi l’autre jour en allant au boulot… c’est fou que pendant des décennies l’horrible buil
Angela & John pull out all the stops for their gatherings. It helps that John's a chef, Angela has the gift to transform a home into wonderland, and their pups are super adorably friendly!Currently Listening: Nat King Cole “Caroling, Caroling”Reply via email
Today reminds me of how I did math in primary school. You know, putting two or more numbers below each other and then going from right to left, from digit to digit, to either add or multiply. Life was easy and peaceful back then. Much has changed since. But I digress. Let's look at the puzzles. Check out my full...
"Is this Christmas?" by The Wombats Scouse jangly indie that is considerably less serious than most scouse jangly indie, The Wombats can definitely put out a good tune and this original ode to Chrimbo hits all the hallmarks of their inimitable style. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by...
“There is no plan to save the world or a 4D chess game being played.” Guess we are on our own then.
December 2025. Whitstable. Plenty of pubs in Whitstable, but then I’m surprised it has a population of 32,196; although a lot of those are in the suburbs away from the pubs (and the artisanal muesli boutiques). 20 minutes from our campervan stop along the coast brings you to the Savoy, possibly not that Savoy, and...
I haven’t been regularly blogging as much as I used to earlier this year but I miss it! What I had mentioned in the last blog post I had made were hopes, dreams, and my emerging hobby of fiction writing. It’s been a few months since then and I will say I have definitely kept my word and continued to write in my free...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’m in the middle of a three-lecture series on the Wolfram Language and thought the puzzle presented in this recent MindYourDecisions video would be a good problem to practice...
Even YouTube tried to do an Unwrapped thingy this year. It is awful and I am not including it here, but some of the others can be nice. I won’t lie, I like that Spotify creates a playlist of the music I listened to this year. I listen to the playlists from previous years. I tend to look for what others are reading,...
This questionnaire was originally made by Ava. 1. Why did you make the blog in the first place?I wanted to have a dedicated space for my written pieces and curated links around the Internet world. Although I have been blogging since 2020, I felt like my writings were not enough in a swarm of SEO-fuelled crap. So, I...
Stopped at Oromo Cafe in Bucktown on the way back from the dentist and they’re playing Big Thief, Wednesday, and Horsegirl. I love it. They make a good pumpkin latte too. Reply via email
Tom Forsyth wrote about a fun bug in a Half-Life 2 reissue, of a particular flavour I have never heard before. So I started it up, selected new game, played the intro section. It’s a fairly well-known section - you arrive at the train station with a message from Breen, a guard makes you pick up a can, and then you...
As we approach the end of the autumn leaves in Kyoto, a beautiful display on Mt. Arashi today. At left is Daihikaku Senkoji temple. 京都の紅葉も終わりに近づき、今日は嵐山で美しい紅葉が見られた。左は大悲閣千光寺。
It’s Blogvent, day 7, where I blog daily in December! I have a little framework that I often use when I want feedback/when I give feedback on a blog post, a tutorial, a project, a product, etc. to get as much clarity as possible, quickly. what’s Awesome? what’s Boring? what’s Confusing? what Didn’t you believe?...
En saa aukaista nettiä, muistutan itselleni ja avaan Areenan etsien eilisiltaisen pääuutislähetyksen Trumppeineen ja Putineineen. En tiedä onko se parempi vaihtoehto mutta niin olen päättänyt. Täytän mukin kahvilla. Nykyään tulee hyvälle mielelle, jos löytää kahvia alennuksesta. Ajat ovat kovat, uutisissa sanotaan...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Previously On As mentioned in the last Daily Dex post, I got VERY VERY sick and lost about a whole week of real life to it - but as I could, I continued the drawings from bed. Now that I'm better, I've photographed and am caught up: Sun 11/30/2025...
I've mentioned this in passing a few times and sparked some curiosity, so I'm going to tell the story of the time I ended up on an FBI watchlist, which was creepy AF but still a badge of honor for getting under the skin of the man. I live near Ft. Bragg, the gigantic U.S. Army base that's home to the 82nd Airborne...
Advent of Code 2025 day1 ~ day6 图1 Advent of Code 2025 前 6 天的图案 day1 day1 的谜题是有一个密码箱，密码箱上有一个转盘，转盘的刻度范围是 0 ～ 99，当前指向的刻度是 50。 输入是向左或向右转动的圈数： L68 L30 R48 L5 R60 L55 L1 L99 R14 L82 part1 的问题是，按照输入转动后，有多少次刻度停在了 0 的位置。 解决思路也很简单，遍历每一行，如果是 Rxx 则向右转动，增加当前刻度的值；如果是 Lxx 则向左转动，减少当前刻度的值。 每次转动后，判断一下是否处于刻度 0 的位置，如果是，则累计次数。...
Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only way to live it is to be as truthful as you can be. With others, of course. But mostly with yourself. Doing anything else is not living or being in the moment....
Well, nearly another year in the books. How did it go? It’s genuinely surprising to me how consistent my reading stays year-over-year. I don’t set reading goals or have a predictable pace, and every year has at least a month in which I’m reading nothing, my momentum growth to a halt. But at the end of every year,...
I had two important sets of thoughts today: first, I learned from Loren about online attacks on several npm packages that support 11ty, the static site generator this blog is built on. It worried me because it could infect my personal laptop, and if I couldn't take care of it, I would need to move away from it,...
t3n recently wrote that OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 update might come with a surprise to desktop users: previously reliable prompts no longer behave as expected. While this may be just a minor annoyance in day-to-day chat interactions, think about what that means in production environments. Because unlike in a chat window...
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. Tim Burners-Lee, creator of the world wide web HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is to the world wide web as English is to Americans; it is not only the language with...
1. Tischer's formulas All cyclic linear multistep methods were designed to only have root at 1, and all other parasitic roots to be zero. See Tischer, Peter E. and Sacks-Davis, Ron: “A New Class of Cyclic Multistep Formulae for Stiff Systems”. 2. Donelson & Hansen formulas See Donelson III, John and Hansen, Eldon:...
Happy Birthday, Auntie Anne! Anne—an aunt on my father’s side—turned 90 on Saturday, and we threw her a big birthday party. Eryn, EJ, and I flew in for it. We stayed at my folks’ house while in town. It was so good to see everyone. Cutting the cake Noses Brian, Eryn, YT, and Roger KB and me